"Goodbye Little Darlin', Goodbye" (also known as "Goodby Little Darlin") is a song co-written and originally recorded by

Gene Autry Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), nicknamed the Singing Cowboy, was an American singer, songwriter, actor, musician, rodeo performer, and baseball owner who gained fame largely by singing in a crooning s ...

. Autry sang it in the 1939 movie ''South of Border,'' and in April 1940 released it on a 78 rpm record. The song would be notably recorded by

Johnny Cash John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American Country music, country singer-songwriter. Much of Cash's music contained themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially in the later s ...

. The song was recorded by Cash at

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probably on December 13, 1956, and released as a

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(Sun 331, with " You Tell Me" on the opposite side) in September 1959,
when he had already left the label for

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Background

According to John M. Alexander's book ''The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash'', the song wasn't released as a single:

Charts

References

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