"Don't Leave Me This Way" is a song written by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff and Cary Gilbert. First charting as a hit for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, an act onGAMBLE & Huff's Philadelphia International label in 1975, "Don't Leave Me This Way" was later a huge disco hit for Motownartist Thelma Houston in 1976. The song was a major hit forBRITISHgroup The Communards in 1986.