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I Only Want to Be With You

"I Only Want to Be with You"
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Single by Dusty Springfield
B-side "Once Upon a Time"
Released 8 November 1963
Format 7"
Recorded 1963, Olympic Studios, London
Genre Pop
Length 2:37
Label Philips
Writer(s) Mike Hawker and Ivor Raymonde
Producer(s) Johnny Franz
Dusty Springfield singles chronology
"I Only Want To Be With You"
(1963)
"Stay Awhile"
(1964)
"I Only Want to Be with You"
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Single by Bay City Rollers
from the album Dedication
B-side

"Write a Letter" (North America)

"Rock N' Roller" (Europe/International)
Released

August 29, 1976 (US)

3 September 1976 (UK)
Format Vinyl, 12", 7"
Recorded June 1976
Soundstage Studio, Toronto
Genre Bubblegum pop
Length 3:27
Label

Arista (North America)

Bell (Europe/International)
Writer(s) Mike Hawker, Ivor Raymonde
Producer(s) Jimmy Ienner
Bay City Rollers singles US chronology
"Rock and Roll Love Letter"
(1976)
"I Only Want to Be with You"
(1976)
"Yesterday's Hero"
(1976)
"I Only Wanna Be with You"
Single by The Tourists
from the album Reality Effect
Released November 1979
Genre Pop
Label Logo
Writer(s) Mike Hawker, Ivor Raymonde
Tourists singles chronology
"The Lonliest Man in the World"
(1979)
"I Only Wanna Be with You"
(1979)
"So Good to Be Back Home Again"
(1980)
"I Only Wanna Be with You"
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Single by Samantha Fox
from the album I Wanna Have Some Fun
B-side "Confession"
Released January 1989
Format Vinyl, 12", 7"; CD
Recorded PWL, The Borough, London
Genre Pop
Length 2:45
Label Jive
Writer(s) Mike Hawker and Ivor Raymonde
Producer(s)
Samantha Fox singles chronology
"I Wanna Have Some Fun"
(1988)
"I Only Wanna Be with You"
(1989)
"(Hurt Me, Hurt Me) But the Pants Stay On"
(1991)
"Ahora Te Puedes Marchar"
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Single by Luis Miguel
from the album Soy Como Quiero Ser
B-side "Sunny"
Released 1987
Format Airplay, Promo single
Recorded 1987
Genre Latin
Length 3:11
Label WEA
Writer(s) Mike Hawker, Ivor Raymonde, Luis Gómez Escolar
Producer(s) Juan Carlos Calderón
Luis Miguel singles chronology
"Todo El Amor del Mundo"
(1986)
"Ahora Te Puedes Marchar"
(1987)
"No Me Puedo Escapar de Tí"
(1987)

"I Only Want to Be with You" is a rock and roll song written by Mike Hawker and Ivor Raymonde. The debut solo single released by British singer Dusty Springfield under her long-time producer Johnny Franz, "I Only Want to Be with You" peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles chart in January 1964. Three remakes of the song have been UK chart hits, the first two by the Bay City Rollers (1976) and the Tourists (1979) matching the number 4 peak of the Dusty Springfield original, while the 1989 remake by Samantha Fox peaked at number 16. In the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "I Only Want to Be with You" has been a Top 40 hit three times, with both the Dusty Springfield original and the Bay City Rollers' remake peaking at number 12 while the Samantha Fox remake peaked at number 31. "I Only Want to Be with You" has also been recorded by a wide range of artists, several of whom sing the song with lyrics translated from the original English.

According to Jean Ryder, the ex-wife of songwriter Mike Hawker, "I Only Want to Be With You" was written soon after she and Hawker married on 1 December 1961, being inspired by Hawker's intense romantic feelings for his new bride. Ryder, who would later be a member of the Breakaways, had been a member of a vocal chorale, the Vernons Girls. Reportedly, she and Hawker had intended that she herself would record "I Only Want to Be With You". However, no formal arrangement for this eventuality had apparently been made by the autumn of 1963, when Hawker received a phone call from Philips A&R director Johnny Franz. Ryder paraphrases Franz as saying "Look we need something which is going to put this girl into the charts, because everybody is knocking her, everybody is saying she'll never make it [solo] - have you got a song that's a guaranteed hit?" Springfield had already recorded nine solo tracks, none of which was deemed the right vehicle to launch her solo career. With Ryder's permission, Hawker submitted "I Only Want to Be With You" to Franz, having made a demo featuring Ryder singing while keeping the beat by tapping on a biscuit tin lid. Franz, and then Springfield, approved the song, which Springfield recorded in a 25 October 1963 session at Olympic Studios, arranged and conducted by Ivor Raymonde, and recorded by engineer Keith Grant. Jean Ryder was included in the vocal chorale on the session.


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