I Walk Alone (Marty Robbins song)

For the popular song composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Sammy Cahn, first recorded by Dinah Shore in 1944, see I'll Walk Alone. For other uses see I Walk Alone (disambiguation).
"I Walk Alone"
Single by Marty Robbins
from the album I Walk Alone
B-side "Lily of the Valley"
Released August 27, 1968
Genre Country
Label Columbia
Writer(s) Herbert W. Wilson
Producer Bob Johnson
Marty Robbins singles chronology
"Love Is in the Air"
(1968)		 "I Walk Alone"
(1968)		 "It's a Sin"
(1969)

"I Walk Alone" is a country song written by Herbert Wilson that was recorded by Marty Robbins in 1968.[1] It was Robbins' thirteenth number one on the U.S. country singles chart. The single spent two weeks at number one and a total of fifteen weeks on the chart.[2]

Chart performance

Chart (1968) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 65
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 3
Canadian RPM Top Singles 96
Preceded by
"Next in Line"
by Conway Twitty		 Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single
November 9-November 16, 1968		 Succeeded by
"Stand by Your Man"
by Tammy Wynette

Other versions

Eddy Arnold recorded "I Walk Alone" as the B-side of his 78 rpm single "Did You See My Daddy Over There" (1945),[3] and later for his compilation album Eddy Arnold Sings Them Again (1960).[4][5][6]

Don Gibson released his version about the same time as Marty Robbins, on the 1968 album More Country Soul.[7][8]

Following the success of the Marty Robbins single, at least four other country artists recorded "I Walk Alone" for albums released in 1969: Loretta Lynn's Your Squaw Is on the Warpath,[9] Kitty Wells' Guilty Street,[10][11][12], David Houston's Where Love Used to Live,[13][14][15] and Willie Nelson's My Own Peculiar Way.[16][17] Nelson had earlier recorded the song for Liberty Records, but that version wasn't released until 1975 on the compilation album Country Willie under the title "I'll Walk Alone."[18][19]

Ernest Tubb's version is included in the CD box set Walking the Floor Over You.[20]

References

  1. ^ Allmusic "I Walk Alone" Marty Robbins with music sample
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 294. 
  3. ^ Chanteurs Eddy Arnold Discography 08/1945 RCA 33-0535
  4. ^ Allmusic "I Walk Alone" Eddy Arnold with music sample
  5. ^ Discogs Eddy Arnold Sings Them Again
  6. ^ LP Discography Eddy Arnold
  7. ^ Allmusic More Country Soul Don Gibson
  8. ^ LP Discography Don Gibson Sep 1968
  9. ^ Allmusic Your Squaw Is on the Warpath Loretta Lynn
  10. ^ Allmusic Guilty Street Kitty Wells
  11. ^ Discogs Kitty Wells Guilty Street
  12. ^ LP Discography Kitty Wells
  13. ^ Allmusic Where Love Used to Live David Houston
  14. ^ LP Discography David Houston
  15. ^ Discogs David Houston Where Love Used To Live / My Woman's Good To Me
  16. ^ Allmusic "I Walk Alone" Willie Nelson with music sample
  17. ^ LP Discography Willie Nelson
  18. ^ Allmusic The Early Years: The Complete Liberty Recordings Plus More Disc 2, track 27 (wrong composer)
  19. ^ Amazon "I'll Walk Alone" Willie Nelson MP3 with music sample
  20. ^ Allmusic Walking the Floor Over You (Box Set) Disc 6, track 13