Day 18 - Please Don’t Go (KC And The Sunshine Band)

When a disco/R and 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 K.W.S 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