Take Me Home (Roger Daltrey song)

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"Take Me Home"
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Single by Roger Daltrey
from the album Can't Wait to See the Movie
A-side "Take Me Home" (vocal edit)
B-side "Take Me Home" (LP version)
ReleasedJune 1987
RecordedAt various studios in London and Los Angeles
Length5:45 [1]
Label Atlantic
Songwriters Axel Bauer, Roger Daltrey, Michel Eli, Nigel Hinton
Producers Alan Shacklock
David Foster
Jimmy Scott [2]
Chas Sandford
Roger Daltrey singles chronology
"'Quicksilver Lightning'"
(1986)
"Take Me Home"
(1987)
"' Days of Light'"
(1992)

"Take Me Home" is a 1987 single by Roger Daltrey, who at the time was the singer for The Who. The song is an adaptation of "Cargo" (which was a hit in France in 1984), recorded by French singer Axel Bauer, written by Bauer with Michel Eli. [3]

Daltrey's recording, with English lyrics, was credited to Bauer, Eli, Daltrey and Nigel Hinton. It was released on his 1987 solo album Can't Wait to See the Movie . The single failed to chart in the UK but reached and peaked at number 46 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart.[ citation needed ]

References

  1. "Can't Wait to See the Movie by Roger Daltrey". Artistdirect.com. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  2. "Jimmy Scott Discography". Jimmy Scott, songwriter. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  3. "Cargo", SecondhandSongs.com. Retrieved 9 December 2019