I'm Alive (The Hollies song)

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"I'm Alive"
Single by the Hollies
B-side "You Know He Did"
Released21 May 1965
Recorded5 May 1965 [1]
Studio EMI, London [1]
Genre Pop rock
Length2:21
Label
Songwriter(s) Clint Ballard, Jr. [2]
Producer(s) Ron Richards [2]
The Hollies singles chronology
"Yes I Will"
(1965)		"I'm Alive"
(1965)		"Look Through Any Window"
(1965)

"I'm Alive" is a 1965 number-one UK hit single by the Hollies, [3] written for them by American songwriter Clint Ballard Jr. [2] Although they originally passed the song over to another Manchester band, the Toggery Five, they changed their minds and recorded it, achieving their first No. 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart. It spent three weeks at number one in the UK and was also a No. 1 hit in Ireland. [4] The song was released as a single in the US, entering the Cash Box singles chart on July 17, 1965, and peaking at No. 84 week of August 14, 1965, [5] and it also appears on the US version of the 1965 Hollies album, Hear! Here!.

Contents

Cash Box described it as "a low-key, rhythmic romancer about a lad who's on cloud [nine] since he met the girl of his dreams." [6]

Charts

Chart (1965)Peak
position
Finland (Soumen Virallinen) [7] 37
West Germany (GfK) [8] 16
Ireland (IRMA) [9] 1
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [10] 10
Norway (VG-lista) [11] 6
South Africa (Springbok) [12] 3
UK Singles (OCC) [13] 1

Cover Versions

References

  1. 1 2 The 30th Anniversary Collection (CD). The Hollies. EMI Records. 1993. D 202205.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. 1 2 3 Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 93. ISBN   0-85112-250-7.
  3. ↑ "Hollies information page". Hollies.co.uk. 1965-09-01. Archived from the original on 2014-05-25. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  4. ↑ Archived January 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ "Cash Box Top Singles - 1965". Archived from the original on 2017-05-10. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  6. ↑ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. July 3, 1965. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
  7. ↑ Nyman, Jake (2005). Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. p. 132. ISBN   951-31-2503-3.
  8. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Hollies, The – I'm Alive" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts.
  9. ↑ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – I'm Alive". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
  10. ↑ "The Hollies – I'm Alive" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  11. ↑ "The Hollies – I'm Alive". VG-lista.
  12. ↑ "SA Charts 1965–March 1989" . Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  13. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  14. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 328.
  15. ↑ "hotdiscomix :: Dance Music Report :: Hi-NRG Top 200 of the 80's". www.hotdiscomix.de. Retrieved 2015-10-13.


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