Gilbert O'Sullivan discography explained

Artist:Gilbert O'Sullivan
Studio:20
Compilation:15
Ep:3
Singles:47

The following is a discography listing of Gilbert O'Sullivan's officially released works to date.

Albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2"
Album detailsChart positions
US
[1] 		UK
[2] 		NLD
[3] 		NOR
[4] 		AUS
[5] 		AUT
[6]
Himself
  • Released: August 1971
  • Formats: LP, CS, 8-track
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Back to Front
  • Released: 1972
  • Formats: LP, CS, 8-track
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I'm a Writer, Not a Fighter
  • Released: September 1973
  • Formats: LP, CS, 8-track
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A Stranger In My Own Back Yard
  • Released: October 1974
  • Formats: LP, CS, 8-track
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Southpaw
  • Released: November 1977
  • Formats: LP, CS,
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Off Centre
  • Released: October 1980
  • Formats: LP
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Life & Rhymes
  • Released: October 1982
  • Formats: LP
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Frobisher Drive
  • Released: 1987
  • Formats: LP, CD
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In the Key of G
  • Released: November 1989
  • Formats:
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Sounds of the Loop
  • Released: November 1991
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By Larry
  • Released: April 1994
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Every Song Has Its Play
  • Released: May 1995
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Singer Sowing Machine
  • Released: November 1997
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Irlish
  • Released: October 2001
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Piano Foreplay
  • Released: 2003
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A Scruff at Heart
  • Released: March 2007
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Gilbertville
  • Released: 31 January 2011
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Latin ala G
  • Released: 8 June 2015
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Gilbert O'Sullivan
  • Released: 24 August 2018
  • Formats: CS
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Driven
  • Released: 22 July 2022[7]
  • Formats: Blu-ray, CD, vinyl
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Compilation albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2"
Album detailsChart positions
UK
AUS
NOR
Greatest Hits
  • Released: November 1976
  • Formats: LP, CS
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20 Golden Greats
  • Released: 1981
  • Formats: LP
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The Very Best of Gilbert O'Sullivan
  • Released: October 1986
  • Formats: LP
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Nothing But the Best
  • Released: 1991
  • Formats: CS
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Rare Tracks
  • Released: April 1992
  • Formats:
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The Best Of Gilbert O'Sullivan: Live in Japan
  • Released: April 1995
  • Formats:
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The Berry Vest of Gilbert O'Sullivan
  • Released: March 2004
  • Formats:
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The Very Best of Gilbert O'Sullivan: A Singer & His Songs[8]
  • Released: 12 March 2012
  • Formats: CD, MP3
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EPs

Release dateTitles
1972"Alone Again (Naturally)" / "Save It" / "No Matter How I Try" / "If I Don't Get You"
1972"Clair" / "What Could Be Nicer" / "Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day" / "But I'm Not"
1978"Christmas Song" / "Clair" / "Nothing Rhymed"

Singles

Release dateA-sideB-sideChart positions
UK
[9] 		AUS
IRE
[10] 		US
[11] 		US AC
[12] 		NLD
NZ
[13]
November 1967"Disappear""You"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
April 1968"What Can I Do?""You"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
May 1969"Mr. Moody's Garden""I Wish I Could Cry"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
October 1970"Nothing Rhymed""Everybody Knows"8852style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -114
February 1971"Underneath the Blanket Go""Doing the Best I Can"40style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -1style="text-align:center;" -
May 1971"Susan van Heusen""I Didn't Know What to Do"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
June 1971"I Wish I Could Cry""Mr. Moody's Garden"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -20style="text-align:center;" -
July 1971"We Will""I Didn't Know What to Do"16style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -23style="text-align:center;" -
November 1971"No Matter How I Try""If I Don't Get You (Back Again)"5style="text-align:center;" -7style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -1310
February 1972"Alone Again (Naturally)""Save It"32211212
May 1972"Matrimony""January Git"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -4style="text-align:center;" -
May 1972"Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day""But I'm Not"8141style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -123
October 1972"Clair""What Could Be Nicer (Mum, the Kettle's Boiling)"11212142
January 1973"Out of the Question""Everybody Knows"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -172style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
March 1973"Get Down""A Very Extraordinary Sort of Girl"1617337
August 1973"Ooh, Baby""Good Company"18312252918style="text-align:center;" -
November 1973"Why, Oh Why, Oh Why""You Don't Have to Tell Me"6503style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -15
February 1974"Happiness Is Me and You""Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea"196546223style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
August 1974"A Woman's Place""Too Bad"42style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
November 1974"Christmas Song""To Cut a Long Story Short"12style="text-align:center;" -5style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
January 1975"You Are You""Tell Me Why"53style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -17style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
May 1975"I Don't Love You But I Think I Like You""That's a Fact"14957style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
August 1975"I'll Believe It When I See It""Just as You Are"5210016style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -11style="text-align:center;" -
October 1975"You Never Listen to Reason""Call on Me"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
April 1976"Doing What I Know""I, of Course, Replied"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
October 1976"To Each His Own""Can't Get You out of My Mind"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -10style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
November 1976"Matrimony""You Don't Have to Tell Me"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
May 1977"My Love and I""Call on Me"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
July 1977"You Got Me Going""As Long as I Can"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
February 1978"Miss My Love Today""Our Own Baby"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
August 1980"What's in a Kiss?""Down, Down, Down"19274style="text-align:center;" -13style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
November 1980"I Love It But""Help Is on the Way"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
January 1981"Hello, It's Goodbye""Break It to Me Gently"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
March 1981"Can't Get Enough of You""Or So They Say"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
April 1981"Why Pretend""Help Is on the Way"style="text-align:center;" -98style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
June 1982"A Minute of Your Time""In Other Words"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
September 1982"Bear with Me""Don't Bother at All"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
1989"Lost a Friend""You Better Run"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
February 1990"So What""In a Nutshell"70style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
June 1990"At the Very Mention of Your Name""What You See Is What You Get"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
October 1991"What A Way (To Show I Love You)""Lost A Friend"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
May 1992"Tomorrow, Today""What's In A Kiss"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
1992"Can't Think Straight" †"Sometimes" / "Divorce Irish Style"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
August 1993"Anytime""Alone Again (naturally)"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
November 1993"Are You Happy?""Nothing Rhymed" (live) / "Or So They Say" (live)style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
November 1995"Dear Dream""Dear Dream" (dance mix) / "Sometimes"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
October 1998"Ain't No Telling (What Tomorrow Will Bring)""Doesn't It Make You Sick" / "Break a Leg"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
May 2001"Taking A Chance On Love""Clair" / "Happiness Is Me And You"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
July 2001"Say Goodbye""Sex Appeal" / "Clair"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
June 2002"Two's Company (Three Is Allowed)""I Have a Coat to Keep Me Warm" / "There Are Others"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
December 2002"Ooh, Baby""Ooh, Baby" (versions)style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
June 2007"Just So You Know"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
July 2008"Never Say Di"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
March 2013"Me Mum"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
June 2015"Made in Love"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -
February 2016"No Way"style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -style="text-align:center;" -

† Duet with Peggy Lee

Notes and References

  1. Gilbert O'Sullivan Chart History: Billboard 200. Billboard. 24 December 2022.
  2. Web site: Gilbert O'Sullivan full Official Chart history. Official Charts Company. 1 September 2018.
  3. Web site: Discografie Gilbert O'Sullivan. dutchcharts.nl. nl. 24 December 2022.
  4. Web site: Discography Gilbert O'Sullivan. norwegiancharts.com. 24 December 2022.
  5. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian)

    . David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 227.

  6. Web site: Discografie Gilbert O'Sullivan. austriancharts.at. de. 24 December 2022.
  7. Web site: The next SDE-exclusive blu-ray is Gilbert O'Sullivan's new album, 'Driven' – SuperDeluxeEdition.
  8. Web site: The Very Best of Gilbert O'Sullivan: A Singer & His Songs - Gilbert O'Sullivan | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic. AllMusic.
  9. Book: Roberts, David . 2006 . British Hit Singles & Albums . 19th . Guinness World Records Limited . London . 1-904994-10-5 . 411.
  10. http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement The Irish Singles Charts - Searchable Database
  11. Gilbert O'Sullivan Chart History: Hot 100. Billboard. 24 December 2022.
  12. Gilbert O'Sullivan Chart History: Adult Contemporary. Billboard. 24 December 2022.
  13. Web site: Discography Gilbert O'Sullivan. charts.nz. 24 December 2022.

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