Baby Please Come Home - Joey Ramone

Of all the Christmas songs which have been recorded, only the best can make it into The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musicians and at number 9 we have Baby Please Come Home by Joey Ramone.

I was unsure which way to go with this one because i love this song but the Darlene Love version is the ultimate but it is played so much on the radio and the other versions didn't really change it very much but i wanted to include it because it is a great Christmas song and was ranked by Rolling Stone as the Greatest Rock and Roll Christmas Song.
Amazingly the song never even charted when it was released in 1963 and then didn't bother the charts again the following year either and the highest chart position it has ever attained in the USA is 19 in 2021 and 22 in the UK in 2018 when it was chosen for the ASDA advert, the only place it has ever got into the top 10 is Sweden.
Phil Spector thought that the song was so good that it deserved a non-seasonal version, and made a version called 'Johnny (Baby Please Come Home)' but that tanked also so what did he know.
Of all the bands who have redone this song i usually go with the much less heard one by Joey Ramone  because, well, you can never have too much Joey Ramone.