Coming Home Soldier

"Coming Home Soldier"
Single by Bobby Vinton
from the album Bobby Vinton Sings the Newest Hits
B-side "Don't Let My Mary Go Round"
Released 1966
Format Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
Genre Pop music
Length 2:29
Label Epic Records
Writer(s) Bobby Vinton & Gene Allan[1]
Producer(s) Robert Mersey[2]
Bobby Vinton singles chronology
"Petticoat White (Summer Sky Blue)"
(1966)
"Coming Home Soldier"
(1966)
"For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"
(1967)

"Coming Home Soldier" is a song co-written and sung by Bobby Vinton, which he released in 1966. The song is sung from the perspective of a man who is returning home to the girl he loves, after having fought in a war overseas. The song spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 11,[3] while reaching No. 29 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade,[4] and No. 89 on Canada's RPM 100.[5]

Chart performance

Chart (1966-1967) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 11
Canada - CHUM Hit Parade 29
Canada - RPM 100 89

References

  1. Coming Home Soldier - By: Bobby Vinton, MusicVF.com. Accessed October 18, 2015
  2. "Spotlight Singles", Billboard, October 29, 1966. p. 16. Accessed October 18, 2015
  3. Bobby Vinton - Chart History - The Hot 100, Billboard.com. Accessed October 18, 2015
  4. CHUM Hit Parade – Week of January 16, 1967 at the Wayback Machine (archived November 7, 2006). Chart No. 517. CHUM. Accessed November 25, 2015.
  5. "RPM 100", RPM Weekly, Volume 6, Ed. 17, December 19, 1966. Accessed October 18, 2015
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