Alone was the debut album by Swedish singer Stephen Simmonds

Stephen Simmonds

Stephen Simmonds is a Swedish recording artist. He was raised in Sweden, the United States, and Israel. After recording a demo with Swedish producer Peter Cartriers, Simmonds signed a record deal with label Parlophone/EMI in the UK as well as with Priority Records in the US...

. It was first released in 1997 in Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 and later in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. In 1998 and 2000 in UK and US it went by the name Spirit Tales.

Japan Release (1997): "Alone" was also released in Japan, Simmonds added a recording from 1995 "Thank You For" (one of the tracks from the demo which was sent to diesel music), the song "One" which was on the "b-side" of the "Tears Never Dry" single and also a remix of the song "Alone".

UK Release (1998): "Alone" was renamed to "Spirit Tales" and was additionally produced and mixed on all the tracks except: "Tears Never Dry", "Alone" Judgement day" and "Let It Go". Songs "One" and "Believe" was added to the album.

US Release (2000): Simmonds worked with Raphael Saadiq

Raphael Saadiq

Raphael Saadiq is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Saadiq has been a standard bearer for "old school" R&B since his early days as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! He also produced songs of such artists as TLC, Joss Stone, D'Angelo, Mary J...

and 2 Danish producers based in LA at the time called Soulchock and Carlin and added the tracks "If I Was Your Man" (co-written and produced by Raphael Saadiq) and "I Can't Do That" (co-written and produced by Soulchock and Carlin).

Track listing

1. Alone
2. Tears Never Dry
3. Now's The Time
4. For You
5. Universe
6. Searchin'
7. All The People
8. Get Down
9. Let It Go
10. Hope U Do
11. Judgement Day

Japan edition

Added tracks (Alone album)

1. One
2. Thank You For
3. Alone "Funkyman mix" featuring Big L & Marquee

Added tracks (Spirit Tales album)

1. Alone (Funkyman Mix feat. Big L & Marquee)
2. I Can't Do That (M.A.W. Vocal)