Go Home (song)

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This article is about the Stevie Wonder song. For the will.i.am song, see T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever). For the Eliza Doolittle song, see Eliza Doolittle (album).
"Go Home"
Stevie Wonder - Go Home.jpg
Single by Stevie Wonder
from the album In Square Circle
B-side"Instrumental"
ReleasedOctober 1985
Recorded1984
GenreR&B, dance-pop, synthpop, funk
LengthAlbum version 5:18
7" version 4:18
12" version 9:22
LabelTamla
Songwriter(s)Wonder
Producer(s)Wonder
Stevie Wonder singles chronology
"That's What Friends Are For"
(1985) 		"Go Home"
(1985) 		"Overjoyed"
(1986)

"Go Home" is a 1985 hit single performed by Stevie Wonder. The song showcased the narrator's plea to a young woman to go home, though the girl tries to get the narrator to stay with her. In the U.S., the song peaked at #2 on the R&B chart and #10 on the Hot 100 and, to date, is Wonder's last song to reach the U.S. top ten on the Hot 100.[1] "Go Home" also topped both the dance chart and the Adult Contemporary chart.[2][3]

Stevie performed this song as early as the May 7, 1983, episode of Saturday Night Live and nearly two years later at the 1985 Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, California, in a synthesizer jam with other contemporaries Howard Jones, Herbie Hancock, and Thomas Dolby.[4] Like "Part-Time Lover," the song was released with a special 12-inch version, which demonstrated Wonder's ability to reverse-sample.

Personnel[]

  • Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, synthesizers, drums, vocoder
  • Bob Malach – saxophone
  • Larry Gittens - trumpet

Cover versions[]

Instrumental group Groovopolis, led by guitarist Chris Cortez, covered the song for their self-titled first and only album in 2002.[5][6]

Chart performance[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 636.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 283.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 263.
  4. ^ YouTube: "Synthesizer Medley at the 1985 Grammys"
  5. ^ "Groovopolis overview". Allmusic.com.
  6. ^ "Jazz Improv". ChrisCortez.net.
  7. ^ "Top 100 Singles". Top100singles.net. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
  8. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles – Week ending February 8, 1986". Cash Box Magazine. 8 February 1986. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  9. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1986/Top 100 Songs of 1986". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
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