"I'm Alive" is a 1965 number-one UK hit single by

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, written for them by American songwriter Clint Ballard Jr. Although they originally passed the song over to another Manchester band, the Toggery Five, they changed their minds and recorded it, achieving 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, and it also appears on the US version of the 1965 '' Hollies'' album, ''Hear! Here!''. ''

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'' described it as "a low-key, rhythmic romancer about a lad who's on cloud inesince he met the girl of his dreams."

Charts

Cover Versions

*The song was covered by Gamma in 1979 on their debut album, '' Gamma 1'', whose version peaked at #60 on the

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. *In 1983 the

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group American Fade also covered the song which is listed on HotDiscoMix's ''Hi-NRG Top 200 — Hits of the 80's''.

References

1965 singles The Hollies songs Irish Singles Chart number-one singles UK singles chart number-one singles Songs written by Clint Ballard Jr. Parlophone singles 1965 songs Imperial Records singles 1979 singles {{1960s-pop-song-stub