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"'''I'm Alive'''" is a 1965 number-one UK hit single by [[The Hollies]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hollies.co.uk/information.php?idx=140 |title=Hollies information page |publisher=Hollies.co.uk |date=1965-09-01 |access-date=2014-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525163325/http://www.hollies.co.uk/information.php?idx=140 |archive-date=2014-05-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref> written for them by [[United States|American]] songwriter [[Clint Ballard Jr.]]<ref name="500 Number One Hits"/> However they originally passed the song over to another Manchester band, [[the Toggery Five]], before changing their minds and recording the song, which became 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.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/clint-ballard-jnr-songwriter-best-known-for-the-game-of-love-and-youre-no-good-1366589.html] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118005325/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/clint-ballard-jnr-songwriter-best-known-for-the-game-of-love-and-youre-no-good-1366589.html |date=January 18, 2009 }}</ref> 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;<ref>{{Cite web|title = Cash Box Top Singles - 1965 |url = http://98.130.35.56/archives/60s_files/1965.html|access-date = 2016-12-26}}</ref> it also appears on the US version of the 1965 ''[[Hollies (1965 album)|Hollies]]'' album, ''Hear! Here!''.
"'''I'm Alive'''" is a 1965 number-one UK hit single by [[The Hollies]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hollies.co.uk/information.php?idx=140 |title=Hollies information page |publisher=Hollies.co.uk |date=1965-09-01 |access-date=2014-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525163325/http://www.hollies.co.uk/information.php?idx=140 |archive-date=2014-05-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref> written for them by [[United States|American]] songwriter [[Clint Ballard Jr.]]<ref name="500 Number One Hits"/> However they originally passed the song over to another Manchester band, [[the Toggery Five]], before changing their minds and recording the song, which became 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.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/clint-ballard-jnr-songwriter-best-known-for-the-game-of-love-and-youre-no-good-1366589.html] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118005325/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/clint-ballard-jnr-songwriter-best-known-for-the-game-of-love-and-youre-no-good-1366589.html |date=January 18, 2009 }}</ref> 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;<ref>{{Cite web|title = Cash Box Top Singles - 1965 |url = http://98.130.35.56/archives/60s_files/1965.html|access-date = 2016-12-26}}</ref> it also appears on the US version of the 1965 ''[[Hollies (1965 album)|Hollies]]'' album, ''Hear! Here!''.

''[[Cash Box]]'' described it as "a low-key, rhythmic romancer about a lad whose on cloud since he met the girl of his dreams."<ref name=cb>{{cite magazine |title=CashBox Record Reviews |date=July 3, 1965 |page=14 |access-date=2022-01-12 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1965/CB-1965-07-03.pdf |magazine=Cash Box}}</ref>


==Charts==
==Charts==

Revision as of 16:58, 21 January 2022

"I'm Alive"
Single by The Hollies
B-side"You Know He Did" (L. Ransford)
ReleasedUK: 21 May 1965
US: June 1965
Recorded5 May 1965
Abbey Road Studios[1]
GenrePop rock
Length2:21
LabelUK: Parlophone R5287[2]
US: Imperial 66119
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] However they originally passed the song over to another Manchester band, the Toggery Five, before changing their minds and recording the song, which became 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] it also appears on the US version of the 1965 Hollies album, Hear! Here!.

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
West Germany (GfK)[7] 16
Ireland (IRMA)[8] 1
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[9] 10
Norway (VG-lista)[10] 6
South Africa (Springbok)[11] 3
UK Singles (OCC)[12] 1

Cover Versions

  • Syndicate of Sound covered this song on their only album Little Girl in 1966.
  • The song was covered by Gamma in 1979 on their debut album, Gamma 1, whose version peaked at #60 on the Hot 100.[13]
  • In 1983 the Hi-NRG group American Fade also covered the song which is listed on HotDiscoMix's Hi-NRG Top 200 — Hits of the 80's.[14]

References

  1. ^ 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. ^ a b c d 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. ^ [1] Archived January 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Cash Box Top Singles - 1965". Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  6. ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. July 3, 1965. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
  7. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Hollies, The – I'm Alive" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts.
  8. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – I'm Alive". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
  9. ^ "The Hollies – I'm Alive" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  10. ^ "The Hollies – I'm Alive". VG-lista.
  11. ^ "SA Charts 1965–March 1989". Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  12. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  13. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 328.
  14. ^ "hotdiscomix :: Dance Music Report :: Hi-NRG Top 200 of the 80's". www.hotdiscomix.de. Retrieved 2015-10-13.



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