Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)

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"Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)"
Single by The Impalas
from the album Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)
B-side "Fool, Fool, Fool"
ReleasedJanuary 1959 (1959-01)
Genre Doo-wop
Length2:33
Label Cub
Songwriter(s) Artie Zwirn, Harry Giosasi
Producer(s) LeRoy Holmes
The Impalas singles chronology
"Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)"
(1959)
"Oh, What a Fool"
(1959)

"Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)" is a song written by Artie Zwirn and Harry Giosasi and produced and arranged by LeRoy Holmes. The single was performed by New York-based doo-wop group The Impalas. It reached #2 on the U.S. pop chart, behind both The Happy Organ by Dave "Baby" Cortez and Kansas City by Wilbert Harrison. [1] It also went to #14 on the U.S. R&B chart. Overseas, "Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)" went to #28 on the UK Singles Chart in 1959. [2] The song was featured on their 1959 album, Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home). [3]

The song ranked #24 on Billboard's Year-End top 100 singles of 1959. [4]

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