Thelma Houston – Don’t Leave Me This Way

“Don’t Leave Me This Way” – Single by Thelma Houston from the album Any Way You Like It. B-side – “Today Will Soon Be Yesterday”. Released 1976.

“Don’t Leave Me This Way” is a song written by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff and Cary Gilbert.

Originally assigned to Diana Ross, it was intended to be the follow-up to her 1976 single “Love Hangover”, but was reassigned to Thelma Houston instead.

Following the release of Houston’s fourth studio album, Any Way You Like It (1976), a Boston DJ record pool unanimously reported positive audience response to “Don’t Leave Me This Way” in discothèques, and the song was selected for release as a single.= Houston’s version topped the US soul singles chart and, nine weeks later, the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in April 1977. The song peaked at number 13 in the UK. The song peaked at number one on the disco chart. Later in the year, it was featured on the soundtrack to the film Looking for Mr. Goodbar. In 1978, Houston won the award for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female at the 20th Annual Grammy Awards for her rendition of the song.

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Rolling Stone included “Don’t Leave Me This Way” in their list of 500 Best Songs of All Time at No. 355.

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