La Toya Jackson version

"I Don't Want You to Go" is the second single from American singer La Toya Jackson

La Toya Jackson

La Toya Yvonne Jackson is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, television personality, actress, businesswoman, philanthropist, activist and former model. She is the fifth child of the Jackson family...

's second album My Special Love

My Special Love

My Special Love is the second studio album by American singer La Toya Jackson. The album is one of Jackson's more successful, peaking at #175 on the Billboard Hot 200 charts. After the album's limited success, it fell into obscurity, receiving a limited re-release on CD in Japan in the early...

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It was released on 7" format with the album track "Love Song" as a B-side. Jackson performed "I Don't Want You to Go" on the October, 10 1981 episode of "Soul Train

Soul Train

Soul Train is an American musical variety show that aired in syndication from October 1971 to March 2006. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by R&B, soul, and hip hop artists, although funk, jazz, disco, and gospel artists have also appeared.As a nod to Soul Trains...

". 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".

Track listings

US 7" Vinyl (PD 2188DJ)

1. "I Don't Want You to Go (7")" 3:58
2. "Love Song" 4:03

Sharon Cuneta

Filipino

Filipino people

The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

 singer Sharon Cuneta

Sharon Cuneta

Sharon Cuneta-Pangilinan, better known as Sharon Cuneta, is a popular and multi-awarded Filipino singer, actress and TV host dubbed as Megastar of Philippine Entertainment, fondly called Mega by fans and people from the entertainment industry....

 covered the song on her 1981 album P.S. I Love You and again on her 2006 album Isn't It Romantic? under Sony-BMG. The song is a staple of Cuneta's repertoire. Of the songs on Isn't It Romantic, "I Don't Want You to Go" was called "the best of the lot" by the Philippine Headline News Online.

Mark Bautista

Filipino singer and model Mark Bautista

Mark Bautista

Mark Bautista is a Filipino singer, actor and commercial model. Born into a large, impoverished family in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. Bautista received his career break when he was a Grand finalist on Philippine reality TV talent search Star for a Night and eventually placed second behind...

 recorded a version of the song and included it on his 2007 album Every Now And Then. The Philippine Daily Inquirer

Philippine Daily Inquirer

The Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as the Inquirer, is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, with a daily circulation of 260,000 copies. It is one of the Philippines' newspapers of record...

offered a mixed review of Bautista's performance of the song, calling it "serviceable" and "emotionally pared down".

Other versions

• Tanya Tucker
  Tanya Tucker
  Tanya Denise Tucker is a female American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13...
  
   included the song on her 1983 album Changes
  Changes (Tanya Tucker album)
  Changes is the 14th album by Tanya Tucker, and her only long-play release on the Arista label. The album only rose to the #47 spot on the Billboard Country charts, with four charting singles released: "Feel Right" was at #10, "Changes" at #41, "Baby I'm Yours" at #22, and "Cry" at #89...
  
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• Kyla
  Kyla
  Melanie Hernandez Calumpad Alvarez , better known by her stage name Kyla, is an R&B singer, songwriter, producer, TV host, and occasional actress from the Philippines....
  
   recorded the song for her 2007 album Heartfelt
  Heartfelt (Kyla album)
  Heartfelt is the sixth studio album by R&B singer Kyla. It was released by EMI Philippines in 2007 in audio CD & cassette format and digital.Composed of 16 cover songs and one original song, it is Kyla's first album of remakes.-Tracklisting:...
  
  , and released it as a single.
• Martin Nievera
  Martin Nievera
  Martin Ramon Razon Nievera is a singer, songwriter, and actor. He is one of the main hosts of musical variety show ASAP on ABS-CBN-Early life:...
  
   included it on his 2007 album When Love Is Gone
• Piolo Pascual
  Piolo Pascual
  Piolo Jose Pascual is a Filipino film and television actor, musician, model, and producer.-Biography:...
  
   recorded the song for the soundtrack of the 2009 film Love Me Again
  Love Me Again (film)
  Love Me Again is a 2009 Filipino film starring Angel Locsin with Piolo Pascual released under Star Cinema. The film was directed by award-winning film director Rory Quintos....
  
  
• Regine Velasquez
  Regine Velasquez
  Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez , better known as Asia's Songbird, Regine Velasquez, is a Filipino singer, actress, record producer and TV host...
  
   performed the song on October 25, 2009 for the television program "SOP".