I Don't Want to Be with Nobody but You
"I Don't Want to Be with Nobody but You" is a song by Australian band Absent Friends featuring Wendy Matthews. It was released in April 1990 as the third single from Absent Friends' debut album "Here's Looking Up Your Address". It debuted on the Australian Singles Charts at No. 45 in May 1990, peaking at No. 4 in July 1990. The song is a cover version of the Dorothy Moore track from her 1976 album "Misty Blue", written by Eddie Floyd. Floyd recorded his own version in 2008  for the album "Eddie Loves You So". The song includes Peter Blakeley (backing vocals). Other members of Absent Friends were Sean Kelly (Models, The Dukes), Andrew Duffield, James Valentine (both also ex-Models) and Garry Gary Beers, Michael "Mick" King, John Mackay (ex-Machinations). "I Don't Want to Be with Nobody but You" won the Single of the Year award at the 1991 ARIA Music Awards. Matthews subsequently included it on her 1999 greatest hits album, "Stepping Stones" and on her 2007 compilation album, "The Essential Wendy Matthews". Other versions. 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".