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Gilbert Osullivan Alone Again Naturally Album

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1972 unmarried by Gilbert O'Sullivan

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

"Alone Again (Naturally)" is a vocal past Irish gaelic singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. Information technology was released in 1972 at the same time as, but not included on, the album, Back to Front. In total, the single spent six weeks, non-consecutively, at No. one on the United states Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 vocal for 1972. In Casey Kasem'southward American Top 40 of the 1970s, "Alone Again (Naturally)" ranked as the 5th nigh-popular vocal of the decade (Debby Boone's "You Light Upwardly My Life" was No. i). "Alone Again (Naturally)" likewise spent half-dozen weeks at No. ane on the Easy Listening chart.[5] The track reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Nautical chart.[half-dozen]

Lyrics [edit]

"Alone Again (Naturally)" is an introspective ballad. In the starting time verse, the singer contemplates suicide afterward having been left "in the lurch at a church"; in the second, he wonders if there is a god; finally, he laments the decease of his parents. O'Sullivan has said the vocal is not autobiographical: his mother was alive 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 "Lonely Once more (Naturally)" and said he couldn't believe a 21-year-old wrote it, but for me information technology was just one song I had written".[8] Neil Sedaka was similarly effusive in his praise for the vocal, stating as he covered the vocal in 2020 that he wished that he himself had written the song because its complexity was more typical of a homo much older than 21.[9] The song is included on O'Sullivan's The Drupe Vest of Gilbert O'Sullivan album (2004) on the EMI record label. Big Jim Sullivan plays the guitar interruption in the original recorded version of the song.

Nautical chart performance [edit]

Copyright lawsuit [edit]

Grand Upright Music, Ltd v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. , 780 F. Supp. 182 (S.D.North.Y. 1991), was a copyright case heard past the United States Commune Court for the Southern District of New York. The instance pitted vocalist/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan confronting rapper Biz Markie after Biz Markie sampled O'Sullivan's vocal "Alone Again (Naturally)". The court ruled that sampling without permission tin can qualify as copyright infringement. The judgment inverse the hip hop music industry, requiring that any hereafter music sampling exist preapproved by the original copyright owners to avoid a lawsuit.[26]

Maison Ikkoku [edit]

This song, along with another one of O'Sullivan's songs, "Go Downward", were featured equally the opening and ending for episode 24 of the Japanese anime hit Maison Ikkoku. At the time, O'Sullivan was signed to production company Kitty Moving picture's associated record label, Kitty Records, which wanted to use the anime'southward popularity as a style to promote the vocaliser's career in Japan. According to serial director Kazuo Yamazaki, the reason the songs were dropped afterwards only one episode was that they were unpopular with viewers; due to copyright problems, they were not included on the English language-language American release of the anime, replaced past the previously used Japanese theme songs. The anime was based upon the pop manga of the aforementioned name by Rumiko Takahashi.

The vocal was also used as the ending theme for the 1986 live-activeness Maison Ikkoku film, Apartment Fantasy.

Notable cover versions [edit]

Many artists have covered the song. Among the more notable are a version by Nina Simone, included every bit a bonus track on the 1988 digital reissue of her 1982 anthology Fodder on My Wings; and a version past Lazlo Bane's frontman Republic of chad Fischer, from the 2009 animated film Ice Historic period: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Both versions characteristic substantially rewritten lyrics; Simone's version savagely exhumes her troubled relationship with her late begetter, whereas Fischer's version explores the unrequited desire of an acorn for the prehistoric squirrel who one time chased it. Also in 2015, Diana Krall released a duet version with Michael Bublé on her anthology titled "Wallflower".[27]

References [edit]

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  2. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Once again (Naturally)". 45cat.com . Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  3. ^ Fontenot, Robert. "Soft Rock Music and Songs". Oldies.about.com . Retrieved 2016-ten-06 .
  4. ^ Kuge, Mara (vii February 2019). "14 Secretly Cruel Soft Stone Love Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Meridian Developed Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 187.
  6. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 411. ISBN1-904994-10-5.
  7. ^ ""Alone Again (Naturally)" - Gilbert O'Sullivan". Superseventies.com. 1972-07-29. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  8. ^ Kernan; Andrews. "'I can nevertheless compete with anyone despite being around so long'". Galway Advertiser . Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Today'due south Mini-Concert - x/22/2020". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Australian Chart Book". Austchartbook.com.au. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  11. ^ "Image : 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 2016-10-06 .
  13. ^ "Toutes les Chansons Northward° 1 des Années seventy" (in French). InfoDisc. 1972-07-13. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  14. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Lone Again (Naturally)". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  15. ^ "Nederlandse Top xl – Gilbert O Sullivan" (in Dutch). Dutch Acme twoscore.
  16. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan – Alone Again (Naturally)" (in Dutch). Single Height 100.
  17. ^ "season of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  18. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan: Creative person Nautical chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  19. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved June three, 2018.
  20. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Chart History (Developed Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved June three, 2018.
  21. ^ "Cash Box Peak 100 8/26/72". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-08-26. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  22. ^ "Top 100 1972 - Britain Music Charts". United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland-charts.pinnacle-source.info . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  23. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1972/Meridian 100 Songs of 1972". Musicoutfitters.com . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  24. ^ "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1972". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-12-30. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  25. ^ "Billboard Hot 100 60th Ceremony Interactive Nautical chart". Billboard . Retrieved ten Dec 2018.
  26. ^ Music Sampling and Copyright Police (PDF), p. 21
  27. ^ Wallflower | runway 4

External links [edit]

  • Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally) on YouTube

bentonsabigh.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone_Again_%28Naturally%29

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