| I'll Be Home | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Flamingos |
| B-Side: | Need Your Love |
| Released: | January 1956 |
| Recorded: | October 1955 |
| Studio: | Chess (Chicago)[1] |
| Label: | Checker 830 |
"I'll Be Home" is a 1955 song that was written by Ferdinand Washington and songwriter, Stan Lewis.[2]
The Flamingos first recorded the song in October, 1955 at Chess' rudimentary office studio at 4750 South Cottage Grove using just two microphones and a tape recorder, then later at Universal Recording Corporation. Leonard Chess chose to release the less-polished version, recorded at Chess. The song was released on Chess' Checker Records subsidiary in January, 1956, with The Flamingos version going to No. 5 on Billboard's R&B chart,[3] its sales greatly overshadowed by the Pat Boone version released the same month.[4]
| I'll Be Home | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Pat Boone |
| Album: | Pat Boone |
| B-Side: | Tutti Frutti |
| Released: | January 1956 |
| Recorded: | December 1955 |
| Label: | Dot |
| Producer: | Randy Wood |
Pat Boone recorded the song in December, 1955 with producer Randy Wood for Dot Records. Boone's version was released as a single with "Tutti Frutti" as the B-side in January, 1956. Boone's version peaked at No. 5 on the US Billboard chart.[5] Overseas, it was a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart, spending five weeks at No. 1,[2] [6] and 24 weeks on the charts altogether. It was the best-selling single of 1956 in the United Kingdom.
Slim Whitman featured a version on his hit 1977 album Home on the Range.