Most of these albums are available at Bygum Records
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A Friend Of Mine [Version 1] Time: 3:23 Album: I'm A Writer Not A Fighter [1973] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at Audio International Studios, London. |
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A Friend Of Mine [Version 2 - Live Version] Time: 3:18 Album: The Best of Gilbert O'Sullivan - Live In Japan [1995] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at Nakano-Sunplaza, Tokyo in Feb 1993. |
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A Love So Time: 2:51 Album: Piano Foreplay [2003] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Mark Flannery. Recorded at "Jersey Rock Studios", Channel Islands. |
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A Minute Of Your Time Time: 3:40 Vinyl Single: A Minute Of Your Time [1982] Album: Life & Rhymes [1982] Note: Produced by Graham Gouldman. Recorded at Windmill Lane Recording Studio, Dublin. |
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A Proper Fool Time: 3:19 Album: A Scruff At Heart [2006] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at "Jersey Rock Studios", Channel Islands. |
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A Sight For Sore Eyes Time: 3:40 Album: Irlish [2001] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Mark Flannery. Recorded at "Close To The Hedge Studios", Jersey. |
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A Very Extraordinary Sort Of Girl Time: 2:18 Vinyl Single: Get Down [1973] [B-side] Album: The Other Sides Of Gilbert O'Sullivan [2004] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. |
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A Woman's Place [Version 1] Time: 3:16 Vinyl Single: A Woman's Place [1974] Album: A Stranger In My Own Back Yard [1974] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at A and R Studios, New York and Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles. Released as a single with "Too Bad" [1974] as the b-side. Gilbert quote: [Daily Express/Judith Simons/Oct 1974] When asked about "A Woman's Place" being his first flop Gilbert said "I thought it was a nice sounding title. But it has rebounded on me something terrible. Even my mother, a stay-home housewife, with six children, objects to my ideas. In Europe disc jockeys wouldn't play it. Surely the idea of keeping a woman at home and cherishing her is a compliment to her!" |
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A Woman's Place [Version 2 - Live Version] Time: 3:38 Album: The Best of Gilbert O'Sullivan - Live In Japan [1995] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at Nakano-Sunplaza, Tokyo in Feb 1993. |
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Ain't No Telling (What Tomorrow Will Bring) [Version 1] Time: 4:09 CD Single: Ain't No Telling [What Tomorrow Will Bring] [1996] Note: Produced by Chris Tsangarides and Gilbert. Written for the 1996 Ski-flying World Championship in Austria. Only difference to UK single release [1998] is one line in the chorus is sung by a group of skiers. Not on general sale. |
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Ain't No Telling (What Tomorrow Will Bring) [Version 2] Time: 4:03 CD Single: Ain't No Telling [What Tomorrow Will Bring] [ 1996] Note: Produced by Chris Tsangarides and Gilbert. Instrumental. Not on general sale. |
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Ain't No Telling (What Tomorrow Will Bring) [Version 3] Time: 4:03 CD Single: Ain't No Telling [What Tomorrow Will Bring] [1998] Note: Produced by Chris Tsangarides and Gilbert. |
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All They Wanted To Say Time: 4:05 Album: Mum's The Word [2010] Note: Due for release in Feb 2010. |
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Alone Again (Naturally) [Version 1] Time: 3:37 Vinyl Single: Alone Again (Naturally) [1972] Album: The Berry Vest Of Gilbert O'Sullivan [2004] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. 6 weeks at number 1 in the U.S. charts [Aug/Sept '72] Gilbert Quote: [New Musical Express/Tony Norman/May 1972] When asked if his songs were ever taken from personal experiences? Gilbert answered, "I don't think so. 'Alone Again' wasn't. A lot of letters I've had have said, it must be awful, your mother dying like that. My father's dead, but that song's got nothing to do with me. It's just that I think I understand that situation. I get the feeling that if someone was jilted at the church, even though he had never contemplated suicide before, it might be such a shattering experience that he would. Maybe I would. Then, in that sort of deep depression, you would probably think of all the bad things that had happened during your life. They'd all come to you. But it's not about me. Gilbert Quote: [Rolling Stone/Paul Gambaccini/August 1973] "None of the situations in the song ever happened to me. "I've never been stood up at a church because I've never gotten close to getting married. My father is dead, but I didn't cry when he died. I distinctively remember that because I was the only one in the family who didn't. I was never close to him. And my mother I love very much, but she's not dead." |
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Alone Again (Naturally) [Version 2] Time: 2:44 CD Single: Thankfulness [1993] Album: Best Hits & Rarities [2004] Note: Recorded in Studio Key-Stone Oct '91 and called the "Present Version". Performed solo on electric piano with no guitar solo. First appeared on a Japanese Promo CD single "Thankfulness" in 1993 with a message from Gilbert. |
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Alone Again (Naturally) [Version 3 - Live Version] Time: 3:44 Album: Tomorrow Today - Live In Japan '93 [1993] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at Nakano-Sunplaza, Tokyo in Feb 1993. |
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Alone Again (Naturally) [Version 4 - Live Version] Time: 3:36 Album: Live At duo Music Exchange [DVD/CD Set] [2005] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at duo Music Exchange, Tokyo in June 2004. |
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Always Somebody Time: 0:47 Album: A Stranger In My Own Back Yard [1974] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at A and R Studios, New York and Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles. Gilbert Quote: [From a promo disc for the album release] "This is again instead of having an outro saying 'This is the end of the album, bye bye' and so forth. It was nice to have something that finished, that you knew it was the end but it just said something else. So this was a song that was never completed and for me it was very true. I believe every word of it and it's called "Always Somebody"." |
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An End Time: 0:15 Album: Singer Sowing Machine [1997] [UK Version] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Mark Flannery. Recorded at "Close To The Hedge Studios", Jersey. |
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Answers On A Postcard (Please) Time: 3:34 Album: Piano Foreplay [2003] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Mark Flannery. Recorded at "Jersey Rock Studios", Channel Islands. |
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Anytime Time: 3:02 CD Single: Anytime [1993] Album: Caricature - The Box [2004] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Mark Flannery. Promo video for this song in Sound & Vision section of this website. |
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Are You Happy? [Version 1] Time: 3:14 Album: Sounds of the Loop [1993] [UK Release] Note: Produced by Gilbert. |
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Are You Happy? [Version 2] Time: 3:29 CD Single: Are You Happy? [1993] Album: Caricature - The Box [2004] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Same as Version 1 except at the beginning Gilbert sings "do, de do, de do de do da da" a couple of times. |
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As A Rule Time: 2:46 Album: The Little Album [1992] / By Larry [1994] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at Windmill Studios, Dublin. |
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As Long As I Can [Version 1] Time: 2:16 Vinyl Single: You Got Me Going [1977] [B-Side] Note: Produced by Gilbert. This version has a saxophone solo. |
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As Long As I Can [Version 2] Time: 2:21 Album: Rare Tracks [1992] Note: Produced by Gilbert. This version has a piano solo. |
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Assault And Vinegar Time: 4:50 Album: Unreleased |
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At Least I'm Honest Time: 3:01 Album: Life & Rhymes [1982] Note: Produced by Graham Gouldman. Recorded at Windmill Lane Recording Studio, Dublin. |
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At The Very Mention Of Your Name [Version 1] Time: 5:15 CD Single: At The Very Mention Of Your Name [1990] Album: Frobisher Drive [1987] / In The Key Of G [1990] Note: Produced by Ken Gold. Very gradual haunting beginning to the song. |
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At The Very Mention Of Your Name [Version 2] Time: 4:51 Album: Caricature - The Box [2004] Note: Produced by David Foster. |
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At The Very Mention Of Your Name [Version 3 - Live Version] Time: 4:10 Album: Tomorrow Today - Live In Japan '93 [1993] Note: Produced Gilbert. Recorded at Nakano-Sunplaza, Tokyo in Feb 1993. |
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'B' Side Intro Time: 0:46 Vinyl Single: No Matter How I Try [1971] [B-side] Album: The Other Sides Of Gilbert O'Sullivan [2004] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Used as a prelude to the b-side "If I Don't Get You (Back Again)" [1971]. |
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Barking Up The Wrong Tree (Such Is Life) Time: 4:01 Album: Piano Foreplay [2003] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Mark Flannery. Recorded at "Jersey Rock Studios", Channel Islands. |
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Bear With Me Time: 3:22 Vinyl Single: Bear With Me [1982] Album: Life & Rhymes [1982] Note: Produced by Graham Gouldman. Recorded at Windmill Lane Recording Studio, Dublin. |
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Because Of You Time: 2:30 Album: The Little Album [1992] / By Larry [1994] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at Windmill Studios, Dublin. |
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Better Than Valentino Time: 1:28 Album: Unreleased Note: Performed on the John Peel radio programme Top Gear 16/6/68 on BBC Radio. The programme producer was Bernie Andrews and the engineers were Dave Tate and Allen Harris. |
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Break A Leg 1 Time: 4:06 Album: Singer Sowing Machine [1997] [Japanese Release] Note: Produced by Mark Flannery and Gilbert. |
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Break A Leg 2 Time: 4:15 Album: Singer Sowing Machine [1997] [Japanese & UK Release] Note: Produced by Mark Flannery and Gilbert. |
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Break A Leg [Version 3] Time: 4:01 CD Single: Ain't No Telling [What Tomorrow Will Bring] [1998] [Track 3] Note: Produced by Mark Flannery and Gilbert. |
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Break It To Me Gently Time: 3:20 Vinyl Single: Hello, It's Goodbye [1981] [B-side] Album: Off Centre [1980] Note: Produced by Gus Dudgeon. Recorded at the Moonlight Studios, Cookham, England. |
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Breakfast Dinner And Tea Time: 2:03 Vinyl Single: Happiness Is Me And You [1974] [B-Side] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. |
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But I'm Not Time: 2:34 Vinyl Single: Ooh Wakka Doo Wakka Day [1972] [B-side] Album: Back To Front [1972] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. |
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Bye-Bye Time: 3:22 Album: Himself [1971] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. |
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Call On Me Time: 3:10 Vinyl Single: You Never Listen To Reason [1975] [B-side] Album: The Other Sides Of Gilbert O'Sullivan [2004] Note: Produced by Gilbert. |
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Came And Went Time: 3:43 Album: Sounds of the Loop [Japanese & UK Release] Note: Produced by Gilbert. |
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Came To See Me Yesterday [Version 1] Time: 1:55 Album: The Humble Beginnings of England's Gilbert O'Sullivan and Gerry Dorsey [1972] Note: Recorded solo on piano with 1,2,3,4 count-in. |
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Came To See Me Yesterday [Version 2] Time: 2:09 Album: E Le Sue Canzoni [1974] Note: Recorded with drums, strings and wind instruments with a woodwind prelude. |
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Came To See Me Yesterday [Version 3] Time: 1:55 Vinyl Single: Come To See Me Yesterday [1974] Note: The same as Version 2 but without the woodwind prelude. Titled "Come To See Me Yesterday" on the record. |
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Came To See Me Yesterday [Version 4] Time: 2:34 Album: The Little Album [1992] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at Windmill Studios, Dublin. New recording with piano and strings. |
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Came To See Me Yesterday [Version 5 - Live Version] Time: 2:38 Album: Tomorrow Today - Live In Japan '93 [1993] Note: Produced Gilbert. Recorded at Nakano-Sunplaza, Tokyo in Feb 1993. |
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Came To See Me Yesterday [Version 6 - Live Version] Time: 3:09 Album: Unreleased Note: A ska version of this song was played on the UK/Ireland 2008 tour. |
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Can I Go With You Time: 2:46 Album: Back To Front [1972] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. |
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Can I Leave The Rest Up To You? Note: Due to be on Gilbert's new album in 2009. |
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Can't Find My Way Home Time: 3:42 Album: Every Song Has It's Play [1995] Note: Produced by Gilbert. |
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Can't Get Enough Of You [Version 1] Time: 3:27 Vinyl Single: Can't Get Enough Of You [1981] Album: Off Centre [1980] Note: Produced by Gus Dudgeon. Recorded at the Moonlight Studios, Cookham, England. |
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Can't Get Enough Of You [Version 2] Time: 3:27 Album: Unreleased Note: Produced by Gus Dudgeon. Acetate described as "Gus's Version". |
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Can't Get Enough Of You [Version 3] Time: 3:36 Album: Rare Tracks [1992] |
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Can't Get Enough Of You [Version 4 - Live Version] Time: 3:44 Album: Tomorrow Today - Live In Japan '93 [1993] Note: Produced Gilbert. Recorded at Nakano-Sunplaza, Tokyo, Tokyo in Feb 1993. |
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Can't Get You Out Of My Mind Time: 3:24 Vinyl Single: To Each His Own [1976] [B-side] Album: Rare Tracks [1992] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. |
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Can't Get You To Love Me Time: 2:25 Album: A Stranger In My Own Back Yard [1974] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at A and R Studios, New York and Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles. Gilbert Quote: [From a promo disc for the album release] "This track was again one of the songs in Portugal. It's a good track to have near the end of an album. Backing wise I asked Johnnie Spence my arranger to get a sort of 'Got To Get You Into My Life' feel, the old Beatles song. It was that kind of brass backing I wanted on it. So I think he captured that very well. It's a totally different song but as I was mentioning earlier I sometimes hear records that the backing could be useful for one of my songs. So on this particular song when I wrote it, that's the kind of arrangement I envisaged and Johnnie put that. It's good, I like it. It's a good number for stage, a good opening number to have in a stage act." |
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Can't Say Fairer Than That Time: 2:47 Album: A Scruff At Heart [2006] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at "Jersey Rock Studios", Channel Islands. |
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Can't Think Straight [Version 1] Time: 4:02 Album: Sounds of the Loop [1991] [Japanese Release] Note: Duet with Takao Kisugi. |
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Can't Think Straight [Version 2] Time: 4:02 CD Single: Can't Think Straight [1992] Album: Sounds of the Loop [1993] [UK Release] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Duet with Peggy Lee. Gilbert Quote: [Derry - 11 Oct 2008] "We'll do something tonight that we haven't done before, we haven't done this. So you have to bear with us if it all goes pear-shaped. Many years ago people used to say to me that you never do a duet. I was never really interested because being a solo writer, a solo performer, I didn't work with other voices but at the back of my mind I always thought that if I could do a duet, I'd love to do a duet with somebody like Peggy Lee. The reason for that is because I think with Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee is the greatest interpreter of female songs in the world. Both of them are no longer her. In the way that Sinatra and a couple of other people are the male interpreters of song. So I had this song and I sent it to Peggy in America and asked her would she like to sing it with me. So she rang me up and said "Yes". This was back in 1992 and Peggy was as young as a lot of you might remember her. Well we recorded the song in London and sent the tape to her to put her voice on it. Then we went to New York and filmed it for a video. It's very special to me and one of the things I'm really proud of. The record was not a great success but a lot of people liked it. So we are going to run it for you this evening and we are all going to join in. My voice will be live so don't think I'm miming because I have to sing in sync with the film. So here we go." |
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Can't Think Straight [Version 3] Time: 4:02 Album: Sounds of the Loop [1993] [Scandanavian release] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Duet with Danish singer Kirsten Siggaard. Recorded live at Hit Factory, July 1993. |
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Can't Think Straight [Version 4] Time: 4:02 Album: Sounds of the Loop [1993] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Duet with Spanish actress Silvia Tortosa. |
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Christmas Song Time: 2:45 Vinyl Single: Christmas Song [1974] Album: The Best Of Gilbert O'Sullivan [VICP 61358] [2001] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Gilbert Quote: [Sounds/Jack Hutton/1975] When asked by if the Christmas Song was in his mind for a long time, Gilbert answered "Yes, I just wanted to write a Christmas song, I had this melody and the line "I'm not dreaming of a white Christmas" as opposed to the classic of all time. It just pleased me." |
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Clair [Version 1] Time: 3:02 Vinyl Single: Clair [1972] Album: Back To Front [1972] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. 2 weeks at number 1 in the U.K. charts [Nov '72]. This song was written about Gilbert's former manager Gordon Mills's daughter Clair, for whom Gilbert used to babysit. Gordon Mills plays the harmonica solo and Clair giggles at the end of the song. Recorded at Audio International Studios, London. |
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Clair [Version 2 - Live Version] Time: 2:54 Album: Tomorrow Today - Live In Japan '93 [1993] Note: Produced Gilbert. Recorded at Nakano-Sunplaza, Tokyo in Feb 1993. |
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Clair [Version 3 - Live Version] Time: 2:58 Album: Live At duo Music Exchange [DVD/CD Set] [2005] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at duo Music Exchange, Tokyo in June 2004. |
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Come On Home Time: 4:03 Album: Unreleased Note: A very early song as yet unrecorded. The first song Gilbert wrote in a minor key. Recorded and released by the Tremeloes. Performed live for the first time on the 2007 tour. Performed on John Peel's BBC radio programme Top Gear on 19/5/68 on BBC Radio. Gilbert Quote: [The Stables, Milton Keynes - 03 Oct 2007] "This is a really old song that I wrote in the 60s and rediscovered it recently". |
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Con-Lab-Lib Time: 3:26 Album: Singer Sowing Machine [1997] [UK Release] Note: Produced by Mark Flannery and Gilbert. |
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Conversation With Flying Plates Time: 4:33 Album: Piano Foreplay [2003] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Mark Flannery. Recorded at "Jersey Rock Studios", Channel Islands. Gilbert Quote: [Tameside - 12 Nov 2004] "They say that music is inspirational and lyrics are perspirational. My inspiration for a song comes from a good title. I thought that this was an interesting title for a song." Gilbert was quick to point out that his wife has never thrown plates at him but he has seen it happen. |
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Couldn't Get Arrested Time: 3:25 CD Single: Have It [2001] [Track 2] Note: Produced by Gilbert & Mark Flannery. |
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Dear Dream [Version 1 - Live Version] Time: 3:25 Album: Tomorrow Today - Live In Japan '93 [1993] Note: Produced Gilbert. Recorded at Nakano-Sunplaza, Tokyo in Feb 1993. |
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Dear Dream [Version 2] Time: 3:14 Album: Every Song Has It's Play [1995] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at Whitfield Street Recording Studios, London. |
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Dear Dream [Version 3] Time: 3:15 CD Single: Dear Dream [1995] [Track 1] Note: Remix by Ben Liebrand. |
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Dear Dream [Version 4] Time: 3:40 CD Single: Dear Dream [1995] [Track 2] Note: Dance Mix Radio Edit. A. Gill & Ben production. |
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Dear Dream [Version 5] Time: 7:23 CD Single: Dear Dream [1995] [Track 4] Note: Dance Mix Full Version. A. Gill & Ben production. |
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Disappear [Version 1] Time: 2:05 Vinyl Single: Disappear [1967] Album: Caricature - The Box [2004] Note: Produced by Mike Smith. Gilbert Quote: [Melody Maker/Michael Watts/Oct 1971] "I had the songs and the arrangements, but because I was a new boy they wouldn't listen to what I said. We'd go in the studio and they'd never accept me. I thought I'd make people take notice. Then we recorded a song called "Disappear" but it didn't even sound as good as my demo, done in a shed, so I got 'em to release the original tape recording with a baroque quartet. I thought there was so much there for CBS to go on, but they did nothing. A few people flipped out like Bernie Andrews, who gave me two Top Gears, but it could've done better. Anyhow, because it failed Mike Smith said you'll do what we say, and they released 'You.' I'd taken the day off from work in an office to record that." |
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Disappear [Version 2] Time: 1:59 Album: Unreleased Note: Performed on John Peel's BBC Radio programme "Top Gear" on 19/5/68. |
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Dishonourable Profession Time: 4:09 Album: Every Song Has It's Play [1995] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at Whitfield Street Recording Studios, London. |
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Divorce Irish Style [Version 1] Time: 4:13 Album: Sounds of the Loop [1991] [Japanese Release] Note: Produced by Gilbert. |
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Divorce Irish Style [Version 2] Time: 4:13 CD Single: Can't Think Straight [1992] [Track 3] Album: Sounds of the Loop [1993] [UK Release] Note: Produced by Gilbert. |
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Doesn't It Make You Sick (Mortar and Brick) [Version 1] Time: 3:25 CD Single: Doesn't It Make You Sick (Mortar And Brick) [1997] Album: Singer Sowing Machine [1997] [Japanese Release] Note: Produced by Mark Flannery and Gilbert. Gilbert Quote: [Bloomsbury Theatre, London - 26 April 2004] With a title like this Gilbert is always amused when his music is placed under the title 'Easy Listening'. "Maybe it should be Queasy Listening" he joked. |
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Doesn't It Make You Sick (Mortar and Brick) [Version 2] Time: 3:25 Album: Singer Sowing Machine [1997] [UK Release] Note: Produced by Mark Flannery and Gilbert. |
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Doing The Best That I Can Time: 2:35 Vinyl Single: Underneath The Blanket Go [1971] [B-side] Album: Himself [1971] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at Audio International Studios, London. |
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Doing What I Know Time: 4:44 Vinyl Single: Doing What I Know [1976] Album: Caricature - The Box [2004] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. |
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Don't Bother At All Time: 3:23 Vinyl Single: Bear With Me [1982] [B-side] Album: The Other Sides Of Gilbert O'Sullivan [2004] Note: Produced by Graham Gouldman. |
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Don't Dictate To Me Time: - Album: Unreleased Note: A very early song as yet unrecorded. The first song Gilbert wrote using 7th chords. |
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Don't I Know It Time: 3:22 Album: Irlish [2001] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Mark Flannery. Recorded at "Close To The Hedge Studios", Jersey. |
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Don't Let It Get To You Time: 3:21 Album: A Scruff At Heart [2006] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at "Jersey Rock Studios", Channel Islands. Gilbert Quote: [Symphony Hall, Birmingham - 09 Nov 2007] "We were in York yesterday and I received a letter in the dressing room, it's to do with school bullying. A woman wanted to know if I could send a signed CD for this organisation that she runs that helps with bullying. It's incredible how relevant bullying is today, it seems to be more relevant than ever and I'm sure you all remember times at school times when an element of bullying was applied to us. I remember it. As a lyricist I've written about it and I'll do it for you now." |
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Don't You Ever Change Your Mind Time: 4:30 Album: E le Sue Canzoni [1974] |
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Down, Down, Down Time: 2:38 Vinyl Single: What's In A Kiss? [1980] [B-side] Album: The Other Sides Of Gilbert O'Sullivan [2004] Note: Produced by Gus Dudgeon. |
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Down Down Here Note: Due to be on Gilbert's new album in 2009. |
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Easier Said Than Done Time: 3:14 Album: Irlish [2001] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Mark Flannery. Recorded at "Close To The Hedge Studios", Jersey. |
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End-Vironmental Piece Time: 1:25 Album: Caricature - The Box [2004] Note: Produced by Mark Flannery and Gilbert. Same track as "Me - Reprise" from Irlish [2001]. |
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Everybody Knows Time: 2:19 Vinyl Single: Nothing Rhymed [1970] [B-side] Album: The Other Sides Of Gilbert O'Sullivan [2004] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. |
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15 Times Time: 2:21 Album: A Stranger In My Own Back Yard [1974] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at A and R Studios, New York and Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles. Gilbert Quote: [From a promo disc for the album release] ""15 Times" is a good happy thing. It's my mother's favourite. It's a good happy song, it's got funny little lines. I think it's one of the last songs I wrote in Portugal. We were nearing the end of my stay there, I was there with my brother and it was a fun song. I'd written a few serious songs before that, love songs. So I thought it was just one of those mornings I got up and the tempo, if you have a melody in it that's in the tempo of this song, you couldn't write anything but happy lyrics. We had a percussionist on the session, we did in it in Los Angeles, I think his name was Harvey Mason, he's very popular drummer in America. I think probably people on the west coast would know who he was. Probably very few people in Europe or in England would know. He had this amazing case of percussion, it was almost about twice the height of him which he'd open out. It was full of bells, car horns, you name it, any kind of sound you wanted. For instance Gordon would say "Have you got this?" looking at everybody as much to say "He'd never have that" and suddenly he's produce it and we used them all on the record, Jew's harps, car horns, whistles, Christmas crackers...God knows what, everything under the sun. Obviously we used more that you actually hear on the record, almost in the background, too many things spoil it and it's a good effect and in fact I did a song in Holland on TV recently and I got these old ladies....what I intended to do was to play the song and when the instrumental came I asked the people to supply me with just a box full of toy trumpets and tambourines and whistles and so I played them myself but on the actually recording, it was a family TV show over there, I think the lady was Liz Bellman, she was a very nice lady. It was her show. The actual show goes out live at night. What I did was I got about a dozen old women in the audience. I gave them each a trumpet and a tambourine. So when the instrumental came I got them to play and blow a whistle. Very effective. It's a good party little record." |
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Fine By Me Time: 2:51 Album: Irlish [2001] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Mark Flannery. Recorded at "Close To The Hedge Studios", Jersey. |
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For What It's Worth [Version 1] Time: 4:04 Album: Caricature - The Box [2004] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Described on sleeve notes as original version. |
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For What It's Worth [Version 2] Time: 3:59 Album: Off Centre [1980] Note: Produced by Gus Dudgeon. Recorded at the Moonlight Studios, Cookham, England. |
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Force Of Habit Time: 2:31 Album: A Scruff At Heart [2006] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at "Jersey Rock Studios", Channel Islands. |
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Forever Wondering Time: 3:51 Album: Frobisher Drive [1987] Note: Produced by Ken Gold. Gilbert Quote: [University Hall, Limerick - 27 March 2001] As a piano player, this type of song goes with the territory, he said. He felt it was a wonderful opening riff and if Fats owned the rights to it he would own Las Vegas instead of just playing there. |
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Get Down [Version 1] Time: 2:39 Vinyl Single: Get Down [1973] Album: I'm A Writer Not A Fighter [1973] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. 2 weeks at number 1 in the U.K. charts [April '73]. Recorded at Audio International Studios, London. Gilbert Quote: [Rolling Stone/Paul Gambaccini/August 1973] "I didn't know what 'get down' means in America, nor 'dog' for that matter, until Gordon came back from the States and told me. My lyrics are very British, and to me the girl in 'Get Down' is behaving like a dog - she's jumping up on him, so 'get down!' That's all. "If 'Get Down' really is interpreted as Gordon thought it might, we should sell ten million and put it on the soundtrack of Deep Throat. The whole point of it is to be a good disco record, just a nice rhyme, a simple story. I used to play it was a warm-up on the piano, then I heard the Faces' "Cindy Incidentally' and that made me think of extending it into a song." |
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Get Down '90 [Version 2] Time: 3:08 Vinyl Single: Get Down '90 [1989] Album: His 20 Most Beautiful Songs [1989] Note: Remixed by Peter Slaghuis. |
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Get Down [Version 3 - Live Version] Time: 5:40 CD Single: Ain't No Telling (What Tomorrow Will Bring) [1996] [Track3] Album: Tomorrow Today - Live In Japan '93 [1993] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at Nakano-Sunplaza, Tokyo in Feb 1993. |
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Get Down [Version 4 - Live Version] Time: 5:43 Album: Live At duo Music Exchange [DVD/CD Set] [2005] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at duo Music Exchange, Tokyo in June 2004. |
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Get Out Of My Life [Version 1] Time: 2:38 Album: The Humble Beginnings of England's Gilbert O'Sullivan and Gerry Dorsey [1972] |
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Get Out Of My Life [Version 2] Time: 2:38 Album: E le Sue Canzoni [1974] |
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Go Forth And Multiply Time: 2:39 Album: Unreleased Note: Never recorded but often played in live shows. Gilbert Quote: Milton Keynes - 14 April 2002 As a bonus Gilbert sang this song which he has never recorded. He told us of his love for the English language but he felt that the F word was too commonly used and was not necessary and could be said in another way. To prove the point he sang this song. |
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God Forbid Time: 3:14 Album: Piano Foreplay [2003] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Mark Flannery. Recorded at "Jersey Rock Studios", Channel Islands. |
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Going Home Time: 2:14 Vinyl Single: Going Home [1974] Album: E le Sue Canzoni [1974] |
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Good Company Time: 2:47 Vinyl Single: Ooh Baby [1973] [B-side] Album: The Other Sides Of Gilbert O'Sullivan [2004] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. |
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Gordon Bennett Time: 4:43 Album: In The Key Of G [1990] Note: Produced by Gilbert. |
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Got To Be That Way [Version 1] Time: 3:15 Album: Life & Rhymes [1982] Note: Produced by Graham Gouldman. Recorded at Windmill Lane Recording Studio, Dublin. |
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Got To Be That Way [Version 2 - Live Version] Time: 3:06 Album: Tomorrow Today - Live In Japan '93 [1993] Note: Produced Gilbert. Recorded at Nakano-Sunplaza, Tokyo in Feb 1993. |
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Happiness Is Me And You [Version 1] Time: 3:05 Vinyl Single: Happiness Is me And You [1974] Album: The Berry Vest Of Gilbert O'Sullivan [2004] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. |
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Happiness Is Me And You [Version 2 - Live Version] Time: 3:55 Album: Unreleased Note: Gilbert introduced a different version of this song on the 2007 tour with just him singing accompanied by an Spanish acoustic guitar. |
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Has Been Time: 2:50 Album: Life & Rhymes [1982] Note: Produced by Graham Gouldman. Recorded at Windmill Lane Recording Studio, Dublin. |
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Have It Time: 3:52 CD Single: Have It [2001] Album: Irlish [2001] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Mark Flannery. Recorded at "Close To The Hedge Studios", Jersey. |
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Having Said That [Version 1] Time: 3:58 Album: Sounds of the Loop [1991] [Japanese release] Note: Produced by Gilbert. |
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Having Said That [Version 2] Time: 3:58 Album: Sounds of the Loop [1993] [UK release] Note: Produced by Gilbert. |
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Heaven's Above [Version 1] Time: 5:10 Album: Singer Sowing Machine [1997] [Japanese release] Note: Produced by Mark Flannery and Gilbert. |
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Heaven's Above [Version 2] Time: 5:23 Album: Singer Sowing Machine [1997] [ UK release] Note: Produced by Mark Flannery and Gilbert. |
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Hello, It's Goodbye Time: 3:08 Vinyl Single: Hello, It's Goodbye [1981] Album: Off Centre [1980] Note: Produced by Gus Dudgeon. Recorded at the Moonlight Studios, Cookham, England. |
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Help Is On The Way Time: 3:43 Vinyl Single: I Love It But [1980] [B-side] Album: Off Centre [1980] Note: Produced by Gus Dudgeon. Recorded at the Moonlight Studios, Cookham, England. |
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Here's Why Time: 3:37 Album: Mum's The Word [2010] Note: A duet with Hayley Sanderson. Due for release in Feb 2010. |
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Hey Mama Time: 3:02 Album: Unreleased |
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Hitler Could Have Made It With You Time: Album: Mum's The Word [2010] Note: Due for release in Feb 2010. |
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Hold On To What You Got [Version 1] Time: 2:50 Album: The Little Album [1992] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at Windmill Studios, Dublin. |
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Hold On To What You Got [Version 2 - Live Version] Time: 3:18 Album: Tomorrow Today - Live In Japan '93 [1993] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at Nakano-Sunplaza, Tokyo in Feb 1993. |
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Hold On To What You Got [Version 3 - Live Version] Time: 2:50 Album: Live At duo Music Exchange [DVD/CD Set] [2005] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at duo Music Exchange, Tokyo in June 2004. |
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Houdini Said Time: 5:24 Album: Himself [1971] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at Audio International Studios, London. |
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How I Say That I Love You Time: 3:19 Album: Irlish [2001] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Mark Flannery. Recorded at "Close To The Hedge Studios", Jersey. |
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I Can Give You Time: 3:38 Album: Sounds Of the Loop [Japanese & UK Release] Note: Produced by Gilbert. |
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I Didn't Know What To Do [Version 1] Time: 1:35 Album: Unreleased Note: Performed on the Top Gear programme on 16/6/68 on BBC Radio. |
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I Didn't Know What To Do [Version 2] Time: 1:39 Vinyl Single: We Will [1971] [B-side] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. |
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I Didn't Know What To Do [Version 3] Time: 1:43 Album: E Le Sue Canzoni [1974] Note: Titled "I Don't Know What To Do" on the album sleeve. |
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I Don't Care Time: 3:26 Album: Singer Sowing Machine [1997] [Japanese & UK Release] Note: Produced by Mark Flannery and Gilbert. |
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I Don't Love You But I Think I Like You Time: 3:07 Vinyl Single: I Don't Love You But I Think I Like You [1975] Album: Twin Best [2002] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Arranged by H.B. Barnum. [H.B. Barnum has arranged for Frank Sinatra, The Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, Gladys Knight etc.]. |
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I Don't Mind Time: 2:21 Album: The Little Album [1992] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at Windmill Studios, Dublin. |
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I Don't Trust Men With Earrings In Their Ears Time: 3:57 Album: Frobisher Drive [1987] / In The Key Of G [1990] Note: Produced by Chris Tsangerides and Gilbert. |
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I Gave Mine To You Time: 3:14 Album: Piano Foreplay [2003] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Mark Flannery. Recorded at "Jersey Rock Studios", Channel Islands. |
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I Have My Coat To Keep Me Warm Time: 3:27 CD Single: Two's Company (Three Is Allowed) [2002] [Track2] Note: Produced by Gilbert and Kevin Killen. |
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I Have Never Loved You As Much As I Love You Today Time: 2:32 Album: I'm A Writer Not A Fighter [1973] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at Audio International Studios, London. |
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I Hope You'll Stay Time: 2:28 Album: Back To Front [1972] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at Audio International Studios, London. |
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I Know What I Would Do Time: 5:17 Album: A Scruff At Heart [2006] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at "Jersey Rock Studios", Channel Islands. |
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I Love It But Time: 3:32 Vinyl Single: I Love It But [1980] Album: Off Centre [1980] Note: Produced by Gus Dudgeon. Recorded at the Moonlight Studios, Cookham, England. Chris Rea plays accordion on this track. |
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I Love Married Women Time: - Album: Unreleased Note: An unfinished song that Gilbert played part of during his show at The Great Southern Hotel in Galway on 26 March 2001. |
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I Promise Honest Time: 3:24 Album: Life & Rhymes [1982] Note: Produced by Graham Gouldman. Recorded at Windmill Lane Recording Studio, Dublin. |
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I Remember Once Time: 5:14 Album: Southpaw [1977] Note: Produced by Gilbert |
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I Wanna Know Time: 4:17Album: Mum's The Word [2010] Note: Due for release in Feb 2010. |
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I Wish I Could Cry [Version 1] Time: 3:28 Vinyl Single: Mr Moody's Garden [1969] [B-side] Note: Produced by Tommy Scott. Recorded with piano, strings and woodwind and without drums. Also has a false ending. Gilbert Quote: [New Musical Express/Tony Norman/May 1972] "I don't know how many people realise "I Wish I Could Cry" was about Bobby Kennedy. If you listen to the lyrics again with that knowledge, the words will mean a lot more. I did it in a subtle way. "I don't mention his name once. I didn't say, 'Bobby Kennedy's dead. It's awful. What are we gonna do? Why did they kill him?' I just wrote the song: 'Day to day, someone we really love seems to feel the pain we're always thinking of. And, you know, if only we were the men we're supposed to be, it wouldn't happen again.' Now I mean, if you didn't know that was about Bobby Kennedy, you'd never guess. You'd just think it was quite a sad song." |
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I Wish I Could Cry [Version 2] Time: 3:30 Vinyl Single: I Wish I Could Cry [1971] Note: Different recording, similar to Version 1 but with drums and without false ending. |
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I Wish I Could Cry [Version 3] Time: 3:32 Album: Every Song Has It's Play [1995] Note: New recording, produced by Gilbert. Recorded at Whitfield Street Recording Studios, London. |
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I Wish I Could Cry [Version 4 - Live Version] Time: 3:44 Album: Tomorrow Today - Live In Japan '93 [1993] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at Nakano-Sunplaza, Tokyo in Feb 1993. |
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I Wish I Could Cry [Version 5] Time: 3:35 CD Single: I Wish I Could Cry [1997] Album: Caricature - The Box [2004] - The Box Note: New production of Version 3 by Rod Argent, Pete van Hook and Gilbert. |
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I Wonder Would You Mind Time: 2:18 Album: A Stranger In My Own Back Yard [1974] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at A and R Studios, New York and Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles. Gilbert Quote: [From a promo disc for the album release] "I Wonder Would You Mind" is for me one of those songs I can't see any other accompaniment being on them. When I write songs, I sit down at the piano and I go through songs just to warm myself up. "I Wonder Would You Mind" is one of those. On the past albums I've never really had songs with just piano and voice and I've always wanted to and Gordon has said well there's plenty of time. So for this album I said 'Well how about letting me do one of those songs of mine with just piano and voice". It's not that he's against it but he likes using orchestras and things and for him just a piano and voice almost sounds like a demo. He agreed with me and the fact that on an album to give variety it's nice to have a track because there's something very intimate about just piano and voice. A lot of people do it but for me it's unusual and with there being a lot of orchestration on the album, I think it's nice to have a song that comes in with just piano and voice. I can't really tell you what it's about. Again it's one of those songs that probably means more to me than anybody and it displays my terrible piano playing in the middle." |
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I, Of Course Replied [Version 1] Time: 2:43 Vinyl Single: Doing What I Know [1976] [B-side] Note: Piano solo. |
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I, Of Course Replied [Version 2] Time: 2:42 Album: Southpaw [1977] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Organ solo. |
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If I Can't Have You All To Myself Time: 3:04 Album: Southpaw [1977] Note: Produced by Gilbert. |
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If I Don't Get You (Back Again) Time: 2:44 Vinyl Single: No Matter How I Try [1971] B-side] Album: Himself [1971] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at Audio International Studios, London. |
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If I Know You Time: 4:05 Album: Life & Rhymes [1982] Note: Produced by Graham Gouldman. Recorded at Windmill Lane Recording Studio, Dublin. |
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If I Start With The Chorus [Version 1] Time: 2:53 Album: Frobisher Drive [1987] Note: Produced by Ken Gold. |
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If I Start With The Chorus [Version 2] Time: 2:36 Album: In The Key Of G [1989] Note: Produced by Gilbert. |
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If You Commence Before The Start Time: 1:08 Album: Every Song Has It's Play [1995] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Gilbert doesn't sing on this track. Recorded at Whitfield Street Recording Studios, London. |
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If You Ever Time: 2:33 Album: A Stranger In My Own Back Yard [1974] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at A and R Studios, New York and Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles. Gilbert Quote: [From a promo disc for the album release] "This is one of the songs that when I played it to Gordon and he heard the lyric, he said it's a nice melody, a very nice melody but the lyric is wrong. He wanted a love lyric, he imagined boy meets girl. Gordon likes that kind of thing and I think he's fair in saying that but for me, again it's one of those songs where each verse has a different story to tell and in fact in the first verse in the line about "My old teacher had a belt which he kept around his shoulder blade, there for the mistakes we made". I'm sure if my old teacher is still around today, he'll shudder when he hears that because it's very true. He used to wear a big leather strap on his shoulder. He used to be hunched up and you wouldn't see the strap but if you were biting your finger nails or you were drawing doodles or scraping a penknife on your desk or something...he's come up and whip this strap out and smack you across the fingers, almost sadistic. So that verse reflects that and each other verse in the song and the middle eight sections are all again different little stories. I also like the line...and it's easy for me to say this, but I like the line "Funny old world this but haven't you noticed, everything is glued on, nothing is screwed on, someday we will come unstuck". I like that." |
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If You Love Me Like You Love Me Time: 3:19 Album: I'm A Writer Not A Fighter [1973] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at Audio International Studios, London. |
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I'll Be The Lonely One Time: 2:15 Album: Singer Sowing Machine [1997] [Japanese & UK Release] Note: Produced by Mark Flannery and Gilbert. |
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I'll Believe It When I See It Time: 5:18 Vinyl Single: I'll Believe It When I See It [1975] Album: Rare Tracks [1992] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Arranged by H.B. Barnum. [H.B. Barnum has arranged for Frank Sinatra, The Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, Gladys Knight etc.]. |
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I'll Never Let You Go Time: 3:37 Album: Rare Tracks [1992] |
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I'm A Writer Not A Fighter Time: 3:18 Album: I'm A Writer Not A Fighter [1973] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at Audio International Studios, London. Gilbert Quote: [Disc/Brian Southall/Oct 1973] And the title track is one of the best I've ever done. It's so unusual and "Where Peaceful Waters Flow" has that really good feel about it and a very exciting finish." |
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I'm About Time: 3:49 Album: Singer Sowing Machine [1997] [Japanese & UK Release] Note: Produced by Mark Flannery and Gilbert. |
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I'm In Love With Love (Again) Time: 3:40 Album: A Scruff At Heart [2006] Note: Produced by Gilbert. Recorded at "Jersey Rock Studios", Channel Islands. Gilbert Quote: [Antwerp - 27 May 2008] "This next song is one that is liked by people who bought the album, I kinda like playing it." |
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I'm In Love With You Time: 4:25 Album: Back To Front [1972] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at Audio International Studios, London. |
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I'm Leaving Time: 2:32 Album: Back To Front [1972] Note: Produced by Gordon Mills. Recorded at Audio International Studios, London. |
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I'm Not Getting Any Younger Time: 4:31 Album: Off Centre [1980] Note: Produced by Gus Dudgeon. Recorded at the Moonlight Studios, Cookham, England. |
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I'm Not Too Young Time: 4:04 Album: Sounds of the Loop [1991] [Japanese Release] Note: Produced by Gilbert. |
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In A Nutshell |