Australian singles charts:
I Only Want to Be With You entered the Kent charts on 8 February 1964 and peaked at #6. It was #42 on the Top 100 of 1964.
Songwriters:
Mike Hawker, Ivor Raymonde
Producer:
Johnny Franz
Record label of Australian release:
Philips
Songfacts:
I Only Want to Be With You was Dusty Springfield’s first single as a solo artist, having previously been a member of The Springfields with her brother Tom. Dusty was 24 when the song was released.
This song is about a girl who has finally found the guy of her dreams – or at least she thinks so. It’s very much a teenage crush song in the same vein as many of the girl group songs that Dusty loved.
The Bay City Rollers released a version of I Only Want to Be With You in 1976 that reached #8 in Australia. The song was also a #6 hit in 1980 for The Tourists, who were the group Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart were in before they formed Eurythmics. Also in Australia, Samantha Fox reached #20 with the song in 1989.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/dusty-springfield/i-only-want-to-be-with-you
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