"Please Come Home for Christmas" is a Christmas song, released in 1960, by the American blues singer and pianist Charles Brown. Hitting Billboards Hot 100 chart in December of 1961, the tune Brown co-wrote with Gene Redd peaked at position #76. It appeared on the Christmas Singles chart for nine seasons, hitting #1 in 1972. 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. In 1978, the rock band Eagles covered and released the song as a single, later on the Long Road out of Eden album. Their version of the song peaked at #18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts. The Eagles are an American rock band that were formed in Los Angeles; California during the early 1970s. With five Number 1 singles and six Number 1.
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