All Alone Am I (album)

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All Alone Am I
Bradley Studios, Nashville
GenrePop[2]
Length31:18
LabelDecca
ProducerOwen Bradley
Brenda Lee chronology
Brenda, That's All
(1962) 		All Alone Am I
(1963) 		..."Let Me Sing"
(1963)
Singles from All Alone Am I
  1. "All Alone Am I"
    Released: September 1962
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
New Record Mirror
[3]

All Alone Am I is the eighth studio album by American singer Brenda Lee. The album was released February 18, 1963, on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley. The album was the first of two studio albums released in 1963 and the album's title track became a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

Background and content

"All Alone Am I" was originally composed by the Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis and recorded in Greek by Tzeni Karezi for the soundtrack of the film To nisi ton genneon (The Island of the Brave); the original song in Greek is titled "Μην τον ρωτάς τον ουρανό" ("Min ton rotas ton ourano", translation: "Don't ask the sky"). Later, a new version of the song with English lyrics was produced by Owen Bradley and appeared as the title track on one of Lee's albums. The song is written in the key of F major, but begins on the sub-dominant B-flat Major 7th chord. All Alone Am I was recorded in four separate sessions at the

Allmusic. Unterberger gave the album three out of five stars.[2] The album was originally released on an LP record, containing six songs on the "A-side" of the record and six on the "B-side" of the record.[4] The album has never been reissued on a compact disc in the United States, but has been reissued as such in the United Kingdom. In addition, the album is also available on extended play in the United States and Brazil.[5]

Release

All Alone Am I spawned its

singles chart in the United Kingdom in late-February 1963, becoming only her second single since 1960 (the first was Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, a U.K. No.6 in December 1962) to be released both in the U.S. and overseas to succeed in peaking in the Top 10 of a country other than the United States[7] (although Lee had had two Top 5 singles in the U.K. in 1962 with Speak to Me Pretty
and Here Comes That Feeling, neither of which had been single A-sides in the U.S.).

The All Alone Am I album itself was officially released on February 18, 1963, on Decca Records. The album would later peak at No.25 on the Billboard 200 albums chart[8] and reach No.8 on the UK Albums Chart, becoming one of Lee's final entries on the UK album chart and her highest-peaking entry on the chart as well.[9]

Track listing

Side one
  1. "
    Manos Hadjidakis
    ) – 2:45
  2. "By Myself" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:11
  3. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (George Cory, Douglass Cross) – 2:48
  4. "It's All Right with Me" (Cole Porter) – 2:40
  5. "My Coloring Book" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) – 3:50
  6. "My Prayer" (Georges Boulanger, Jimmy Kennedy) – 2:45
Side two
  1. "Lover" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:16
  2. "All by Myself" (Irving Berlin) – 2:36
  3. "What Kind of Fool Am I" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 2:16
  4. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Tommy Dorsey) – 2:32
  5. "
    Ray Noble
    ) – 2:37
  6. "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) – 2:22

Personnel

Sales chart positions

Album
Chart (1963) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200[8] 25
U.K. Albums Chart[9] 8
Singles
Year Song Peak chart positions
US
[6]
US AC
[6]
UK
[7]
1962 "All Alone Am I" 3 1 7

Release history

Release history and formats for All Alone Am I
Region Date Format Label Ref.
North America February 18, 1963 Vinyl LP Decca Records [10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Brenda Lee's Recording Sessions". Praguefrank's Country Music. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08.
  2. ^
    Allmusic
    . Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  3. New Record Mirror. No. 111. p. 10. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  4. ^ "All Alone Am I by Brenda Lee". Rate Your Music.
  5. ^ "All Alone Am I profile". Brenda Lee.com.
  6. ^ a b c "Billboard chart positions > singles". Allmusic.
  7. ^ a b "Brenda Lee UK chart runs". Polyhex. Archived from the original on March 10, 2010.
  8. ^ a b "All Alone Am I > charts". Allmusic.
  9. ^ a b "Brenda Lee". Official Charts Company.
  10. ^ Lee, Brenda (February 18, 1963). "All Alone Am I (Liner Notes)". Decca Records. DL-74370.
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