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"Please Come Home for Christmas" is a Christmas single, released in 1978, by the rock band Eagles. It was a cover of the Charles Brown original song released back in 1960. It was written by Brown and Gene Redd. It peaked at #18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts.
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.
[edit] Chart performance (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 Conemporary Tracks |
15 |
| U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream |
30 |
| Chart (2005) |
Peak
position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs |
74 |
[edit] List of artists who have recorded the song
