Please Don't Go

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"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 KC went solo. The song was the band's fifth and final number-one hit on Billboard Hot 100 charts.

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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.

In 1992 the song was covered by dance music group Double You and was a major hit in Europe. 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 US Hot 100.

Preceded by:
"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" by Rupert Holmes		 Billboard Hot 100 number one single(KC & The Sunshine Band version)
January 5, 1980		 Succeeded by:
"Rock with You" by Michael Jackson
Preceded by:
"Deeply Dippy" by Right Said Fred		 UK number one single (KWS version)
May 3, 1992 for 5 weeks		 Succeeded by:
"Abba-esque EP" by Erasure
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