I Who Have Nothing

Album: Greatest Hits (1963)
Charted: 29
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  • I, I who have nothing
    I, I who have no one
    Adore you and want you so
    I'm just a no one with nothing to give you but, oh
    I love you
    He, he buys you diamonds
    Bright, sparkling diamonds
    But, believe me, dear, when I say
    That he can give you the world but he'll never love the way
    I love you
    He can take you any place he wants
    To fancy clubs and restaurants
    But I can only watch you with
    My nose pressed up against the window pane
    I, I who have nothing
    I, I who have no one
    Must watch you go dancing by
    Wrapped in the arms of somebody else when, darling, it's I
    Who loves you
    I love you
    I love you
    I love you Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

  • Mark from CaliforniaTom Jones' next song after his version of "I (Who Have Nothing)", "She's A Lady", peaked at #2 on the Hot 100 as his highest chart-topping song on that chart: the week that that song was at #2 (20 March 1971), Janis Joplin's posthumous song "Me and Bobby McGee" was at #1.
  • Samantha from Indiana Anyone know who owns the licensing to this song? One owner has 94% the other has 6%. I can not find any information on the 6% owner.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn August 30th, 1970 Tom Jones' covered version of "I (Who Have Nothing)" peaked at #2 {for 3 weeks} Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, the three weeks it was at #2, the #1 record for those three weeks was "Snow Bird" by Anne Murray.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyBen E. King passed away Thursday (May 1st, 2015) of apparently natural causes at the age of 76.
    May he R.I.P.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 1st 1979, Sylvester's covered version of "I (Who Have Nothing)" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #87; four weeks later on April 29th, 1979 it would peak at #40 {for 2 weeks} and spent 7 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #27 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1978 and 1986 he had ten hits the R&B Singles chart; his biggest hit and also only Top 10 record was "Dance (Disco Heat)", it reached #4 in 1978 and was the first of his three #1 records on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart...
    Sadly, Sylvester, born Sylvester James, Jr., passed away on December 16th, 1988 at the young age of 41...
    May he R.I.P.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 23rd 1963, "I (Who Have Nothing)" by Ben E. King entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #99; and on August 18th it peaked at #29 (for 1 week) and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #16 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1960 and 1975 he had twenty-one Top 100 records; with three making the Top 10, "Spanish Harlem" (#10 in 1961), "Stand By Me" (#4 in 1961), and "Supernatural Thing - Part 1" (#5 in 1975)...
    "Stand By Me" re-entered the Top 100 in 1986, in conjunction with the movie of the same name, and it made the Top 10 again, reached #9 for two weeks...
    Mr. King, born Benjamin Earl Nelson, will celebrate his 76th birthday in three months on September 28th, 2014.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 26th in 1970, Tom Jones performed his covered version of "I (Who Have Nothing)" on the Raquel Welch's NBC-TV special 'Raquel!'...
    Four months later on August 16th, 1970 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #83; and on September 19th, 1970 it peaked at #14 (for 1 week) and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100 and it did may the Top 10 in Belgium were it peaked at #6...
    It reached #16 on the United Kingdom's Singles chart...
    Mr. Jones, born Thomas Jones Woodward, will celebrate his 74th birthday in less than two months on June 7th, 2014.
  • Dominick from New York, NyTom Jones also covered this song in 1970.
  • Lester from New York City, NyTerry Knight & the Pack (soon to be Grand Funk Railroad) did a decent cover of this.
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