Don't Go (Yazoo song)

"Don't Go" is a song by British synthpop band Yazoo. It was released in July 1982 as the second single from their debut album, Upstairs at Eric's. Released in the UK in July 1982, the song peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Yazoo's second top 5 hit. In the US, where the band was known as Yaz, the song was their second big hit on the American dance chart, where it spent two weeks at number one in October 1982. Their first American dance chart hit was "Situation", which had also gone to number one on this chart earlier the same year. The music video for the song features band members Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke in a sort of haunted mansion.[2]  The song is featured in the 1989 film Tango & Cash, inGrand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories on the radio station Wave 103, and appears in Dance Dance Revolution II. The song re-entered the UK Dance Chart on 13 December 2009 at number 30, peaking at number 15 on 2 January 2010.



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[hide]  *1 Formats and track listings  ==Formats and track listings[ edit] == ==Chart performance[ edit] == ==Other versions[ edit] == The following artists produced a cover or sampled the song:
 * 2 Chart performance
 * 2.1 Weekly charts
 * 2.2 Year-end charts
 * 2.3 Sales and certifications
 * 3 Other versions
 * 4 Starting Rock featuring Diva Avari version
 * 4.1 Music video
 * 4.2 Chart performance
 * 5 References
 * 6 See also
 * UK 7" single (Mute 7 YAZ 001)
 * 1) "Don't Go" — 2:53
 * 2) "Winter Kills" — 4:02
 * US 12" single (Sire 29886-0)
 * 1) "Don't Go (Re-mix)" — 4:08
 * 2) "Don't Go (Re-re-mix)" — 4:20
 * 3) "Winter Kills (album version)" — 4:03
 * "Winter Kills," the B-side to this single, is explicitly listed as "Not re-mixed" and "Not extended" on the album sleeve
 * The US 12" single mis-prints the track lengths on the record, listing the "Re-mix" as 5:08 and the "Re-re-mix" as 3:20

==Starting Rock featuring Diva Avari version[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The song was covered and remixed by French Eurodance project Starting Rock featuring Diva Avari. It was released in December 2006 as a single and had modest success in Europe. It reached the top 10 in Finland. ===Music video<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The music video depicts a male at a club dancing with women. He meets Diva Avari, who has her eyes set on him and he cannot escape her throughout their time at the club. ===Chart performance<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * 1990 – Latino Party sampled the music in their song "Latino Party"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:10.9090909957886px;">[31]
 * 1993 – Boobytrax (aka doop), using a sample from "Dance with the Devil" by Cozy Powell.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:10.9090909957886px;">[32]
 * 1994 – Italian eurodance group Double You samples it on their song "Run to Me".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-33" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:10.9090909957886px;">[33]
 * 1994 – Another Italian eurodance act, Cappella, used portions of the song in the opening to their single "You & Me."
 * 1995 – British actress Lizzy Mack had a UK no. 52 hit with a cover of it.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:10.9090909957886px;">[34]
 * 1997 – Danish psytrance band Bypass Unit.
 * 1997 – German death metal band Atrocity, on their album Werk 80.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-35" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:10.9090909957886px;">[35]
 * 1997 – Belgian vocal trance band Milk Incorporated, also known as "La Vache" in France, used samples inspired from Yazoo in the single "Free your mind".
 * 2002 – André Visior released a hard trance version.
 * 2005 – The trance DJ Béla Gábor released the song under the pseudonym Soul Revenger.
 * 2005 – Canadian Singer Shawn Desman sampled the melody of the song in his single "Let's Go".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:10.9090909957886px;">[36]
 * 2006 – Chris Pohl with project Terminal Choice.
 * 2006 – The house music duo Jesse Garcia presents Electric Spain.
 * 2006 – Nouvelle Vague covered the song on their album "Bande à Part".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:10.9090909957886px;">[37]
 * 2006 – Spanish singer Soraya Arnelas.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-38" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:10.9090909957886px;">[38]
 * 2006 – Kill Beatz covered the song as "Don't Go 2006".
 * 2007 – Dutch band Bearforce1 covered the song with other disco hits in their first medley single "Bearforce1".
 * 2009 – The Kid Sister song "Big N Bad" from the album Ultraviolet contains interpolations of "Don't Go".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-39" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:10.9090909957886px;">[39]
 * 2009 – Smoove & Turrell recorded a funk version of the song on the album "Antique Soul".
 * 2011 – Slow Moving Millie covered the song on her album Renditions.