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

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Original version

Originally written in the key of D flat, the song was the band's first sentimental ballad. In the song, 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 began a solo career.

The song was part of a double-sided single; the flip slide "I Betcha Didn't Know That" was released to R&B stations and reached number 25 on the R&B chart.[1]

Chart performance

The song was the first number-one hit of the 1980s on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] It was also an international chart hit—it was a number-one hit on the Australian ARIA Charts, the band's sixth and final number-one hit in Canada on the RPM national chart as well as their fifth and final number-one hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.[2] The song also charted in Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom, and West Germany.

Charts

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Weekly charts

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Chart (1979–1980) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] 1
Italy (Musica e dischi)[4] 15
South Africa (Springbok)[5] 1
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Year-end charts

Chart (1980) Rank
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3][6] 10
Belgium (Ultratop)[7] 81
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[8] 8
South Africa (Springbok Radio)[9] 3
UK Singles (OCC)[10] 71
US Billboard Hot 100[11] 19

Certifications

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Double You version

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Italian Eurodance group Double You released a cover version of "Please Don't Go" in 1992. Produced by Roberto Zanetti, the song earned multiple gold and platinum status and became a hit in Europe. The record was also moderately successful in North America and in the UK. In 2005, Double You released "Please Don't Go 2005" on Triple B Records in collaboration with artist Don Cartel. The single hit the Dutch Mega Top 100 chart at number 40 and the Pepsi Chart at number 38.

Track listings

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CD maxi

  1. "Please Don't Go" (radio mix) – 3:18
  2. "Please Don't Go" (club mix) – 6:14
  3. "Please Don't Go" (Let's Go mix) – 3:31
  4. "Please Don't Go" (a cappella) – 3:18

7-inch single

  1. "Please Don't Go" (radio mix) – 3:18
  2. "Please Don't Go" (a cappella) – 3:18

7-inch single – France

  1. "Please Don't Go" (radio mix) – 3:18
  2. "Please Don't Go" (Let's Go mix) – 3:31

12-inch maxi – Germany, Italy, Spain, US

  1. "Please Don't Go" (club mix) – 6:14
  2. "Please Don't Go" (radio mix) – 3:18
  3. "Please Don't Go" (Let's Go mix) – 3:31
  4. "Please Don't Go" (a cappella) – 3:18
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12-inch maxi – France

  1. "Please Don't Go" (club mix) – 6:14
  2. "Please Don't Go" (Let's Go mix) – 3:31

CD maxi and 12-inch maxi – Remixes

  1. "Please Don't Go" (Herbie remix) – 5:20
  2. "Organ Dream" – 2:15
  3. "Please Don't Go" (Underground mix) – 4:55
  4. "Please Don't Go" (Dub Go) – 1:45

CD maxi and 12-inch maxi – Techno remixes

  1. "Please Don't Go" (U.S.-Rave mix) – 6:00
  2. "Please Don't Go" (UK-Break mix) – 5:00
  3. "Please Don't Go" (Euro-house mix) – 4:55

Charts

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Weekly charts

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Chart (1992) Peak
position
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[12] 8
Italy (Musica e dischi)[13] 5
Spain (AFYVE)[14] 1
UK Singles (OCC)[15] 41
UK Dance (Music Week)[16] 10
US Dance Club Play (Billboard)[17] 25
US Maxi-Singles Sales (Billboard)[18] 23
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Year-end charts

Chart (1992) Position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[19] 11
Belgium (Ultratop)[20] 81
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[21] 7
Germany (Media Control)[22] 7
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[23] 10
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[24] 3
Sweden (Topplistan)[25] 63
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[26] 6

Certifications

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KWS version

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A sound-alike cover of Double You's arrangement was released as the debut single by the British group KWS and hit number one on the UK Singles Chart for five weeks in May 1992 and reached number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 in October that year.[27] In Germany, the song reached No. 7 but disappeared out of the German Singles Chart the following week due to legal issues with Double You, who covered the song before. Due to this fall, "Please Don't Go" is the song with the highest position that dropped out of the country's singles chart the following week.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

It was recorded and released after record company Network Records failed to secure UK distribution rights for the Double You version. KWS band member Chris King heard the Double You version in a club in early 1992, and, bringing together the other KWS members to form the band, decided to cover it "like the Love Affair covered Robert Knight's 'Everlasting Love' or David Parton covered Stevie Wonder's 'Isn't She Lovely'."[28] The similarity between the versions resulted in Network paying compensation to Roberto Zanetti, Double You's producer, following three years of legal action.[29]

The KWS version was dedicated in honour of Nottingham Forest (European football) defender Des Walker, who was on the verge of signing for Italian team Sampdoria.[28] It was also a double A-side with "Game Boy"; King recalled: "We wanted something new and Game Boy was my son's favourite games console at the time. There were various mixes on the 12-inch single with silly names like "Afternoon of the Rhino", which had been the title of a northern soul single by Mike Post."[28]

Release

The single was featured in a news story by a local TV station in Nottingham, the UK. BBC Radio 1 soon made it "Record of the Week" and it climbed from number 30 in the UK Singles Chart to number nine and then in its third week to number one, which is when the group first performed it on Top of the Pops.[28] They performed it five times on the show, one week upsetting Elton John by using Dressing Room 1, relegating John to Dressing Room 2.[30]

During the weeks that the song was number one on the UK Singles Chart, SL2's "On a Ragga Tip",[31] Guns N' Roses' "Knockin' on Heaven's Door",[32] Shut Up & Dance's "Raving I'm Raving"[33] and Kris Kross' "Jump" each occupied the number two slot.[34]

The song was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry.[35]

After the song reached 500,000 sales in the UK, the Nottinghamshire County Council honoured KWS with a civic reception.[36]

Critical reception

Joseph McCombs of AllMusic was mixed in his retrospective assessment of the KWS cover, writing that: "The bright vocals, synth bleeps, and predictable house groove that drove 'Please Don't Go' to the top of the charts wear thin quickly."[37] Larry Flick from Billboard magazine described the song as a "house-induced cover" and noted further that the beats "are hard enough to fill dancefloors, but are brightened by radio-friendly vocals and slick synths."[38] Amy Linden from Entertainment Weekly gave it a B−, adding that the song "is loaded with Hi-NRG beats, shake-your-groove-thing vibes, and a couple of originals straight out of Saturday Night Fever. All you need are the disco ball and a white suit."[39]

In 2017, BuzzFeed ranked the song number 52 in their list of "The 101 Greatest Dance Songs of the '90s".[40] In 2025, Classic Pop magazine ranked it number 18 in their list of "Top 20 No.1s that owed a debt to the 80s".[41]

Tom Ewing of Freaky Trigger wrote in his 3/10 review of the cover: "It's hard to muster much love for 'Please Don’t Go' – a barely adequate trot through a good song" and "It's a good example, though, of one of the nineties least-regarded, most revival-immune style, the generic dance cover version. [...] 'Please Don’t Go' isn't quite as deathly as the king of the dance cover version, Undercover's formica take on 'Baker Street', but it’s never memorable. That this nullity got five weeks at the top [of the UK charts] says more about the immobile singles chart than any double-digit run."[42] Ewing considers "Game Boy", the other song in the double A-side release, to be as close as the UK Singles Chart came to a hardcore number one, but nonetheless concedes that: "As 'ardkore goes, it's poor, a collection of five years of weary dance tropes in search of even one good hook – Beltram-style hoover noises, house piano, cut-up vocal samples, a dubby bassline, none of them sticking around long enough to make an impact."[42]

Track listings

CD maxi

  1. "Please Don't Go" (Summer Mix) – 3:40
  2. "Please Don't Go" (Instrumental Surf) – 6:09
  3. "Game Boy" – 3:23
  4. "Kollision" – 4:12

Charts

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Weekly charts

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Chart (1992) Peak
position
Europe Dance (European Dance Radio)[43] 4
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[12] 2
Greece (Pop + Rock)[44] 2
Spain (AFYVE)[45] 15
UK Dance (Music Week)[46] 4
UK Indie (Music Week)[47] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[48] 6
US Maxi-Singles Sales (Billboard)[49] 25
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Year-end charts

Chart (1992) Rank
Australia (ARIA)[50] 7
Sweden (Topplistan)[25] 52
UK Singles (OCC)[51] 5
US Billboard Hot 100[52] 47

Decade-end charts

Chart (1990–1999) Position
Canada (Nielsen SoundScan)[53] 59

Certifications

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Basshunter version

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In 2008 "Please Don't Go" was covered by Swedish musician Basshunter.[54] The dance music song lasts two minutes and 58 seconds.[55] It was produced by Basshunter, Robert Uhlmann and Scott Simons.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". "Please Don't Go" was released by Warner Music Sweden on May 19, 2008.[55] On July 14 it was released as number three on Basshunter's third studio album Now You're Gone – The Album.[56]

The song was originally planned to be released in the United Kingdom as the second single from Now You're Gone – The Album[57] on June 23, 2008.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". However, the release was cancelled due to technical difficulties and "All I Ever Wanted" took its place[58] on June 30. It had much more success than originally thought as the single reached number 2 in the UK charts.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". However, despite rumours that this would be the third single in the United Kingdom, "Angel in the Night" was released instead and was premiered on BBC Radio 1 on August 22, 2008, during Scott Mills's "Friday Floor Fillers".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Priya Elan from The Guardian described the single as europop.[59] Editor of Popjustice compared "Please Don't Go" to "Now You're Gone" but with all the fun and spontaneity reduced to a joyless and attempt to quickly capitalise on its predecessor's success.[60] In 2009 "Please Don't Go" was called number 43 of The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s by The Village Voice. Maura Johnston said that it stitches together the undeterred stomp of Gary Glitter's "Rock And Roll Part 2" and the keyboards of L.A. Style's "James Brown Is Dead".[61] "Please Don't Go" debuted at number 39 on May 29, 2008, and after two weeks reached number six on Swedish singles chart.[62] It also charted on Slovak airplay chart.[63]

Track listing

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Charts

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Weekly chart performance for "Please Don't Go"
Chart (2008) Peak
position
Slovakia (Radio Top100 Oficiálna)[63] 72

Release history

Date Format Label
May 19, 2008 Digital download Warner Music Sweden[55]
June 11, 2008 12" single Balloon Records[64]

See also

References

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