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Music question: I think we're alone now

Yancy Street Gang Oct 20 2005 10:16 AM

I think we're alone now There doesn't seem to be anyone around I think we're alone now The beating of our hearts is the only sound I'm sure somebody here will be able to answer this question. I know this song was recorded by somebody named Tiffany back in the 1980's. But that was cover of an older version. Does anybody know the original artists? I remember hearing the song on WCBS-FM before it went "Jack".

cooby Oct 20 2005 10:18 AM

Tommy James? I'm too busy to google PS, it ws a much better version than Tiffany

Edgy DC Oct 20 2005 10:23 AM

Tommy James and the Shondelles. Tommy was always singing about getting his mack on.

Yancy Street Gang Oct 20 2005 10:32 AM

Thanks. It is a much better version. For some reason, the song was running through my head the other morning, and I was singing it as I was making breakfast. My four-year-old daughter, instead of shouting "Stop singing Daddy!" like she normally does, was listening in rapt attention. I was able to find an MP3 of Tiffany's version, but it really doesn't compare to the original. Of course, my daughter liked Tiffany's version. If she liked my version, she'd like just about anybody's.

HahnSolo Oct 20 2005 10:34 AM

Okay, here's a little useless trivia regarding Tiffany, Billy Idol, Tommy James. Tiffany took "I Think We're Alone Now" to #1 on the music charts. It was replaced at number 1 by Billy Idol's "Mony Mony" which was also a cover of a Tommy James and the Shondelles song. I would guess that's the only time an act has had two songs covered that went #1 back to back.

sharpie Oct 20 2005 10:45 AM

I work across the street from the MONY building that was Tommy's inspiration for "Mony Mony." I saw Tommy James at Central Park a few years back doing his hits. "Mony Mony" closed the show as I remember, "Dragging the Line" was the opener followed by "Crystal Blue Persuasion." "I Think We're Alone Now" came sometime during the show. I think "Crimson & Clover" was the encore.

Willets Point Oct 20 2005 10:47 AM

I admit it. I was a Freshman in High School at the time and had the hots for Tiffany so I liked that song. It was the red hair damnit!

Edgy DC Oct 20 2005 11:01 AM

Tommy James ranks right up there with Roy Orbinson in ratio of top-ten hits to top-ten covers.

sharpie Oct 20 2005 11:09 AM

Hanky Panky Crystal Blue Persuasion Dragging the Line All songs that need to be covered in order to complete the TJ hit parade. What's a shondell anyway?

Edgy DC Oct 20 2005 11:20 AM

I think both Concrete Blonde and Robert Palmer have done "Crystal Blue Persuasion." I may be mis-remembering. Neither obviously joined the hit list. He started the great line of bubble gum hair rawk. I say that if there's no Tommy James, there's no Peter Frampton and there's no Jon Bon Jovi.

sharpie Oct 20 2005 11:24 AM

I've always thought that Tommy James was underappreciated. He was in both the psychedelic and the dirty-thoughts camp. The bubblegumness that he was tarred with wasI always thought a function of his being on Roulette Records which otherwise would churn out the 1910 Fruitgum Company and the like.

metsmarathon Oct 20 2005 11:24 AM

the click five did a great rendition of i think we're alone now, opening for the backstreet boys at the two concerts i went to this year. did i just type that out loud? its the wife's fault - i swear! she made me go!

Centerfield Oct 20 2005 11:35 AM

You did not just say that.

Edgy DC Oct 20 2005 11:44 AM

I didn't use the term "bubble gum" pejoratively. I'm a Lemon Pipers fan, after all. Besides, speaking of "that bubblegum thing he was tarred with" is a serious mixed metaphor.

sharpie Oct 20 2005 11:49 AM

"Bubble gum" and "tarred with" make for a sticky metaphor, at least.

MFS62 Oct 20 2005 11:53 AM

There must be a cover by the goo goo dolls in all that stickiness. My chewing gum is still on the bedpost, and it hasn't lost its flavor. Later

sharpie Oct 20 2005 12:05 PM

Rules for bubblegum: http://home.att.net/~bubblegumusic/what.htm

ScarletKnight41 Oct 20 2005 12:09 PM

Build Me Up Buttercup is one of my favorite songs. It never fails to get people dancing at parties. Just fun music.

Rockin' Doc Oct 20 2005 08:15 PM

Hey, 62, Does the Spear-mint lose its flav-or on the bed-post over night? If you chew it in the morn-ing will it be too hard to bite? Can't you see I'm going crazy, won't somebody put me right? Does the Spear-mint lose its flavor on the bed-post over night?

cooby Oct 20 2005 08:18 PM

Picked up a new car tonight. Turned on the radio to make sure it picks up WFAN and "Crystal Blue Persuasion" was just starting to play. Weird.

MFS62 Oct 20 2005 08:44 PM

Thanks, Doc. That's what I had in mind. Later