Please Come to Boston
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| "Please Come to Boston" | ||||
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| Single by Dave Loggins | ||||
| from the album Apprentice (In a Musical Workshop) | ||||
| B-side | "Let Me Go Now" | |||
| Released | May 6, 1974 | |||
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| Length | 4:07 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Songwriter | Dave Loggins | |||
| Producer | Jerry Crutchfield | |||
| Dave Loggins singles chronology | ||||
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"Please Come to Boston" is a song that was recorded and written by American singer-songwriter Dave Loggins. It was released in May 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[4] and one week atop the Billboard Easy Listening chart.[5] It was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Male Pop Vocal performance.[5]
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".
Dave Loggins, born and raised in Tennessee, was inspired to write "Please Come to Boston" by a 1972 tour with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band which included stops in Boston, Denver and Los Angeles,[6] cities which were new to Loggins. He stated:
The story is almost true, except there wasn't anyone waiting {here} so I made her up. In effect, making the longing for someone stronger. It was a recap to my first trip to each of those cities and out of innocence. That was how I saw each one. The fact of having no one to come home to made the chorus easy to write. Some 40 years later, I still vividly remember that night, and it was as if someone else was writing the song.[7]
Chart performance
| Chart (1974) | Peak position |
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| Australia (Kent Music Report)[8] | 47 |
| Canadian RPM Top Singles[9] | 4 |
| Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks[10] | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 5 |
| U.S. Billboard Easy Listening | 1 |
