Taking You Home

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"Taking You Home"
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Song by Don Henley
from the album Inside Job
Songwriter(s) Don Henley, Stuart Brawley, Stan Lynch

"Taking You Home" is a song by Don Henley from 2000 album Inside Job . The track was written by Henley along with Stuart Brawley and Stan Lynch and was Henley's only number one on the Adult Contemporary chart as a solo artist. "Taking You Home" stayed at number one for four weeks and went to number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. [1]

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The song was used in the closing scenes of the 21st episode of the sixth season of ER , entitled "Such Sweet Sorrow", when the characters of Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) and Doug Ross (George Clooney) reunite after over a year apart.

In 2017, the song was also used in the closing scenes of the season three finale of Hallmark Channel's original series Good Witch , when lead characters Cassie Nightingale (Catherine Bell) and Dr. Sam Radford (James Denton) become engaged to be married.

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