Goin' Home (Fats Domino song)

{{Infobox song

| name = Goin' Home

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Fats Domino

| B-side = Reeling and Rocking

| released = {{Start date|1952|03}}

| recorded = New Orleans, January 1952

| studio =

| genre = New Orleans R&B

| length = 2:15

| label = Imperial

| writer = Fats Domino, Alvin E. Young

| producer = Alvin Young

| prev_title = I'll Be Gone

| prev_year = 1952

| next_title = Poor Poor Me

| next_year = 1952

}}

"Goin' Home" is a song written by Fats Domino and Imperial Records producer Alvin Young.

{{Cite AV media notes

|last1=Hannusch

|first1=Jeff

|last2=Block

|first2=Adam

|author-link2=Adam Block (music critic)

|date=1991

|title=Antoine "Fats" Domino: "They Call Me the Fat Man..."

|type=Box set booklet

|others=Fats Domino

|location=Hollywood, California

|publisher=Imperial Records/EMI USA

|id=E2-96784

|pages=19–20, 43, 77

}} It was recorded by Domino in January 1952 and issued as a single by Imperial in March of that year. After debuting on April 26, 1952, the single reached {{Numero|1}} on the U.S. Billboard Best Selling Rhythm & Blues Records chart and became his first to top the record charts.

{{Cite book

|last=Whitburn

|first=Joel

|author-link=Joel Whitburn

|date=1988

|entry=Fats Domino

|title=Top R&B Singles 1942–1988

|location=Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

|publisher=Record Research

|isbn=0-89820-068-7

|pages=122, 598

}}

"Goin' Home" also reached No. 3 on Billboard{{'}}s Most Played Juke Box Rhythm & Blues Records chart, and No. 30 on its broader Hot 100. Chart compiler Joel Whitburn identifies the single as "a reported million seller". In March 1956, "Goin' Home" was included on Domino's first compilation album, Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino.