Before Donny Osmand, and Billy Joel, someone sang a song titled "Hey, Girl&!

Before Donny Osmand, and Billy Joel, someone sang a song titled "Hey, Girl".?

I want to know who first sang it and made it a hit. It wasn't Ray Charles, either. It was slow, romantic, pleading...
I can't find it, and it is making me crazy. Well, not crazy, but you know...

Thanks!

Hey Girl

- Artist: Freddie Scott
- peak Billboard position # 10 in 1963
- also charted as part of a medley by Bobby Vee at # 35 in 1968
- also charted by Donny Osmond at # 9 in 1972
- Words and Music by Gerry Goffin and Carole King


Hey, girl, I want you to know
I'm gonna miss you so much if you go (bye bye baby)
And hey, girl, I tell you no lie
Something deep inside of me's going to die (bye bye baby)
If you say "So long" (bye bye baby)
If this is "Goodbye" (bye bye baby)
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Hey, girl, this can't be true
How am I supposed to exist without you? (bye bye baby)
Hey, girl, now don't put me on
What's gonna happen to me when you're gone? (bye bye baby)
How will I live (bye bye baby)
How can I go on? (bye bye baby)

How can I go on? (bye bye baby)
Oh, oh, oh, oh

<instrumental interlude ends with one " bye bye baby">

Hey, girl, now sit yourself down
I'm not ashamed to get down on the ground (bye bye baby)
And beg (bye bye baby), beg you to stay (bye bye baby)

Don't go away (bye bye baby)
Hey, girl (bye bye baby)
No, I beg ya, please don't go away (bye bye baby)

FADE
Hey, girl (bye bye baby)
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Don't, don't go away