Alone Again (Naturally)
Encyclopedia
"Alone Again" is a song
by Irish
singer–songwriter
Gilbert O'Sullivan
. It was released in 1972, and in total spent six weeks, non-consecutively, at #1 on the United States
Billboard Hot 100
singles
chart
. In Casey Kasem
's American
'Top 40 of the 1970s', "Alone Again (Naturally)" ranked as the fifth most-popular song of the decade (Debby Boone
's "You Light Up My Life
" was #1). "Alone Again (Naturally)" also spent six weeks at number one on the Easy Listening chart. The track reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart
.
It is an introspective ballad
, starting with the singer telling of his plans to commit suicide
after being left at the altar, and then telling about the death of his parents. O'Sullivan has said that the song is not autobiographical, as he did not know his father (who died when O'Sullivan was 11) very well, and that his father had mistreated his mother. "Alone Again (Naturally)" is included on O'Sullivan's The Berry Vest of Gilbert O'Sullivan
album
(2004) on the EMI
record label
. Big Jim Sullivan
plays the guitar
break in the original recorded version of the song.
The landmark 1991 copyright
case Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. centered on the unauthorized use of a sample
from "Alone Again (Naturally)" by rapper Biz Markie
.
's version of the song was the title track of her classic 1972 album.
In 1972, the Dutch comedy duo Van Kooten en De Bie
wrote a Dutch
version of the song, called 1948. It deals about nostalgic feelings of a sober, but happy childhood in the year 1948, just three years after World War II.
Popular balladeer Johnny Mathis
covered the song in 1973.
Dame Shirley Bassey covered the song on her 1976 album Love, Life, and Feelings.
Jazz musician Dewey Redman
included an instrumental version on his 1979 album Musics
Nina Simone
recorded her own version on the 1982 album Fodder on My Wings
. The lyrics are about the death of Nina's father, and her emotions while "I waited three weeks for him to die".
Spanish singer Chao
recorded in 1988 a spanish version called "Solo soy para ti" (I'm only for you), with a very different meaning in the lyric.
Jazz trumpeter Blue Mitchell
covered the song on his 1973 album Graffiti Blues.
In 2004, Ehud Manor
wrote a Hebrew
version of the song. This version is called "VeShuv Levad" , and sung by Tiki Dayan, an Israel
i actress. The Hebrew version was used as the theme song for the Israeli drama series Matay Nitnashek, in 2007.
The song was covered in 2005 by Elton John
and the Pet Shop Boys
for a rare 2005 promo of Gilbert O'Sullivan. This cover version was never released commercially.
Cass Elliot
also covered the song live, at The Julie Andrews Hour
(1972), Season 1, Episode 8.
Makoto Ozone
made a jazz version of the song for the Japanese television drama
Ashita no Kita Yoshio.
Har Mar Superstar
covered the song on his 2004 album The Handler
.
In 2007, Donny Osmond
covered this song on his solo studio album, Love Songs of the '70s
.
Neil Diamond released a cover version on his 2010 album "Dreams".
, The Virgin Suicides
and Stuck on You. It was the opening theme song of Episode 24 of the anime Maison Ikkoku
. (Sullivan's later hit "Get Down
" was the closing theme of that same episode, but the producers were unable to use the songs for more than one episode due to copyright problems.)
The song can be heard briefly in the background in the movie Osmosis Jones
.
The episode "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
" of the eleventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons
, is a clear reference to the song, as is season 20's No Loan Again, Naturally
. In the season 17 episode "The Wettest Stories Ever Told
" of The Simpsons, Comic Book Guy
uses the song as inspirational music.
During the second series of the British
television drama Life on Mars
, it is used as an end theme of one episode to signify the despair of the lead character, Sam Tyler
.
In May 2000, a cover version
of the song appeared on Diet for a New America by the band 58
, a side project by Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx
.
The song was also used in the feature film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
, but the lyrics were changed to be more humorous and romantic.
In the episode "Look Who's Stalking" of the television series Veronica Mars
, the song is referenced in a banter between the characters. Logan asks Veronica "Alone again?" and she replies "Naturally".
The lyric "65 years old, my mother, God rest her soul" is referenced in the song "Fly
" by Sugar Ray
, changed to "25 years old".
In the 2003 film Love Actually
, the character of Colin Firth
says to himself, upon arriving at his secluded cabin after discovering that his girlfriend cheated on him with his brother, "Alone again. Naturally."
In the 2002 film, Stuart Little 2
, the song can be heard while Stuart is driving after George goes off to play with his friends and not allow him to partake in the fun.
The song also appeared, covered by Vonda Shepard
, in the TV series "Ally McBeal
".
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
by Irish
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
singer–songwriter
Singer–songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Gilbert O'Sullivan is an Irish-English singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hits "Alone Again ", "Clair" and "Get Down". The music magazine, Record Mirror, voted him the No...
. It was released in 1972, and in total spent six weeks, non-consecutively, at #1 on the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
singles
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
chart
Record chart
A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
. In Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem
Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem is an American radio personality and voice actor who is best known for being the host of the nationally syndicated Top 40 countdown show American Top 40, and for voicing Shaggy in the popular Saturday morning cartoon franchise Scooby-Doo.Kasem, along with Don Bustany and...
's American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
'Top 40 of the 1970s', "Alone Again (Naturally)" ranked as the fifth most-popular song of the decade (Debby Boone
Debby Boone
Deborah Anne Boone is an American singer and stage actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life," which spent a then record ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year...
's "You Light Up My Life
You Light Up My Life (song)
Many artists have covered "You Light Up My Life" since 1977. The following year, Johnny Mathis recorded and named his album after the song. LeAnn Rimes released her version as a single in 1997, 20 years after Boone's version was released and on the same record label . Her version fared modestly...
" was #1). "Alone Again (Naturally)" also spent six weeks at number one on the Easy Listening chart. The track reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
.
It is an introspective ballad
Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...
, starting with the singer telling of his plans to commit suicide
Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
after being left at the altar, and then telling about the death of his parents. O'Sullivan has said that the song is not autobiographical, as he did not know his father (who died when O'Sullivan was 11) very well, and that his father had mistreated his mother. "Alone Again (Naturally)" is included on O'Sullivan's The Berry Vest of Gilbert O'Sullivan
The Berry Vest of Gilbert O'Sullivan
The Berry Vest of Gilbert O'Sullivan is a compilation album by Gilbert O'Sullivan, released in 2004. The songs are composed and performed by Gilbert O'Sullivan.-Track listing:#"Nothing Rhymed" – 3:24#"Alone Again " – 3:38...
album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
(2004) on the EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
. Big Jim Sullivan
Big Jim Sullivan
Big Jim Sullivan is an English musician, whose career started in 1959. He is best known as a session guitarist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Sullivan was one of the most "in-demand" studio musicians in the UK, and performed in more than one thousand charting singles over his career...
plays the guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
break in the original recorded version of the song.
The landmark 1991 copyright
Copyright
Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...
case Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. centered on the unauthorized use of a sample
Sampling (music)
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...
from "Alone Again (Naturally)" by rapper Biz Markie
Biz Markie
Marcel Theo Hall better known by his stage name, Biz Markie, is an American rapper, beatboxer, DJ, comedian, singer, reality television personality, and commercial spokesperson. He is best known for his single "Just a Friend", an American Top 10 hit in 1989...
.
Other versions
Esther PhillipsEsther Phillips
Esther Phillips was an American singer. Phillips was known for her R&B vocals, but she was a versatile singer, also performing pop, country, jazz, blues and soul music.-Early life:...
's version of the song was the title track of her classic 1972 album.
In 1972, the Dutch comedy duo Van Kooten en De Bie
Van Kooten en de Bie
Van Kooten en De Bie were a Dutch comedy duo formed by Kees van Kooten and Wim de Bie.The two cooperated for years, before they started to work for the public broadcasting organization VPRO, where they first performed for radio broadcasting, and later took to making shows for television...
wrote a Dutch
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
version of the song, called 1948. It deals about nostalgic feelings of a sober, but happy childhood in the year 1948, just three years after World War II.
Popular balladeer Johnny Mathis
Johnny Mathis
John Royce "Johnny" Mathis is an American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standards, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status, and 73 making the Billboard charts...
covered the song in 1973.
Dame Shirley Bassey covered the song on her 1976 album Love, Life, and Feelings.
Jazz musician Dewey Redman
Dewey Redman
Dewey Redman was an American jazz saxophonist, known for performing free jazz as a bandleader, and with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett....
included an instrumental version on his 1979 album Musics
Musics
Musics is an album by American jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman featuring performances recorded in 1978 for the Galaxy label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "This is one of tenor-saxophonist Dewey Redman's more accessible sessions.....
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...
recorded her own version on the 1982 album Fodder on My Wings
Fodder On My Wings
Fodder on My Wings is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It is part of her later works, and can be regarded alongside Baltimore as one of her better achievements of that period . It is however a rather obscure album and not widely distributed. The album is one of Dr...
. The lyrics are about the death of Nina's father, and her emotions while "I waited three weeks for him to die".
Spanish singer Chao
Chao
Chao or similar sounding câo, cháo, cháo, čhao, chau, ciao, jao, may refer to:-China:*Chao, an alternative spelling of Zhao ; an alternative pronunciation of Cao and Cao *Chao , a Chinese surname...
recorded in 1988 a spanish version called "Solo soy para ti" (I'm only for you), with a very different meaning in the lyric.
Jazz trumpeter Blue Mitchell
Blue Mitchell
Richard Allen Mitchell was an American jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock, and funk trumpeter, known for many albums recorded as leader and sideman for Riverside, Blue Note and then Mainstream Records.-Biography:...
covered the song on his 1973 album Graffiti Blues.
In 2004, Ehud Manor
Ehud Manor
Ehud Manor was an Israeli songwriter, translator, and radio and TV personality.-Career:Manor began working for Israel radio in the 1960s, as a musical editor...
wrote a Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
version of the song. This version is called "VeShuv Levad" , and sung by Tiki Dayan, an Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i actress. The Hebrew version was used as the theme song for the Israeli drama series Matay Nitnashek, in 2007.
The song was covered in 2005 by Elton John
Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
and the Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....
for a rare 2005 promo of Gilbert O'Sullivan. This cover version was never released commercially.
Cass Elliot
Cass Elliot
Cass Elliot , born Ellen Naomi Cohen and also known as Mama Cass, was an American singer and member of The Mamas & the Papas. After the group broke up, she released five solo albums. Elliot was found dead in her room in London, England, from an apparent heart attack after two weeks of sold-out...
also covered the song live, at The Julie Andrews Hour
The Julie Andrews Hour
The Julie Andrews Hour is a television variety series starring Julie Andrews that was produced by ATV and distributed by ITC Entertainment. It aired on the ABC network in the United States....
(1972), Season 1, Episode 8.
Makoto Ozone
Makoto Ozone
is a Japanese jazz pianist.He began playing organ at two and by seven was an improviser. He appeared on Japanese television with his father from 1968 to 1970. At twelve he switched to piano after being impressed by albums by Oscar Peterson. In 1980 he entered the Berklee College of Music and later...
made a jazz version of the song for the Japanese television drama
Japanese television drama
, also called , are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including murder romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, and many others...
Ashita no Kita Yoshio.
Har Mar Superstar
Har Mar Superstar
Sean Matthew Tillmann , better known by his stage names of Har Mar Superstar and Sean Na Na, is an American singer.-Life and career:...
covered the song on his 2004 album The Handler
The Handler
The Handler is the third CD from American singer Har Mar Superstar. It features guest appearances from Karen O and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Holly Valance, Pete Thomas, Michael Bland and Northern State.-Track listing:# "Transit" – 3:36...
.
In 2007, Donny Osmond
Donny Osmond
Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond is an American singer, musician, actor, dancer, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer and author. In the mid 1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as the Osmond Brothers on the long...
covered this song on his solo studio album, Love Songs of the '70s
Donny Osmond discography
This article documents the discography of American pop music singer, Donny Osmond.-Solo studio albums:The Osmond's 60s and 70s albums have never been released on CD legitimately in any country. Several 2 for 1 bootleg collections have been released on all of the original catalogue. Most notably the...
.
Neil Diamond released a cover version on his 2010 album "Dreams".
Uses in media
The song has been featured in many movies and TV shows, including Megamind, Summer Time Machine BluesSummer Time Machine Blues
is a summer 2005 Japanese film directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro. The film stars Eita as a member of a university science-fiction club, and Juri Ueno and Yoko Maki as part of the neighboring photography club.-Plot:...
, The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides (film)
The Virgin Suicides is a 1999 American drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, produced by her father Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, and A.J...
and Stuck on You. It was the opening theme song of Episode 24 of the anime Maison Ikkoku
Maison Ikkoku
is a Japanese seinen manga written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi and serialized in the manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1980 through 1987. Maison Ikkoku is a bitter-sweet comedic romance involving a group of madcap people who live in a boarding house in 1980s Tokyo...
. (Sullivan's later hit "Get Down
Get Down (Gilbert O'Sullivan song)
"Get Down" is a song by 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, and was also a number-one hit in Ireland and a top-ten hit in the United States and Canada. The song has nothing to do...
" was the closing theme of that same episode, but the producers were unable to use the songs for more than one episode due to copyright problems.)
The song can be heard briefly in the background in the movie Osmosis Jones
Osmosis Jones
Osmosis Jones is a 2001 live-action/animated comedy film directed by Tom Sito and Piet Kroon for the animated segments and the Farrelly brothers for the live-action segments...
.
The episode "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
"Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" is the fourteenth episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons, and marks the final regular appearance of the character Maude Flanders. In the episode, she is killed in an accident while watching a speedway race, devastating Ned Flanders and prompting Homer to find a...
" of the eleventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
, is a clear reference to the song, as is season 20's No Loan Again, Naturally
No Loan Again, Naturally
"No Loan Again, Naturally" is the twelfth episode of the twentieth season of The Simpsons. It premiered on the Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States on March 8, 2009....
. In the season 17 episode "The Wettest Stories Ever Told
The Wettest Stories Ever Told
The Wettest Stories Ever Told is the eighteenth episode of The Simpsons’ seventeenth season.-Plot:When the Simpsons' plans for a nice family outing at the Frying Dutchman turns into a dining disaster , the family try to salvage the night by turning the episode into yet another Simpsons anthology...
" of The Simpsons, Comic Book Guy
Comic Book Guy
Comic Book Guy is a recurring fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by Hank Azaria, and first appeared in the second-season episode "Three Men and a Comic Book", which originally aired on May 9, 1991. He is the proprietor of a comic book store, The...
uses the song as inspirational music.
During the second series of the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
television drama Life on Mars
Life on Mars (TV series)
Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between January 2006 and April 2007. The series combines elements of science fiction and police procedural....
, it is used as an end theme of one episode to signify the despair of the lead character, Sam Tyler
Sam Tyler
DCI/DI Sam Tyler is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, Life on Mars.In the original British version of Life on Mars, Tyler is played by John Simm and in the American version he is played by Jason O'Mara....
.
In May 2000, a cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of the song appeared on Diet for a New America by the band 58
58 (band)
58 is an American rock band, a side project involving Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe and producer Dave Darling, Sixx's former father-in-law. The band name originates from the fact that both Sixx and Darling were born in 1958...
, a side project by Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx
Nikki Sixx
Nikki Sixx is an American musician, songwriter, author, fashion designer, radio host, and photographer, best known as the co-founder and bassist of the band Mötley Crüe. Prior to forming Mötley Crüe, Sixx was a member of Sister before going on to form London with his Sister band mate Lizzie Grey...
.
The song was also used in the feature film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, also known as Ice Age 3, is a 2009 3-D computer animated film. It is the third installment of the Ice Age series, produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox...
, but the lyrics were changed to be more humorous and romantic.
In the episode "Look Who's Stalking" of the television series Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars is an American television series created by Rob Thomas. The series premiered on September 22, 2004, during television network UPN's final two years, and ended on May 22, 2007, after a season on UPN's successor, The CW Television Network. Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros...
, the song is referenced in a banter between the characters. Logan asks Veronica "Alone again?" and she replies "Naturally".
The lyric "65 years old, my mother, God rest her soul" is referenced in the song "Fly
Fly (Sugar Ray song)
"Fly" is a song by rock band Sugar Ray. It appears on their 1997 album Floored twice: one version with reggae artist Super Cat and the other without ....
" by Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray is a band from Orange County, California. The band, starting off more as an alternative metal band, first gained fame in 1997 with their release of the song "Fly". This song's success, coupled with its pop rock sound that was quite different from the rest of their material at the time,...
, changed to "25 years old".
In the 2003 film Love Actually
Love Actually
Love Actually is a 2003 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The screenplay delves into different aspects of love as shown through ten separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown to be interlinked as their tales progress...
, the character of Colin Firth
Colin Firth
SirColin Andrew Firth, CBE is a British film, television, and theatre actor. Firth gained wide public attention in the 1990s for his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...
says to himself, upon arriving at his secluded cabin after discovering that his girlfriend cheated on him with his brother, "Alone again. Naturally."
In the 2002 film, Stuart Little 2
Stuart Little 2
Stuart Little 2 is a 2002 American live action and CGI animated film, directed by Rob Minkoff and starring Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie and Jonathan Lipnicki and the voices of Michael J. Fox, Nathan Lane, Melanie Griffith, James Woods and Steve Zahn. The film is a sequel to the 1999 film and includes...
, the song can be heard while Stuart is driving after George goes off to play with his friends and not allow him to partake in the fun.
The song also appeared, covered by Vonda Shepard
Vonda Shepard
Vonda Shepard is an American pop/rock singer. She appeared as a regular in the television show Ally McBeal from seasons 1-5 in which she played a resident performer at the bar where the show's characters drank after work. She plays piano, guitar, and bass.-Biography:Vonda Shepard was born in New...
, in the TV series "Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama series which aired on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E. Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia...
".