Out Here On My Own by Irene Cara

For this week's lost classic as well as an tribute to American singer Irene Cara who passed away a few days ago let's have a look at the song Out Here On My Own. In 1980 Irene Cara was in the 1980 movie Fame which she played Coco Hernandez and one of the songs that was from the movie was an song called Out Here On My Own which was written by legendary American singer Lesley Gore(It's My Party and You Don't Own Me) and her brother Michael Gore who also produced it. It went to number 19 in the USA, number 58 in the UK, number 41 in Australia and number 20 in Brisbane in 1980 and it was nominated for the Best Original Song at the Academy Awards but the title track Fame won the Oscar which Michael wrote that song with Dean Pitchford.

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