Please Come to Boston by David Loggins, 1974

Dave Loggins was one of the one-hit wonder singers song writers of the '70's. Jump to: navigation, search "Please Come to Boston" Please Come to Boston - Dave Loggins.jpg Single by Dave Loggins from the album Apprentice (In a Musical Workshop) B-side "Let Me Go Now" Released May 6, 1974 Format 7" (45 rpm) Genre Country, soft rock[1] Length 4:07 Label Epic Songwriter(s) Dave Loggins Producer(s) Jerry Crutchfield Dave Loggins singles chronology "Think'n of You" (1973) "Please Come to Boston" (1974) "Someday" (1974) "Please Come to Boston" is a song written and recorded 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;[2] it spent one week atop the Billboard Easy Listening chart.[3] It was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Male Pop Vocal performance.[3] The three verses of the song are each a plea from the narrator to a woman 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."[4]