I'll Be Home For Christmas - Bing Crosby (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

I'll Be Home For Christmas (Bing Crosby, 1943). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-12-17. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

Merry Christmas Everyone: "I'll Be Home For Christmas," written by Kim Gannon and Walter Kent, was a Christmas hit for Bing Crosby in 1943 rising to the no. 3 position on the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart and no. 14 the following Christmas season (Whitburn, 1986). Other notable versions of the song that hit the Billboard charts with the song's resurgence in 1998 though the 2000s include Kelly Clarkson (Hot 100 chart, 2011 no. 93; Adult Contemporary, 2011 no. 7), Gosh Groban (Hot 100 chart, 2007 no. 95; Adult Contemporary chart, 2007 no. 1), Camila Cabello (Hot 100 chart, 2021, no. 71), Seth McFarlane (Adult Contemporary chart, 2014 no. 28), Brian McKnight (Adult Contemporary chart 2008, no. 14), and on the Hot Country Songs chart Elvis Presley and Carrie Underwood (2008, no. 54), Sara Evans (2006, no. 46), Rascal Flatts (2008, no. 34) and Reba McEntire (1998, no. 68) (songfacts, 2022; Wikipedia, 2022). Crosby's version became a hit during World War II; it resonated heavily with GIs fighting in the war (G. Dowell, lagrangenews, Dec. 18, 2018).

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Lyrics:

I'll be home for Christmas
You can plan on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents on the tree

Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams

I'll be home for Christmas
You can plan on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents on the tree

Christmas Eve'll find me
Where the love light gleams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams