Artist: Billy Grammer
Author: Mel Tillis/Danny Dill
Label: Decca
Year: 1962
Top 20 C&W.
Covers:
Bobby Bare [as Detroit City; top 10 C&W, top 20 US; lonely country boys lured by jobs in the motor city recognized themselves in the "I wanna go home" refrain; country music was no longer a thing of the South exclusively]
Robert Cogoi [as Je serai mieux chez moi]
Arthur Alexander [as Detroit City]
Jerry Lee Lewis [idem on his album Country Songs For City Folks]
Them [melody in Go On Home Baby]
Charley Pride [as Detroit City]
Dick Rivers [as Je veux rentrer chez moi]
Solomon Burke [as Detroit City]
Tom Jones [idem; top 30 US]
Mel Tillis [author]
Dolly Parton [all as Detroit City]
Pam Tillis [the songwriter's daughter on album It's All Relative - Tillis Sings Tillis]
Not to be confused with Lonnie Donegan's I Wanna Go Home ('60), a version of the Caribbean traditional The Wreck Of The John B Sails (see: Histe Up The John B's Sails), although some influence is not excluded.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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