Please Don't Go (KC and the Sunshine Band song)#Basshunter 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.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/kc-and-the-sunshine-band |title=KC And The Sunshine Band Chart History |magazine=Billboard |access-date=September 30, 2019}}

The song was the first number-one hit of the 1980s on the Billboard Hot 100. 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.{{cite book |title= Rock N' Roll Gold Rush |last=Dean |first=Maury |author-link=Maury Dean |year=2003 |publisher=Algora |isbn=0-87586-207-1 |page=287}} The song also charted in Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom, and West Germany.

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{{Infobox song

| name = Please Don't Go

| cover = Please_don't_go.jpeg

| alt =

| caption = Artwork for French releases

| type = single

| artist = Double You

| album = We All Need Love

| B-side = "Please Don't Go" (remix)

| released = January 26, 1992

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Eurodance

| length = 3:18

| label = ZYX

| writer = Harry Wayne Casey, Richard Finch

| producer = Robyx Zanetti

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = We All Need Love

| next_year = 1992

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|Duf6t8CNt2o|"Please Don't Go" by Double You}}}}

}}

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.

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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

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{{Infobox song

| name = Please Don't Go

| cover = PleaseDontGoKWS.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Artwork for UK and most overseas releases

| type = single

| artist = KWS

| album = KWS

| A-side = "Game Boy" (double A-side)

| released = April 27, 1992

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Dance, house

| length = 3:39

| label = Network

| writer = Harry Wayne Casey, Richard Finch

| producer = Chris King, Winston Williams

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| title =

| title2 = Game Boy

| next_title = Rock Your Baby

| next_year = 1992

}}

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.{{cite magazine|title=K.W.S.|url=http://www.billboard.com/music/kws|magazine=Billboard|access-date=October 27, 2017}} 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.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

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'." The similarity between the versions resulted in Network paying compensation to Roberto Zanetti, Double You's producer, following three years of legal action.[http://eurokdj.free.fr/html_version/z.htm#Zanetti%20Roberto ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605180237/http://eurokdj.free.fr/html_version/z.htm |date=June 5, 2009 }}

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.{{citation |title=1000 UK Number One Hits |first=Jon |last=Kutner |publisher=Omnibus Press |year=2010 |isbn=9780857123602}} 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."

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. They performed it five times on the show, one week upsetting Elton John by using Dressing Room 1, relegating John to Dressing Room 2.{{cite web |title=KWS. Please Don't Go |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2004/11/20/entertainment_music_local_bands_kws_feature.shtml |website=BBC|access-date=October 28, 2017|date=November 22, 2004}}

During the weeks that the song was number one on the UK Singles Chart, SL2's "On a Ragga Tip",{{cite web |title=Official Singles Chart Top 75 (3 May 1992) |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19920503/7501/ |website=Official Charts|access-date=October 26, 2017}} Guns N' Roses' "Knockin' on Heaven's Door",{{cite web|title=Official Singles Chart Top 75 (17 May 1992)|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19920517/7501/|website=Official Charts|access-date=October 26, 2017}} Shut Up & Dance's "Raving I'm Raving"{{cite web|title=Official Singles Chart Top 75 (24 May 1992)|website=Official Charts |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19920524/7501/|access-date=October 26, 2017}} and Kris Kross' "Jump" each occupied the number two slot.{{cite web |title=Official Singles Chart Top 75 (31 May 1992) |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19920531/7501/|website=Official Charts |access-date=October 26, 2017}}

The song was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry.{{cite web |url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards.aspx |title=BPI Certification |publisher=British Phonographic Industry |access-date=July 14, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124005813/http://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards.aspx |archive-date= January 24, 2013 }}

After the song reached 500,000 sales in the UK, the Nottinghamshire County Council honoured KWS with a civic reception.{{cite web |last1=Page |first1=Jemma |title=The Week That Was 1992: Nottingham boyband KWS celebrate chart success|url=http://www.nottinghampost.com/week-1992-nottingham-boyband-kws-celebrate-chart/story-26723681-detail/story.html |website=Nottingham Post |access-date=October 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806213053/http://www.nottinghampost.com/week-1992-nottingham-boyband-kws-celebrate-chart/story-26723681-detail/story.html|archive-date=August 6, 2015 |date=June 18, 2015}}

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."{{cite web |last1=McCombs |first1=Joseph |title=AllMusic Review by Joseph McCombs |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/please-dont-go-mw0000616305 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=October 26, 2017}} Larry Flick from Billboard 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."{{cite magazine|first=Larry|last=Flick|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1992/Billboard-1992-06-06.pdf|title=Single Reviews: New & Noteworthy|magazine=Billboard magazine|date=June 6, 1992|access-date=February 12, 2020|page=68|author-link=Larry Flick}} 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."Linden, Amy (December 18, 1992). "Please Don't Go". Entertainment Weekly.

In 2017, BuzzFeed listed the song at number 52 in their list of "The 101 Greatest Dance Songs Of the '90s".{{cite web|first1= Matt |last1= Stopera |first2= Brian |last2= Galindo |title= The 101 Greatest Dance Songs of the '90s |website= BuzzFeed |date= March 11, 2017 |access-date= March 31, 2020 |url= https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/jump-to-the-rhythm-jump-jump-to-the-rhythm-jump}}

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."{{cite web|last1=Ewing|first1=Tom|title=KWS – "Please Don't Go"/"Game Boy"|url=http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2011/08/kws-please-dont-gogame-boy/|website=Freaky Trigger|access-date=October 26, 2017|date=August 15, 2011}} 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."

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

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{{Infobox song

| name = Please Don't Go

| cover = Basshunter – Please Don't Go.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Basshunter

| album = Now You're Gone – The Album

| released = May 19, 2008

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = {{flatlist|

• Dance

}}

| length = 2:58

| label = {{flatlist|

• Warner Music Sweden
• Balloon Records

}}

| writer = {{flatlist|

• Harry Wayne Casey
• Richard Finch

}}

| producer = {{flatlist|

• Basshunter
• Robert Uhlmann
• Scott Simons

}}

| prev_title = Now You're Gone

| prev_year = 2007

| next_title = All I Ever Wanted

| next_year = 2008

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|YIrCfagWf3w|"Please Don't Go"}}|header=Audio video}}

}}

In 2008 "Please Don't Go" was covered by Swedish musician Basshunter.{{cite web | url=https://eqmusicblog.com/eq-interviews-basshunter-we-were-born-without-clothes-so-well-dont-use-clothes-at-home-be-naked-show | title=EQ Interviews Basshunter: "We were born without clothes, so well don't use clothes at home, be naked. Show your ass to the neighbors." | website=EQ Music | author=Raj Rudolph | date=December 11, 2008 | access-date=October 16, 2021}} The dance music song lasts two minutes and 58 seconds. It was produced by Basshunter, Robert Uhlmann and Scott Simons.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}} "Please Don't Go" was released by Warner Music Sweden on May 19, 2008. On July 14 it was released as number three on Basshunter's third studio album Now You're Gone – The Album.{{cite web | url=http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/now-youre-gone/id284574742 | title=Now You're Gone | website=iTunes | access-date=October 16, 2021 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100718074228/http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/now-youre-gone/id284574742 | archivedate=July 18, 2010}}

The song was originally planned to be released in the United Kingdom as the second single from Now You're Gone – The Album{{cite web | url=http://www.hard2beat.com/releases/basshunter2nduksingleworldexclusive | title=Basshunter 2nd UK single world exclusive | website=Hard2Beat | access-date=October 31, 2021 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507193857/http://www.hard2beat.com/releases/basshunter2nduksingleworldexclusive | archivedate=May 7, 2008}} on June 23, 2008.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} However, the release was cancelled due to technical difficulties and "All I Ever Wanted" took its place{{cite web | url=http://www.hard2beat.com/releases/basshuntersnewtrackforrealthistime | title = Basshunter's new track.... For real this time!!!! | website=Hard2Beat | access-date=October 31, 2021 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610040523/http://www.hard2beat.com/releases/basshuntersnewtrackforrealthistime | archivedate=June 10, 2008}} on June 30. It had much more success than originally thought as the single reached number 2 in the UK charts.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} 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".{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}

Priya Elan from The Guardian described the single as europop.{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/aug/02/1 | title=Priya Elan's new releases review | website=The Guardian | author=Priya Elan | date=August 2, 2008 | access-date=July 29, 2018}} 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.{{cite web | url=https://www.popjustice.com/briefing/newsflash-the-worst-single-of-2008-is-not-by-scouting-for-girls | title=Newsflash: the worst single of 2008 is not by Scouting For Girls | website=Popjustice | date=April 22, 2008 | access-date=October 16, 2021}} 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".{{cite web | url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2009/11/27/the-50-worst-songs-of-the-00s-f2k-no-43-basshunter-please-dont-go | title=The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 43: Basshunter, "Please Don't Go" | website=The Village Voice | author=Maura Johnston | authorlink=Maura Johnston | date=November 27, 2009 | access-date = October 16, 2021}} "Please Don't Go" debuted at number 39 on May 29, 2008, and after two weeks reached number six on Swedish singles chart.{{cite web | url = https://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Basshunter&titel=Please+Don%27t+Go&cat=s | title = Basshunter - Please Don't Go (song) | website=swedishcharts.com | access-date=October 16, 2021}} It also charted on Slovak airplay chart.

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| headline=Digital download (May 19, 2008){{cite web | url=https://itunes.apple.com/se/album/please-dont-go-ep/id280142067 | title=Please Don't Go - EP | website=iTunes | access-date=October 16, 2021 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814141826/https://itunes.apple.com/se/album/please-dont-go-ep/id280142067 | archivedate=August 14, 2014}}

| title1 = Please Don't Go (Radio Edit)

| length1 = 2:58

| title2 = Please Don't Go (DJ Alex Extended Mix)

| length2 = 5:00

| title3 = Please Don't Go (Wideboys Remix)

| length3 = 5:37

| title4 = Please Don't Go (Ultra DJ's Remix)

| length4 = 4:39

| title5 = Please Don't Go (Wideboys Edit)

| length5 = 2:41

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| headline=12" single (June 11, 2008){{cite web | url=http://www.balloonrecords.com/releases.php | title=All Listed Releases | website=Balloon Records | access-date=October 16, 2021 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622130550/http://www.balloonrecords.com/releases.php | archivedate=June 22, 2008}}

| title1 = Please Don't Go (DJ Alex Extended Mix)

| length1 = 4:58

| title2 = Please Don't Go (Wideboys Remix)

| length2 = 5:35

| title3 = Please Don't Go (Discotronic Remix)

| length3 = 5:13

| title4 = Please Don't Go (Ultra DJ's Remix)

| length4 = 4:37

}}

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