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The song “All Alone Am I” was written in 1962 by Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis and Arthur Altmn who provided the lyrics in English. (Hadjidakis received an Academy Award for Best Original Song in the film Never on Sunday for the song of the same name in 1960.) Brenda was a teen at the time of recording in 1962 and her powerful voice shows maturity far beyond her years.  The song rose to #3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 later in 1962 and to #7 on the U.K. Singles Chart in 1962.

Here are the lyrics to “All Alone Am I” by Brenda Lee:

“All alone am I ever since your goodbye
All alone with just a beat of my heart
People all around but I don’t hear a sound
Just the lonely beating of my heart

No use in holding other hands
For I’d be holding only emptiness
No use in kissing other lips
For I’d be thinking just of your caress

All alone am I ever since your goodbye
All alone with just a beat of my heart
People all around but I don’t hear a sound
Just the lonely beating of my heart

No other voice can say the words
My heart must hear to ever sing again
The words you used to whisper low
No other love can ever bring again

All alone am I ever since your goodbye
All alone with just a beat of my heart
People all around but I don’t hear a sound
Just the lonely beating of my heart”

For other songs by Brenda Lee: “Sweet Nothin’s,” “I’m Sorry,” and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.”

For More Golden Oldies Music

The Daily Doo Wop Rec Room has daily featured doo wop music, rock and roll hits, R&B, or rockabilly songs that were hits during the first era of rock and roll (that is, from about 1952 until the British invasion in 1964). After a song is featured, it then goes into the juke box. You are welcome to listen to any of the 40+ selections there. Every weekend, there is a Golden Oldies Juke Box Saturday Night, and the juke box is full of song requests from the 1950s and 1960s.

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