Please Stay (song)

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For the Kylie Minogue song, see Please Stay
“Please Stay”
Single by The Drifters
B-side "No Sweet Lovin'"
Released 1961
Format 7" single
Label Atlantic Records
Writer(s) Burt Bacharach, Bob Hilliard
The Drifters singles chronology
"Some Kind of Wonderful"
(1961)
"Please Stay"
(1961)
"Sweets For My Sweet"

Please Stay (also known as (Don't Go) Please Stay) is an early hit of The Drifters featuring the new lead singer Rudy Lewis, who replaced Ben E. King. One of songwriter Burt Bacharach's early pop hits, featuring Dionne Warwick and Doris Troy on background vocals.

The song was covered by The Cryin' Shames (1966, UK#26), The Bay City Rollers (1974) and Marc Almond (2001).