We're All Alone
| "We're All Alone" | |
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| Song by Boz Scaggs from the album Silk Degrees | |
| Released | 1976 |
| A-side | "Lido Shuffle" |
| Genre | Soft rock |
| Length | 4:12 |
| Label | Columbia |
| Writer(s) | Boz Scaggs |
| Producer(s) | Joe Wissert |
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| Single by Rita Coolidge | ||||
| from the album Anytime...Anywhere | ||||
| B-side | "Southern Lady" | |||
| Released | June 1977 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Length | 3:38 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Writer(s) | Boz Scaggs | |||
| Producer(s) | David Anderle | |||
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"We're All Alone" is a song written by Boz Scaggs, who introduced it on his 1976 album Silk Degrees. It was included as the B-side of two of the four single releases from that LP, including "Lido Shuffle." "We're All Alone" was a 1977 top-ten hit for Rita Coolidge in the US and the UK.
A heartfelt ballad which closed Silk Degrees, "We're All Alone" garnered attention soon after the album's March 1976 release. Frankie Valli had a single version which reached #78 U.S. in August 1976 (#74 Cash Box; #73 Canada), and in the spring of 1977 a version by Bruce Murray was an airplay item in Canada.
The Walker Brothers - one of Scaggs' formative influences - cut "We're All Alone" for their Lines album; the track had an October 1976 single release in the UK where the Frankie Valli version had a single release that July; the Walker Brothers' version did reach #22 in the Netherlands in August 1977 a month before the Rita Coolidge version reached the Dutch charts.
In March 1977 the version by the Three Degrees - recorded for the album Standing Up For Love - was a UK single release meaning that the Rita Coolidge version of "We're All Alone" which reached UK #7 that summer was the fourth UK single release to feature the song as an A-side.
Scaggs' own version of "We're All Alone" was the standard B-side of his international single release "Lido Shuffle" including its release in the US and UK where "Lido Shuffle" respectively charted at #11 and #13. However, in Australia Scaggs' "We're All Alone" was issued with "Lowdown" as the flip to become a double A-side chart entry reaching #54 in the autumn of 1977, the only evident instance of the Scaggs original charting.
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