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((Short description|Song by The Isley Brothers))
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((Infobox song
| name       = Nobody but Me
| cover      = Nobody_But_Me_isleys.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[The Isley Brothers]]
| album      =
| B-side     = I'm Laughing to Keep from Crying
| released   = December 1962<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/131us2|title=Nobody But Me / I'm Laughing To Keep From Crying - The Isley Brothers|publisher=45cat|access-date=2019-12-21))</ref>
| recorded   = 1962
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = ((hlist|[[Rock and roll]]|[[R&B]]))
| length     = 2:01
| label      = [[Wand Records|Wand]]
| writer     = [[Ronald Isley]], [[Rudolph Isley]], [[O'Kelly Isley, Jr.]]
| producer   = [[Bert Berns]]
| prev_title = Twistin' with Linda
| prev_year  = 1962
| next_title = I Say Love
| next_year  = 1963
))
((Infobox song
| name       = Nobody but Me
| cover      = Nobody but Me.png
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[The Human Beinz]]
| album      = [[Nobody but Me (Human Beinz album)|Nobody but Me]]
| B-side     = Sueno
| released   = ((Start date|1967|08|24))<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/5990|title=Nobody But Me / Sueno - The Human Beinz|publisher=45cat|access-date=2019-12-21))</ref>
| recorded   =
| studio     = [[Cleveland Recording Company]]
| venue      =
| genre      =
| length     = ((Duration|m=2|s=17))
| label      = [[Capitol Records|Capitol]]
| writer     = ((hlist|Ronald Isley|Rudolph Isley|O'Kelly Isley, Jr.))
| producer   = [[Lex de Azevedo|Alexis de Azevedo]]
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title =
| next_year  = 
))

"'''Nobody but Me'''" is a song written by [[O'Kelly Isley, Jr.|O'Kelly]], [[Rudolph Isley|Rudolph]], and [[Ronald Isley]] of [[The Isley Brothers]] and first recorded by The Isley Brothers in 1962.

The most commercially successful and widely known version to date is the 1968 US Top 10 hit by [[The Human Beinz]], which was their only major chart success.

==The Isley Brothers==
The Isley Brothers' original version, released as a single on [[Wand Records|Wand]] 131,<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.globaldogproductions.info/w/wand.html |title=Wand Records discography |website=Globaldogproductions.info |access-date=2016-09-27))</ref> failed to make the [[Hot 100|pop]] or [[R&B chart]]s.

==The Human Beinz==
The song was [[Cover version|covered]] by [[Youngstown, Ohio]]'s [[The Human Beinz]]<ref>((cite book|author=Stuart Rosenberg|title=Rock and Roll and the American Landscape: The Birth of an Industry and the Expansion of the Popular Culture, 1955-1969|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=736Mu91q_fcC&pg=PA113|date=October 10, 2008|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-1-4401-6458-3|page=113))</ref> and made them [[one-hit wonders]] after it reached number eight on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[pop (music)|pop]] singles chart in 1968,<ref>((cite book |title= The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=296))</ref> and number four in [[RPM (magazine)|Canada]].<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.100169.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - February 10, 1968))</ref> It was included on some versions of [[Lenny Kaye]]'s ''[[Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968|Nuggets]]'' compilation.

[[Dave Marsh]], in his ''Book of Rock Lists''<ref>Dell, October 1981, ((ISBN|0-440-57580-X))</ref> named the version by the Human Beinz "The most negative song to hit the Top 40," noting that the word "no" is sung over 100 times in a mere 2:16.  Marsh also counts the word "nobody" 46 times more; he adds "for balance, they throw in the word Yeah once".

==Other versions, uses, and appearances==
Liverpool group [[The Mojos]] released it in 1964 (''The Mojos'' EP, [[Decca Records]]).

Experimental group [[The Residents]] sampled it in the track "N-Er-Gee (Crisis Blues)" from their 1974 album ''[[Meet the Residents]]''.

The French group [[Dogs (French band)|The Dogs]] recorded their rendition in 1979 and included on the album ''Different''.

[[George Thorogood and the Destroyers]] recorded a version more faithful to the Human Beinz cover than to the Isleys' original, and released it on 1982's ''[[Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood & The Destroyers album)|Bad to the Bone]]''. It reached number 29 in [[RPM (magazine)|Canada]].<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.6518.pdf| title=RPM Top 50 Singles - September 25, 1982))</ref>

Canadian band [[Doug and the Slugs]] released their cover in 1983.

The L.A. punk band [[the Dickies]] recorded a lightning-fast version of the song on their 1998 all-covers album, ''Dogs from the Hare that Bit Us''.

Garage/punk musician [[Nobunny]] reworked it for his track "Nobunny Loves You".

A [[lip-sync]] of the Human Beinz version was used in the [[cold open]] of the first episode of the [[The Office (U.S. season 7)|seventh season]] of the American TV series ''[[The Office (U.S. TV series)|The Office]]'', "[[Nepotism (The Office)|Nepotism]]", featuring all the characters of the show.

A cover was featured in at least four television commercials: in a 1987 [[Friskies]] cat food commercial, where the line "like we do" was changed to "like Friskies";<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa1MJ50GTsQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/Wa1MJ50GTsQ |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=Friskies Nobody Has The Flavor|access-date=7 June 2021|publisher=[[YouTube]]))((cbignore))</ref> in the mid to late 1980s for [[Mita Industrial Co.|Mita Photocopiers]] and [[Idaho Potato Commission|Idaho Potatoes]] (both with significantly altered lyrics);<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkNbEoFHCtc  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/RkNbEoFHCtc |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=Mita Copiers (1987) |publisher=[[YouTube]] |date=2012-10-26 |access-date=2016-09-27))((cbignore))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLGHDfKwiSM  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/OLGHDfKwiSM |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=Idaho Potatoes Spuddy Buddy sings Nobody but me |publisher=[[YouTube]] |date=2016-12-22 |access-date=2017-01-11))((cbignore))</ref> in the early 2010s for [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]];<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuRD3kEUjkM  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/cuRD3kEUjkM |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=nike 20 20throwdown 20DC |publisher=[[YouTube]] |date=2011-03-02 |access-date=2016-09-27))((cbignore))</ref> and in the mid-2010s for the [[Dish Network]].<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EyiVW3gCTU  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116090220/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EyiVW3gCTU |archive-date=2020-11-16 |url-status=dead|title=Introducing The New Flex Pack |publisher=[[YouTube]] |date=2004-10-10 |access-date=2016-09-27))</ref>

A parody of this was performed by [[the CBS Orchestra]] on ''[[The Late Show With David Letterman]]'' for the "Know Your Current Events" audience participation game (particularly the repeated "no" part, as the [[homonym]] "know").

The Human Beinz version has been featured in many movies as well, such as when [[Mike Sarne]] sings it in the film ''[[Seaside Swingers]]'' (1965) under the title "Indubitably Me".  It also appears in ''[[Troop Beverly Hills]]'', ''[[The Departed]]'' (when Billy gets into a brawl in a store), ''[[Recess: School's Out]]'' (as the students and teachers of Third Street School face off against Phillium Benedict and his henchmen), and ''[[Kill Bill: Volume 1|Kill Bill Vol. 1]]'' (when [[The Bride (Kill Bill)|the Bride]] fights the Crazy 88s).

==See also==
* [[List of one-hit wonders in the United States#1960s|List of 1960s one-hit wonders in the United States]]

== References ==
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[[Category:1963 songs]]
[[Category:1963 singles]]
[[Category:1967 singles]]
[[Category:The Isley Brothers songs]]
[[Category:George Thorogood songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Ronald Isley]]
[[Category:Songs written by Rudolph Isley]]
[[Category:Songs written by O'Kelly Isley Jr.]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Bert Berns]]
[[Category:Songs about dancing]]
[[Category:Capitol Records singles]]
[[Category:Wand Records singles]]

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