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"Lonely Boy" is an international hit song from 1977, written and recorded by Andrew Gold in 1976 for his album What's Wrong with This Picture? It spent five months on the American charts, peaking at number seven in both Canada [5] and the United States, [6] the latter for three consecutive weeks on June 11, 18 and 25, 1977, [7] [8] and number 11 in the United Kingdom.
"Lonely Boy" is a song by American rock band the Black Keys. It is the opening track from their 2011 studio album El Camino and was released as the record's lead single on October 26, 2011. The song is also the A-side of a promotional 12-inch single that was released in commemoration of Record Store Day 's "Back to Black" Friday event. [ 3 ]
For I love you so, Sonny Boy. When there are grey skies, I don't mind grey skies. You make them blue, Sonny Boy. Friends may forsake me. Let them all forsake me. I still have you, Sonny Boy. You're sent from heaven And I know your worth. You've made a heaven For me here on earth. And the angels grew lonely Took you because they were lonely
Shaun Cassidy's 1977 version was a track on his debut LP.It reached # 5 in Australia. [8]Robert John, in 1980, for the album Back on the Street (US #31). [9]British boy band Big Fun covered the song for their 1990 album A Pocketful of Dreams, produced by Stock Aitken Waterman, and released it as the fourth single in July 1990, peaking at number 62 in the UK chart. [10]
A 2015 USA Today article ranking "all of Bob Dylan's songs" placed "Mississippi" first (just ahead of "Visions of Johanna" and "Like a Rolling Stone"). An article accompanying the list noted that all of Dylan's greatest songs are about "that inexorable march to the end" but that Dylan was never "so wistful about the wasted years, lost love and loneliness as he is on 'Mississippi'".
"Lonely Boy" is a song written and recorded by Paul Anka. [2] Recorded in August 1958 with Don Costa's orchestra in New York, "Lonely Boy" was not released until May 11, 1959. Anka also sang this song in the film Girls Town , which was released in October 1959.
American pop star Lesley Gore recorded a version of "Young Love" for Mercury Records in late 1965. Her rendition was released on her sixth studio album. Lesley Gore Sings All About Love, in January 1966. In March of that year, after the album's first two singles failed to make the top 50, Gore's recording was released as the third and final ...
Music critic Nigel Williamson describes the lyrics as reflecting an "emotional ambivalence." [5] There is a contrast between comforting images such as a woman who is "so fine she is on [the singer's] mind" and "her big brass bed" and a "brand new day" against images of "a lonely boy" who "can't relate to joy" and is "so down today." [5] [6]