Baby Bye Bye

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"Baby Bye Bye"
Single by Gary Morris
from the album Faded Blue
B-side "West Texas Highway and Me"
ReleasedOctober 1984
Recordedc. December 1983
Genre Country
Length3:20
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) Gary Morris
Jamie Brantley
Producer(s) Jim Ed Norman
Gary Morris singles chronology
"Second Hand Heart"
(1984)
"Baby Bye Bye"
(1984)
"Lasso the Moon"
(1985)

"Baby Bye Bye" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Gary Morris. It was released in October 1984 as the third single from the album Faded Blue . The song was written by Morris and Jamie Brantley.

Contents

The song was Morris' first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the late winter of 1985. The song's single week atop the chart was part of a 15-week run within the Hot Country Singles' chart top 40. [1]

Content

The song is about a man who breaks up with his highly desirable and beautiful, but unfaithful girlfriend.

Chart performance

Chart (1984–1985)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks1

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 240.
  2. "Gary Morris Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.