Anita Baker - I'll Be Home For Christmas (2005)

"I'll Be Home for Christmas" is a Christmas song, written by Kim Gannon, Walter Kent and Buck Ram. It was first copyrighted on August 24, 1943, by Kent (music) and James "Kim" Gannon (lyrics). The two revised and re-copyrighted their song on September 27, 1943, and it was this version that was made famous by Crosby. The label on Crosby's recording credits "I'll Be Home for Christmas" to Kent, Gannon, and Ram. Later recordings usually credit only Kent and Gannon. The discrepancy arose from the fact that on December 21, 1942 Buck Ram copyrighted a song titled "I'll Be Home for Christmas (Tho' Just in Memory)"—that song bore little or no resemblance, other than its title, to the Crosby recording. According to Ram, who was primarily a lyricist, he had written the lyrics as a 16-year-old, homesick college student. Prior to his publishers planned release, he had discussed the song with two acquaintances in a bar. He left a copy with them, but never spoke to them about it again. Both he and his publisher were shocked when the song was released by a competing publishing house. Per news articles of the day, Ram's publisher, who had been holding the song back a year because they were coming out with "White Christmas," sued Gannon and Kent's publisher and prevailed in court. On October 4, 1943, Crosby recorded "I'll Be Home for Christmas" with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra for Decca Records. Within about a month of Kent and Gannon's copyright the song hit the music charts and remained there for eleven weeks, peaking at number three. The following year, the song reached number nineteen on the charts. It touched a tender place in the hearts of Americans, both soldiers and civilians, who were then in the depths of World War II, and it earned Crosby his fifth gold record. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" became the most requested song at Christmas U.S.O. shows in both Europe and the Pacific and Yank, the GI magazine, said Crosby accomplished more for military morale than anyone else of that era.

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[skmart72]

@bf0rpd Anita Baker - "Christmas Fantasy" 2005. The entire CD is so Ms. Baker--smooth & jazzy! LOVE IT!

[bf0rpd]

Does anybody know what CD this is from, cause I've got to buy it!

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

YES!! I heard this on the radio the other day. Got me in the Christmas mood!! :)

[buitenwatersloot]

Very informative. TFS! And I do love Anita Baker and this beautiful song. Merry Christmas!

[1stbrasscaptain]

@azalori Yes! >_<

[azalori]

@1stbrasscaptain Anything, God bless her

[aaervin]

this song is awesome......currently my new favorite christmas song.

[1stbrasscaptain]

Anita Baker can sing any and every genre...I love you Anita!

[Caneheap]

Beautiful voice

[jcrew63]

HER music makes love to my ears mmm......... sweet and soulful