In April 1963, her single "I Will Follow Him" had soared to number one on U.S. charts. Recorded in early January 1963 and released January 22 of that year, it made Peggy March the youngest female singer with a number one hit at age fifteen. The record also took the number one spot in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Scandinavia.
Her success also came with financial trouble. March was a minor and the Coogan Law prevented her parents from managing her money. The responsibility was placed on her manager, Russell Smith. It was discovered in 1966 that he had squandered the fortune away, leaving her with $500. She soon had a new manager, Arnie Harris, who became her husband and gave her one daughter, Sande, born in 1974.
Though she is remembered by some as a one-hit wonder, her singles "I Wish I Were a Princess" and "Hello Heartache, Goodbye Love" made the Top 30 in the United States and the United Kingdom. She began making a very strong presence in the European and Asian music markets, and she moved to Germany around 1969. Her commercial success in Germany continued through much of the 1970s. In 1979 she experimented with disco on the album, Electrifying, but it failed to achieve commercial success. By 1981 record companies did not renew her contracts, and she moved back to the United States. A retro fad in Germany brought her some continuing success starting in the mid-1990s. Her song "I Will Follow Him" largely inspired the beat in the Eminem and Dr. Dre song Guilty Conscience, and was also featured in the 1992 movie Sister Act. Currently she works largely in the Las Vegas music scene.
Hello Heartache Goodbye Love
Little Peggy March Lyrics
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Good bye love
Good bye love
Good bye love
Love him...
How much do I love him?
So much...
New love...
He has found a new love
I know...
I must let him go
There they go...
In their happiness
Here I go...
In my loneliness
Hello, heartache
Good bye love
Good bye love
Good bye love
Love him...
Will she really love him?
Deeply...
Half as much as I
Always...
Will still love him always
I will...
Till the day I die
There they go...
In their happiness
Here I go...
In my loneliness
Hello, heartache
Good bye love
Good bye love
Good bye love
Good bye love
Good bye love
Good bye love
The song "Hello Heartache Goodbye Love" by Little Peggy March portrays a woman's pain and heartache as she faces the reality of her lover leaving her for someone else. She opens the song with the repeated phrase "Hello Heartache, Goodbye Love", which sets the tone for the rest of the song as she says her final farewell to her lost love. Peggy March's beautiful and emotive voice delivers the vulnerable and forlorn lyrics, in which she wonders how much she really loved him and how much he loved her.
As the song progresses, she acknowledges that he has found a new love and that in order to move on she must let him go. She contrasts her own loneliness with the couple's happiness, calling out "there they go, in their happiness, here I go, in my loneliness". Despite the emotional turmoil, she declares that she will love him always, till the day she dies.
The song's lyrics and Peggy March's moving delivery remind us of the pain of unrequited love, the heartache of a relationship ending, and the difficulty of moving on. It is a poignant song that captures the raw emotions of lost love.
Line by Line Meaning
Hello, heartache
Acknowledging the arrival of heartache due to an ended love relationship
Good bye love
Saying goodbye to the love that is no longer present
Good bye love
Repeating the goodbye to emphasize the finality of it
Good bye love
One last time, saying goodbye to the lost love
Love him...
Thinking of him and the love that was shared
How much do I love him?
Wondering about the intensity of love one feels towards their partner
So much...
Realizing that the love she feels is immense
He will never know
Accepting that the partner will never understand the depth of love and the heartbreak that follows
New love...
Accepting that the partner has moved on and found a new love
He has found a new love
Confirming that the partner has found a new love
I know...
Realizing that letting him go is the only path forward.
I must let him go
Accepting that the only solution is to let the partner go
There they go...
Watching the partner and new love leave as they are happy
In their happiness
Imagining the love and happiness experienced by the partner
Here I go...
Preparing oneself to face loneliness
In my loneliness
Admitting an oncoming period of loneliness due to the end of the relationship
Love him...
Continuing to think and remember the lost love
Will she really love him?
Questioning the sincerity and stability of the new love's relationship
Deeply...
Assuming that the new love's feelings cannot match the previous intensity of love
Half as much as I
Comparing her love to the 'new love' and concluding that it is half the intensity
Always...
Accepting the fact that the love for the partner will always remain, regardless of the circumstances
Will still love him always
Reiterating the fact that the love for the partner will remain always
I will...
Promising oneself to continue loving the partner
Till the day I die
Emphasizing the intensity and longevity of the love that exists for the lost partner
Good bye love
Saying one final goodbye to the love that is no more.
Good bye love
Emphasizing the finality of the goodbye to lost love
Good bye love
Saying a final farewell to the lost love.
Contributed by Micah G. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
T. Don
Amazing some teenage girl in the early 60's producing a masterpiece like this. I would like to thank her for leaving this for us
jarvis belmont
this is a great..powerful song....such powerful vocals...OLD FASHIONED WEDDING..is another great song she sang in 1966..
1989judh
A fantastic song. Peggy March will never be forgotten. God bless her. I hope she is with us for many years to come.
jarvis belmont
she is in a movie called HOLIDAY IN ST TROPEZ 1964.. she is a backup singer .check it on netflix
Patrik Ottosson
I'm almost 60 years old but this music is something that people who are 75 years old today did. Times fly 🙄
jarvis belmont
I am 54 years old..breakdancer from 1983 era.....and her voice is so amazing on this song.....go PEGGY...
Greg Deyermenjian
The classic example of how, in popular music, an artist would put out a very good song, then follow it awhile later with an absolutely phenomenal dramatic masterpiece, such as Hello Heartache Goodbye Love...and the absolutely fabulous one just never gets airplay and doesn't catch on. This song, and Little Peggy March's performance of it, is up there with the Kings and Queens of such music, Roy Orbison, Gene Pitney, and Timi Yuro. I had to search all over for the 45 back when it was out after I had heard it once or twice on the radio.
Jim Stone
I was walking through walgreens today shopping a bit when this song came on
in the store. I had never heard it before and now cant stop listening to it. I found it only because I knew the singers voice was the same as "I will
follow him". Funny how this song never quite made it as her other single,
it's just as good.
Glad to have found it here! Makes me nostalgic for a time I never knew.
St Pauli
Jim Stone Very kool!
Connie Robite
Jim Stone it did. I bought the single when it was popular....