Coolidge sings these lines as 'Close your eyes and dream' and 'Owe it to the wind my love'.ДЄlthough 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. Д¬oolidge recalled: 'When I was with A&M Records, it was like a family. Her version had the greatest sales success.Д¬oolidge 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' In a 1976 interview with Creem magazine, Scaggs stated that Michael Jackson had cut versions of 'We're All Alone' and 'What Can I Say'В вЂ“ both from Silk DegreesВ вЂ“ but if so, these tracks have never been released. 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.

That same month, C&W singer LaCosta had a single release of 'We're All Alone' in the US (number 75 C&W) and the UK where the track was the B-side of a remake of ' I Second That Emotion'. In March 1977, the version by the Three DegreesВ вЂ“ recorded for the album Standing Up For LoveВ вЂ“ was a UK single release meaning that the Rita Coolidge version of 'We're All Alone' which reached UK number 6 that summer was the fourth UK single release to feature the song as an A-side. The Walker BrothersВ вЂ“ one of Scaggs' formative influences В вЂ“ 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 number 22 in the Netherlands in August 1977 a month before the Rita Coolidge version reached the Dutch charts. in August 1976 (number 74 Cash Box, number 27 Adult Contemporary Canada number 73 Pop, number 36 AC). Frankie Valli had a single version from his Valli LP which reached number 78 U.S. Horns вЂ“ Tony Terran, Vincent DeRosa, Jim Horn, Paul Hubinon, Dick Hyde, Plas Johnson, Tom Scott, Bud ShankДЄ heartfelt ballad which closed Silk Degrees, 'We're All Alone' garnered attention soon after the album's March 1976 release.Sid Sharp вЂ“ string conductor and concertmaster.Louis Shelton вЂ“ guitar, acoustic guitar.

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