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1972 single by Gilbert O'Sullivan

"Alone Again (Naturally)"
Alone Again single.jpg
Single by Gilbert O'Sullivan
B-side "Save It"
Released xviii Feb 1972 (Uk)[ane]
May 1972 (Usa)[2]
Recorded 1971
Genre Soft stone[three] [4]
Length 3:36
Label MAM
Songwriter(southward) Gilbert O'Sullivan
Producer(s) Gordon Mills
Gilbert O'Sullivan singles chronology
"No Thing How I Attempt"
(1971) 		"Alone Once again (Naturally)"
(1972) 		"Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Twenty-four hours"
(1972)

"Solitary Again (Naturally)" is a song past Irish gaelic singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. It was released in 1972 at the same fourth dimension as, but not included on, the album, Dorsum to Front. In total, the single spent six weeks, not-consecutively, at No. 1 on the Usa Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Billboard ranked it every bit the No. 2 song for 1972. In Casey Kasem'south American Meridian forty of the 1970s, "Alone Again (Naturally)" ranked every bit the fifth most-popular song of the decade (Debby Boone's "You Light Upwardly My Life" was No. i). "Alone Over again (Naturally)" too spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Like shooting fish in a barrel Listening chart.[5] The track reached No. three in the Uk Singles Chart.[half-dozen]

Lyrics [edit]

"Alone Again (Naturally)" is an introspective carol. In the kickoff poesy, the singer contemplates suicide after having been left "in the lurch at a church"; in the 2d, he wonders if in that location is a god; finally, he laments the death 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 begetter, who was cruel to his mother, died, and he's said that he didn't know his father well.[vii] O'Sullivan later commented "Neil Diamond covered "Alone Again (Naturally)" and said he couldn't believe a 21-twelvemonth-old wrote it, but for me it was just i vocal I had written".[8] Neil Sedaka was similarly effusive in his praise for the song, stating as he covered the song in 2020 that he wished that he himself had written the song because its complexity was more typical of a man much older than 21.[9] The vocal is included on O'Sullivan'southward 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 song.

Chart performance [edit]

Copyright lawsuit [edit]

Yard Upright Music, Ltd 5. Warner Bros. Records Inc. , 780 F. Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1991), was a copyright case heard by the United States District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York. The instance pitted vocaliser/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan against rapper Biz Markie subsequently Biz Markie sampled O'Sullivan's 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 any futurity 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, "Become 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 Motion picture's associated tape label, Kitty Records, which wanted to use the anime'southward popularity as a style to promote the vocalizer'southward career in Japan. According to series managing director Kazuo Yamazaki, the reason the songs were dropped after just 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 same proper name by Rumiko Takahashi.

The song was too used equally the catastrophe theme for the 1986 live-activeness Maison Ikkoku film, Apartment Fantasy.

Notable cover versions [edit]

Many artists have covered the vocal. Amid the more notable are a version by Nina Simone, included every bit a bonus track 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 animated film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Both versions feature essentially rewritten lyrics; Simone'south version savagely exhumes her troubled human relationship with her late begetter, whereas Fischer'due south version explores the unrequited desire of an acorn for the prehistoric squirrel who once chased it. Also 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 Apr 2021.
  3. ^ Fontenot, Robert. "Soft Rock Music and Songs". Oldies.about.com . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  4. ^ Kuge, Mara (7 February 2019). "14 Secretly Cruel Soft Stone Beloved Songs". Ultimate Archetype Stone.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Developed Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 187.
  6. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness Globe Records Limited. p. 411. ISBN1-904994-10-v.
  7. ^ ""Solitary Once again (Naturally)" - Gilbert O'Sullivan". Superseventies.com. 1972-07-29. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  8. ^ Kernan; Andrews. "'I can still compete with anyone despite being around then long'". Galway Advertiser . Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Today's Mini-Concert - ten/22/2020". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-xiii. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Australian Nautical chart Book". Austchartbook.com.au. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  11. ^ "Prototype : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  12. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Athenaeum Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  13. ^ "Toutes les Chansons N° 1 des Années lxx" (in French). InfoDisc. 1972-07-xiii. Retrieved 22 Dec 2019.
  14. ^ "The Irish gaelic Charts – Search Results – Lone Again (Naturally)". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  15. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Gilbert O Sullivan" (in Dutch). Dutch Top twoscore.
  16. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan – Alone Again (Naturally)" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  17. ^ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz . Retrieved 2016-ten-06 .
  18. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June three, 2018.
  19. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved June three, 2018.
  20. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved June three, 2018.
  21. ^ "Greenbacks Box Top 100 8/26/72". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-08-26. Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  22. ^ "Meridian 100 1972 - UK Music Charts". U.k.-charts.top-source.info . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  23. ^ "Top 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 Chart". Billboard . Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  26. ^ Music Sampling and Copyright Law (PDF), p. 21
  27. ^ Wallflower | track iv

External links [edit]

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

dolphlestathe.blogspot.com

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

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