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| "Baby Don't Say Goodbye" | ||||
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| Single by Dead or Alive | ||||
| Released | October 26, 1989 | |||
| Studio | Good Earth Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Synth-pop, dance-pop | |||
| Length |
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| Label | Epic Records | |||
| Songwriter | Pete Burns | |||
| Producer | Dead or Alive | |||
| Dead or Alive singles chronology | ||||
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"Baby Don't Say Goodbye" is a song by the English pop band Dead or Alive, released as the third and final single from their fourth studio album Nude on October 26, 1989[1]. The single's commercial release was solely in Japan, the US, and the Philippines[2] after its UK distribution was withdrawn following the lukewarm success of previous singles Turn Around and Count 2 Ten, Come Home With Me Baby, and their parent album Nude. "Baby Don't Say Goodbye" saw further success for Dead or Alive on the US Dance Club singles chart[3], becoming Nude's third top-ten single, and in Japan, where it was the album's third consecutive number-one.[4]
Release, withdrawal, and promotion
[edit]The release of "Baby Don't Say Goodbye" was pulled in the band's native United Kingdom by Epic Records following the minor success of Nude's previous singles, and its promotional white-label twelve-inch single and commercial CD single were quickly pulled and withdrawn before making it to market. Most of the mixes present on these UK releases, including a "Mini Megamix" of tracks from Nude, went unreleased for over 30 years before finally appearing on the posthumous singles box set Still Spinnin': The Singles Collection 1983-2021 in 2024.[5] The UK single, in line with both Nude and its previous singles, had artwork prepared for a seven-inch release by Andie Airfix at Satori, and was assigned the catalogue number BURNS 6 before also being withdrawn.
Despite the single's withdrawal in the UK, two of the mixes present on the planned releases were repurposed for its first commercial release in Japan: the "Edited house version" and the "Extended mix".[1] In the US, the UK mixes were eschewed entirely in favour of new remixes by Danny Tenaglia[6], following the success of the US mix of Come Home With Me Baby supervised by Lewis A. Martinee. One further remix was promotionally serviced to US clubs in 1989 by Arthur Baker[7], dubbed the "Powerful club twelve", a re-edit of the Nude album version, and was not released commercially until its inclusion on the Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI box set in 2016[8]. The Baker and Tenaglia mixes proved successful in US clubs, propelling the track to #6 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.
The Japanese market saw two additional versions of "Baby Don't Say Goodbye": the "Alternative mix" appeared as a bonus track on CD copies of Nude in 1988, and the following year the track appeared in remixed form on the Japan-only remix album Nude: Remade Remodelled.
No music video was prepared for "Baby Don't Say Goodbye", making it the first Dead or Alive single to be released without a video since "What I Want" in 1983; although no video was formally created for "Hooked on Love" in 1987, Epic Records serviced a clip-show of previous Dead or Alive videos to music TV in its place, and no such arrangement was devised for "Baby Don't Say Goodbye".
Chart performance
[edit]As the single was withdrawn before its planned single release, "Baby Don't Say Goodbye" was not eligible for the UK singles chart. However, the track continued Dead or Alive's success on the US dance charts, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, and became the third of three consecutive number-one singles from Nude in Japan, the most from any Dead or Alive album. The track would mark the band's final appearance on any Billboard chart (excluding reissues of previously released material), and was their last chart-topping single in Japan.[4]
Critical reception
[edit]In the July 26, 1989 issue of Smash Hits, Vincent Vincent characterised "Baby Don't Say Goodbye" amongst the non-single tracks on Nude as "cheesy dance numbers with cheeky lyrics [...] it isn't half bad." In the August 5, 1989 issue of Melody Maker, Steve Sutherland described "Baby Don't Say Goodbye" as amongst the "stunning theatrical situations" on Nude, praising Burns' lyrical role on the track as the "wounded victim, [...] cleverly set in incidents of maximum intensity."
In a retrospective review for RetroPop Magazine in 2021, Connor Grotto highlighted the commercial strength of "Baby Don't Say Goodbye" in the US, "making [Nude's] commercial failure one of the greatest mysteries in Dead or Alive history."[9]
Personnel
[edit]Dead or Alive
- Pete Burns – lyrics, producer, mixer, composer, arranger
- Steve Coy – producer, mixer, composer, arranger
Production and artwork
- Bruce Robbins – engineer, mixer
- Phil Bodger – recorded by, mixer
- Phil Cartledge – engineer
- Simon Clay – engineer
- Benjamin Hallowell – assistant engineer
- Garison III – assistant engineer
- Simon Everett – digital editing
- Paul Cox – photography
- Andie Airfix – artwork, design
Track listing
[edit]7" single (withdrawn 1989, Epic, BURNS 6)
- Baby Don't Say Goodbye (Edited house version) 4:03
- Baby Don't Say Goodbye (Pop version) 4:16
12" single (withdrawn 1989, Epic, BURNS T6)[10] and CD single (withdrawn 1989, Epic, BURNS C6)
- Baby Don't Say Goodbye (12" House version) 6:09
- Baby Don't Say Goodbye (Pop version) 4:16
- Baby Don't Say Goodbye (Extended mix) 6:43
- Mini Megamix 2:54 Contains "Come Home With Me Baby", "Stop Kicking My Heart Around", and "Give It Back (That Love is Mine)".
3" CD single (1989, Epic, ESDA 7002)[1]
- Baby Don't Say Goodbye (Edited house version) 4:03
- Baby Don't Say Goodbye (Extended mix) 6:43
12" single (1989, Epic, 49-73101)[6]
- Baby Don't Say Goodbye (Club Mix) 8:32
- Baby Don't Say Goodbye (Instrumental) 4:51
- Baby Don't Say Goodbye (Cheer's Vocal) 7:09
- Baby Don't Say Goodbye (Danny's Dub) 3:29
- Baby Don't Say Goodbye (Radio Edit) 4:28
12" promotional single (1989, Epic, EAS 1905)[7]
- Baby Don't Say Goodbye (The powerful club twelve) 5:47 (Dead or Alive)
- Something's Jumpin' In Your Shirt (The Sir Arthur edit) 4:00 (Malcolm McLaren and the Bootzilla Orchestra)
Charts
[edit]| Chart (1989) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Japan (Oricon)[4] | 1 |
| US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[3] | 6 |
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Dead Or Alive - Baby Don't Say Goodbye, 1989-10-26, retrieved 2026-08-03
- ↑ Dead Or Alive - Baby Don't Say Goodbye, 1989, retrieved 2026-08-03
- 1 2 "Dead or Alive | Biography, Music & News". Billboard. Retrieved 2026-08-03.
- 1 2 3 Single Chart-Book Complete Edition 1968–2010. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2012. ISBN 4871310884.
- ↑ "Dead Or Alive: Still Spinnin': The Singles Collection 1983-2021 (27CD) | Demon Music Group". www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2024-05-19. Retrieved 2026-08-03.
- 1 2 Dead Or Alive - Baby Don't Say Goodbye, 1989, retrieved 2026-08-03
- 1 2 Dead Or Alive / Malcolm McLaren And The Bootzilla Orchestra - Baby Don't Say Goodbye / Something's Jumpin' In Your Shirt, 1989, retrieved 2026-08-03
- ↑ Comments 188, Paul Sinclair (2016-09-08). "Dead Or Alive / 19-disc career box set: Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI". SuperDeluxeEdition. Retrieved 2026-08-03.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Newsdesk (2021-08-02). "Dead or Alive’s seven studio albums ranked from great to greatest". RETROPOP. Retrieved 2026-08-03.
- ↑ Dead Or Alive - Baby Don’t Say Goodbye, 1989, retrieved 2026-08-03
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