All Alone (Irving Berlin song)

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"All Alone"
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Published1924
Songwriter(s) Irving Berlin

"All Alone" is a popular waltz ballad composed by Irving Berlin in 1924. It was interpolated into the Broadway show The Music Box Revue of 1924 where it was sung by Grace Moore and Oscar Shaw. Moore sat at one end of the stage under a tightly focused spotlight, singing it into a telephone, while Oscar Shaw sat at the other, doing the same. [1]

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1925 recordings

Other recordings include

The song became a standard and has been recorded many times, among the recordings:

Film & television appearances

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