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| Please Come Home for Christmas | BB King, Merry Christmas Baby | Charles Brown, Merry Christmas Baby |
| Charles Brown released Please Come Home for Christmas in 1960. It was a simpler time, when people could be sad with style. It peaked at #76 on the Billboard 100 chart in Dec. 1961, It appeared on the Christmas Singles chart for nine seasons, hitting #1 in 1972.
Leading off is another Brown Christmas chestnut, “Merry Christmas Baby. This is what Springstein could have gone for instead of channeling BB King, and he didn’t do that very well either. As Toad tells John Milner in American Graffiti, Springstein and those other guys like Don Henley and Luther Vandross, who both covered Please Come Home for Christmas, might as well get a wheelchair and roll themselves home. “You'll always be Number One, John. You're the greatest. “ Brown is gone now. He died in 1999. A ghost of Christmas past. Do yourself a favor and, on this special night, listen to the original Please Come Home for Christmas by Charles Brown. It can feel so good to feel bad when the musical accompanyment is right. |