JOHNNY TILLOTSON - ALL ALONE AM I

ALL ALONE AM I

JOHNNY TILLOTSON

SONGWRITER: ARTHUR ALTMAN; MANOS HADJIDAKIS & JEAN IOANNIDIS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: TALK BACK TREMBLING LIPS

LABEL: MGM RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR:1963

 

    Johnny Tillotson (born April 20, 1938 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States) is an American singer-songwriter. He enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s, when he scored nine top-ten hits on the pop, country, and adult contemporary Billboard charts, including "Poetry in Motion" and the self-penned "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'" and "Without You".

          Johnny is the son of Doris and Jack Tillotson, who owned a small service station on the corner of 6th and Pearl in Jacksonville, and acted as the station's mechanic. At the age of nine, Johnny was sent to Palatka, Florida, to take care of his grandmother. He returned to Jacksonville each summer to be with his parents when his brother Dan would go to his grandmother. Johnny began to perform at local functions as a child, and by the time he was at Palatka Senior High School he had developed a reputation as a talented singer. Tillotson became a semi-regular on TV-4's McDuff Hayride, hosted by Toby Dowdy, and soon landed his own show on TV-12 WFGA-TV. In 1957, while Tillotson was studying at the University of Florida, local disc jockey Bob Norris sent a tape of Johnny's singing to the Pet Milk talent contest, and was chosen as one of six National finalists. This gave Johnny the opportunity to perform in Nashville, Tennessee, on WSM the Grand Ole Opry, which led Lee Rosenberg, a Nashville publisher, to take a tape to Archie Bleyer, owner of the independent Cadence Records. Bleyer signed Tillotson to a three-year contract, and issued his first single, "Dreamy Eyes" / "Well I'm Your Man" in September 1958. Both songs were written by Tillotson, and both made the Billboard Hot 100, "Dreamy Eyes" peaking at No. 63. After graduating in 1959 with a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism and Communications, Tillotson moved to New York City to pursue his music career. 

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.