Somebody Else's Guy


"Somebody Else's Guy" is a 1984 song written and popularized by Jocelyn Brown. On the US soul chart, the single peaked at number two and stalled at number seventy-five on the Hot 100, but in the UK it made the pop top twenty. On the disco chart, "Somebody Else's Guy" peaked at number thirteen. It was the title track of Brown's debut solo album, released the same year.

Jocelyn Brown version

Track listing and formats

; U.S. 12" single, VND D01
  1. "Somebody Else's Guy" - 6:28
  2. "Somebody Else's Guy" - 5:45

    Charts

Peak positions

CeCe Peniston version

In 1996, the song was covered by dance music singer CeCe Peniston for her studio album I'm Movin' On. In 1998, it was released as a single to promote Peniston's greatest hits collection, The Best of CeCe Peniston, an import compilation issued in 1998 only in Europe and Japan.
Both Brown in 1984,
and Peniston in 1998 reached the same chart position on the UK Top 75, peaking at number thirteen.
The single reached a Top 10 position on the UK Chart-Track list, peaking at number six in February.

Credits and personnel

;Additional credits
; CD, DE, promo, #588 497-2
  1. "Somebody Else's Guy" — 3:47
; CD, DE, #582 114-2
  1. "Somebody Else's Guy" — 3:47
  2. "Somebody Else's Guy" - 9:18
; 12", UK, promo, #AMPMDJ 111
  1. "Somebody Else's Guy" - 5:37
  2. "Somebody Else's Guy" - 6:14
; CD, UK, promo, #GUYCD1
  1. "Somebody Else's Guy" — 3:29
  2. "Somebody Else's Guy" - 3:47
  3. "Somebody Else's Guy" - 3:44
; 12", UK, promo, #AMPMDJ 117 A
  1. "Somebody Else's Guy" — 7:27
  2. "Somebody Else's Guy"
; 12", UK, #582 511 1
  1. "Somebody Else's Guy" — 7:27
  2. "Somebody Else's Guy"
  3. "Somebody Else's Guy"
  4. "Somebody Else's Guy"
; 12", UK, promo, #DJ117
  1. "Somebody Else's Guy"
  2. "Somebody Else's Guy"
  3. "Somebody Else's Guy"
  4. "Somebody Else's Guy"
; 12", IT, #ZAC 137
; 12", UK, promo, #588 500-1
  1. "Somebody Else's Guy" - 6:14
  2. "Somebody Else's Guy" - 5:53
  3. "Somebody Else's Guy" - 9:18
  4. "Somebody Else's Guy" — 3:47
; MCD, JP, #POCM-1234
; MCD, UK, #582 511-2
; MCD, UK, #582 517-2
  1. "Somebody Else's Guy" — 3:29
  2. "Somebody Else's Guy" - 5:37
  3. "Somebody Else's Guy" — 7:27
  4. "Finally" - 3:25
; MCS, UK, #582 511-4
  1. "Somebody Else's Guy" — 3:29
  2. "Somebody Else's Guy" - 5:37
  3. "Finally" - 3:25
  4. "Somebody Else's Guy"
; MCD, DE, #582 115-2
  1. "Somebody Else's Guy" — 3:47
  2. "Somebody Else's Guy" - 6:14
  3. "Somebody Else's Guy" — 5:37
  4. "Somebody Else's Guy" - 5:53

    Charts

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