| "I'll Be Home" | |
|---|---|
| Single by The Flamingos | |
| B-side | "Need Your Love" |
| Released | January 1956 |
| Recorded | October 1955 |
| Studio | Chess (Chicago)[1] |
| Label | Checker 830 |
| Songwriter(s) | Ferdinand Washington, Stanley Lewis |
"I'll Be Home" is a 1955 song that was written by Ferdinand Washington and songwriter, Stan Lewis.[2]
Flamingos version
The Flamingos first recorded the song in October, 1955 at Chess' rudimentary office studio at 4750 South Cottage Grove using just two microphones and a tape recorder, then later at Universal Recording Corporation. Leonard Chess chose to release the less-polished version, recorded at Chess. The song was released on Chess' Checker Records subsidiary in January, 1956, with The Flamingos version going to No. 5 on Billboard's R&B chart,[3] its sales greatly overshadowed by the Pat Boone version released the same month.[4]
Pat Boone version
| "I'll Be Home" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Pat Boone | |
| from the album Pat Boone | |
| B-side | "Tutti Frutti" |
| Released | January 1956 |
| Recorded | December 1955 |
| Label | Dot |
| Songwriter(s) | Ferdinand Washington, Stanley Lewis |
| Producer(s) | Randy Wood |
Pat Boone recorded the song in December, 1955 with producer Randy Wood for Dot Records. Boone's version was released as a single with "Tutti Frutti" as the B-side in January, 1956. Boone's version peaked at No. 5 on the US Billboard chart.[5] Overseas, it was a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart, spending five weeks at No. 1,[2][6] and 24 weeks on the charts altogether. It was the best-selling single of 1956 in the United Kingdom.
Other versions
Slim Whitman featured a version on his hit 1977 album Home on the Range.
References
- ↑ Cohodas, Nadine (2000). Spinning Blues Into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records. St. Martin's Press. p. 129. ISBN 9780312284947.
- 1 2 Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 25. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 207.
- ↑ Goldberg, Marv. "The Flamingos". Marv Goldberg's R&B Notebooks. Marv Goldberg. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 75.
- ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 59–60. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
