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{{short description|1975 song by Fox}}
{{Infobox song
| name       = Only You Can
| cover      = File:OnlyYouCan.jpg
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| type       = single
| artist     = [[Fox (band)|Fox]]
| album      = [[Fox (album)|Fox]]
| B-side     = Out Of My Body
| released   = 1975
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| genre      = [[pop music|Pop]]
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| label      = GTO Records
| writer     = Kenny Young
| producer   = Kenny Young
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| next_title = [[Imagine Me, Imagine You]]
| next_year  = 1975
}}
"'''Only You Can'''" is a 1975 song by pop group [[Fox (band)|Fox]]. Written by the group's founder [[Kenny Young]], it was the band's debut single and later appeared on their debut album ''[[Fox (album)|Fox]]''. Initially released as "Only You" in the summer of 1974, a reissue of the single with the track retitled "Only You Can" became a No. 3 hit on the [[UK Singles chart]] in March 1975, ultimately spending 11 weeks on the chart.<ref name="Official Charts">{{cite web |title=Only You Can |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/only-you-can/ |website=Official Charts |accessdate=2 August 2019}}</ref>
The song was critically acclaimed and established Fox's musical trademark, the coy and unusual voice of lead singer [[Noosha Fox|Noosha]], described by Dave Thompson of [[AllMusic]] as an "exotically accented purr".<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web |last1=Thompson |first1=Dave |title=Fox |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/fox-mw0000027458 |website=AllMusic |accessdate=2 August 2019}}</ref><ref name="The Fox Box – Album Review">{{cite web |last1=Canty |first1=Ian |title=Fox: The Fox Box – Album Review |url=https://louderthanwar.com/fox-the-fox-box-album-review/ |website=Louder Than War |date=18 January 2017 |accessdate=1 August 2019}}</ref><ref name="The power behind the new 20th century Fox">{{cite journal |last1=Salewicz |first1=Chris |title=The power behind the new 20th century Fox |journal=Liverpool Echo |date=8 May 1976 |volume=4 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19760508/056/0004 |accessdate=2 August 2019}}</ref> Writing for [[Louder Than War]] in 2017, Ian Canty described the song as "oddball and addictive"<ref name="The Fox Box – Album Review"/> while [[AllMusic|AllMusic's]] Dave Thompson has called "Only You Can" and its follow-up "[[Imagine Me, Imagine You]]" "two of the most spellbinding UK hits of 1974-1975".<ref name="AllMusic"/>
== Track listing ==
=== 7" Single ===
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==References==
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[[Category:1974 singles]]
[[Category:1974 songs]]
[[Category:Number-one singles in Switzerland]]
[[Category:Songs written by Kenny Young]]