Twenty years after Tommy James and the Shondells released “I Think We’re Alone Now,” a 15-year-old Tiffany recorded her own version. She initially didn’t even want to sing the 1967 song, but the cover eventually became a No. 1 hit and launched her career.
Tiffany had been singing for as long as she could remember. As a kid, she sang everywhere she went, from the bathroom to the grocery store. So when her parents’ musician friends got together for a party, her father eventually encouraged her to get up and perform.
“People went: ‘Wow. That voice. She sounds like a 30-year-old woman,’” Tiffany recalled to The Guardian. Before long, she was performing alongside music legends like Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis.
When Tiffany was 15, a musician told producer George Tobin about a “girl with a great voice.” Tobin helped her get a record deal, setting her career in motion.
While working on Tiffany’s debut album, Tobin brought her “I Think We’re Alone Now.” Although Tommy James and the Shondells had recorded the song in 1967, Tiffany didn’t know it and wasn’t interested in it at first.
“When I came back the next day, they’d remade it as a dance track,” she recalled. “I didn’t want to record it.”
She took the song home anyway, and her girlfriends quickly changed her mind. As they danced around the room listening to the new version, her producer urged her to trust him. Tiffany returned to the studio and recorded the vocals in about four takes.
She also didn’t fully realize what the lyrics were about at the time. Written by Ritchie Cordell and Bo Gentry, the song follows two teenagers sneaking away to be together. Years later, Tiffany joked about the stories fans have shared with her about listening to the song with their future spouses.
“People have since told me: ‘Oh me and my husband were in the car listening to it and …’ And I think: ‘Way too much information!’” she quipped.
The song began taking off once Tiffany started performing it for live audiences. Since she was too young for clubs, she took the record to shopping malls instead, and footage from those shows was later used in the music video.
“At first, I could go and have a pizza afterwards, but soon there were so many people that I could barely even get into the mall. Having a No 1 hit at 15 was a wild ride,” she recalled.
The success made Tiffany one of the biggest young stars of the late 1980s. She met Michael Jackson, and fans started mimicking everything from her earrings to her crimped hairstyle.
In 1987, Tiffany’s version reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single appeared on Tiffany’s self-titled debut album, which also climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. At the time, that made her the youngest female artist to top the U.S. album chart with a debut album.
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