Go Away Little Girl

Album: Greatest Hits: Donny Osmond (1971)
Charted: 1
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Songfacts®:

  • The second solo single released by Donny Osmond, this is a cover of Steve Lawrence's 1962 chart-topper "Go Away Little Girl." When Donny's own version also reached the summit of the Hot 100, it became the first song of the Rock Era taken to the top of the chart by two different artists. The second song to accomplish this feat was "The Loco-Motion" by Little Eva (1962), then Grand Funk (1974). The husband-and-wife songwriting team of Gerry Goffin and Carole King penned both tunes.
  • With his family band, The Osmonds, Donny Osmond had a #1 hit with "One Bad Apple," but "Go Away Little Girl" gave him a chart-topper as a solo artist.

    When it went to #1 on September 11, 1971 (knocking out "Uncle Albert - Admiral Halsey" by Paul McCartney), Osmond was just 13. "That put me as an official hit-maker as a solo artist in the industry," he said in a Songfacts interview.

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