Gilbert O'Sullivan

[Ron Phillipchuk]

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1 = Alone Again (Naturally)
2 = Clair
3 = Get Down
4 = Matrimony

Gilbert O'Sullivan (born Raymond Edward O'Sullivan, 1 December 1946) is an Irish singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hits "Alone Again (Naturally)", "Clair", and "Get Down". The music magazine Record Mirror voted him the top UK male singer of 1972.

Worldwide he has charted 16 top-40 records, including six #1 songs, the first of which was 1970's "Nothing Rhymed".  Such was his popularity in the early 1970s that "Matrimony", an airplay and live favourite from his debut album Himself, remains one of his most famous compositions despite only having been a hit single in the Netherlands where it reached #4.

His most successful recording period was between 1970 and 1980, though he has since recorded ten studio albums up to 2015. Speaking in 2009 he said, "I write pop songs. End of story. That's all I wanted to do. That's all I want to do. And that's all I continue to want to do. I have no interest in just touring, and living in the past."

[DaveH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doPLeqXTfl4

"Alone Again (Naturally)" is a song by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. It was released in 1972 at the same time as (but not on) the album, Back to Front. In total, the single spent six weeks, non-consecutively, at #1 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 song for 1972.

[DaveH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU9fClvdo5s

"Clair" is a popular song by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan and is one of his biggest-selling singles. Written by O'Sullivan and produced by Gordon Mills, it was the number one single in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in November 1972, number one in Canada on the RPM 100 national singles chart the following January, and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.

The song is the love song of a close family friend who babysits a young girl (actually the artist's manager's daughter), though for the first part of the song, the ambiguous text leads one to think that it is from one adult to another. The brief instrumental introduction is the sound of O'Sullivan whistling, before he comes in. The real Clair was the three-year-old daughter of O'Sullivan's producer-manager, Gordon Mills, and his wife, the model Jo Waring. The little girl's giggling is heard at the end of this song. The "Uncle Ray" mentioned in the song is O'Sullivan himself, a reference to his real name of Raymond O'Sullivan.

[DaveH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXl5P2xO9-o

"Get Down" is a song by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan, from his album I'm a Writer, Not a Fighter. Released as a single, it spent two weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart in April 1973, was also a number-one hit in Ireland and a top-ten hit in the United States and Canada.

Believed to be an order from O'Sullivan to his dog ("Get Down!"), the singer is actually referring to a girl in the song behaving as a dog jumping on him, hence the request to "get down".

[DaveH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSsWxIcLvPo

"Matrimony", an airplay and live favourite from Gilbert O'Sullivan's debut album "Himself", is one of his most famous compositions despite only having been a hit single in the Netherlands where it reached #4.

[pamela]

Thanks for these Dave... Pam :smiley-happy110:

[Organplayer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXl5P2xO9-o

A complete new remake of this great song And a Song Request

[Organplayer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU9fClvdo5s

A Request for a upgrade of this Great song

[admin]

Alone Again

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