Don't Go (Pseudo Echo song)

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"Don't Go"
Don't Go Pseudo Echo song.jpg
Single by Pseudo Echo
from the album Love an Adventure
ReleasedOctober 1985
Studio Platinum Studios, Melbourne
Genre Pop, Synth-pop
Length3:53
Label EMI Music
Songwriter(s) Brian Canham, James Leigh
Producer(s) Mark Barry
Pseudo Echo singles chronology
"Stranger in Me"
(1984)
"Don't Go"
(1985)
"Love an Adventure"
(1986)

"Don't Go" is a song by Australian pop group Pseudo Echo. The song was released in October 1985 as the lead single from their second studio album, Love an Adventure (1985). The song became the band's second top five single, reaching number 4 on the Australian Kent Music Report.

Contents

Track listing

7" (EMI-1585)

12" (EMI – ED 136)

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1985)Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report [1] 4
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [2] 28

Year-end charts

Chart (1985)Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report [3] 50

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References

  1. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN   0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
  2. "Pseudo Echo – Don't Go". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  3. "Kent Music Report No 599 – 30 December 1985 > National Top 100 Singles for 1985". Kent Music Report . Retrieved 23 January 2023 via Imgur.