When a disco/R&B band releases a ballad, it’s usually lost in the shuffle, but Please Don’t Go not only went very noticed, it also got a nineties cover version and became a big hit for KWS in 1992 as they turned the ballad back into a club song. But I loved this song when I was “scared Nicky”, back in the early Poconos days when I would yearn to go back home to visit my friends and my cousin Cristine. I remember, almost vividly, going by her friend’s house down the block and playing 45s on the turntable, listening to Donna Summer and M and Styx, but it was Please Don’t Go that tethers me to that moment, to my cousin who was also my friend. And still is. So when I hear this song I sway, and when, after 2 minutes or so in, the beat begins to build, I close my eyes and see me and my little baby Stink-Ho way before all the pain of adult life. If only there was a time machine
From the historical writing archive. Original date: December 3, 2017. Recovered from local source material; editorial review is still in progress.
