KC & The Sunshine Band – Please Don’t Go

“Please Don’t Go” – Single by KC and the Sunshine Band from the album Do You Wanna Go Party
B-side “I Bet’cha Didn’t Know That”
Released July 12, 1979
Label TK
Songwriters Harry Wayne Casey / Richard Finch
Producers Harry Wayne Casey / Richard Finch
Charted No.1 in US; No.3 in UK; No.1 in Australia; No.1 South Africa; No.15 in Italy; No.1 in Canada; No.4 in Norway; No.20 in West Germany.

“Please Don’t Go” is a song written by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch, then members of KC and the Sunshine Band, and released as the second single from the band’s sixth album, Do You Wanna Go Party (1979). Cover versions of the song that reached the top songs charts were recorded by Double You, by KWS (both 1992), and by Basshunter (2008).

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.