Hometown Girls (song)

"Hometown Girls" is a song by American singer-songwriter Benny Mardones, which was released in 1980 as the second and final single from his second studio album Never Run, Never Hide.

The song was written by Mardones and David Leigh Byron, and produced by Barry Mraz.

As the follow-up to Mardones' US top 20 hit "Into the Night", "Hometown Girls" failed to enter the Billboard Hot 100 but reached No.

[4] In a review of Never Run, Never Hide, Eric Siegel of The Baltimore Sun considered "Hometown Girls" "an up-tempo pop rocker that stands as the album's best effort", with Mardones "every inch an exuberant innocent as he sings [the chorus]".

Siegel also felt the song was the best example of Mardones "retain[ing] some of the pop flavorings and ingenuousness" of his 1978 debut album Thank God for Girls.