Homemade is the second studio album released by The Osmonds (second under that name). It reached No. 22 on the Billboard Top LPs chart on August 7, 1971. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on January 20, 1972.
The single "Double Lovin'," a sound-alike follow-up to their previous hit "One Bad Apple" from the same songwriter, peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] The album included the first songwriting contributions from the Osmond Brothers themselves, with Wayne Osmond noting in 2004 that the band had to reject multiple songs, some of which became major hits, because they did not reflect their morals, and decided to start writing their own. The band would write the majority of their own songs for the next three albums.[2]
Dave Thompson of AllMusic described the album as "Little more than the highlights of a stage act honed through appearances at sundry cabaret clubs and on TV", also calling it "good-natured pop with a saccharine bent, and so utterly directionless that even the Jackson 5-isms that would soon be sweeping into their set (and had already distinguished their maiden hit, "One Bad Apple") have yet to be tapped."[3]
