| "Detroit City" | ||||
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| Single by Bobby Bare | ||||
| from the album "Detroit City" and Other Hits by Bobby Bare | ||||
| B-side | "Heart of Ice" | |||
| Released | May 1963 (U.S.) | |||
| Recorded | April 18, 1963 Nashville, Tennessee | |||
| Genre | Countrypolitan[1] | |||
| Length | 2:47 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Danny Dill and Mel Tillis | |||
| Producer(s) | Chet Atkins | |||
| Bobby Bare singles chronology | ||||
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| "Detroit City" | ||||
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| Single by Tom Jones | ||||
| from the album Green, Green Grass of Home | ||||
| B-side | "If I Had You" | |||
| Released | February 1967 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Danny Dill and Mel Tillis | |||
| Producer(s) | Peter Sullivan | |||
| Tom Jones singles chronology | ||||
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| "Detroit City" | |
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| Single by Arthur Alexander | |
| A-side | "You Don't Care" |
| Released | April 1965 |
| Genre | Soul |
| Length | 2:40 |
| Label | Dot Records |
| Songwriter(s) | Danny Dill and Mel Tillis |
| Producer(s) | Noel Ball Norman Petty Bill Haney (uncredited) |
| "I Wanna Go Home" | ||||
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| Single by Billy Grammer | ||||
| B-side | "The Bottom of the Glass" | |||
| Released | 1962 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Danny Dill and Mel Tillis | |||
| Billy Grammer singles chronology | ||||
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"Detroit City" is a song written by Danny Dill and Mel Tillis, made famous by Billy Grammer (as "I Wanna Go Home"),[2] country music singer Bobby Bare and Tom Jones. Bare's version was released in 1963. The song — sometimes known as "I Wanna Go Home" (from the opening line to the refrain) — was Bare's first Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that summer, and became a country music standard.