Get Down (Gilbert O'Sullivan song)

"Get Down"
Single by Gilbert O'Sullivan
from the album I'm a Writer, Not a Fighter
B-side "A Very Extraordinary Sort of Girl"
Released
  • March 1973 (UK)[1]
  • June 1973 (U.S.)
Format 7", 45rpm
Length 2:39
Songwriter(s) Gilbert O'Sullivan
Gilbert O'Sullivan singles chronology
"Out of the Question"
(1973)		 "Get Down"
(1973)		 "Ooh, Baby"
(1973)

"Out of the Question"
(1973)		 "Get Down"
(1973)		 "Ooh, Baby"
(1973)
Audio
"Get Down" on YouTube

"Get Down" is a song by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan, from his 1973 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,[1] was also a number-one hit in Ireland and was a top-ten hit in the United States and Canada. The song was originally used by O'Sullivan as a piano warm-up tune,[2] but was eventually extended into a full song and released as a single; O'Sullivan recorded and released the song as a change from his more melancholy pieces.

Believed to be an order from O'Sullivan to his dog ("Get Down!"), the singer is actually referring to a girl in the song behaving as a dog jumping on him, hence the request to "get down".[3]

In 2006 British dance group Malibu Sneakers recorded a dance version of the song entitled "Get Down Again" which reached number 42 in the UK Singles Chart. In 2008 it was released as a vinyl 12", including a vocal remix by Raul Rincon.[4]

The song was used in the 2013 film The Harry Hill Movie.[5]

According to Rick Finch of KC and the Sunshine Band the song was the inspiration for the 1975 disco hit Get Down Tonight.[6]

Chart performance

Maison Ikkoku

This song, along with another one of O'Sullivan's songs, "Alone Again (Naturally)", were featured as the opening and ending for episode 24 of the Japanese anime hit Maison Ikkoku. At the time, O'Sullivan was signed to production company Kitty Film's associated record label, Kitty Records, which wanted to use the anime's popularity as a way to promote the singer's career in Japan. According to series director Kazuo Yamazaki, the reason the songs were dropped after only one episode was that they were unpopular with viewers; due to copyright issues, they were not included on the English-language American release of the anime, replaced by the previously used Japanese theme songs. The anime was based upon the popular manga of the same name by Rumiko Takahashi.

References

  1. 1 2 "GILBERT O'SULLIVAN | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  2. ↑ "Gilbert O'Sullivan | In Print". Gilbertosullivan.net. 1973-08-02. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  3. ↑ "Gilbert O: He Knows He's A Mechanical Man". 1973-08-02. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
  4. ↑ "Malibu Sneakers - Get Down Again". Discogs. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "The Harry Hill Movie (2013)". Retrieved 1 August 2018 – via www.imdb.com.
  6. ↑ "Rick Finch : Songwriter Interviews". www.songfacts.com. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  7. 1 2 Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  8. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Gilbert O'Sullivan – Get Down" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
  9. ↑ "get down - gilbert o'sullivan". VRT (in Dutch). Top30-2.radio2.be. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2013. Hoogste notering in de top 30 : 1
  10. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  11. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-12-05.
  12. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Gilbert O'Sullivan – Get Down" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
  13. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Gilbert O'Sullivan – Get Down". GfK Entertainment Charts.
  14. ↑ "Chart Track: Week 9, 1973". Irish Singles Chart.
  15. ↑ "I singoli più venduti del 1973". HitParadeItalia (in Italian). Creative Commons. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
    10. Get Down - Gilbert O'Sullivan [#10]
  16. ↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Gilbert O'Sullivan" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  17. ↑ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  18. ↑ "Norwegiancharts.com – Gilbert O'Sullivan – Get Down". VG-lista.
  19. ↑ Salaverri, Fernando (September 1973). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
  20. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Gilbert O'Sullivan – Get Down". Swiss Singles Chart.
  21. ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 411. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  22. ↑ "Music: Top 100 Songs | Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. 1973-08-25. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  23. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 187.
  24. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-05-25. Retrieved 2015-05-25.
  25. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2015-05-25.
  26. ↑ 40, Stichting Nederlandse Top. "Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1973". Top40.nl. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  27. ↑ Hung, Steffen. "Swiss Year-End Charts 1973 - swisscharts.com". swisscharts.com. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  28. ↑ "Top 100 1973 - UK Music Charts". Uk-charts.top-source.info. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  29. ↑ "Top 100 Hits of 1973/Top 100 Songs of 1973". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  30. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-01-11. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
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