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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 18 February 1972 (Britain)[ane]
May 1972 (U.s.a.)[2]
Recorded 1971
Genre Soft rock[3] [iv]
Length 3:36
Label MAM
Songwriter(s) Gilbert O'Sullivan
Producer(s) Gordon Mills
Gilbert O'Sullivan singles chronology
"No Thing How I Endeavour"
(1971) 		"Alone Again (Naturally)"
(1972) 		"Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day"
(1972)

"Alone Again (Naturally)" is a vocal past Irish gaelic singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. It was released in 1972 at the same time equally, only not included on, the album, Dorsum 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 song for 1972. In Casey Kasem's American Top xl of the 1970s, "Lonely Again (Naturally)" ranked every bit the fifth nearly-popular song of the decade (Debby Boone'due south "You Light Upward My Life" was No. 1). "Alone Over again (Naturally)" besides spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart.[v] The track reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Nautical chart.[6]

Lyrics [edit]

"Alone Once more (Naturally)" is an introspective ballad. In the first verse, the vocalizer contemplates suicide afterwards 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 expiry 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'southward 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-quondam wrote information technology, simply for me it was just one song I had written".[eight] Neil Sedaka was similarly effusive in his praise for the song, stating as he covered the song in 2022 that he wished that he himself had written the song because its complexity was more typical of a human being much older than 21.[9] The song is included on O'Sullivan's The Drupe Belong 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]

One thousand Upright Music, Ltd 5. Warner Bros. Records Inc. , 780 F. Supp. 182 (Due south.D.North.Y. 1991), was a copyright case heard by the U.s. District Court for the Southern Commune of New York. The example pitted vocalizer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan against rapper Biz Markie afterwards Biz Markie sampled O'Sullivan'due south vocal "Alone Once more (Naturally)". The court ruled that sampling without permission can qualify every bit copyright infringement. The judgment changed the hip hop music industry, requiring that whatsoever futurity music sampling be preapproved by the original copyright owners to avoid a lawsuit.[26]

Maison Ikkoku [edit]

This vocal, along with some other i of O'Sullivan's songs, "Get Downward", 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 Film'south associated record characterization, Kitty Records, which wanted to use the anime's popularity every bit a mode to promote the vocaliser'south career in Nihon. According to series director Kazuo Yamazaki, the reason the songs were dropped later on simply ane episode was that they were unpopular with viewers; due to copyright bug, they were not 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 proper noun by Rumiko Takahashi.

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

Notable cover versions [edit]

Many artists accept covered the song. Among the more notable are a version by Nina Simone, included as a bonus track on the 1988 digital reissue of her 1982 album Forage on My Wings; and a version by Lazlo Bane'due south frontman Chad Fischer, from the 2009 blithe film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Both versions characteristic substantially rewritten lyrics; Simone'due south version savagely exhumes her troubled relationship with her belatedly father, whereas Fischer'south version explores the unrequited desire of an acorn for the prehistoric squirrel who one time 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 Apr 2021.
  2. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Once more (Naturally)". 45cat.com . Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  3. ^ Fontenot, Robert. "Soft Stone Music and Songs". Oldies.about.com . Retrieved 2016-ten-06 .
  4. ^ Kuge, Mara (seven Feb 2019). "fourteen Secretly Cruel Soft Rock Love Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Tiptop Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Tape Inquiry. p. 187.
  6. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Express. p. 411. ISBN1-904994-10-5.
  7. ^ ""Alone Again (Naturally)" - Gilbert O'Sullivan". Superseventies.com. 1972-07-29. Retrieved 2016-ten-06 .
  8. ^ Kernan; Andrews. "'I tin can still compete with anyone despite being effectually and so long'". Galway Advertiser . Retrieved 26 Jan 2019.
  9. ^ "Today'southward Mini-Concert - x/22/2020". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. 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. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  13. ^ "Toutes les Chansons North° 1 des Années 70" (in French). InfoDisc. 1972-07-xiii. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  14. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Alone Again (Naturally)". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  15. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Gilbert O Sullivan" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  16. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan – Alone Once more (Naturally)" (in Dutch). Single Tiptop 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 (Developed Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  21. ^ "Cash Box Elevation 100 8/26/72". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-08-26. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  22. ^ "Acme 100 1972 - Uk Music Charts". Uk-charts.top-source.info . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  23. ^ "Pinnacle 100 Hits of 1972/Meridian 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 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 - Lonely Again (Naturally) on YouTube

kanemighat1939.blogspot.com

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

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