The Communards — Don't Leave Me This Way (1986) OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

Richard Coles and Jimmy Somerville as the Communards perform their version of Don&Leave Me This Way in this 1986 official music video. Featuring the vocals of female jazz singer Sarah Jane Morris. The song, written by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, and Cary Gilbert, was originally released in 1975 by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes featuring Teddy Pendergrass, an act signed to Gamble & Huff&Philadelphia International label. It was subsequently covered by American singer Thelma Houston in 1976 prior to the Communards hi-NRG version in 1986. Their recording topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks in September 1986, becoming the best-selling single of the year in the United Kingdom. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation&16th favorite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.