- We're All Alone
Infobox Single
Name = We're All Alone
Artist =Boz Scaggs
Album =Silk Degrees
A-side = "Lido Shuffle "
Released = 1977
Format = 7" single
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:12
Label = Columbia
Writer = Boz Scaggs
Producer =Joe Wissert
Last single =
This single =
Next single = Infobox Single
Name = We're All Alone
Artist =Rita Coolidge
Album =Anytime…Anywhere
B-side = "Southern Lady"
Released = June 1977
Format = 7" single
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 3:38
Label =A&M
1965
Writer =Boz Scaggs
Producer =David Anderle
Last single =
This single =
Next single = "We're All Alone" is apopular song written and originally recorded in1976 byBoz Scaggs , as the closing track on his breakthrough album, "Silk Degrees ". It was also released as theB-side of his 1977 hit, "Lido Shuffle ". This version was featured in a March 1981 episode of the Proctor & Gamble drama "Search for Tomorrow ".The song has since been covered by various artists. It was a minor pop hit in
1976 forFrankie Valli and also a minor country hit that same year for La Costa (sister ofTanya Tucker ).The most successful and most popular version of the song is probably the version by singer
Rita Coolidge . Coolidge featured the song on her album "Anytime…Anywhere " in1977 and released it as a single late that year. The song went to number seven on theBillboard Hot 100 , number one on the adult contemporary chart, and number 68 on the country chart, and was certified as agold single , Coolidge's second after her successful cover ofJackie Wilson 's "Higher and Higher." It was covered as "Estamos Todos Solos" byNatalia Oreiro .Vonda Shepard performed the song on one of the episodes of "Ally McBeal ".Coolidge's version of "We're All Alone" was also very popular in
Brazil , and she recalled in "The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits" by Wesley Hyatt that it was used as the theme song for a Brazilian soap opera a few years later.Reba McEntire covered the song on her 1999 album,
So Good Together . The cover was never released as a single.
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