Australian singles charts:
Darling Be Home Soon entered the Kent charts on 15 April 1967 and peaked at #90.
Album:
The song is on The Lovin’ Spoonful’s You’re a Big Boy Now soundtrack album.
Songwriter:
John Sebastian
Producer:
Erik Jacobsen
Record label of Australian release:
Kama Sutra
Wikipedia:
Darling Be Home Soon was written by John Sebastian of the Lovin’ Spoonful for the soundtrack of the 1966 Francis Ford Coppola film You’re a Big Boy Now. Sebastian performed his composition at Woodstock.
Coppola commissioned Sebastian to write music for the film, and for one scene wanted a song with a similar mood and tempo to Monday, Monday by the Mamas and the Papas. Sebastian said that he wrote the song as “pleas for a partner to spend a few minutes talking before leaving…. [but] you never knew if the other person was actually there listening or was already gone”.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlin’_Be_Home_Soon
Lyrics:
Come and talk of all the things we did today
Here and laugh about our funny little ways
While we have a few minutes to breathe
And I know that it’s time you must leave
But darling be home soon
I couldn’t bear to wait an extra minute if you dawdled
My darling be home soon
It’s not just these few hours but I’ve been waiting since I toddled
For the great relief of having you to talk to
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This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 60s
Also on Bang a Gong: Darling Be Home Soon from Slade’s album Slade Alive! and a version by Joe Cocker
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