"Please Come Home for Christmas" is a Christmas song, released in 1960, by the American blues singer and pianist Charles Brown. Hitting Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in December 1961, the tune Brown co-wrote with Gene Redd peaked at position #76. It appeared on the Christmas Singles chart for nine seasons, hitting #1 in 1972.[3] It includes a number of characteristics of Christmas music, such as multiple references in the lyrics to the Christmas season and Christmas traditions, and the use of a Church bell type sound, created using a piano, at the start of the song. It is sometimes referred to as Bells Will Be Ringing.
[edit] Eagles version
In 1978, the rock band Eagles covered and released the song as a single. Their version of the song peaked at #18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts. The lineup features Don Henley (drums/vocals), Glenn Frey (piano, backing vocals), Joe Walsh (guitar, backing vocals), Timothy B. Schmidt (bass/backing vocals), and Don Felder (lead guitar). Originally released as a vinyl 7" single, it was re-released in the nineties as a CD-single.
[edit] Jon Bon Jovi version
"Please Come Home for Christmas" was also a 1992 cover version by Jon Bon Jovi that was released on the 1992 holiday album, A Very Special Christmas 2. A promo music video that featured supermodel Cindy Crawford was made to accompany that release. In 1994 the same recording was released as a charity single in Europe, but this time instead of being credited as a solo recording by Jon Bon Jovi it was released under the band name Bon Jovi. The 1994 single release made the Top Ten in both UK and Ireland.
[edit] Chart performance
[edit] Charles Brown
| Chart (1962) |
Peak
position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 |
76 |
[edit] Eagles
| Chart (1978) |
Peak
position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 |
18 |
| U.K. Singles Charts |
30 |
| Chart (1995) |
Peak
position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks |
15 |
| Chart (2005) |
Peak
position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs |
74 |
[edit] Bon Jovi
| Chart (1994) |
Peak
position |
| UK Singles Chart |
7 |
| Irish Singles Chart |
6 |
[edit] Gary Allan
| Chart (1997) |
Peak
position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks |
70 |
[edit] Lee Roy Parnell
| Chart (1997) |
Peak
position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks |
71 |
[edit] Willie Nelson
| Chart (2004) |
Peak
position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks |
50 |
[edit] Josh Gracin
| Chart (2006) |
Peak
position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs |
51 |
[edit] Martina McBride
| Chart (2011–2012) |
Peak
position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs |
51 |
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