You’ll Want to Head Home the Moment You Hear Susan Boyle’s Rendition of ‘I’ll Be Home For Christmas’
Though she usually lends her rich voice to hymns and inspirational songs, Susan Boyle can do happy, cozy, carols about family, too. Exhibit A: The Britain’s Got Talent winner sounds positively delighted to be singing “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” in this performance from several years back. Showing off her emotional, vocals-forward style, Boyle’s version of the song will remind you what the holidays are really about.
What to know about “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” by Bing Crosby
Nowadays, the tune is associated with traveling home for the holidays, and a 1998 film of the same title, starring Johnathan Taylor Thomas, follows one young man’s odyssey to do just that. But the song originally had a somewhat melancholy meaning, as it was written during World War II and is from the point of view of a soldier stationed overseas, who longs to come home for Christmas but realizes that may happen “only in [his] dreams.”
It was composed by Walter Kent with lyrics by Kim Gannon and recorded by Bing Crosby in 1943. Songwriter Buck Ram was later added as a credited lyricist, having written the poem that inspired the lyrics in 1922.
The song finally hit the Billboard charts in 2021, 77 years after its release. (Sometimes it takes a while for the charts to catch up: “Rockin Around The Christmas Tree” just hit number one, despite being recorded in 1958.)
“I’ll Be Home For Christmas” is often covered by other Artists, like Michael Bublé, Rascal Flatts, Elvis Presley, and Camila Cabello.
SUSAN Boyle says she’s raring to go as she prepares for her comeback after suffering a debilitating stroke.
The I Dreamed A Dream singer, 63, was taken ill in April 2022 and has been recovering since.
Susan, from Blackburn, West Lothian, had to take up singing lessons to help her return to the form that shot her to fame when she first took to the Britain’s Got Talent stage back in 2009.
She told STV News: “I’m back alright.
“I’m feeling OK and ready to go.
“I had a major stroke and I’ve had to fight my way back.
“It’s taken me three years and it’s been hard – I’m not going to pretend otherwise but it’s gave me a hunger to keep going.
“Ye cannae keep an old ‘wummin’ doon, you know.”
The singer is due to star in a documentary and says after retraining her voice is hoping to hit the road in 2025.
Susan also said she is due to appear in a cameo role in a new Rupert Everett movie due out next year which she says she also has recorded a song for.
