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1972 unmarried by Gilbert O'Sullivan

"Alone Over again (Naturally)"
Alone Again single.jpg
Single by Gilbert O'Sullivan
B-side "Save It"
Released xviii February 1972 (UK)[ane]
May 1972 (U.s.)[2]
Recorded 1971
Genre Soft rock[3] [four]
Length 3:36
Characterization MAM
Songwriter(south) Gilbert O'Sullivan
Producer(s) Gordon Mills
Gilbert O'Sullivan singles chronology
"No Matter How I Endeavor"
(1971) 		"Alone Again (Naturally)"
(1972) 		"Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day"
(1972)

"Alone Once again (Naturally)" is a vocal by Irish gaelic vocalizer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. It was released in 1972 at the same time as, but non included on, the album, Back to Front. In total, the single spent half dozen weeks, non-consecutively, at No. 1 on the Us Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Billboard ranked information technology as the No. 2 song for 1972. In Casey Kasem's American Top twoscore of the 1970s, "Lonely Again (Naturally)" ranked as the fifth near-pop song of the decade (Debby Boone'due south "You Low-cal Up My Life" was No. 1). "Alone Again (Naturally)" besides spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart.[v] The track reached No. 3 in the Great britain Singles Chart.[half dozen]

Lyrics [edit]

"Lone Over again (Naturally)" is an introspective ballad. In the first poesy, the singer contemplates suicide after having been left "in the lurch at a church"; in the second, he wonders if there is a god; finally, he laments the death of his parents. O'Sullivan has said the song is not autobiographical: his mother was alive during its composition; O'Sullivan was 11 when his begetter, who was brutal to his mother, died, and he'due south said that he didn't know his father well.[seven] O'Sullivan later on commented "Neil Diamond covered "Alone Over again (Naturally)" and said he couldn't believe a 21-year-quondam wrote it, merely for me information technology was just one vocal I had written".[8] Neil Sedaka was similarly effusive in his praise for the vocal, stating as he covered the song 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 vocal is included on O'Sullivan's The Drupe Vest of Gilbert O'Sullivan album (2004) on the EMI tape label. Big Jim Sullivan plays the guitar break in the original recorded version of the vocal.

Chart performance [edit]

Copyright lawsuit [edit]

Chiliad Upright Music, Ltd v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. , 780 F. Supp. 182 (Southward.D.N.Y. 1991), was a copyright example heard by the The states District Courtroom for the Southern Commune of New York. The case pitted singer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan against rapper Biz Markie after Biz Markie sampled O'Sullivan's song "Alone Once more (Naturally)". The court ruled that sampling without permission can qualify as copyright infringement. The judgment changed the hip hop music manufacture, requiring that any futurity music sampling be preapproved by the original copyright owners to avert a lawsuit.[26]

Maison Ikkoku [edit]

This song, forth with another ane of O'Sullivan's songs, "Become Downwards", were featured as 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 Picture show's associated record label, Kitty Records, which wanted to use the anime'south popularity as a manner to promote the vocalist'southward career in Nippon. 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 bug, 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 proper name by Rumiko Takahashi.

The song 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 runway on the 1988 digital reissue of her 1982 album Fodder on My Wings; and a version by Lazlo Blight's frontman Chad Fischer, from the 2009 blithe film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Both versions feature substantially rewritten lyrics; Simone'due south version savagely exhumes her troubled relationship with her tardily father, whereas Fischer's version explores the unrequited want of an acorn for the prehistoric squirrel who in one case chased it. Also 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 - Solitary Once again (Naturally)". 45cat.com . Retrieved 22 Apr 2021.
  3. ^ Fontenot, Robert. "Soft Rock Music and Songs". Oldies.about.com . Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  4. ^ Kuge, Mara (seven February 2019). "fourteen Secretly Cruel Soft Rock Beloved Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Enquiry. p. 187.
  6. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 411. ISBNone-904994-10-5.
  7. ^ ""Alone Once more (Naturally)" - Gilbert O'Sullivan". Superseventies.com. 1972-07-29. Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  8. ^ Kernan; Andrews. "'I tin still compete with anyone despite being around so long'". Galway Advertiser . Retrieved 26 January 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 Chart Volume". Austchartbook.com.au. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-ten-06 .
  11. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Athenaeum Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  12. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Athenaeum Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  13. ^ "Toutes les Chansons N° 1 des Années 70" (in French). InfoDisc. 1972-07-13. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  14. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Lonely Over again (Naturally)". Irish Singles Nautical chart. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  15. ^ "Nederlandse Height 40 – Gilbert O Sullivan" (in Dutch). Dutch Top xl.
  16. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan – Solitary Again (Naturally)" (in Dutch). Unmarried Meridian 100.
  17. ^ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz . Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  18. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Visitor. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  19. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  20. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  21. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 eight/26/72". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-08-26. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  22. ^ "Peak 100 1972 - UK Music Charts". Uk-charts.top-source.info . Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  23. ^ "Height 100 Hits of 1972/Elevation 100 Songs of 1972". Musicoutfitters.com . Retrieved 2016-ten-06 .
  24. ^ "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1972". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-12-30. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  25. ^ "Billboard Hot 100 60th Ceremony Interactive Chart". Billboard . Retrieved ten December 2018.
  26. ^ Music Sampling and Copyright Law (PDF), p. 21
  27. ^ Wallflower | runway 4

External links [edit]

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

kirbyflooke.blogspot.com

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

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