RITA COOLIDGE Were all Alone

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RITA COOLIDGE - We're all Alone • We're All Alone is a song written by Boz Scaggs, which became a 1977 top-ten hit for Rita Coolidge in the US and the UK. Scaggs introduced it on his 1976 album Silk Degrees. The song was first a hit for Frankie Valli. Scaggs included it as the B-side of two of the four single releases from that LP, including Lido Shuffle . • The Rita Coolidge version of We're All Alone was featured on the album Anytime...Anywhere released in March 1977. • Coolidge would recall: When I was with A M Records, it was like a family. I would visit Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, and it was a very open, communicative group of people. One day I was in Jerry Moss' office and he said that the Boz Scaggs album Silk Degrees was in a million homes and there was a song on it that was perfect for a woman to sing. He said, 'It's called We're All Alone and as he's not doing it as a single, I think you ought to record it.' • The original lyrics of We're All Alone include lines Close your eyes ami and Throw it to the wind my love . Coolidge sings these lines as Close your eyes and dream and Owe it to the wind my love . • Although the first single off the US release of Anytime...Anywhere was (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher , We're All Alone was the first single taken off the album in the UK where it reached #6 in August 1977 when (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher was moving up the US Top 10; that same month We're All Alone reached #6 in Ireland. In September Coolidge's version of We're All Alone entered the Dutch charts where it would peak at #15 (in August the Walker Brothers' version had reached #22 on the Dutch charts). • The second single from Anytime...Anywhere in the US, We're All Alone there ascended to #7 that September: the track also received enough airplay in the C W market to reach #68 on the C W chart. • We're All Alone was the first of Coolidge's two Adult Contemporary #1 hits - the second would be All Time High - and after (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher was her second single to be certified gold for US sales of 1,000,000. • In December 1977, We're All Alone entered the charts in Australia to remain for 16 weeks with a #32 peak - the original Boz Scaggs version had been a minor Australian hit in the autumn of 1977 reaching #54 in a tandem charting with its flip Lowdown . • In New Zealand, Coolidge's We're All Alone charted with a #34 peak in February 1978. • Reportedly the concurrent availability of both the Boz Scaggs original and the Coolidge version of We're All Alone at radio stations (and their versions having the same key and tempo) moved some disc jockeys to splice together the two tracks into one unofficial duet (a trend that had begun two years prior with the two concurrently released solo versions of You Don't Bring Me Flowers ), in spite of the fact that the spliced duet version of We're All Alone was already receiving rave reviews by fans and DJs alike. However, unlike You Don't Bring Me Flowers , which featured Columbia Records label mates Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond, Skaggs and Coolidge were signed to competing record companies which, for whatever reason, declined to allow the two to remake the song as an official, separate single. • Coolidge remade We're All Alone for her 2005 jazz release And So Is Love: Elysa Gardner of USA Today opined that Coolidge brings a new wistfulness and knowing to her own hit of yore...proving that good interpretive singers, like fine wine, improve with age. • _________________ • Please, subscribe and like to keep REAL COUNTRY MUSIC alive! • Visit https://www.newhillbilly.com/ • Guide to New Traditionalism, Bluegrass, Honky Tonk, Western Swing, Texan, Outlaw, Truck Driving, Country, True Country, Traditional Country, Ameripolitan, Irish Country, Australian, Canadian, Old Time, Cajun, Gospel, Classic Country, Rockabilly... • / westernswing2000 • Check When The Cowboy Sings Newhillbilly on Youtube! • / @whenthecowboysings • #TexasCountry #RedDirt #CountryMusic #MúsicaCountry #Texas #TexanCountryMusic #TrueCountryMusic #RealCountryMusic #Ameripolitan #TraditionalCountryMusic

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