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Lyrics of Alone Again by Gilbert O Sullivan

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1972 unmarried past Gilbert O'Sullivan

"Lonely Once again (Naturally)"
Alone Again single.jpg
Unmarried by Gilbert O'Sullivan
B-side "Save Information technology"
Released xviii Feb 1972 (UK)[1]
May 1972 (Us)[2]
Recorded 1971
Genre Soft stone[3] [4]
Length 3:36
Label MAM
Songwriter(s) Gilbert O'Sullivan
Producer(due south) Gordon Mills
Gilbert O'Sullivan singles chronology
"No Matter How I Try"
(1971) 		"Lonely Once more (Naturally)"
(1972) 		"Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day"
(1972)

"Solitary Again (Naturally)" is a song by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. Information technology was released in 1972 at the aforementioned time every bit, but not included on, the anthology, Back to Front. In full, the single spent six weeks, non-consecutively, at No. one on the United States Billboard Hot 100 singles nautical chart. Billboard ranked it equally the No. 2 song for 1972. In Casey Kasem's American Summit 40 of the 1970s, "Lonely Once more (Naturally)" ranked as the 5th most-pop song of the decade (Debby Boone'due south "You Light Up My Life" was No. one). "Alone Over again (Naturally)" besides spent six weeks at No. ane on the Easy Listening chart.[5] The track reached No. iii in the Uk Singles Chart.[vi]

Lyrics [edit]

"Lone Once more (Naturally)" is an introspective carol. In the commencement verse, the vocalizer contemplates suicide after having been left "in the lurch at a church building"; 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 female parent was alive during its composition; O'Sullivan was 11 when his father, who was cruel to his mother, died, and he's said that he didn't know his begetter well.[7] O'Sullivan later commented "Neil Diamond covered "Alone Over again (Naturally)" and said he couldn't believe a 21-yr-one-time wrote it, but for me information technology was just 1 song 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 than typical of a man much older than 21.[9] The song is included on O'Sullivan'southward The Berry Vest of Gilbert O'Sullivan anthology (2004) on the EMI record characterization. Large Jim Sullivan plays the guitar break in the original recorded version of the vocal.

Chart performance [edit]

Copyright lawsuit [edit]

M Upright Music, Ltd five. Warner Bros. Records Inc. , 780 F. Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1991), was a copyright instance heard past the Us District Court for the Southern Commune of New York. The case pitted vocaliser/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan confronting rapper Biz Markie after Biz Markie sampled O'Sullivan'south song "Alone Again (Naturally)". The court ruled that sampling without permission can qualify as copyright infringement. The judgment changed the hip hop music industry, requiring that whatever future music sampling be 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, "Get Down", 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 production company Kitty Moving-picture show'southward associated record label, Kitty Records, which wanted to use the anime's popularity every bit a way to promote the vocalist'south career in Nihon. According to series manager Kazuo Yamazaki, the reason the songs were dropped later on but one episode was that they were unpopular with viewers; due to copyright bug, 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 aforementioned name past Rumiko Takahashi.

The song was as well used as the ending theme for the 1986 alive-action Maison Ikkoku film, Flat Fantasy.

Notable encompass versions [edit]

Many artists have covered the song. Among the more than notable are a version by Nina Simone, included equally a bonus track on the 1988 digital reissue of her 1982 album Fodder on My Wings; and a version by Lazlo Bane'southward frontman Republic of chad Fischer, from the 2009 animated flick Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Both versions feature substantially rewritten lyrics; Simone's version savagely exhumes her troubled human relationship with her late father, whereas Fischer'southward version explores the unrequited desire of an acorn for the prehistoric squirrel who once chased it. Too in 2015, Diana Krall released a duet version with Michael Bublé on her album titled "Wallflower".[27]

References [edit]

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  2. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone 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 (seven Feb 2019). "14 Secretly Savage Soft Stone Beloved Songs". Ultimate Classic Stone.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Height Adult Gimmicky: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 187.
  6. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Striking Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness Globe Records Limited. p. 411. ISBNi-904994-x-v.
  7. ^ ""Alone Again (Naturally)" - Gilbert O'Sullivan". Superseventies.com. 1972-07-29. Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  8. ^ Kernan; Andrews. "'I can however compete with anyone despite beingness effectually so long'". Galway Advertiser . Retrieved 26 Jan 2019.
  9. ^ "Today's Mini-Concert - x/22/2020". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-xiii. Retrieved 22 Apr 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. ^ "Paradigm : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  13. ^ "Toutes les Chansons Northward° ane des Années lxx" (in French). InfoDisc. 1972-07-13. Retrieved 22 Dec 2019.
  14. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Lonely Again (Naturally)". Irish gaelic Singles Nautical chart. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  15. ^ "Nederlandse Elevation 40 – Gilbert O Sullivan" (in Dutch). Dutch Summit xl.
  16. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan – Solitary Again (Naturally)" (in Dutch). Single Meridian 100.
  17. ^ "flavor of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz . Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  18. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan: Artist Nautical chart History". Official Charts Visitor. Retrieved June iii, 2018.
  19. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved June iii, 2018.
  20. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Chart History (Adult Gimmicky)". Billboard. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  21. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 8/26/72". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-08-26. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  22. ^ "Top 100 1972 - Britain Music Charts". Uk-charts.top-source.info . Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  23. ^ "Meridian 100 Hits of 1972/Pinnacle 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 Police force (PDF), p. 21
  27. ^ Wallflower | track 4

External links [edit]

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

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

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