Here's the link to the revised version:
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/05/gilbert-osullivan-bbc-sessions-volume-1.html
Furthermore, note that while "Volume 2" stays exactly the same, I also had to renumber the two BBC volumes that come after this one. That includes "Volume 4," which I just posted here a few days prior to this, and is now called "Volume 5." (Sigh.) Here are the updated links for those:
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/05/gilbert-osullivan-bbc-sessions-volume-3.html
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/12/gilbert-osullivan-bbc-sessions-volume-4.html
The first seven songs here were moved from the old "Volume 1." They all are from the BBC "Top of the Pops" radio show (not to be confused with the TV show of the same name), and were very rare until an anonymous musical friend passed them on to me. However, everything else is new. All the remaining songs come from TV shows, mostly from the BBC, but with a couple of non-BBC ones thrown in there too.
Tracks 8 and 9 are from a TV special called "Burt Bacharach: Opus No. 3," in 1973. O'Sullivan almost never performed cover songs, but he did a short version of the Bacharach classic "Do You Know the Way to San Jose." Then he did a version of his big hit "Alone Again (Naturally)" with Bacharach essentially interviewing him for about a minute during the middle of the song!
Tracks 10 and 11 are from the "Midnight Special" TV show in 1973. It was the only time he was on that show. Tracks 12, 13, and 14 are from the BBC TV show "It's Lulu." Track 15 is from a TV special called "Gilbert O'Sullivan: Welcome to My Show." I wish I had more, but unfortunately, most of it seems to have been lost or at least remains unavailable. This one song probably survived because it was a duet with Elton John. (And one other song performed by John survived as well.) Tracks 16 and 17 are from the BBC TV show "Lulu" in 1975. And the last song is from the BBC TV show "Shirley Bassey" in 1976.
I ran into a bit of a problem with all these different sources. O'Sullivan had a huge hit with "Get Down" in 1973, as it went to Number One in Britain and made the Top Ten in the U.S. I ended up with three versions of the song here, including two right in a row. The first, from the "Top of the Pops" radio show, is O'Sullivan doing it on his own. Then track 14 is a version of him performing the song as a duet with Lulu. Right after that, track 15, is a duet version with Elton John. I thought all three were different and interesting enough for me to include them all.
Everything here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.
This album is 50 minutes long.
01 Bye Bye (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
02 Ooh Wakka Doo Wakka Day (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
03 But I'm Not (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
04 Clair (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
05 I Hope You'll Stay (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
06 Out of the Question (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
07 Get Down (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
08 Do You Know the Way to San Jose (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Burt Bacharach)
09 Alone Again [Naturally] (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Burt Bacharach)
10 Ooh Baby (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
11 Who Knows Perhaps Maybe (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
12 Why Oh Why Oh Why (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
13 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
14 Get Down (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Lulu)
15 Get Down (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Elton John)
16 Nothing to Do about Much (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
17 You Are You (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
18 Can't Get Enough of You (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/7uve1osJ
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/phyte77MENyKMVA/file
The cover photo is taken from the Burt Bacharach TV special where tracks 8 and 9 are from. Bacharach was in the original image, but I cropped him out to focus on O'Sullivan.
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