"I'll Be Home" is a 1955 song that was written by Ferdinand Washington and songwriter, Stan Lewis.[2]
"I'll Be Home" | |
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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 |
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]
"I'll Be Home" | |
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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.
Slim Whitman featured a version on his hit 1977 album Home on the Range.