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Play Alone Again Naturally by Gilbert Osullivan

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1972 single by Gilbert O'Sullivan

"Alone Again (Naturally)"
Alone Again single.jpg
Single by Gilbert O'Sullivan
B-side "Salve It"
Released 18 Feb 1972 (U.k.)[one]
May 1972 (United states)[2]
Recorded 1971
Genre Soft stone[three] [four]
Length 3:36
Characterization MAM
Songwriter(south) Gilbert O'Sullivan
Producer(south) Gordon Mills
Gilbert O'Sullivan singles chronology
"No Matter How I Effort"
(1971) 		"Lonely Again (Naturally)"
(1972) 		"Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Solar day"
(1972)

"Alone Again (Naturally)" is a song by Irish vocalizer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. Information technology was released in 1972 at the same fourth dimension equally, merely non included on, the album, Dorsum to Front. In full, the single spent six 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'south American Top 40 of the 1970s, "Alone Once more (Naturally)" ranked equally the fifth well-nigh-pop song of the decade (Debby Boone's "Y'all Light Upwards My Life" was No. i). "Lonely Again (Naturally)" besides spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart.[v] The rails reached No. iii in the UK Singles Chart.[6]

Lyrics [edit]

"Solitary Again (Naturally)" is an introspective carol. In the first verse, the vocalizer contemplates suicide after having been left "in the lurch at a church"; in the 2d, he wonders if there is a god; finally, he laments the decease of his parents. O'Sullivan has said the song is not autobiographical: his mother was live during its composition; O'Sullivan was 11 when his father, who was cruel to his mother, died, and he'south said that he didn't know his begetter well.[7] O'Sullivan subsequently commented "Neil Diamond covered "Alone Again (Naturally)" and said he couldn't believe a 21-year-onetime wrote information technology, only for me it was merely ane vocal I had written".[8] Neil Sedaka was similarly effusive in his praise for the vocal, stating every bit he covered the song in 2020 that he wished that he himself had written the song because its complexity was more typical of a man much older than 21.[ix] The song is included on O'Sullivan'southward The Berry Vest of Gilbert O'Sullivan album (2004) on the EMI tape label. Big Jim Sullivan plays the guitar suspension in the original recorded version of the vocal.

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 example heard by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The case pitted singer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan confronting rapper Biz Markie after Biz Markie sampled O'Sullivan'south song "Alone Again (Naturally)". The courtroom ruled that sampling without permission can authorize equally copyright infringement. The judgment changed the hip hop music industry, requiring that whatsoever future music sampling be preapproved by the original copyright owners to avoid a lawsuit.[26]

Maison Ikkoku [edit]

This vocal, along with some other 1 of O'Sullivan's songs, "Get Downwards", were featured every bit the opening and ending for episode 24 of the Japanese anime hitting Maison Ikkoku. At the fourth dimension, O'Sullivan was signed to production company Kitty Motion-picture show'south associated record label, Kitty Records, which wanted to use the anime'southward popularity as a style to promote the vocalist's career in Nihon. According to series director Kazuo Yamazaki, the reason the songs were dropped after only one episode was that they were unpopular with viewers; due to copyright problems, they were non included on the English-language 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 past Rumiko Takahashi.

The song was also used as the ending theme for the 1986 alive-action Maison Ikkoku picture, Apartment Fantasy.

Notable cover versions [edit]

Many artists accept covered the vocal. Amongst the more notable are a version by Nina Simone, included as a bonus track on the 1988 digital reissue of her 1982 anthology Fodder on My Wings; and a version by Lazlo Blight's frontman Republic of chad Fischer, from the 2009 blithe film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Both versions feature substantially rewritten lyrics; Simone'south 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 once chased it. Besides in 2015, Diana Krall released a duet version with Michael Bublé on her album titled "Wallflower".[27]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)". 45cat.com . Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Lone Once again (Naturally)". 45cat.com . Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  3. ^ Fontenot, Robert. "Soft Rock Music and Songs". Oldies.about.com . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  4. ^ Kuge, Mara (7 Feb 2019). "14 Secretly Cruel Soft Rock Honey Songs". Ultimate Archetype Rock.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 187.
  6. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Express. p. 411. ISBNone-904994-10-5.
  7. ^ ""Lonely 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 around 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 April 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Australian Nautical chart Volume". 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-x-06 .
  12. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  13. ^ "Toutes les Chansons N° 1 des Années lxx" (in French). InfoDisc. 1972-07-13. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  14. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Solitary Again (Naturally)". Irish Singles Nautical chart. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  15. ^ "Nederlandse Acme 40 – Gilbert O Sullivan" (in Dutch). Dutch Acme 40.
  16. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan – Alone Again (Naturally)" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  17. ^ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  18. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  19. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved June iii, 2018.
  20. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  21. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 viii/26/72". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-08-26. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  22. ^ "Pinnacle 100 1972 - Great britain Music Charts". Uk-charts.tiptop-source.info . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  23. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1972/Superlative 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 Anniversary Interactive Nautical chart". Billboard . Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  26. ^ Music Sampling and Copyright Law (PDF), p. 21
  27. ^ Wallflower | track 4

External links [edit]

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

jackfient1990.blogspot.com

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

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