Bay City Rollers - I Only Want to Be With You - Lyrics

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(Les McKeown Dies Aged 65. R.I.P) 20/04/2021
Album : Dedication / Produced : Jimmy Ienner
"I Only Want to Be with You" is a song written by Mike Hawker
And Ivor Raymonde.1964.

"I Only Want to Be with You" has been recorded by a wide range of artists, and three remakes of the song were UK chart hits. The first two by the Bay City Rollers (1976) and The Tourists (1979) matched the number 4 peak of the Dusty Springfield original, while the 1989 remake by Samantha Fox peaked at number 16. The song has been a Top 40 hit in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart 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. Many non-English versions have also been recorded by other artists.

Album : Dedication. Bay City Rollers.
The Bay City Rollers recorded "I Only Want to Be with You"
For their 1976 album Dedication in June and July 1976 at Soundstage Studio in Toronto with producer Jimmy Ienner. Dedication was the first Bay City Rollers recorded under the auspices of Arista Records, and it was Arista president Clive Davis who suggested that the group remake "I Only Want to Be with You." Jimmy Ienner was chosen by Davis to produce the Bay City Rollers on the basis of Ienner's work with the Raspberries.
Issued in the UK as a non-album single on 3 September 1976,
"I Only Wanna Be with You" - So entitled - reached number 4 UK, affording the Bay City Rollers' a tenth and final Top Ten hit.

The Bay City Rollers are often credited as having been "one of the biggest bands in the world",having sold between an estimated 120–300 million records worldwide.In 2003, The Scotsman ranked their album Once Upon a Star as the 91st best Scottish album of all time.
Additionally, their 1979 album Elevator was described by Rock and Roll Globe as
"one of the greatest Power Pop albums of all time".
In 2021, Gold Radio placed "Bye Bye Baby" as the best Bay City Rollers song of all time, saying that whilst "originally by the Four Seasons in 1965, 10 years later the Rollers made it their own".
The band were described by Wayne Coy as being "criminally one of the most underrated pop acts of the 1970s" despite their commercial success during that period, saying that the band "delivered some of the most deliciously commercially successful pop of the 1970s".

An active fan base community called Still Rollin organised yearly events to celebrate the music of the Bay City Rollers, and commemorate the life and contributions of band members who have passed away.
Following the death of Les McKeown, the fan association launched a fundraising campaign to have a memorial bench erected in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh following the announcement from his widow, Peko, that it was his desire to have a bench located in the garden in the aftermath of his death.
In 2024, a new stage musical, Rollers Forever was announced and portrays the story of "two lifelong Bay City Rollers fans who meet up for a Saturday night and relive their exciting teenage years in the seventies".

I don't know what it is that makes me love you so
I only know I never want to let you go
'Cause you started something, can't you see
That ever since we met, you've had a hold on me?
It happens to be true
I only want to be with you

It doesn't matter where you go or what you do
I want to spend each moment of the day with you
Look what has happened with just one kiss
I never knew that I could be in love like this
It's crazy but it's true
I only want to be with you

You stopped, you smiled at me
And asked me if I cared to dance
I fell into your open arms
I didn't stand a chance

Now listen, honey
I just want to be beside you everywhere
As long as we're together, honey, I don't care
'Cause you started something, can't you see
That ever since we met, you've had a hold on me?
No matter what you do
I only want to be with you

You stopped, you smiled at me
And asked me if I cared to dance
I fell into your open arms
I didn't stand a chance

Now listen, honey
I just want to be beside you everywhere
As long as we're together, honey, I don't care
'Cause you started something, can't you see
That ever since we met, you've had a hold on me?
No matter what you do
I only want to be with you

No matter, no matter what you do
I only want to be with you
Whoo
No matter, no matter what you do
I only want to be with you