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Who sang Don’t Leave Me This Way?

Release date: 2/12/1976

Duration: 03:38

Writer(s): Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Harold Melvin

Producer(s): Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff

Thelma Houston released the song Don’t Leave Me This Way. Date of release: 2/12/1976.

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The performer begs his love not to leave her, and explains how empty and lost he will feel without her.

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Thelma Houston - Short Biography

- Thelma Houston is an American singer
- Thelma Houston began her recording career in the late 1960s.
- She hit number one in 1977 with her recording of "Don't Leave Me This Way".
- This song won the Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.
- Houston is the only artist to have recorded a number one hit in the United States on the Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Dance/Disco charts.

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Thelma Houston is an American disco singer, born on May 7, 1946 in Leland, Mississippi.

Her first album, Sunshower, was released in 1969, but it was in 1977 that she became famous with the title Don't Leave Me This Way, which reached the first place in the charts in the United States and Great Britain.

Thelma Houston began her career in the 1960s as a backup singer for Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston's mother. She then joined the gospel group The Art Reynolds Singers, before going solo in the world of soul music.

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