JOHNNY MATHIS - "I'm Coming Home" (1973)

Charted #1 on Billboard Easy Listening then quickly forgotten. But we remember.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 1970s
• pop
• rock
• easy
• listening
• standards

[joefax530]

Nice, but the Spinners' version from '74 is the true classic.

[MrTrashcan1]

@joefax530 LOL. Johnny Mathis sings this as a beautiful ballad. The lyrics and the melody have a distinct beauty and melancholy to them. The Spinners' version sounds identical to all of their other songs and bears almost no resemblance to this. They essentially just plugged the words from this song into Rubberband Man. I loved many of the Spinners' songs. But please, to compare their version to this is just silly.

[wee1belle2]

...Soooo lovely to hear Mr. Mathis sing ANYTHING...And thank you for all of the work that you put into sharing this, also.

[MrTrashcan1]

@wee1belle2 Thank you very much.

[sortashaman]

A long-forgotten gem...thanks for posting...

[MrTrashcan1]

@u000drl Not from Oreland, but from the Philly area. Grew up in the city and used to ride what was then the Reading RR. Oreland Station was on the Bethlehem (North Penn) branch of the Reading. I am also a model railroader/train buff, so it was instinctive for me to include pics of local stations in this song. Also check out my posting of Five Hundred Miles by Heaven Bound. I don't remember if Oreland is in there, but there are several SE PA railroad localities.

[u000drl]

@MrTrashcan1 Dude Mr. Trashcan, the pic at 2:11 is Oreland [PA] train station-are you from that area? I live about 300 yards from there!

[shengchenfan]

I've lived this song.

[TheWolfvpl]

I've just read the comment by @ratscisum that this song is by Linda Creed and Thom Bell, the married geniuses behind The Spinners's and The Stylistics's success. I once read that Dionne Warwick told B. Bacharach that Thom Bell was the Black BB. I agree. I used to be convinced that "People Make The World Go Round" was a BB song. Thom Bell must have produced the Mathis version as well.

[TheWolfvpl]

I love this version. I love the Spinners, but they have nothing on Johnny Mathis on this one. The arrangement makes it sound like a Burt Bacharach song, which is a good thing.

[Cettie5360]

That's on the radio here every morning. Love it.

[Green18600]

Brilliant Song!! "I'm Coming Home" from April 1973 had the right blend of horn sounds and rhythm in the tune. The world salutes Entertainer Johnny Mathis; and to wit, we commend him for his accomplishments. A Brilliant 6!!

[70Kenny]

Hadn't thought of this song in years. My mom used to play this album a lot when I was a very small child. It brought back memories of quiet afternoons in Boulder, Colorado circa 1973-74. Thank you.

[skyeman725]

super song-honest & wholesome..real

[35777]

feel like jumpin in front of that train, sometimes