Best Songs Ever

ø 0 at 0 votes
What’s your rating?

▸ Alternative video Spotify

“Mirage” is a song by Tommy James and the Shondells released in 1967 on the I Think We’re Alone Now album. During a songwriting session producer Bo Gentry accidentally inserted a master copy of the “I Think We’re Alone Now” song backwards in his reel-to-reel tape player. Tommy and the group instantly liked the reverse chord progression and recorded it as “Mirage” with new lyrics by Ritchie Cordell, who had also written “I Think We’re Alone Now”. “Mirage” debuted on the Hot 100 on Tommy’s 20th birthday, eventually reaching #10 on 17 June 1967, #2 on the Canadian charts, and #1 on WLS on 19 May 1967. Read on...