1974 Dave Loggins – Please Come To Boston (US:#5)
“Please Come to Boston” is a song that was recorded and written by American singer-songwriter Dave Loggins. It was released in April 1974 as the first single from his album Apprentice (In a Musical Workshop) and was produced by Jerry Crutchfield. It spent two weeks at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974; it spent one week atop the Billboard Easy Listening chart. It was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Male Pop Vocal performance.
The three verses of the song are each a plea from the narrator to a woman whom he hopes will join him in, respectively, Boston, Denver, and Los Angeles, with each verse concluding: “She said ‘No – boy would you come home to me'”; the woman’s sentiment is elaborated on in the chorus which concludes with the line: “I’m the number one fan of the man from Tennessee.” Tennessee is the home state of Dave Loggins, who has said of “Please Come to Boston” – “The story is almost true, except there wasn’t anyone waiting so I made her up. In effect, making the longing for [a companion] stronger. It was a recap to my first trip to each of those cities…[and] how I saw each one. The fact of having no one to come home to made the chorus easy to write. Some forty years later, I still vividly remember that night [of composition], and it was as if someone else was writing the song.
Album
Apprentice (In a Musical Workshop) is David Loggins‘ second solo album released in 1974 David Allen “Dave” Loggins (born November 10, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He is remembered best for his 1974 song composition “Please Come to Boston”, which was a number 5 popular music success (number 1 Easy Listening) in […]
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Produced By
Dave Loggins
Glen Spreen
Jerry Crutchfield
Songwriters
Dave Loggins
Charts
US:#5
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