No One Is Alone (song) song has an aural resemblance to The Candy Man. The song has the form of AABA. The song is frequently compared with You'll Never Walk Alone from Carousel, which "You've Got to Have a Dream: The Message of the Musical" rejects"." In analysing how the second act relies on a sense of accumulated community wisdom, "Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays" draws ties between this song and an earlier number called It Takes Two, which was originally included as a reprise in the Act II finale in the pre-Broadway tryouts. Bustle ranked the song at #2 in a
You'll Never Walk Alone in awe of what he heard. ... Football writers from the local newspapers were travelling with our party and, thirsty for a story of any kind between games, filed copy back to their editors to the effect that we had adopted Gerry Marsden's forthcoming single as the club song." The squad was subsequently invited to perform the track with the band on "The Ed Sullivan Show" with Marsden stating, "Bill came up to me. He said, 'Gerry my son, I have given you a football team and you have given us a song'." Shankly picked the song as his eighth