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Meaning Behind Gilbert Osullivan Alone Again

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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 (Great britain)[i]
May 1972 (US)[2]
Recorded 1971
Genre Soft rock[3] [4]
Length 3:36
Characterization MAM
Songwriter(south) Gilbert O'Sullivan
Producer(south) Gordon Mills
Gilbert O'Sullivan singles chronology
"No Affair How I Try"
(1971) 		"Alone Again (Naturally)"
(1972) 		"Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day"
(1972)

"Lone Again (Naturally)" is a song past Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. It was released in 1972 at the same fourth dimension as, but not included on, the anthology, Back to Front. In full, the single spent vi weeks, non-consecutively, at No. 1 on the United states Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 song for 1972. In Casey Kasem's American Peak 40 of the 1970s, "Solitary Again (Naturally)" ranked as the 5th well-nigh-popular song of the decade (Debby Boone's "You Calorie-free Up My Life" was No. 1). "Solitary Again (Naturally)" besides spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Easy Listening nautical chart.[v] The track reached No. 3 in the Great britain Singles Nautical chart.[six]

Lyrics [edit]

"Alone Again (Naturally)" is an introspective carol. In the first verse, the vocalist 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 decease of his parents. O'Sullivan has said the vocal is not autobiographical: his female parent was alive during its composition; O'Sullivan was eleven when his begetter, who was cruel to his mother, died, and he's 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-yr-old wrote information technology, but for me information technology was just one song I had written".[8] Neil Sedaka was similarly effusive in his praise for the song, stating as he covered the vocal in 2020 that he wished that he himself had written the song because its complication was more than typical of a man much older than 21.[nine] The song is included on O'Sullivan's The Drupe Vest 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]

K Upright Music, Ltd v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. , 780 F. Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1991), was a copyright example heard by the United States District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York. The instance pitted vocalist/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan against rapper Biz Markie after Biz Markie sampled O'Sullivan'due south song "Alone Once more (Naturally)". The courtroom ruled that sampling without permission can authorize as copyright infringement. The judgment inverse the hip hop music industry, requiring that any future music sampling be preapproved by the original copyright owners to avert a lawsuit.[26]

Maison Ikkoku [edit]

This vocal, along with another one of O'Sullivan's songs, "Become Downwardly", 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 Motion picture'south associated tape label, Kitty Records, which wanted to use the anime's popularity as a manner to promote the vocalist's career in Japan. According to serial director Kazuo Yamazaki, the reason the songs were dropped afterwards merely one episode was that they were unpopular with viewers; due to copyright issues, 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 vocal was also used as the ending theme for the 1986 live-activeness Maison Ikkoku film, Flat Fantasy.

Notable cover versions [edit]

Many artists take covered the vocal. Among the more notable are a version past Nina Simone, included equally a bonus track on the 1988 digital reissue of her 1982 album Fodder on My Wings; and a version past Lazlo Bane'due south frontman Chad Fischer, from the 2009 blithe movie Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Both versions feature substantially rewritten lyrics; Simone'due south version savagely exhumes her troubled relationship with her late begetter, whereas Fischer'southward 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 anthology 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.nigh.com . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  4. ^ Kuge, Mara (7 Feb 2019). "14 Secretly Barbarous Soft Rock Beloved Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Peak Adult Gimmicky: 1961-2001. Tape Enquiry. p. 187.
  6. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hitting Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness Globe Records Limited. p. 411. ISBNi-904994-ten-5.
  7. ^ ""Alone Again (Naturally)" - Gilbert O'Sullivan". Superseventies.com. 1972-07-29. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  8. ^ Kernan; Andrews. "'I can withal compete with anyone despite being effectually then long'". Galway Advertiser . Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Today'south Mini-Concert - x/22/2020". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved 22 Apr 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Australian 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 2016-10-06 .
  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 70" (in French). InfoDisc. 1972-07-13. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  14. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Alone Once again (Naturally)". Irish Singles Nautical chart. Retrieved July eleven, 2017.
  15. ^ "Nederlandse Height 40 – Gilbert O Sullivan" (in Dutch). Dutch Tiptop 40.
  16. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan – Alone Again (Naturally)" (in Dutch). Single Tiptop 100.
  17. ^ "flavor of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz . Retrieved 2016-ten-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 Nautical chart History (Adult Gimmicky)". Billboard. Retrieved June three, 2018.
  21. ^ "Cash Box Summit 100 viii/26/72". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-08-26. Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  22. ^ "Top 100 1972 - U.k. Music Charts". Uk-charts.top-source.info . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  23. ^ "Meridian 100 Hits of 1972/Pinnacle 100 Songs of 1972". Musicoutfitters.com . Retrieved 2016-ten-06 .
  24. ^ "Cash Box YE Popular Singles - 1972". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-12-30. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  25. ^ "Billboard Hot 100 60th Ceremony Interactive Chart". Billboard . Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  26. ^ Music Sampling and Copyright Police force (PDF), p. 21
  27. ^ Wallflower | track four

External links [edit]

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

saundersbrients.blogspot.com

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

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