For other uses of "Welcome Home", see Welcome Home (disambiguation)

Welcome Home (disambiguation)

Welcome Home may refer to:*"Welcome Home" , a UK number one single for Peters and Lee in 1973*Welcome Home , an album by 'Til Tuesday*"Welcome Home ", a 1986 Metallica song...

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"Welcome Home" was a song made popular by Peters and Lee

Peters and Lee

Peters and Lee were a successful British folk/pop duo of the 1970s, comprising Lennie Peters and Dianne Lee .-Background:...

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Originally written by Jean Alphonse Dupre and Stanislas Beldone in French and translated into English by Bryan Blackburn the record was produced by Johnny Franz

Johnny Franz

Johnny Franz was a UK record producer and A&R man at the Philips label. Although his name is not recognized by many Americans, Franz was one of Britain's most successful producers in the 1950s and 1960s...

. Coming after their success in the talent show Opportunity Knocks, Peters and Lee recorded Welcome Home becoming the duo's one and only number one single in the UK spending a single week at the top in July 1973.

The song received minor US crossover, appearing on Billboard's Bubbling Under The Hot 100, Easy Listening and Country charts.

The song was used in an advertising campaign by Walkers Crisps when Gary Lineker

Gary Lineker

Gary Winston Lineker, OBE , is a former English footballer, who played as a striker. He is a sports broadcaster for the BBC, Al Jazeera Sports and Eredivisie Live...

 returned to the UK after playing overseas.