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"'Go Home'" is a song by Stevie Wonder, released as the second single from his twentieth studio album, 'In Square Circle' (1985). 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 US, the song peaked at #2 on the 'Billboard' R&B chart and #10 on the 'Billboard' Hot 100 and, to date, is Wonder's last song to reach the US top ten on the Hot 100. "Go Home" also topped both the 'Billboard' dance chart and the 'Billboard' Adult Contemporary chart.

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.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4p7VIE9jQk YouTube: "Synthesizer Medley at the 1985 Grammys"] Like "Part-Time Lover," the song was released with a special 12-inch version, which demonstrated Wonder's ability to reverse-sample.

'Billboard' called it a "darker follow up" to "Part-Time Lover" that is "more subtle and affecting."

Personnel



* Stevie Wonder lead vocal, background vocal, synthesizers, drums, vocoder

* Bob Malach saxophone

* Larry Gittens - trumpet

Charts



Weekly charts



Year-end charts



Cover versions



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

See also



*List of number-one dance singles of 1986 (U.S.)

*List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1986 (U.S.)

References



Category:1985 singles

Category:Stevie Wonder songs

Category:Songs written by Stevie Wonder

Category:1985 songs

Category:Tamla Records singles

Category:Song recordings produced by Stevie Wonder

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