I Don't Want to Be with Nobody but You explained

I Don't Want to Be with Nobody but You
Cover:IDWtBwNbY Australian artwork.png
Caption:Australian artwork
Type:single
Artist:Absent Friends featuring Wendy Matthews
Album:Here's Looking Up Your Address
B-Side:
  • "Hallelujah"
  • "Hullabaloo"
Released:April 1990
Recorded:1989
Length:4:46
Label:RooART
Producer:
Chronology:Absent Friends singles
Prev Title:Hullabaloo
Prev Year:1990
Next Title:Harmony
Next Year:1990

"I Don't Want to Be with Nobody but You" is a song originally recorded by Dorothy Moore for her 1976 album Misty Blue. It was written by Eddie Floyd, who recorded his own version in 2008 for the album Eddie Loves You So. Australian band Absent Friends covered the song for their 1990 debut album, Here's Looking Up Your Address, featuring Wendy Matthews on lead vocals and Peter Blakeley on backing vocals.[1]

Absent Friends' version was released in April 1990 as the third single from Here's Looking Up Your Address and debuted on the Australian Singles Chart at  45 in May 1990, eventually peaking at No. 4 in July 1990. It won the Single of the Year award at the 1991 ARIA Music Awards.[2] Matthews subsequently included it on her 1999 greatest hits album, Stepping Stones and on her 2007 compilation album, The Essential Wendy Matthews.

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The song has also been covered by Stevie Salas on the album The Electric Pow Wow (1993), Anne Robertson on the Australian Idol - The Final 13 CD (2005) and by Joss Stone on her 2012 album, The Soul Sessions Vol. 2.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: McFarlane, Ian . . Ian McFarlane . . 1999 . Encyclopedia entry for 'Absent Friends' . http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=8 . 1-86448-768-2 . https://web.archive.org/web/20040803090539/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=8 . 23 December 2013. 3 August 2004 .
  2. Web site: 1991 ARIA Award Winners . . 23 December 2013.
  3. Web site: ARIA Top 50 Singles for 1990. ARIA. 18 July 2022.
  4. Web site: The Soul Sessions, Vol. 2 (Deluxe Edition) by Joss Stone. 31 July 2012. 17 May 2022. Apple Music.