They call… no date. I promised you I'd wait.
I want them all to know I'm strictly single, oh.
I'll walk alone because to tell you the truth I'll be lonely,
I don't mind being lonely when my heart tells me you are lonely too.
I'll walk alone, they'll ask me why and I'll tell them I'd rather.
There are dreams I must gather, dreams we fashioned the night you held me tight.
I'll always be near you wherever you are, each night in every prayer.
Just whisper, I'll hear you, no matter how far.
So, close your eyes and I'll be there.
Please walk alone, but send your love and your kisses to guide me.
Till you're walking beside me, I'll walk alone.
Darling, all by myself, I'll walk alone.
Lyrics by Sammy Cahn, music by Jule Styne. Also featured in the film "Follow The Boys" (1944).
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Dinah Shore was born as Fanny Shore in Tennessee and raised in Nashville where she began singing at a nightclub at age 14. When she was attending local Vanderbilt University, she paid for school by singing on radio station WSM. Her program was called "Our Little Cheerleader of Song." For her theme song, she chose the blues standard "Dinah" popularized by Ethel Waters. After graduation, she moved in New York in 1938 where a flustered radio announcer called her Dinah. The name stuck. She made it big when Eddie Cantor hired her for his radio show. That was followed by a string of hits, her own radio show, movies and, in 1951, the first of a series of television talk shows. She died in 1994.
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