Talk:I Don't Want to Be with Nobody but You

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Songwriting credit?

Absent Friends' "I Don't Want To Be With Nobody But You" is NOT a cover of Eddie Floyd's "I Don't Want To Be With Nobody But My Baby" from Soul Street. (This is an odd furphy that seems to have picked up some steam from several sites confirming each other, yet even a cursory listen to each track disproves it.) "I Don't Want To Be With Nobody But You" is another Eddie Floyd composition, popping up for the first time (as far as I can tell) on Dorothy Moore's 1976 album Misty Blue. It's this track that Absent Friends cover (Floyd sings it himself on 2008's Eddie Loves You So, but I can't find an earlier version from him); the Soul Street track is completely different.

And, not to split hairs, but Joss Stone is *clearly* also covering the Dorothy Moore version of the song (the intro riff is there, the lyric "wrapped up in the arms of my mighty man" is intact, etc).

Genre Question

Latest comment: 9 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Exact provenance aside, one wonders, if every other version of the song to date is soul, and a listening to the Matthews song suggests it is also soul, then why is it listed here as pop, rock and (just for the heck of it) indie rock? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.107.137.92 (talk) 08:39, 11 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

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