Hey There Lonely Girl

"Hey There Lonely Girl" is a song released in 1969 by Eddie Holman. The original version "Hey There Lonely Boy" was recorded in 1963 by Ruby & the Romantics. It was a hit for both of them. It has since been recorded by many other artists.

The group's original recording was a Top 30 hit, peaking at #27 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.^[3] "Hey There Lonely Boy" also reached #5 on Billboard's Middle-road singles chart.

In 1969, Eddie Holman released his own version of the song. It peaked at 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop chart in 1970, and was the first #2 hit of the 1970s.^[4] On the US soul singles chart, it went to number 4.^[5] It peaked at number 1 on the Canadian RPM chart and number 42 on the Australian chart.^[6] Four years after its US / Canadian release, the single went to number 4 on the UK Singles Chart;^[7] it is his highest charting single in each country.

• Shaun Cassidy's 1977 version was a track on his debut LP. It reached # 5 in Australia.^[8]
• Robert John, in 1980, for the album Back on the Street (US #31).^[9]
• British boy band Big Fun covered the song for their 1990 album A Pocketful of Dreams, produced by Stock Aitken Waterman, and released it as the fourth single in July 1990, peaking at number 62 in the UK chart.^[10] The track was subsequently denounced by band member Phil Creswick.^[11] David Giles of Music Week panned this version as being the "SAW worst production", noting Big Fun members' "ridiculous whining voices" and deemed it as unlikely to be a hit.^[12]

• List of 1960s one-hit wonders in the United States