"Please Come Home for Christmas" is a Christmas song written in 1960 and released the same year by the American blues singer and pianist Charles Brown. Entering the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1961, the tune, which Brown co-wrote with Gene Redd, peaked at position number 76. The single also appeared on Billboard magazine's Christmas Singles chart for nine holiday seasons, reaching number 1 in 1972. "Please Come Home for Christmas" includes a number of characteristics of Christmas music, such as multiple references in the lyrics to the Christmas season and Christmas traditions, and the use of a church bell type sound, created using tubular bells, at the start of the song. The song has been covered by many artists, most successfully by the Eagles and Jon Bon Jovi.