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In New Zealand, Coolidge's "We're All Alone" charted with a number 34 peak in February 1978.Ĭoolidge 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." In December 1977, "We're All Alone" entered the charts in Australia to remain for 16 weeks with a number 32 peak – the original Boz Scaggs version had been a minor Australian hit in the autumn of 1977 reaching number 54 in a tandem charting with its flip " Lowdown". "We're All Alone" was the first of Coolidge's two Adult Contemporary number 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. The second single from Anytime.Anywhere in the US, "We're All Alone" there ascended to number 7 that September: the track also received enough airplay in the C&W market to reach number 68 on the C&W chart. In September Coolidge's version of "We're All Alone" entered the Dutch charts where it would peak at number 15 (in August the Walker Brothers' version had reached number 22 on the Dutch charts). Coolidge sings these lines as "Close your eyes and dream" and "Owe it to the wind my love".Īlthough 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 number 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 number 6 in Ireland. The original lyrics of "We're All Alone" include lines "Close your eyes ami" and "Throw it to the wind my love". 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.'" 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. I would visit Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, and it was a very open, communicative group of people.

Ĭoolidge recalled: "When I was with A&M Records, it was like a family. Her version had the greatest sales success.Ĭoolidge was already familiar with Scaggs she sang backing vocals, and she arranged and directed the other backing singers on his albums Moments and Boz Scaggs & Band, both from 1971, on Columbia Records. The Rita Coolidge version of "We're All Alone" was featured on the album Anytime.Anywhere released in March 1977. " (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher"

Horns – Tony Terran, Vincent DeRosa, Jim Horn, Paul Hubinon, Dick Hyde, Plas Johnson, Tom Scott, Bud Shankįrankie Valli version "We're All Alone".

Sid Sharp – string conductor and concertmaster.

Louis Shelton – guitar, acoustic guitar.

However, in Australia Scaggs' "We're All Alone" was issued with " Lowdown" as the flip to become a double A-side chart entry reaching number 54 in the autumn of 1977, the only evident instance of the Scaggs original charting.

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 number 11 and number 13.