Shannon did attempt to record "I Go to Pieces" in the August 1964 session at Mira Sound Studios NYC, which yielded his single "Do You Wanna Dance" and its B-side "This is All I Have to Give."

Following the success of the Peter and Gordon version of "I Go to Pieces," Del Shannon recorded the song at Bell Sound Studios in New York City in March 1965.

Del Shannon's final remake of "I Go To Pieces" appeared on his album Rock On!, which was posthumously released by Jeff Lynne in 1991.

"I Go to Pieces" passed to Peter and Gordon when that duo and Del Shannon, along with the Searchers, shared the bill for a tour of Australia in the second half of 1964.

Peter and Gordon recorded "I Go to Pieces" at Abbey Road Studios with John Burgess producing and Geoff Love as arranger/conductor.

"I Go to Pieces" was one of 150 songs which Clear Channel Communications requested its 1,170 stations not to play in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, drawing the comment from Peter Asher that: "I suppose a song about someone going to pieces could be upsetting if someone took it literally" (However, Asher did object to the inclusion of Peter & Gordon's "A World Without Love" on the list: "[Its] sentiment [is] as true in crisis as it is in normal times.

In 1990 an a cappella remake of "I Go to Pieces" by Southern Pacific reached number 31 C&W: the number had been a Southern Pacific concert staple since the band's 1984 inception before being recorded in the summer of 1989 for their January 1990 album release Country Line album with the track being issued as a single in February 1990 - the month of its composer Del Shannon's death - although it only gradually accrued support to reach the C&W Top 40 that May.

Southern Pacific member Keith Knudsen would allege resistance to the band's version of "I Go to Pieces" from C&W radio: "ten or so big [C&W] stations...wouldn't even test it.

"[9] Guys Next Door performed "I Go to Pieces" on their self-titled TV series, the video being shown in the episodes broadcast 27 October 1990 and 17 November 1990.

Besides the Nils Lofgren remake (featuring vocals by Del Shannon) on Lofgren's 1981 Night Fades Away album, "I Go to Pieces" has also been recorded by David Frizzell (My Life is Just a Bridge/ 1993), Sonny Geraci (On the Verge/ 2000), the Ian Mitchell Band (Suddenly You Love Me/ 2008), Joe Pernice (It Feels So Good When I Stop/ 2009), Colleen Peterson (Takin' My Boots Off/ 1978), Streetnix (Listen/ 1993), Gyllene Tider (B-side of 1982 single "Flickan I En Cole Porter-Sång"), Bobby Vinton (Bobby Vinton/ 1988), Albert West (West & Friends/ 1988), and the Wynners (Love & Other Pieces/ 1975).