Please Come Home for Christmas

Infobox single
Name = Please Come Home for Christmas


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Artist = Charles Brown
from Album = Charles Brown Sings Christmas Songs
Released = 1960
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Recorded = 1960
Genre = blues
Length = 2:58
Label = King Records
Writer = Charles Brown, Gene Redd
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Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Eagles Single Cover Art
Type = single


Lower caption = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Bon Jovi's Single Cover Art
Type = single


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"Please Come Home for Christmas" is a Christmas song, released in 1960, by the American blues singer and pianist Charles Brown. The song was a hit in 1960 and remained seasonally popular thereafter. It includes a number of characteristics of Christmas music, such as multiple references in the lyrics to the Christmas season and , and the use of a church bell type sound, created using a piano, at the start of the song.

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.

Bon Jovi version

Bon Jovi covered and recorded the song for the A Very Special Christmas 2 compilation album, as well as a single. The album reached a chart position of #7 on the U.S. "Billboard" 200 charts in December of 1992. The single release also included the songs "Back Door Santa" and "I Wish Every Day Could Be Like Christmas" from the first A Very Special Christmas album.

The cover art pictures Jon Bon Jovi in an intimate embrace and near kiss with Cindy Crawford.

Other Artists who have recorded the song

*Gary Allan
*Keith Anderson
*Fiona Apple
*Pat Benatar
*James Brown
*Anita Cochran
*Holly Cole
*Harry Connick, Jr.
*Josh Gracin
*Taylor Horn
*Etta James
*Toby Keith
*Sammy Kershaw
*B.B. King
*Dave Koz & Kimberley Locke
*Lonestar
*Southside Johnny Lyon
*Willie Nelson
*Aaron Neville
*Lee Roy Parnell
*Sawyer Brown
*Vonda Shepard
*Sister Hazel
*The Uniques
*Luther Vandross
*Clay Walker

Chart performance (Eagles)