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"Home on Monday"
Home on Monday by LRB.png
Dutch cover art
Single by Little River Band
from the album Diamantina Cocktail
B-side "Raelene, Raelene"
"The Inner Light"
ReleasedSeptember 1977
Recorded1976
Length3:47 (single version)
3:51 (album version)
Label EMI Music
Songwriter(s) Glenn Shorrock, Beeb Birtles
Producer(s) Little River Band
Little River Band singles chronology
"Witchery"
(1977)
"Home on Monday"
(1977)
"Happy Anniversary"
(1977)

"Home on Monday" is a song by Australian band Little River Band, released in September 1977 as the third single from the group's third studio album, Diamantina Cocktail . The song peaked at number 73 on the Australian Kent Music Report singles chart [1] and in the Netherlands at number 12 in the "Nationale Hitparade" and at number 13 in the Dutch Top 40.

Contents

The "Las Vegas Hilton" in the song is now called the Westgate Las Vegas.

Track listing

Australian 7" (EMI 11522)
Side A. "Home on Monday" - 3:40
Side B. "Raelene, Raelene" - 4:27
Dutch 7" (EMI 5C 006-82401)
Side A. "Home On Monday - 3:47
Side B. "The Inner Light" - 3:25

Charts

Chart (1977)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [1] 73
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [2] 12

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References

  1. 1 2 Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 179. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  2. "Little River Band – Home On MOnday" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 21 November 2021.