{"id":6599,"date":"2022-10-12T16:21:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=6599"},"modified":"2022-10-12T16:22:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:22:11","slug":"darlin-be-home-soon-a-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=6599","title":{"rendered":"Darlin&#8217; Be Home Soon &#8211; a Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/all-songs\/mp3\/Cover_Story_2\\Darlin_Be_Home_Soon.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Darlin&#8217; Be Home Soon<\/strong>&#8221; (or &#8220;<strong>Darling Be Home Soon<\/strong>&#8220;) is a song written by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Sebastian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Sebastian<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Lovin%27_Spoonful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Lovin&#8217; Spoonful<\/a>&nbsp;for the soundtrack of the 1966&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Ford_Coppola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Francis Ford Coppola<\/a>&nbsp;film&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/You%27re_a_Big_Boy_Now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You&#8217;re a Big Boy Now<\/a><\/em>. It appeared on the Lovin&#8217; Spoonful&#8217;s 1967 soundtrack album&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/You%27re_a_Big_Boy_Now_(album)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You&#8217;re a Big Boy Now<\/a><\/em>. Sebastian performed his composition at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woodstock_Music_%26_Art_Fair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woodstock<\/a>; it was the fourth song out of the five he performed at the 1969 music festival in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_Lake,_Sullivan_County,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White Lake, New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Writing and recording<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"662\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/darlin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/darlin.png 662w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/darlin-640x521.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Coppola commissioned Sebastian to write music for the film, and for one scene wanted a song with a similar mood and tempo to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monday,_Monday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monday, Monday<\/a>&#8221; by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mamas_and_the_Papas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Mamas and the Papas<\/a>. Sebastian said that he wrote the song as &#8220;pleas for a partner to spend a few minutes talking before leaving&#8230;. [but] you never knew if the other person was actually there listening or was already gone&#8221;. Coppola approved the song. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arrangement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrangement<\/a>&nbsp;was by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artie_Schroeck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artie Schroeck<\/a>. After the recording was completed and the musicians left, the producer,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erik_Jacobsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erik Jacobsen<\/a>, discovered that an engineer had mistakenly erased Sebastian&#8217;s vocal track, so he had to re-record it the next day. Sebastian said: &#8220;What you hear on the record is me, a half hour after learning that my original vocal track had been erased. You can even hear my voice quiver a little at the end. That was me thinking about the vocal we lost and wanting to kill someone.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darlin%27_Be_Home_Soon#cite_note-myers-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;It has been described as &#8220;&#8230;one of the most heartfelt songs about being away from a loved one, written from the point of view of a musician on the road writing a letter.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darlin%27_Be_Home_Soon#cite_note-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billboard_(magazine)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Billboard<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;described the song as a &#8220;medium-paced rock ballad given that &#8216;extra special&#8217; Lovin&#8217; Spoonful treatment&#8221; and should be a &#8220;smash&#8221; on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billboard_Hot_100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;Hot 100<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darlin%27_Be_Home_Soon#cite_note-bb-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personnel<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Sebastian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Sebastian<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 vocals, acoustic guitar<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zal_Yanovsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zal Yanovsky<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 electric guitar<\/li><li>Steve Boone \u2013 bass<\/li><li>Billy LaVorgna \u2013 drums<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artie_Schroeck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artie Schroeck<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 piano, arranger<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erik_Jacobsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erik Jacobsen<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 producer<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darlin%27_Be_Home_Soon#cite_note-myers-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chart performance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Darlin&#8217; Be Home Soon&#8221; was released as a single, reaching #15 on the US pop charts.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darlin%27_Be_Home_Soon#cite_note-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Darlin&#8217; Be Home Soon&#8221; (or &#8220;Darling Be Home Soon&#8220;) is a song written by&nbsp;John Sebastian&nbsp;of&nbsp;the Lovin&#8217; Spoonful&nbsp;for the soundtrack of the 1966&nbsp;Francis Ford Coppola&nbsp;film&nbsp;You&#8217;re a Big Boy Now. It appeared on the Lovin&#8217; Spoonful&#8217;s 1967 soundtrack album&nbsp;You&#8217;re a Big Boy Now. Sebastian performed his composition at&nbsp;Woodstock; it was the fourth song out of the five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6603,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions\/6603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}