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Please Don't Go (KC and the Sunshine Band song)

"Please Don't Go"
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Dutch vinyl single
Single by KC and the Sunshine Band
from the album Do You Wanna Go Party
B-side "I Bet'cha Didn't Know That"
Released July 12, 1979
Format 7-inch vinyl
Genre
Length 3:43
Label TK Records
Writer(s) Harry Wayne Casey / Richard Finch
Producer(s) Harry Wayne Casey / Richard Finch
KC and the Sunshine Band singles chronology
"Do You Wanna Go Party"
(1979)
"Please Don't Go"
(1979)
"Yes, I'm Ready"
(1980)
"Please Don't Go"
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Single by Double You
from the album We All Need Love
B-side "Please Don't Go" (remix)
Released January 26, 1992
Format CD single, CD maxi, 7" single
Genre Eurodance
Length 3:18
Label ZYX
Producer(s) Robyx Zanetti
Double You singles chronology
"Please Don't Go"
(1992)
"We All Need Love"
(1992)
"Please Don't Go"
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Single by KWS
from the album KWS
A-side "Game Boy" (double A-side)
Released April 27, 1992
Format CD single, 7", 12"
Genre Dance
Label Network Records
Producer(s) Chris King
Winston Williams
KWS singles chronology
"Please Don't Go" / "Game Boy"
(1992)
"Rock Your Baby"
(1992)
"Please Don't Go"
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Single by Basshunter
from the 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
Basshunter singles chronology
"Now You're Gone"
(2007)
"Please Don't Go"
(2008)
"All I Ever Wanted"
(2008)

"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. Originally written in the key of D flat, the song was the band's first love ballad, in which the subject pleads for a second chance. Shortly after the song's one-week run at number one, the group broke up and Harry Wayne Casey went solo. The song was a number-one hit on the Australian ARIA Charts, the band's fifth and final number-one hit on Billboard Hot 100 charts, and the first number-one hit of the 1980s. As the band was known as a pioneer of the disco genre, the song was released, ironically, on the same day as Disco Demolition Night in Chicago, Illinois.

The song was the first number one hit of the 1980s on the Billboard Hot 100

The song was also an international chart hit, reaching number 1 in Australia and Canada and charting in Belgium (#8), Germany (#20), Ireland (#5), the Netherlands (#7), New Zealand (#3), Norway (#4) and the UK (#3).

A sound-alike 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. It was recorded and released after record company Network failed to secure UK distribution rights for the Double You version. The similarity between the versions resulted in Network's paying compensation to Roberto Zanetti, Double You's producer, following legal action. The KWS version was claimed to be released in honour of Nottingham Forest (European football) defender Des Walker, who was on the verge of signing for Italian team Sampdoria.


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