| Honey Come Back | |
| Cover: | Honey_Come_Back_-_Glen_Campbell.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Glen Campbell |
| Album: | Try a Little Kindness |
| B-Side: | Where Do You Go |
| Released: | January 1970 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 3:00 |
| Label: | Capitol |
| Producer: | Al DeLory |
| Prev Title: | Try a Little Kindness |
| Prev Year: | 1969 |
| Next Title: | All I Have to Do Is Dream |
| Next Year: | 1970 |
"Honey Come Back" is a song written by Jimmy Webb, and recorded by the American country music artist Glen Campbell. It would become a major hit for him.
It was released in January 1970 as the second single from his album Try a Little Kindness. The song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.[1] It also reached number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.[2]
A video was produced for the song, featuring Campbell sitting by a fireplace composing a letter – presumably of his thoughts and feelings for his girlfriend, who has left him. The video has aired on Great American Country.
| Chart (1970) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Go-Set [3] | 6 | |
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] | 7 | |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 | |
| Canadian RPM Top Singles | 6 | |
| Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary | 3 | |
| Euro Hit 50 | 13 | |
| Irish Singles Chart | 2 | |
| South African Singles Chart | 16 | |
| UK Singles Chart | 4 | |
| US Billboard Easy Listening | 4 | |
| US Cash Box Top 100[5] | 11 |
| Chart (1970) | Rank | |
|---|---|---|
| UK Singles Chart | 15 | |
| Australia (KMR)[6] | 64 | |
| U.S. Cashbox Top 100 | 83 |
| Honey Come Back | |
| Artist: | The Peddlers |
| B-Side: | Where Have All the Flowers Gone? |
| Label: | CBS BA 461288 |
| Prev Title: | Girlie |
| Prev Year: | 1970 |
| Next Title: | Day in Day Out |
| Next Year: | 1970 |
In 1970 The Peddlers version became a hit in New Zealand.
Following on from their success in New Zealand with Backed with "Girlie", The Peddlers released their take on "Honey Come Back".[7] Backed with "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", it was released on a single, CBS BA 461288 in New Zealand in 1970.[8] [9] The song appears on the New Zealand issued compilation, The Very Best of the Peddlers, released on CBS SBP 473951.[10] [11]
The song spent four weeks in the New Zealand chart in July, peaking at no. 8 on week two.[12]
The song was not included on the How Cool Is Cool ... The Complete CBS Recordings CD compilation. However the compilation did include two previously unreleased songs, "Say No More" and "Some of This Some of That".[14]
The song was first recorded in 1965 by singer Dorsey Burnette during his stint at Motown's country subsidiary Mel-o-dy. It was not issued at the time and only resurfaced in 2006, when it appeared on the compilation The Complete Motown Recordings 1964–1965. The first released version was by the Motown singer Chuck Jackson, whose single reached number 43 on the R&B charts in 1969. In December 1969, Don Ho also released it as a single.
Campbell's 1970 single was one of many recordings of the song that year – there were versions by: