WilsonBlock1000 Radio

Gilbert O'Sullivan - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1971-1973

Posted by on
Here's an album of Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan performing for the BBC. I must say I'm not really a fan, perhaps because I'm American and he was a big star only in Britain. I was only familiar with a couple of his hits before putting this together, like "Alone Again (Naturally)" and "Get Down." But he's a talented songwriter with a unique style, for sure. Also, all of the performances here are not only unreleased but I believe they also haven't even been bootlegged. I'm lucky enough to have them thanks to an anonymous musical friend passing BBC "Top of the Pops" radio shows to me. So I want to make stuff like this publicly available. This will be a major find for any Gilbert O'Sullivan fan, especially because the sound quality is excellent.

This album consists entirely of BBC studio sessions, all from "Top of the Pops" shows. But I also came across two BBC concerts he did. So I've made this "Volume 1." The concerts will make up the other two volumes.

Gilbert O'Sullivan moved to London in 1967 to pursue a music career. For a few years he was unsuccessful. But he had a surprise Top Ten hit in Britain in 1970 with the song "Nothing Rhymed." (It's unfortunate that I couldn't find a BBC studio session version of that song to include here, but there are versions on both of the BBC concerts I plan on posting.) He went on to have 13 Top Forty hits in Britain over the next ten years, including two Number One songs. He didn't do as well in the U.S., but he did have three big hits there too: "Alone Again (Naturally)," "Clair," and "Get Down." It helped that he understood the importance of branding. He changed his name from Raymond Sullivan to Gilbert O'Sullivan to play off people's memories of the Gilbert and Sullivan songwriting team. He also stuck with several distinctive looks, the first and best known being what Wikipedia called a "Depression-era street urchin" look.

Luckily for us, O'Sullivan's era of greatest popularity was about 1971 to 1973. That's lucky because the "Top of the Pops" radio show mostly transitioned from unique in-the-studio performances to simply playing the recorded versions in the early 1970s, but this album contains the vast majority of his big hits. 

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Gilbert O'Sullivan - Wikipedia

I must say I'm rather surprised there hasn't been an official BBC album of this stuff, or even just including some of them as bonus tracks or on archival releases or the like. As I mentioned above, the sound quality here is excellent for all the songs. The only snag was the usual problem of BBC DJ Brian Matthew talking over the beginnings and ends of songs. That's why so many song titles have "[Edit]" in them. As usual, I wiped the DJ talking while keeping the music using the UVR5 program. It seems someone must have told Matthew to cut it out around 1972, since the last ten songs are free of that problem.

This album is an hour and two minutes long.

01 Doing the Best I Can [Edit] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
02 Underneath the Blanket Go [Edit] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
03 Everybody Knows [Edit] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
04 Thunder and Lightning [Edit] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
05 Matrimony [Edit] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
06 Permissive Twit [Edit] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
07 We Will [Edit] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
08 Susan van Heusen [Edit] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
09 Too Much Attention [Edit] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
10 Who Was It [Edit] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
11 No Matter How I Try [Edit] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
12 If I Don't Get You Back Again [Edit] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
13 Alone Again [Naturally] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
14 Save It (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
15 Bye Bye (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
16 Came to See Me Yesterday [In the Merry Month Of] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
17 Ooh Wakka Doo Wakka Day (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
18 But I'm Not (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
19 Clair (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
20 I Hope You'll Stay (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
21 Out of the Question (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
22 Get Down (Gilbert O'Sullivan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Pj1J2vXu

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/fKK0vMPyzsO8uzw/file

I don't know anything about the cover photo except that it's from 1971 or 1972, when O'Sullivan was still sporting his 1930s look.



from Albums That Should Exist https://ift.tt/R1QWY8Z
via IFTTT
Offical Podcast of Mistah Wilson

Comments

Post a Comment

Local Music Scenes

Music Scenes

Adelaide Music Scene African Music Scene Akron Music Scene Alabama Music Scene Alaska Music Scene Albany Music Scene Anchorage Music Scene Arizona Music Scene Arkansas Music Scene Atlanta Music Scene
Australian Music Scene Bakersfield Music Scene Baltimore Music Scene Beverly Hills Music Scene Boston Music Scene Brampton Music Scene Bronx Music Scene Brooklyn Music Scene Buffalo Music Scene California Music Scene Canadian Music Scene Charlotte Music Scene Chicago Music Scene Chicago drill music scene Cincinnati Music Scene Cleveland Music Scene Cologne Music Scene Colombian Music Scene Colorado Music Scene Compton Music Scene Connecticut Music Scene Dallas Music Scene Daytona Beach Music Scene Denver Music Scene Detroit Music Scene Durham Music Scene Finland Music Scene Finnish Music Scene Florida Music Scene Georgia Music Scene Germany Music Scene Ghana Music Scene Greece Music Scene Greensboro Music Scene Hawaii Music Scene Hiram Music Scene Honolulu Music Scene Houston Music Scene Illinois Music Scene Inglewood Music Scene Iowa Music Scene Ireland Music Scene Jackson Music Scene Johannesburg Music Scene Kansas City Music Scene Kansas Music Scene Kentucky Music Scene La Habra Music Scene Las Vegas Music Scene Lexington Music Scene London Music Scene Long Beach Music Scene Long Island Music Scene Los Angeles Music Scene Louisiana Music Scene Louisville Music Scene Maine Music Scene Marion Music Scene Maryland Music Scene Massachusetts Music Scene Melbourne Music Scene Miami Music Scene Michigan Music Scene Milwaukee Music Scene Minneapolis Music Scene Mississippi Music Scene Missouri Music Scene Munich Music Scene Nashville Music Scene Nevada Music Scene New Jersey Music Scene New Mexico Music Scene New Orleans Music Scene New York State Music Scene Nigeria Music Scene NorCal Music Scene North Carolina Music Scene Oakland Music Scene Ohio Music Scene Oklahoma Music Scene Ontario Music Scene Oregon Music Scene Oxnard Music Scene Pennsylvania Music Scene Philadelphia Music Scene Phoenix Music Scene Portland Music Scene Rhode Island Music Scene Rochester Music Scene Sacramento Music Scene Salt Lake City Music Scene San Antonio Music Scene San Bernardino Music Scene San Diego Music Scene San Francisco Music Scene Seattle Music Scene South Africa Music Scene South Carolina Music Scene St. Louis Music Scene Tennessee Music Scene Texas Music Scene Tokyo Music Scene Tulsa Music Scene Utah Music Scene Vallejo Music Scene Vancouver Music Scene Virginia Music Scene Waco Music Scene Wisconsin Music Scene Wyoming Music Scene altadena music scene american music scene local music scene music scene new york music scene northwest music scene pasadena music scene seattle music scene toronto music scene
Show more