Released 1980 Label Curb | Genre Country "Black Fool's Gold"
(1979) "Goodbye Marie"
(1980) | |
Writer(s) Mel McDaniel
Dennis Linde "Goodbye Marie"
(1980) "Alice Doesn't Love Here Anymore"
(1981) | ||
"Goodbye Marie" is a country-pop song written by Mel McDaniel and Dennis Linde. The song is about a man who has to leave his lover to head for "the lonesome highway" back to his home in Houston, Texas.
Bobby Goldsboro took a version of the song to #17 on the Billboard Country chart in 1981. Kenny Rogers had previously recorded the song on his 1979 #1 album Kenny. Although the song was not issued as a single at the time, after Kenny Rogers signed to RCA Records his former label Liberty Records issued a newly overdubbed version as a single that went to #47 in 1986.
McDaniel also released the song on his I'm Countryfied album in 1981, and as the B-side of his single "I Call It Love."
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