"Please Come to Boston" is the title of a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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 Dave Loggins

Dave Loggins

David Allen "Dave" Loggins is a singer, songwriter and musician. He is widely remembered for his 1974 composition "Please Come to Boston", which was a top-10 hit in the U.S. for him, and was subsequently covered by numerous other artists. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame...

. It was released in May 1974 as the first single from Loggins' album Apprentice (In a Musical Workshop) and was produced by Jerry Crutchfield. The song spent two weeks at number five on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 chart in August of that year. The song also spent one week atop the Billboard easy listening chart that same month. "Please Come to Boston" was nominated for a Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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 in the category Best Male Pop Vocal performance

Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

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Chart performance

Chart (1974)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Top Singles	4
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks	2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	5
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	1

Covers

The song has been covered numerous times, most notably by country music singer David Allan Coe

David Allan Coe

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 and folk singer Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....

 (who actually began her career in the Boston-Cambridge area), who included the song on her 1976 live album From Every Stage

From Every Stage

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. Other notable artists to have covered the song include Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson

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, Babyface, Andrew WK, Kenny Chesney

Kenny Chesney

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, Wade Bowen

Wade Bowen

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, Jackopierce

Jackopierce

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, Reba McEntire

Reba McEntire

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, Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Buffett

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 and Confederate Railroad

Confederate Railroad

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