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All I Want Is You (Carly Simon song)

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Released
  
1987

Recorded
  
1987

Format
  
7"

B-side
  
"Two Hot Girls" (US) "You Have To Hurt" (UK)

Genre
  
Pop, adult contemporary

Length
  
3:58 (Album Version) 3:40 (Single Edit)

"All I Want Is You" is the 4th and final single from Carly Simon's 1987 album Coming Around Again. The song was co-written by Simon and frequent collaborator Jacob Brackman. The song is also featured on Simon's 1988 album Greatest Hits Live.

Contents

The song is one of Simon's biggest latter period AC hits, and as a result is included on multiple compilations of her work, which include 1995's 3-disc box set Clouds in My Coffee, the UK import The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better, the 2-disc retrospective Anthology, 2004's single disc Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits, and 2014's Playlist: The Very Best of Carly Simon.

No music video existed for this song.

Charts

The song peaked at #54 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Simon's twenty-second entry on this chart, and spent nine weeks there. The song was even more successful on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, where it lasted for 5 months and peaked at #7.

Track listings and formats

7" single (US)
  1. "All I Want Is You" (Single edit) – 3:40
  2. "Two Hot Girls (On A Hot Summer Night)" – 4:51
7" single (UK)
  1. "All I Want Is You" – 3:58
  2. "You Have To Hurt" – 4:04

References

All I Want Is You (Carly Simon song) Wikipedia