Australian singles chart:
Please Don’t Go entered the Kent Music Report on 5 November 1979 and was a #1 hit. The song was #14 on the Top 100 of 1980.
Album:
The song is on Do You Wanna Go Party which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 18 February 1980 and peaked at #83.
Songwriters:
Harry Wayne Casey, Richard Finch
Producers:
Harry Wayne Casey, Richard Finch
Record label of Australian release:
Epic
Songfacts:
This was KC & The Sunshine Band’s first love ballad, and the last of their incredible five #1 hits in the United States. Like all their hits, it was written by their bass player/producer Rick Finch and frontman Harry Wayne Casey.
In a Songfacts interview, Casey told the story: “Near the end of 1978, I was kind of anti-disco believe it or not, and I was trying to change a little bit from That’s The Way (I Like It) and Shake Your Booty and all that.”
“I was in the studio waiting for the next session to start, I’m sitting at the piano and I just start playing these chords, and I remember how beautiful they were. I decided that was the song I was going to record that day, and that became Please Don’t Go.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/kc-the-sunshine-band/please-dont-go
Also on Bang a Gong by KC and The Sunshine Band: That’s the Way (I Like It)
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