| "I'll Walk Alone" | |
|---|---|
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| Single by Dinah Shore | |
| B-side | "It Could Happen to You"[1] |
| Published | February 24, 1944 by Mayfair Music Corp., New York[2] |
| Released | May 19, 1944[3] |
| Recorded | April 11, 1944[4] |
| Venue | Introduced "Follow The Boys" April 25, 1944 |
| Genre | Popular music, Musical film |
| Length | 2:44 |
| Label | Victor 20-1586[1] |
| Composer(s) | Jule Styne |
| Lyricist(s) | Sammy Cahn |
"I'll Walk Alone" is a 1944 popular song with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Sammy Cahn. The song was written for the 1944 musical film Follow the Boys, in which it was sung by Dinah Shore, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost to “Swinging on a Star”. Shore recorded the song in March as a single, which became her first #1 hit on the Billboard charts.
"I'll Walk Alone" was released in May 1944 on Victor 20-1586,[1] and first appeared in 'The Billboard' on June 3, 1944. Competing versions were released by Martha Tilton, Mary Martin, Louis Prima, and others. It finally reached the top ten of the Best Selling and "Most Played Juke Box Records" charts in August 1944. Despite charting with Bing Crosby's "Swinging On A Star", "I'll Walk Alone" remained in the top ten of the Best Selling Records chart for twenty consecutive weeks, with four of those as the number one song in the nation. It also reached number one on the Juke Box chart, finally exiting in January 1945 after 26 weeks. It was rated the number six record of 1944, Shore's biggest career hit until she topped herself in 1948 with "Buttons and Bows."[5]
- ^ a b c "RCA Victor 78rpm numerical listing discography: 20-1500 - 20-2000". www.78discography.com. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
- ^ Library of Congress. Copyright Office. (1944). Catalog of Copyright Entries 1944 Music New Series Vol 39 Pt 3 No 1. United States Copyright Office. U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
- ^ "Victor 20-1586 (10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
- ^ "Victor matrix D4VB-0091. I'll walk alone / Dinah Shore - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Record Research.