Sunday August 28, 2022 “Let Me Take You Home Tonight” Boston
“Let Me Take You Home Tonight” was the only song on Boston's amazing debut album that was written by their vocalist, Brad Delp. All the others were written by group founder, guitarist, songwriter, inventor and producer Tom Scholz.
It was also recorded without Scholz, who was working on the other tracks in his home studio in Watertown, Massachusetts. When the band was signed to Epic Records, it was on the strength of the demos Scholz made in his studio with just himself, drummer Jim Masdea and vocalist Brad Delp.
At that moment there was no band called Boston contrary to the lyrical content in their song ”Rock & Roll Band”...’just another band out of Boston”.
Epic, Boston’s initial record label arranged sessions to record ‘proper’ versions of the songs for their debut record with the full band at a studio in Los Angeles with producer John Boylan. But Scholz had worked for years to perfect those songs on his own, so there was no way they could be improved with a new producer in Los Angeles. To appease the label, Scholz let Boylan and the band record "Let Me Take You Home Tonight". As a result, it's the only track on the album not written and produced by Scholz.
Today’s song initially appeared on the eponymous Boston debut album and was on the b-side of “Long Time”, the band’s second single.
Stay safe and well…and the Boston debut album, at seventeen million copies was the top selling debut album of all time prior to Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction.