Format 7" single Length 2:21 | Genre Pop rock | |
B-side "You Know He Did" (L. Ransford) Released UK: 21 May 1965
US: June 1965 Recorded 5 May 1965
Abbey Road Studios | ||
"I'm Alive" is a 1965 number-one UK hit single by The Hollies. It was written for them by American songwriter Clint Ballard, Jr., who also had chart-topping hits with Linda Ronstadt, Wayne Fontana and Jimmy Jones. 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. 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; it also appears on the US version of the 1965 Hollies album, Hear! Here!.
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.
In 1983 the Hi-NRG group American Fade also covered the song which is listed on HotDiscoMix's Hi-NRG Top 200 — Hit's of the 80's