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Gilbert Osullivan- Alone Again

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1972 single past Gilbert O'Sullivan

"Alone Again (Naturally)"
Alone Again single.jpg
Single by Gilbert O'Sullivan
B-side "Save Information technology"
Released 18 February 1972 (UK)[1]
May 1972 (U.s.)[2]
Recorded 1971
Genre Soft rock[3] [4]
Length iii:36
Label MAM
Songwriter(southward) Gilbert O'Sullivan
Producer(s) Gordon Mills
Gilbert O'Sullivan singles chronology
"No Thing How I Effort"
(1971) 		"Alone Again (Naturally)"
(1972) 		"Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day"
(1972)

"Lonely Again (Naturally)" is a song by Irish vocaliser-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. Information technology was released in 1972 at the same time as, only not included on, the album, Back to Front. In total, the single spent half-dozen weeks, non-consecutively, at No. 1 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. two song for 1972. In Casey Kasem's American Height 40 of the 1970s, "Alone Again (Naturally)" ranked as the fifth most-popular vocal of the decade (Debby Boone's "You Light Upward My Life" was No. 1). "Alone Again (Naturally)" also spent six weeks at No. ane on the Easy Listening chart.[5] The rails reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.[half-dozen]

Lyrics [edit]

"Alone Again (Naturally)" is an introspective ballad. In the first verse, the singer contemplates suicide afterward having been left "in the lurch at a church"; in the second, he wonders if at that place is a god; finally, he laments the death of his parents. O'Sullivan has said the song is not autobiographical: his mother was live during its composition; O'Sullivan was eleven when his father, who was cruel to his mother, died, and he's said that he didn't know his father well.[7] O'Sullivan later commented "Neil Diamond covered "Alone Again (Naturally)" and said he couldn't believe a 21-year-old wrote it, but for me it was just ane song I had written".[8] Neil Sedaka was similarly effusive in his praise for the vocal, stating every bit he covered the vocal in 2020 that he wished that he himself had written the song considering its complexity was more typical of a human much older than 21.[9] The song is included on O'Sullivan's The Berry Vest of Gilbert O'Sullivan anthology (2004) on the EMI record label. Big Jim Sullivan plays the guitar break in the original recorded version of the song.

Chart performance [edit]

Copyright lawsuit [edit]

Grand Upright Music, Ltd five. Warner Bros. Records Inc. , 780 F. Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1991), was a copyright case heard by the The states District Court for the Southern District of New York. The example pitted vocalizer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan against rapper Biz Markie afterward Biz Markie sampled O'Sullivan's song "Solitary Again (Naturally)". The court ruled that sampling without permission can qualify every bit copyright infringement. The judgment changed the hip hop music industry, requiring that whatever future music sampling be preapproved past the original copyright owners to avoid a lawsuit.[26]

Maison Ikkoku [edit]

This song, along with another one of O'Sullivan's songs, "Get Downward", were featured as the opening and ending for episode 24 of the Japanese anime hitting Maison Ikkoku. At the time, O'Sullivan was signed to product company Kitty Film's associated record characterization, Kitty Records, which wanted to utilise the anime's popularity as a style to promote the singer's career in Japan. According to serial director Kazuo Yamazaki, the reason the songs were dropped after only i episode was that they were unpopular with viewers; due to copyright issues, they were not included on the English-linguistic communication American release of the anime, replaced by the previously used Japanese theme songs. The anime was based upon the popular manga of the same name by Rumiko Takahashi.

The song was also used every bit the ending theme for the 1986 live-activity Maison Ikkoku motion picture, Flat Fantasy.

Notable cover versions [edit]

Many artists have covered the song. Amongst the more than notable are a version by Nina Simone, included as a bonus runway on the 1988 digital reissue of her 1982 album Fodder on My Wings; and a version by Lazlo Bane's frontman Chad Fischer, from the 2009 animated film Ice Historic period: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Both versions feature essentially rewritten lyrics; Simone's version savagely exhumes her troubled relationship with her late father, whereas Fischer's version explores the unrequited want of an acorn for the prehistoric squirrel who in one case chased it. As well in 2015, Diana Krall released a duet version with Michael Bublé on her album titled "Wallflower".[27]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Lone Again (Naturally)". 45cat.com . Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)". 45cat.com . Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  3. ^ Fontenot, Robert. "Soft Rock Music and Songs". Oldies.near.com . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  4. ^ Kuge, Mara (seven February 2019). "14 Secretly Brutal Soft Rock Dear Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Height Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 187.
  6. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness Globe Records Limited. p. 411. ISBNi-904994-x-5.
  7. ^ ""Alone Again (Naturally)" - Gilbert O'Sullivan". Superseventies.com. 1972-07-29. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  8. ^ Kernan; Andrews. "'I can still compete with anyone despite existence effectually and then long'". Galway Advertiser . Retrieved 26 Jan 2019.
  9. ^ "Today's Mini-Concert - 10/22/2020". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved 22 Apr 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Australian Nautical chart Book". Austchartbook.com.au. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  11. ^ "Paradigm : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  12. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-ten-06 .
  13. ^ "Toutes les Chansons N° i des Années 70" (in French). InfoDisc. 1972-07-13. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  14. ^ "The Irish gaelic Charts – Search Results – Alone Again (Naturally)". Irish gaelic Singles Chart. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  15. ^ "Nederlandse Peak 40 – Gilbert O Sullivan" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  16. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan – Alone Again (Naturally)" (in Dutch). Unmarried Top 100.
  17. ^ "season of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz . Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  18. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  19. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  20. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Chart History (Developed Gimmicky)". Billboard. Retrieved June iii, 2018.
  21. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 8/26/72". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-08-26. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  22. ^ "Elevation 100 1972 - Great britain Music Charts". Uk-charts.top-source.info . Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  23. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1972/Top 100 Songs of 1972". Musicoutfitters.com . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  24. ^ "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1972". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-12-xxx. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  25. ^ "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart". Billboard . Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  26. ^ Music Sampling and Copyright Law (PDF), p. 21
  27. ^ Wallflower | rail 4

External links [edit]

  • Gilbert O'Sullivan - Lonely Once more (Naturally) on YouTube

taylormousee1944.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone_Again_(Naturally)

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