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What Year Did the Song Alone Again

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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 18 February 1972 (UK)[1]
May 1972 (U.s.a.)[ii]
Recorded 1971
Genre Soft rock[iii] [4]
Length 3:36
Label MAM
Songwriter(s) Gilbert O'Sullivan
Producer(southward) Gordon Mills
Gilbert O'Sullivan singles chronology
"No Matter How I Try"
(1971) 		"Alone Once more (Naturally)"
(1972) 		"Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Twenty-four hours"
(1972)

"Alone Over again (Naturally)" is a song by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. Information technology was released in 1972 at the same time equally, simply non included on, the album, Dorsum to Front. In full, the single spent six weeks, non-consecutively, at No. 1 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. ii song for 1972. In Casey Kasem'southward American Top 40 of the 1970s, "Alone Again (Naturally)" ranked equally the fifth nigh-popular song of the decade (Debby Boone's "You Low-cal Up My Life" was No. one). "Alone Once more (Naturally)" as well spent half dozen weeks at No. one on the Easy Listening chart.[5] The track reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.[vi]

Lyrics [edit]

"Alone Again (Naturally)" is an introspective ballad. In the first verse, the vocalizer contemplates suicide later having been left "in the lurch at a church"; in the second, he wonders if there is a god; finally, he laments the expiry 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 female parent, died, and he'southward 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-twelvemonth-erstwhile wrote it, but for me it was just one song 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 song is included on O'Sullivan's The Berry Vest of Gilbert O'Sullivan album (2004) on the EMI record label. Large Jim Sullivan plays the guitar break in the original recorded version of the song.

Chart operation [edit]

Copyright lawsuit [edit]

G Upright Music, Ltd v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. , 780 F. Supp. 182 (S.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 afterward 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 any future music sampling be preapproved by the original copyright owners to avoid a lawsuit.[26]

Maison Ikkoku [edit]

This song, along with some other 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 Picture show'south associated tape label, Kitty Records, which wanted to use the anime's popularity every bit a way to promote the vocalist'south career in Japan. Co-ordinate to series manager Kazuo Yamazaki, the reason the songs were dropped after only 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 past the previously used Japanese theme songs. The anime was based upon the popular manga of the same name by Rumiko Takahashi.

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

Notable cover versions [edit]

Many artists have covered the song. Amid the more notable are a version past Nina Simone, included as a bonus track on the 1988 digital reissue of her 1982 anthology Fodder on My Wings; and a version by Lazlo Bane'southward frontman Chad Fischer, from the 2009 blithe motion picture Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Both versions feature substantially rewritten lyrics; Simone's version savagely exhumes her troubled human relationship with her tardily father, whereas Fischer's version explores the unrequited want 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 anthology titled "Wallflower".[27]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Lone Again (Naturally)". 45cat.com . Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)". 45cat.com . Retrieved 22 Apr 2021.
  3. ^ Fontenot, Robert. "Soft Rock Music and Songs". Oldies.almost.com . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  4. ^ Kuge, Mara (vii Feb 2019). "14 Secretly Roughshod Soft Stone Dearest Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 187.
  6. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 411. ISBN1-904994-ten-5.
  7. ^ ""Alone Again (Naturally)" - Gilbert O'Sullivan". Superseventies.com. 1972-07-29. Retrieved 2016-ten-06 .
  8. ^ Kernan; Andrews. "'I can still compete with anyone despite existence 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 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-ten-06 .
  12. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-x-06 .
  13. ^ "Toutes les Chansons N° one des Années 70" (in French). InfoDisc. 1972-07-13. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  14. ^ "The Irish gaelic Charts – Search Results – Lonely Again (Naturally)". Irish gaelic Singles Nautical chart. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  15. ^ "Nederlandse Height 40 – Gilbert O Sullivan" (in Dutch). Dutch Pinnacle 40.
  16. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan – Lone Over again (Naturally)" (in Dutch). Single Summit 100.
  17. ^ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  18. ^ "Gilbert O'Sullivan: Artist Nautical chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  19. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Nautical chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  20. ^ "Gilbert OSullivan Chart History (Developed Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  21. ^ "Greenbacks Box Top 100 8/26/72". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-08-26. Retrieved 2016-ten-06 .
  22. ^ "Superlative 100 1972 - UK Music Charts". U.k.-charts.summit-source.info . Retrieved 2016-10-06 .
  23. ^ "Elevation 100 Hits of 1972/Top 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 Constabulary (PDF), p. 21
  27. ^ Wallflower | rail 4

External links [edit]

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

paigeandid1968.blogspot.com

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

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