Disco Dessert 2/8/20 - "Don't Leave Me This Way" from Thelma Houston...

"Don't Leave Me This Way" was a big club and radio hit for singer Thelma Houston. Appearing on her album Any Way You Like It, the song was written by Cary Gilbert along with producers Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff originally for Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes. Houston's remake, produced by Hal Davis, sped the tempo a bit and extended it for one of the first big disco "throwdown" female records out. On Billboard magazine's National Disco Action Top-40 chart, the album was listed as a single entry with "Don't Leave Me This Way" and "Any Way You Like It" as key cuts; it spent six weeks at #1 and 23 total weeks on the chart between 1976 and 1977.

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And here's an extended version with extra lyrics that was heard in the clubs...

and the "B-side" of the single, "Any Way You Like It"...