You'll Never Walk Alone You'll Never Walk Alone "You'll Never Walk Alone" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel". In the second act of the musical, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the protagonist Julie Jordan, sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead, falls on his knife and dies after a failed robbery attempt. It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julie's daughter) is a member. The now invisible Billy, who has been granted the chance to return to
I Walk Alone (Marty Robbins song) album "Eddy Arnold Sings Them Again" (1960). Ernest Tubb recorded the song during a May 24, 1945 session; but it was unreleased until 1996, when it was included in the CD box set "Walking the Floor Over You". Don Gibson released his version about the same time as Marty Robbins, on the 1968 album "More Country Soul". Following the success of the Marty Robbins single, at least four other country artists recorded "I Walk Alone" for albums released in 1969: Loretta Lynn's "Your Squaw Is on the Warpath", Kitty Wells' "Guilty Street", David Houston's "Where Love Used to Live", and