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1972 single past Gilbert O'Sullivan

"Alone Again (Naturally)"
Alone Again single.jpg
Single by Gilbert O'Sullivan
B-side "Save Information technology"
Released 18 February 1972 (U.k.)[1]
May 1972 (US)[ii]
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 Matter How I Endeavor"
(1971) 		"Alone Once more (Naturally)"
(1972) 		"Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day"
(1972)

"Solitary Again (Naturally)" is a song by Irish gaelic singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. It was released in 1972 at the aforementioned time as, but not included on, the anthology, Back to Front. In total, the unmarried spent half dozen weeks, non-consecutively, at No. 1 on the U.s.a. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Billboard ranked information technology as the No. ii song for 1972. In Casey Kasem'due south American Top xl of the 1970s, "Solitary Again (Naturally)" ranked every bit the fifth near-pop song of the decade (Debby Boone'southward "You Light Upwards My Life" was No. 1). "Alone Once more (Naturally)" also spent six weeks at No. ane on the Easy Listening chart.[v] The track reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.[six]

Lyrics [edit]

"Alone Again (Naturally)" is an introspective ballad. In the first poetry, the vocaliser 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 vocal is not autobiographical: his mother was alive during its composition; O'Sullivan was 11 when his father, who was roughshod to his mother, died, and he's said that he didn't know his father well.[7] O'Sullivan afterward commented "Neil Diamond covered "Lonely Over again (Naturally)" and said he couldn't believe a 21-year-sometime wrote information technology, but for me information technology was merely ane song I had written".[8] Neil Sedaka was similarly effusive in his praise for the song, stating every bit he covered the vocal 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 Berry Vest of Gilbert O'Sullivan album (2004) on the EMI record label. Big Jim Sullivan plays the guitar intermission in the original recorded version of the song.

Chart performance [edit]

Copyright lawsuit [edit]

K Upright Music, Ltd v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. , 780 F. Supp. 182 (South.D.N.Y. 1991), was a copyright case heard by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The case pitted singer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan against rapper Biz Markie after Biz Markie sampled O'Sullivan's song "Solitary Once more (Naturally)". The courtroom ruled that sampling without permission tin authorize as copyright infringement. The judgment inverse the hip hop music manufacture, requiring that any time to come music sampling be preapproved by the original copyright owners to avoid a lawsuit.[26]

Maison Ikkoku [edit]

This song, along with another 1 of O'Sullivan'due south songs, "Get Down", 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 visitor Kitty Film's associated tape label, Kitty Records, which wanted to use the anime'southward popularity as a way to promote the singer's career in Nippon. According to series director Kazuo Yamazaki, the reason the songs were dropped after merely 1 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 past the previously used Japanese theme songs. The anime was based upon the popular manga of the aforementioned name by Rumiko Takahashi.

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

Notable cover versions [edit]

Many artists have covered the vocal. Among the more notable are a version by Nina Simone, included as a bonus track on the 1988 digital reissue of her 1982 album Provender on My Wings; and a version past Lazlo Bane's frontman Chad Fischer, from the 2009 blithe pic Ice Historic period: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Both versions feature substantially rewritten lyrics; Simone'southward version savagely exhumes her troubled relationship with her late father, whereas Fischer'southward version explores the unrequited desire of an acorn for the prehistoric squirrel who one time chased it. Too in 2015, Diana Krall released a duet version with Michael Bublé on her album titled "Wallflower".[27]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Lonely Once more (Naturally)". 45cat.com . Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  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-x-06 .
  4. ^ Kuge, Mara (7 Feb 2019). "14 Secretly Barbarous Soft Rock Love Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Meridian Developed Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Inquiry. p. 187.
  6. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. 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 tin nonetheless compete with anyone despite beingness 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 Book". Austchartbook.com.au. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-ten-06 .
  11. ^ "Prototype : RPM Weekly - Library and Athenaeum 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 N° ane des Années seventy" (in French). InfoDisc. 1972-07-13. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  14. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Alone Again (Naturally)". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  15. ^ "Nederlandse Peak 40 – Gilbert O Sullivan" (in Dutch). Dutch Top forty.
  16. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan – Alone Over 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 3, 2018.
  20. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Chart History (Developed Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved June three, 2018.
  21. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 8/26/72". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-08-26. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  22. ^ "Top 100 1972 - Uk Music Charts". Great britain-charts.top-source.info . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  23. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1972/Tiptop 100 Songs of 1972". Musicoutfitters.com . Retrieved 2016-ten-06 .
  24. ^ "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1972". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-12-30. Retrieved 2016-ten-06 .
  25. ^ "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart". Billboard . Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  26. ^ Music Sampling and Copyright Law (PDF), p. 21
  27. ^ Wallflower | track four

External links [edit]

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

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

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