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"Only Wanna Be with You" is a song by American alternative rock band Hootie & the Blowfish. After being included on the group's EP Kootchypop (1993), it was released in July 1995 as the third single from their breakthrough album, Cracked Rear View (1994).
Cracked Rear View is Hootie & the Blowfish's most successful album. While initial sales were modest and it debuted at 127 on the Billboard 200, [17] it topped that chart five times in 1995 [18] and was the best-selling album of 1995 in the United States, selling 7 million copies, [19] besting the second-place Crazysexycool by 2.2 million. [20]
In 1995, Hootie & the Blowfish and Bob Dylan reached an out-of-court settlement for the group's unauthorized use of Dylan's lyrics in their song "Only Wanna Be with You". [9] Miami Dolphins' Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino appeared along with several other athletes in the band's video for the song "Only Wanna Be with You". [10]
Hootie and the Blowfish, hailing from the other Columbia, has become synonymous with an overly earnest, aw-shucks brand of barroom rock. ... "Only Wanna Be With You" hit No. 6 on the Billboard Hot ...
The original version of the Bob Dylan-referencing megahit single appeared on the band's 21-times platinum 1994 debut album 'Cracked Rear View.'
Kootchypop is a 1993 EP by Hootie & the Blowfish released independently. Several of the EP's songs became hits when they were re-recorded for their later major-label albums. In addition, the tracks were eventually remastered and included as a bonus on the deluxe 25th anniversary edition of Cracked Rear Vie
Whatever you got” — including cocaine, mushrooms and ecstasy — “I’m in.” They partake “day, evening, night, into the next day.” Hootie bandmates tried to ‘outparty’ each other
Hootie & The Blowfish's songs "Hold My Hand", "Let Her Cry", and "Only Wanna Be with You" all appeared in the top-40 of the Year-End chart. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1995.