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COL JOYE WITH THE JOY BOYS & THE SAPPHIRES
Bye Bye Baby (Goodbye) (Frank McNulty) Australia 1959 #1 Sydney #3 Melbourne #2 Brisbane #2 Adelaide #2 Perth Single on Festival, also released in the US on Decca as B-side of Rockin' Rollin' Clementine. Charted in Sydney in the first week of May 1959. This was the first hit record by Col Joye, a pioneering Aussie pop star of the rock'n'roll era. Born Colin Jacobsen in 1937, in 1957 he joined his brother Kevin's jazz band that was to become Col Joye and the Joy Boys. He had ten Top 10 hits in the Sydney charts alone from May 1959 to May 1962, including four #1s, and was a star on television pop show Bandstand. Something of a legend in Australia, his rock'n'roll suit is on display at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum. See, for example, the Col Joye page at Howlspace. Thanks to Tony Watson and to Terry Stacey for corrections.
SONNY WILLIAMS
Bye Bye Baby Goodbye (Frank McNulty) USA 1958 Original version Single on Chicago label Coin, owned by Frank McNulty, the composer of Bye Bye Baby Goodbye. Another Frank McNulty song was a hit for Col Joye in Australia: (Making Love On A) Moonlit Night (1960, #4 Sydney, #28 Melbourne, #13 Brisbane,#4 Adelaide). Chronology: This was released in September 1958, as shown on the label (9-58). Dot, which pressed and distributed Coin, followed the practice of dating its labels in this way. The single was not reviewed in Billboard until 10 August 1959, most likely because of a redistribution of the single in response to Col Joye's release on US Decca. Thanks to Frank McNulty and Tony Watson. 
TERESA BREWER
Bye Bye Baby Goodbye (Frank McNulty) USA 1959
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Single on Coral, reviewed in Billboard 15 June 1959, indicating it was probably released after Col Joye's Australian release.