Please Come Home For Christmas Wiki (2024)

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Who sang "Please Come Home for Christmas" originally? ›

"Please Come Home for Christmas" is a Christmas song, written in 1960 and released the same year by American blues singer and pianist Charles Brown.

Whether the resemblances between the two tracks amount to plagiarism is something best left to a copyright lawyer, but it's certainly possible that McCartney used 'Please Come Home for Christmas' as a template for 'Oh! Darling'.

"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" is a pop song originally sung by Darlene Love and included on the 1963 seasonal compilation album, A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records (later renamed A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector). The song was written by Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, and Phil Spector.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby is not only the best-selling Christmas/holiday single in the United States, but also the best-selling single of all time since the advent of recorded music, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.

The Nat King Cole Trio first recorded the song in June 1946.

"This Christmas" is a song by American soul musician Donny Hathaway released in 1970 by Atco Records.

In a 1980 interview with Playboy magazine, John Lennon said, "'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better – it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it." The song is in the key of A major.

"Oh! Darling" is a song by the Beatles composed by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon-McCartney) and appearing as the fourth song on the album, Abbey Road, in 1969. Its working title was "Oh! Darling (I'll Never Do You No Harm)".

The song “We Need a Little Christmas” originated in Jerry Herman's 1966 Broadway hit Mame, first performed on stage with Angela Lansbury in the title role, and then played by Lucille Ball in the film version.

Singer Darlene Love talks about her friend and former background vocalist Cher on "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" | WBGO.

How many times was Darlene Love on Letterman? ›

Beginning in 1986 and continuing for 29 years, Darlene Love performed the song annually on the episode before Christmas of Late Night with David Letterman [[NBC, 1986–92) and Late Show with David Letterman [[CBS, 1993–2014), 28 times in all.

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'All I Want for Christmas is You' by Mariah Carey

According to The Economist, this song made Mariah a whopping $60million (£47.3) between 1994 and 2016. That's an average of $2.6 million (£2million) per year!

Award-winning singer, songwriter, and musician Tenille Townes released her new project Masquerades April 22, 2022 via Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville in partnership with RCA Records.

Recorded in a rich baritone by Bing Crosby, "I'll Be Home for Christmas" shot to the top ten of the record charts (as "White Christmas" had for Crosby the previous year) and became a holiday musical tradition in the United States.

"Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)" is a popular Christmas song written and originally performed by Gene Autry, with music composed by Oakley Haldeman.

Josh Henderson covers this Blake Shelton original song. Here is his singing version from the Hallmark movie "Time for me to come home". I don't own anything.