Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby Goodbye)

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"Bye Bye Baby (Baby, Goodbye)"
Single by The Four Seasons
from the album The Four Seasons Entertain You
B-side	"Searching Wind (from the album Born To Wander)"
Released	1965
Length	2:32
Label	Philips Records
Songwriter(s)	Bob Gaudio, Bob Crewe
Producer(s)	Bob Crewe
The Four Seasons singles chronology
"Big Man in Town" (1964) "Bye Bye Baby (Baby, Goodbye)" (1965) "Toy Soldier" (1965)

"Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby, Goodbye)" is a popular song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio (a member of The Four Seasons). The Four Seasons' version of the song made it to No. 1 in Canada^[1] and No. 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1965.^[2] On the original issue of the single, the title was "Bye Bye Baby". However, on the album, The 4 Seasons Entertain You, and on later issues of the song, the name was changed to the longer, more familiar one. The song is about saying goodbye, not because the person is unloved but rather because the relationship is adulterous ("there's a wedding ring on my finger").^{[citation needed]}

After a winding seven-bar introduction in D major, featuring Frankie Valli's spoken recitation, the song settles into a triplet-swing beat and thereafter alternates between two keys, F-sharp major (in the chorus) and A major (in the verse and final chorus), bridging the gap with a five-step chromatic pivot-modulation (D-D♯-E-F-F♯ over the line "She's got me and I'm not free").

Cash Box described it as "a heartfelt rhythmic stomp’er that again features the attention-getting falsetto sound of Frankie Valli and a top teen Calello arrangement."^[3]