The Fleetwoods [#1 1959]
Written by Gary Troxel, Barbara Ellis and Gretchen Christopher

Doo dooby doo
Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo

(Come softly, darling) Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
(Come softly, darling) Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
(Come softly, darling) Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
(Come softly, darling) Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo

(Come softly, darling) Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
(Come to me, stay) Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
(You're my obsession) Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
(Forever and a day) Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo

I want, want you to know, dooby do
I love, I love you so, doby do
Please hold, hold me so tight, dooby do
All through, all through the night, dooby do

(I speak softly, darling) Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
(Hear what I say) Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
(I love you always) Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
(Always, always) Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo

I've waited, waited so long, dooby do
For your kisses and your love, dooby do
Please come, come to me, dooby do
From up, from up above, dooby do

(Come softly, darling) I want, want you to know, dooby do
(Come softly, darling) I love, I love you so, dooby do
(Come softly) I need, Ineed you so much, dooby do
(Come softly) Want to feel your warm, warm touch, dooby do

Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo

Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo
Dum dum, dum doo dum, dooby doo

 The Fleetwoods were a singing trio from Olympia, Washington, formed in the late 1950s. They were responsible for the hit song "Come Softly to Me". The song was originally called "Come Softly", and the group was originally named Two Girls and a Guy, but both were changed en route to the song's becoming a hit.

Gary Troxel and Gretchen Christopher were two high school students waiting for Christopher's mother to pick them up after school. They started singing and humming a song together, and liked it enough to ask Christopher's friend and singing partner, Barbara Ellis, to join them as a trio to perform it.

They performed the song twice at school functions, and their classmates wanted recordings of it so they could learn the song. After six months, they got the track recorded. They sang it a cappella, then dubbed the instrumental accompaniment, consisting only of Latin-styled acoustic guitar and the rhythmic shaking of Troxel's car keys. It would top the pop charts and make it to the top five of the rhythm & blues charts.

"Come Softly To Me" now started to sell in even larger quantities. the Fleetwoods made their first national appearance on March 14, on The Dick Clark Show, and were on the The Ed Sullivan Show on April 5."Come Softly To Me' moved up the charts, into the Top Twenty in two weeks and on to Number One by mid-April.