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 whose on cloud since he met the girl of his dreams." [6]

Charts

Chart (1965)Peak
position
Finland (Soumen Virallinen) [7] 37
West Germany (Official German Charts) [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

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