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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. ==Early versions== 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 in August 1976 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 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Dark Star 9-6/77 )〕 - 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. In March 1977 C&W singer LaCosta had a single release of "We're All Alone" in both the US - where it charted at #75 C&W - and also the UK where the track was the B-side of a remake of "I Second That Emotion". In a 1976 interview with ''Creem'' magazine Scaggs stated that Michael Jackson had cut versions of "We're All Alone" and another ''Silk Degrees'' cut "What Can I Say" but if so these tracks have never been released.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Buzz on Boz )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「We're All Alone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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