It’s my favorite contemporary classic Christmas tune, yet I can’t find the original version that made me fall in love with the song, “Please Come Home for Christmas”. I spent much of yesterday evening downloading different samples of the song; it seems every famous recording artist from the past few decades covered it. The musical acts that were sampled were very diverse: Aaron Neville, Sawyer Brown, Bon Jovi, Vonda Sheperd, Gary Allan, the Drifters, Lonestar, Toby Keith… Twenty renditions later and I still haven’t found the original version I heard – my favorite one to date. I heard it in the 80’s or early 90’s, and it was the most popular version they would play all the time on the radio; country and easy listening / rock. It’s sung by a male artist or group… if anyone has any suggestions of who it might be, I might be up to fishing through a few more versions of the song. That is, unless any of them are as bad as Toby Keith’s. And this is coming from a country music fan!
About the most popular version I can think of was The Eagles version, but Jon Bon Jovi also recorded it in the 80s.
According to Wikipedia, it was originally recorded by blues singer Charles Brown in 1960.
Found that here:
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,57692,00.html
Youtube Eagles version here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRgC3CA38g
Thanks everyone for your help – the Eagles version is very good, still not the one I was looking for, but definitely a favorite. I haven’t had a chance to find Charles Brown’s version yet though… today is a snow day, and it WAS going to be a catchup-on-work-clean-the-house-for-complany-tomorrow day, but now I have 4 rambunctious kids running around here – EEK!
Christopher can run around already?! Or did you inherit another rambunctious kid to run around?
It’s worse than running around – he wants to be held all the time and cries ant time he’s put down.
Ah, yes… I know that phase. Thank goodness for the occasional visitors who come around..