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The A Side:
Please Come Home For Christmas 2:57
Funky New Year 3:58
The B Side:
Please Come Home For Christmas 2:57
Funky New Year 3:58
The Brief:
Blues singer and pianist Charles Brown wrote “Please Come Home for Christmas” with Gene Redd and released the tune as a single in 1960. The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at #76. It also charted for Brown on the Christmas Singles chart nine different years, and reached #1 on that chart in 1972. In 1978, during recording sessions for ‘The Long Run’ LP, The Eagles lineup of Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmidt, and Don Felder recorded and released the song commercially as a vinyl 7″ single only release. The single became the first Christmas record to break into the top 20 on US music charts in over 20 years and reached #30 on the U.K. Singles Chart. In 1995 it went to #15 on Billboard’s Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks and 10 years later, in 2005, managed to get to #74 on the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart. The flip-side of the single is “Funky New Year”, an original song written by Henley and Frey along with Bob Seger, and J.D. Souther. Henley handles the lead vocals on a song about a hungover morning after a New Year’s Eve party. This 12″ promo features stereo versions of the songs on Side A and mono versions on Side B. Another quirk about this 12″ is that it isn’t continuous play… The grooves stop on each side after the first song and you have to physically pick up the needle and move it over to play the second song. Obviously pressed that way for radio DJ’s when actual records were actually played by radio stations. Sigh… the good old days…
The Billboard Charts:
| Chart | Debuted | Debut Pos. | Peak Pos. | Wks on Chart |
| Hot 100 | 12/9/78 | 78 | 18 | 8 |
The Source:
Label: Asylum Records
Catalog#: AS-11402
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1978
The Equipment:
Technics SL-1200MK2 Turntable
Audio Technica AT440MLa Phono Cartridge
Yamaha RX-Z1 A/V Receiver
Sony PCM-R300 DAT Deck
Turtle Beach Catalina sound card
Mustek Scan Express A3 1200 Scanner
Spin Clean Record Washer MKII
The Software:
Cool Edit Pro
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006
Microsoft ICE
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I love your trivia. Thanks one more time for this single.
Glad you enjoy it, it’s interesting for me as well when I am putting it together.
WOW! Very nice to now have both stereo and mono versions.
Nice to see someone that still appreciates mono these days. Mono, the audio term not the medical term, don’t think anyone ever appreciated that!