I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany Version

Tiffany Version

The song was re-popularized when American singer Tiffany covered the song for her first album Tiffany (1987). Tiffany's version of the song spent two weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (and was unusually followed on the top spot by another Tommy James & the Shondells cover, "Mony Mony" by Billy Idol) and three weeks at #1 on the UK Singles Chart. The video was shot in a shopping mall which echoed the way her early career had been promoted. Elements of the video were filmed in the now demolished Bullring Centre in Birmingham, UK.

When George Tobin, Tiffany's manager, gave Tiffany the cassette of the original version by Tommy James & the Shondells, Tiffany hated the idea of recording a version of her own for her album mostly because she thought the song wasn't modern or hip enough. It turned out to be her biggest hit once she recorded it.

"I Think We're Alone Now" was not the first single from Tiffany's debut album. The first single was "Danny", but radio started picking up "I Think We're Alone Now", another track on the album. It became a runaway #1 hit and was the eighteenth highest selling single for 1987 and the thirty-second highest selling single in Australia for 1988.

This version is referenced in the alternative group Weezer's song "Heart Songs" on the band's 2008 Red Album, but in the song it is mentioned that it was sung by Debbie Gibson, another teen idol who was around at the same time as Tiffany. When Rivers Cuomo wrote the song, he had noticed the oversight on his part and that he knew that the song was recorded by Tiffany, but he left the part in the song where he mentions Debbie Gibson singing the song.

A 2008 documentary focusing on two fans obsessed with Tiffany was named after the song.

The song and its respective music video appear briefly in the 2012 comedy film Ted.