Love the One You're With

Infobox Single
Name = Love the One You're With


Artist = Stephen Stills
from Album = Stephen Stills
Released = 1970
Format = 7" single
B-side = "To a Flame"
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Genre = Folk, Rock
Length = 3.03
Label = Atlantic Records
Writer = Stephen Stills
Producer =
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Chart position =
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Last single =
This single =
Next single = Infobox Single
Name = Love the One You're With


Artist = Bucks Fizz
from Album = Writing On The Wall
Released = 1986
Format = 7" single, 12" single
B-side = "Too Hard"
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Genre = Pop, Rock
Length = 3.19
Label = Polydor
Writer = Stephen Stills
Producer = Andy Hill
[Certification =]
Chart position =
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Last single = New Beginning (Mamba Seyra)
(1986)
This single = Love the One You're With
(1986)
Next single = Keep Each Other Warm
(1986)

"Love the One You're With" is a 1970 single by folk rocker Stephen Stills. The first release off his first solo album "Stephen Stills", it rose to the top twenty of the pop singles chart, peaking at #14.

Cover versions

Several acts have since covered the song. The most notable cover came in 1971 from The Isley Brothers, whose unique gospel-driven cover of the song sent it to the charts again reaching number three R&B and number eighteen pop giving the group their fifth Top 40 pop single. Other versions from 1971 include Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on their live album "Four Way Street", Aretha Franklin on her album "Aretha Live at Fillmore West", Engelbert Humperdinck on "Live At The Riviera", Bobby Goldsboro and Les Humphries Singers.

A version was released by early 80s UK pop trio, Tight Fit in 1983, but failed to chart. Bucks Fizz covered the song as their eighteenth single in 1986 reaching UK #47. [ [http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=13650 Chart Stats - Bucks Fizz - Love The One You're With ] ] Will Young also recorded a version for his second album, "Friday's Child". In 2006, Dennis Rollins produced a further cover on the album "Big Night Out!". The Chantoozies produced another cover, releasing it as a single from their second album "Gild the Lily", becoming their biggest selling single.

Other live versions include The Jackson 5, Jeff Martin and Luther Vandross.

tephen Stills version credits

*Stephen Stills: vocals, guitar, organ, steel drum, percussion
*Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels: bass
*Jeff Whittaker: congas
*Rita Coolidge, Priscilla Jones, John Sebastian, David Crosby, Graham Nash: background vocals

Isley Brothers version credits

*Ronald Isley: lead vocals
*O'Kelly Isley, Jr. and Rudolph Isley: background vocals
*Ernie Isley: guitar
*Marvin Isley: bass
*Chris Jasper: piano, keyboards
*George Moreland: drums, percussion
*Chester Woodard, Jr: guitar
*John Mosley: flute
*Milton Westley: organ
*Gary Jones: congas
*Buck Clarke: congas

References