Gilbert O'Sullivan - We Will (1971)

Same song re-mixed with some lovely photographs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7soLnMj4VjM

Possibly the greatest love song ever written. Few of us have experienced hearts and flowers and Hollywood endings but we all feel love in some way for our families. Although love is seldom mentioned it's the little things like cups of tea, birthday cards or football games with the kids. Gilbert, you're a genius.

Hello KM...just got back from the boozer and you've prompted me to put on my 'Gilberto' playlist that I haven't heard for a while - it's a 'mood' thing (I've been blasting out a lot of Killing Joke recently ... the polar opposite of easy gear like Gilberto) but when in the right frame of mind to listen, he's very under-rated.

My fav's are Alone Again Naturally & Why Oh Why

You've got to love the line in 'Why Oh Why' when he sings;

"It's seems that you're happy as long as I'm upset"

That's EXACTLY what they're like!

Alone Again Naturally is one of the best songs ever written. Very clever, very sad and very poignant. One of my favourites but don`t play it after you have done your nuts on the horses.

Kenny, covered by rumer on her latest album, may want to give it a blast.

nice one Kenny.
I actually remember the release very well, great choice

I preferred The Mikado.
Yum yum!

My daughter is 17 years old

and her fave song for years has

been 'Matrimony'

Got it on her iPod.

nothing rhymed

cheers chaps, I'll check that cover out mm.

You see all these very average songwriters getting Brits,Ivor Novello's etc

Gary Barlow gets treated like some mastercraftsman..on the basis of what?



Not fit to wear one of Gilbert's tanktops imho

''Nothing old, nothing new, nothing ventured,
Nothing gained, nothing still-born or lost,
Nothing further than proof, nothing wilder than youth,
Nothing older than time, nothing sweeter than wine,
Nothing physically, recklessly, hopelessly blind,
Nothing I couldn't say,
Nothing why 'cos today,
Nothing rhymed.
Beat that

Love a bit of Gilbert.

His 'berry vest' compilation album is a cracker.

Or even better than Nothing Rhymed.......
In a little while from now
If I'm not feeling any less dire
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby spire
And climbing to the top will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Don't know what it's like when you're shattered
Left standing in the lurch at a church
Where people saying, "My god, that's tough
She's stood him up,
No point in us remaining.
We may as well go home."
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally
In a little while from now .....Wow..

'There is too much attention paid to people who believe
the world we live in really isn't round'
Much of his best work is generally unknown - on LP's but not charted.

Kenny - it's your fault I've been listening to this stuff for the last week or so
Ivor - anything in particular from his 'secret' collection you'd recommend?

PS - listening to 'Ooh Wakka Doo Wakka Day' reminds me of one of my mates who's hopeless with women...I can't help but sing along to
"ooh whacking off every day" instead - he's not too happy about that

ha ha, here's a good clip. Gilbert with the great Les Dawson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ftuxGfeiQ

I have that album on cd in my car , and that We Will is one of the all time great tracks....Kennyman...

That's good to hear workrider.

Some of his stuff wasn't that easy for a beginner on a guitar, and that was why I served his music more than any other reason. He's talented, no doubt about that.

and this  pleasure i get  from say winning the bet ,is to lose

He know's how it feels Coachbuster....

Once i upon a time i drank a little wine

Was as happy as can be

I loved his music and thought him a genius but hadn't listened to him in a while.
Because of this thread I listened to a few favourites. Found them really depressing to be honest.

And looking back over the years
and whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty five years old
My mother, god rest her soul
couldn't understand why the only man
she had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start
with a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
no words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally.

Brings tears to my eyes every time I hear this, even now.

My favourite Christmas present of all time was the fellas greatest hits way back when from my Grandpop and mop. At the time I was also into Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Genesis, and The Doobie Brothers.

Gilbert O'Sullivan was the first "uncool" artist that I became a fan of.

Incredibly underrated. Shame he had to go through all of that garbage in court with the to$$ers who wouldn't pay him what he was deserved, but he got the money in the end.

Banal,vapid saccharine lyrics. Just awful.

Facts - Banal & vapid
Great adjectives, but that's NOT a fact!

Banal,vapid saccharine lyrics. Just awful

I actually feel sorry for you.

Facts - what do you like? I suspect grunge

Zep,Bowie,Springsteen,Young,Roxy,Lizzy(to name a few)

And Peter Skellern.  'Hold On To Love' would make my all-time top 30.  Eating corned beef sandwiches in the something-or-other pub in the Hay Market, Newcastle, with this on the Juke Box.  Annie the bar-tenderess adding a gob of extra-love to each roll.

That's a great song, bodil.

It is, Kenny.

He did a cover of the great Jolson number, "About A Quarter To Nine". Not as good as Al, but a good attempt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ2eeFI_TC0

Just listening to Superfly, Curtis Mayfield.  Very much of the same time.  When black men were beginning to assert themselves culturally.  To add to their innate advantages.

Skellern must still be wowing them on the Yorkshire tea-dance circuit.

Yes he was very good last week.

We'll all get there eventually, if we live long enough and try hard.  Here's hoping ...

And now Snowbound and Donald Fagen.

Ah ...

Very very English music, couldn`t be from any other country and yet he`s Irish...

I wonder what Julie Driscoll looks like now.

Heres he is 10 years ago, aged 58, performing some really far out stuff, man.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqcxG4bGMJg

The Valley Road.

Lodged in my shrinking brain as the finest yet.