I Don't Want You to Go (Lani Hall song)

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"I Don't Want You to Go"
I Don't Want You to Go (Lani Hall single cover).jpg
Single cover
Single by Lani Hall
from the album Blush
B-side "Only You"
ReleasedApril 1980
Recorded1980
Genre Pop
Length4:29
Label A&M
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Allee Willis
  • Dick Rudolph

"I Don't Want You to Go" is a song written by Allee Willis and Bruce Roberts. It has been recorded by a number of different artists.

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Lani Hall version

The song was published on May 7, 1980 and its copyright registered on June 30 of that year. "I Don't Want You to Go" first appeared on Lani Hall's studio album Blush in 1980. It was later modified by Herb Alpert for her 1984 compilation album Collectibles... [1]

Personnel

La Toya Jackson version

"I Don't Want You to Go"
Single by La Toya Jackson
from the album My Special Love
B-side "Love Song"
Released1981
Recorded1981
Genre Soul
Length4:22
Label Polydor
Songwriter(s) Bruce Roberts, Allee Willis
Producer(s) Ollie E. Brown
La Toya Jackson singles chronology
"Stay the Night"
(1981)
"I Don't Want You to Go"
(1981)
"Bet'cha Gonna Need My Lovin'"
(1983)

"I Don't Want You to Go" is the second single from American singer La Toya Jackson's second album My Special Love . [2] It was released on 7" format with the album track "Love Song" as its B-side. Jackson performed "I Don't Want You to Go" on the October 10, 1981 episode of Soul Train . AllMusic reviewer Justin Kantor praised Jackson's vocal performances on the other songs on My Special Love but said that her performance of "I Don't Want You to Go" "isn't up to the task." [2]

Track listing

US 7" vinyl (PD 2188DJ) [3]
  1. "I Don't Want You to Go" - 3:58
  2. "Love Song" - 4:03

Other versions

In 1982, Tanya Tucker covered the song on her fourteenth studio album Changes . [4]

A popular song in the Philippines, it has been covered by a number of local artists, including the following:

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