1974 Dave Loggins – Please Come To Boston (US:#5)

Dave Loggins

“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 Tracks 1 Someday (Dave Loggins) 3:22 2 My Lover’s Keeper (Dave Loggins) 3:17 3 Second Hand Lady (Dave Loggins) 3:02 4 Let Me Go Now (Dave Loggins) 2:59 5 So You Couldn’t Get to Me (Dave Loggins) 2:51 6 Please Come […]

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Produced By

Dave Loggins
Glen Spreen
Jerry Crutchfield

Songwriters