{{Infobox song | name = Bye Bye Barbara | cover = Mathis Bye Bye Barbara.jpg | alt = | caption = US 7-inch single | type = Single | artist = Johnny Mathis | B-side = A Great Night for Crying | released = 1964 | recorded = July 15, 1963 | studio = | genre = Pop | length = 2:34 | label = Mercury | writer = *Jack Segal *Paul Vance | prev_title = The Little Drummer Boy | prev_year = 1963 | next_title = The Fall of Love | next_year = 1964 | misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|FgQnlCHHqVk|"Bye Bye Barbara"}}}} }}
"'''Bye Bye Barbara'''" is a popular song written by Jack Segal and Paul Vance that was recorded by Johnny Mathis in 1963. It charted in 1964.
==Recording== Johnny Mathis recorded "Bye Bye Barbara" on July 15, 1963, with an orchestra conducted by arranger Don Costa.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |author=Sony Music Entertainment |others=Johnny Mathis |title=The Complete Global Albums Collection |year=2014 |type=Liner notes |publisher=Sony Music Entertainment |id= 88843091432}}</ref> The only production credit provided on the original 7-inch single reads, "Vocal A Global Records Production".<ref name = "seven">{{cite AV media notes|title= Bye Bye Barbara |author=Mercury Records |year=1963|type= 7-inch Single liner notes|publisher=Mercury Records|id=72229}}</ref> When Mathis signed with Mercury Records in 1963, Global Records was the imprint created for him to record under.<ref>{{cite magazine | title=Mercury Gets Mathis July 1 on Long Pact | author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |magazine= Billboard |date=May 25, 1963 |page=1 |issn= 0006-2510 |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1963/Billboard%201963-05-25.pdf |access-date= January 7, 2026}}</ref>
==Chart performance== "Bye Bye Barbara" debuted on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the issue of the magazine dated February 1, 1964, and peaked at number 53 five weeks later, in the March 7 issue. The song stayed on the chart for seven weeks.<ref name = Hot/> It spent three weeks on the magazine's Easy Listening chart and got as high as number 17.<ref name = "adult">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/johnny-mathis/chart-history/asi/|title=Johnny Mathis - Chart History (Adult Contemporary)|magazine=Billboard |access-date=November 18, 2025 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20251118155530/https://www.billboard.com/artist/johnny-mathis/chart-history/asi/ | archive-date=November 18, 2025}}</ref> It reached number 55 on ''Cash Box'' magazine's best seller list<ref name = "Cashbox">{{Harvnb|Whitburn|2014|p=250}}</ref> and number 46 on the Top 100 Pop Sales and Performance chart in ''Music Vendor'' magazine.<ref name = "MusicVendor">{{Harvnb|Whitburn|2012|p=195}}</ref>
==Critical reception== In their review column, the editors of ''Cash Box'' magazine featured the single as a Pick of the Week, which was their equivalent to a letter grade of A for both "Bye Bye Barbara" and its B-side, "A Great Night for Crying". They described "Bye Bye Barbara" as "a beautiful, tear-compelling romancer with a soft, folk-like quality" and wrote, "Superb Don Costa arrangement."<ref>{{cite magazine|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Cash Box Record Reviews > Pick of the Week > "Bye Bye Barbara"/"A Great Night for Crying" |date=January 18, 1964 |magazine=Cash Box|location=New York|publisher=Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc.| page=12 |url= https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/60s/1964/CB-1964-01-18-OCR-Page-0012.pdf#search=%22mathis%20bye%20barbara%22 |access-date= February 5, 2026}}</ref>
== Charts == {| class="wikitable sortable" |+ Weekly chart performance for "Bye Bye Barbara" |- ! Chart (1964) ! Peak<br>position |- |US ''Billboard'' Easy Listening<ref name = adult/> |align="center"|17 |- {{single chart|Billboardhot100|53|artist=Johnny Mathis|access-date=February 5, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251123213827/https://www.billboard.com/artist/johnny-mathis/chart-history/hsi/|archive-date=November 23, 2025 |refname="Hot"}} |- | US Top 100 Best Selling Tunes on Records (''Cash Box'')<ref name = Cashbox/> | style="text-align:center;"|55 |- | US Top 100 Pop Sales and Performance (''Music Vendor'')<ref name = MusicVendor/> | style="text-align:center;"|46 |}
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==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} *{{citation | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Joel Whitburn's Hit Records 1954-1982 | year = 2012 | publisher = Record Research Inc. | isbn = 978-0-89820-200-7 }} *{{citation | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Joel Whitburn's ''Cash Box'' Pop Hits 1952-1996 | year = 2014 | publisher = Record Research Inc. | isbn = 978-0-89820-209-0 }} {{refend}}
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Category:Johnny Mathis songs Category:1964 songs Category:1964 singles Category:Mercury Records singles Category:Songs written by Jack Segal Category:Songs written by Paul Vance