Please Come Home For Christmas
Year: 1960
Written By: Charles Brown
Released in 1960, 'Please Come Home for Christmas' was a
worldwide successful Christmas song which was by Charles Brown.
Charles Brown is an extremely popular and much loved American
musician. Charles Brown is most known for his excellent blues music
and remarkable ability as a pianist. Charles Brown wrote this song,
alongside with Gene Redd who helped in co-writing 'Please Come Home
for Christmas'.
'Please Come Home for Christmas' is clearly identified as a
Christmas festive track, it can be identified in many ways. For
example, this song includes many characteristics which are usually
seen in Christmas music. This can be shown by the multiple
references from within the lyrics to the Christmas season and
Christmas traditions, as well as the title of this song, actually
mentioning the word 'Christmas'. The tune also uses a Church bell
type sound which is created by using a piano; this is done at the
start of the song.
In December of 1961, this Christmas song appeared on the
Billboard's Hot 100, managing to secure a peak position of number
seventy six. In total, 'Please Come Home for Christmas' managed to
appear on the Christmas Singles chart for nine seasons, during this
time, this popular Christmas track managed to reach number one, it
did this in 1972.
The most notable cover of 'Please Come Home for Christmas' came
in 1978. This was when the rock band, Eagles decided to release a
cover of the song and then release it as a single. The Eagles
version was particularly successful, managing to peak at number
eighteen on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts. In comparison, in
the UK Singles Charts, 'Please Come Home for Christmas' was still
successful, but not quite as successful as it was in the U.S
charts, managing to peak at number 30 in the UK. When originally
released, this cover version was released a vinyl 7" single,
however when it was re- released in the 1990's, it was released on
a different format, being released as a CD-single. This cover by
the Eagles, ha d a five man line up, which was; Don Henley, Glenn
Frey, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmidt and Don Felder.
This songs popularity has led to it featuring on many charts,
such as the U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks, the Gary
Allan Chart, the Lee Roy Parnell Chart, the Willie Nelson Chart and
the Josh Gracin Chart.