I think we're alone now

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Singles
I Think We're Alone Now ( Tommy James & the Shondells )
  US 4th 02/11/1967 (17 weeks)
I Think We're Alone Now ( The Rubinoos )
  US 45 05.03.1977 (12 weeks)
I Think We're Alone Now ( Tiffany )
  DE 14th December 21, 1987 (20 weeks)
  AT 24 03/15/1988 (2 weeks)
  CH 10 January 16, 1988 (9 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link January 16, 1988 (13 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 08/29/1987 (24 weeks)
I Think We're Alone Now ( Pascal feat.Karen Parry)
  UK 23 12/28/2002 (5 weeks)
I Think We're Alone Now ( Girls Aloud )
  UK 4th 12/23/2006 (8 weeks)

I Think We're Alone Now is a song by Tommy James and the Shondells from the year 1967 , which was written by Ritchie Cordell and produced. It was the group's second top 10 hit in the US after Hanky ​​Panky .

Original version by Tommy James & the Shondells

It appeared on the album of the same name. The album reached number 74 on the US album charts.

The song, along with Mony Mony and the B-side Run, Run, Baby, Run, was one of the songs Ritchie Cordell wrote for Tommy James & the Shondells. The publication took place on January 5, 1967. On February 11, 1967, the recording was able to place for the first time in the US single charts, reached number 4 and stayed in the charts for 17 weeks. The single reached number 6 in Canada. The critic Lester Bangs rated the song as a " bubblegum apotheose ".

You could hear the original in the film Mother's Day .

Cover version of Tiffany

In 1987, Tiffany re- recorded the classic. The music video was shot on the Ogden City Mall , which ran from 1980 to 2002. When her manager George Tobin, who had already worked with Tommy James & the Shondells in the 1970s, gave her the original on cassette, she initially didn't like the idea of ​​covering the song as it would not meet her requirements. She later decided to re-record the title, but did not expect the commercial breakthrough.

On August 29, 1987 the title was placed in the US singles charts for the first time, reached the top spot on November 7, 1987 and was able to maintain it for two weeks. In addition, unlike the original, the cover became a number one hit in Great Britain, Canada, Ireland and South Africa.

The music video was shot in a mall with Tiffany playing the song in the video's plot.

Cover version of Girls Aloud

The British girls' band Girls Aloud released I Think We're Alone Now in 2006 as the second release from their greatest hits album The Sound of Girls Aloud . The single peaked at # 4 on the UK sales charts and was the fourteenth consecutive top 10 single for the band.

Other covers

Remarks

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
  2. ↑ a b Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 by Joel Whitburn , Record Research 2007, ISBN 978-0-89820-172-7
  3. ↑ US catalog number: Roulette 25353; compare Tilch, KD: Rock LPs 1955-1970. Vol. 2: FL . 3rd ext. Hamburg: Taurus Press, 1990, p. 808
  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Albums 1955-1996 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1996, p. 380
  5. ↑ US catalog number: Roulette 4720
  6. ↑ Sarah Langsdon, Melissa Johnson: Lost Ogden . Arcadia Publishing 2015, ISBN 978-1531677763 , p. 32.
  7. ↑ For the genesis of the recording, see Interview with Tiffany in Bronson, Fred: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits . 3rd revised and expanded edition. New York City, New York: Billboard Publications, 1992, p. 681
  8. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Albums 1955-1996 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1996, p. 602
  9. ↑ Music video on MyVideo.de
  10. ↑ Music video on youtube.com. Retrieved March 30, 2020 .