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.
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