Go Home (song)

"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.

"Go Home"
Single by Stevie Wonder
from the album In Square Circle
B-side"Instrumental"
ReleasedOctober 1985
Recorded1985
Genre
Length5:18 (album version)
4:18 (7" version)
9:22 (12" version)
LabelTamla
Songwriter(s)Stevie Wonder
Producer(s)Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder singles chronology
"That's What Friends Are For"
(1985)
"Go Home"
(1985)
"Overjoyed"
(1986)

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. 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."

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