USA Today: Danny Gokey’s ‘I Will Not Say Goodbye’: The story behind the song

Danny Gokey’s first single, My Best Days Are Ahead of Me, found the singer bonding with songwriter Kent Blazy over the loss of their wives.

Likewise, I Will Not Say Goodbye finds a hopeful message coming out of a tragic story.

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Ramsey says the song was initially considered for an exclusive bonus track — until Danny recorded it. Once people at RCA heard that, it quickly made the album’s final cut and was picked as the follow-up single to My Best Days Are Ahead of Me, with some at RCA even calling it “a game-changer.” (The single goes for adds at country radio today.)

“That’s a really special song to us, and not something we would have expected to be a commercial single,” White says. “I’m thrilled that it’s having such a life and that it means so much to Danny.”

Read the full length article with much more at Brian Mansfield’s USA Today blog here