"I Walk Alone" is a song written by Herbert Wilson.[1] and recorded by American country music artist, Eddy Arnold and was the B-side of his 78 rpm single "Did You See My Daddy Over There" (1945),[2] and later for his compilation album Eddy Arnold Sings Them Again (1960).[3][4][5]

Marty Robbins recording

• Marty Robbins, recorded a version which was released in August 1968 as the first single and title track from the album I Walk Alone.[6] 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.[7]

Chart performance

Other versions

• Ernest Tubb recorded the song during a May 24, 1945 session;[10] but it was unreleased until 1996, when it was included in the CD box set Walking the Floor Over You.[11]
• Don Gibson released his version about the same time as Marty Robbins, on the 1968 album More Country Soul.[12][13]
• 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,[14] Kitty Wells' Guilty Street,[15][16][17] David Houston's Where Love Used to Live,[18][19][20] and Willie Nelson's My Own Peculiar Way.[21][22] 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."[23][24]

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