Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye

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"Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye"
Single by Kathy Linden
B-side "Heartaches at Sweet Sixteen"
Released March 1959
Genre Pop
Length2:33
Label Felsted 8571
Songwriter(s) Jack Vaughn
Producer(s) A Worchester Production
Kathy Linden singles chronology
"Somebody Loves Me"
(1959)
"Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye"
(1959)
"So Close to My Heart"
(1959)

"Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye" is a song written by Jack Vaughn and performed by Kathy Linden. It reached #11 on the Billboard pop chart in April 1959. [1]

Kathy Linden, is an American pop singer from Moorestown Township, New Jersey. She grew up in Burlington, New Jersey.

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The song was A Worchester Production and featured the Joe Leahy Orchestra. [2]

Bandleader, arranger, conductor, record producer and trumpeter Joseph J. Leahy was a native of Boston, Massachusetts. He joined the Les Brown Band of Renown at twenty, then the Charlie Barnet band and later the Artie Shaw band, eventually forming his own orchestra for cross-country tours of ballrooms, hotel circuits, college proms and one-nighters.

The single ranked #85 on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1959. [3]

This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1959.

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