Please Don't Go

Infobox Single
Name = Please Don't Go


Artist = KC and the Sunshine Band
from Album = Do You Wanna Go Party
A-side =
B-side = "I Bet'cha Didn't Know That"
Released = 1979
Format = 7" Vinyl
Recorded =
Genre = Disco
Length = 3:43
Label = Rhino Records
Writer = Harry Wayne Casey / Richard Finch
Producer = Harry Wayne Casey / Richard Finch
Certification =
Last single = "Do You Wanna Go Party" (1979)
This single = "Please Don't Go" (1979)
Next single = "Que Pasa" (1979)Infobox Single
Name = Please Don't Go


Artist = Double You
Album = We All Need Love
A-side =
B-side = "Please Don't Go" (remix)
Released = 1992
Format = CD single
CD maxi
7" single
Recorded =
Genre = Dance
Length = 3:18
Label = ZYX
Writer =
Producer = Robyx Zanetti
Audio sample? =
Certification =
Last single =
This single = "Please Don't Go" (1992)
Next single = "We All Need Love" (1992)
Misc = Infobox Single
Name = Please Don't Go


Artist = KWS
from Album = KWS
A-side = "Game Boy" (double a-side)
B-side =
Released = 1992
Format = CD single, 7", 12"
Recorded =
Genre = Dance
Length =
Label = Network Records
Writer =
Producer = Chris King Winston Williams
Certification =
Last single =
This single = "Please Don't Go" / "Game Boy" (1992)
Next single = "Rock Your Baby" (1992)Infobox Single
Name = Please Don't Go


Artist = Basshunter
Album = Now You're Gone – The Album
Released = 2008
Format = CD single
CD maxi-single
7" single
Recorded = 2007
Genre = Dance, Techno, Club
Length = 3:18
Label = Hard2Beat
Last single = "All I Ever Wanted" (2008)
This single = "Please Don't Go" (2008)
Next single = "Angel in the Night" (2008)
Misc =

"Please Don't Go" is a song recorded and released in 1979 on the KC and the Sunshine Band album "Do You Wanna Go Party". The song was the band's first love ballad, in which the subject pleads obviously for a second chance. Ironically, shortly after the song's one-week run at number one, the group broke up and Harry Wayne Casey went solo. The song was the band's fifth and final number-one hit on Billboard Hot 100 charts.cite book |title= Rock N' Roll Gold Rush |last= Dean |first= Maury |authorlink= Maury Dean |coauthors= |year= 2003 |publisher= Algora |location= |isbn= 0-87586-207-1 |pages= 287 |url= ]

Original version

Charts

The song is incorrectly noted by some sources as being the last number one hit of the 1970s and the first of the 1980s on the Billboard Hot 100. In fact, it was only the number one song for the chart week of January 5 1980. It was both preceded and followed at number one by "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" by Rupert Holmes, which dropped to number two for the week that "Please Don't Go" was number one.

It also reached number three on the UK Singles Chart in January 1980.

Double You version

In 1992 the song was covered by dance music group Double You and was a major hit in Europe.

Track listings

; CD maxi
# "Please Don't Go" (radio mix) — 3:18
# "Please Don't Go" (club mix) — 6:14
# "Please Don't Go" (let's go mix) — 3:31
# "Please Don't Go" (acapella) — 3:18

; 7" single
# "Please Don't Go" (radio mix) — 3:18
# "Please Don't Go" (acappella) — 3:18

; 7" single - France
# "Please Don't Go" (radio mix) — 3:18
# "Please Don't Go" (let's go mix) — 3:31

; 12" maxi - Germany, Italy, Spain, U.S.
# "Please Don't Go" (club mix) — 6:14
# "Please Don't Go" (radio mix) — 3:18
# "Please Don't Go" (let's go mix) — 3:31
# "Please Don't Go" (acappella) — 3:18

; 12" maxi - France
# "Please Don't Go" (club mix) — 6:14
# "Please Don't Go" (let's go mix) — 3:31

; CD maxi / 12" maxi - Remixes
# "Please Don't Go" (herbie remix) — 5:20
# "Organ Dream" — 2:15
# "Please Don't Go" (underground mix) — 4:55
# "Please Don't Go" (dub go) — 1:45

; CD maxi / 12" maxi - Techno remixes
# "Please Don't Go" (U.S.-rave mix) — 6:00
# "Please Don't Go" (UK-break mix) — 5:00
# "Please Don't Go" (euro-house mix) — 4:55

Certifications

KWS version

A soundalike cover of Double You's arrangement by the British group KWS hit number one on the UK Singles Chart for five weeks in May 1992 and reached number six on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100.

Basshunter version

In 2008, it was remade into a eurodance tune this time by Dance/Techno musician Basshunter.

The single was released as a single in Sweden where it reached #6.

The song was originally planned to be released in the UK as the second single on June 23 2008. But due to technical difficulties, the release was cancelled and "All I Ever Wanted" took its place on July 7. It had much more success than originally thought as the single reached number 2 in the UK charts.

However, despite rumours that this would be the third UK single, "Angel in the Night" will be released instead and was premiered on BBC Radio 1 on August 22 2008, during Scott Mills Friday Floor Fillers.

Track listings

; CD maxi; "Please Don't Go" (CDM)
# "Please Don't Go" (radio edit) — 2:58
# "Please Don't Go" (extended mix) — 5:00
# "Please Don't Go" (ultra DJ's remix) — 4:39
# "Please Don't Go" (the WideBoys remix) — 5:37

Charts

Other cover versions

* In 2007, it was once again covered, this time by singer José Galisteo.

References