If I Don't Get You the Next One Will

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"If I Don't Get You The Next One Will" is a song written, [1] recorded and produced by Lynsey de Paul and released in April 1976 in the UK [2] as her seventh and final single on Jet Records. [3] [4] The B-side of the single was another de Paul song and fan favourite "Season to Season". [3] [4] A longer version of the song was recorded as a track for the 1976 album Take Your Time, but the album was shelved as part of a dispute between de Paul and Arden, [5] and when it was finally released on CD in 1990 in Japan as Before You Go Tonight, the single version was included. [6] This humorous and tongue in cheek song relates many of de Paul's negative dating experiences (sample lyric "I’ve been dated and waited until I was blue, I’ve been cheated, mistreated and broken in two, I've been lied to, denied to, till I've had my fill, so, if I don’t get you, well, the next one will"). [7] [8] One well known muse for the song was former boyfriend, Ringo Starr, [9] who missed a dinner date with de Paul. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] De Paul herself described the song as being about revenge, after Starr missed a dinner appointment with her because he fell asleep in his office. [15] Stylistically, it was quite a departure from previous releases, with prominent use of synthesiser and a sparse arrangement that received positive reviews. [16] At the time, the Record Mirror wrote "Cleverly constructed song with Lynsey's voice playing leap-frog over itself. Uptempo rhythm that winds itself all over the place, following the intricate vocal patterns" [17] with the Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush Gazette also praising the single. [18]

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De Paul performed this song live on U.K. prime time TV shows such as The Arrows hosted by the British/American band Arrows on 18 May 1976. [19] [20] [21] One of De Paul's performances of the song has also been released on DVD. [22] The song still receives occasional radio plays on US radio [23] [24] and most recently in 2023 on Frankfurt, Germany Radio X. [25] It also featured on Beatmakology - the Art and Science of making beats. [26]

Releases on CD

Its first appearance on CD outside of Japan was on the 1994 compilation album, Greatest Hits, released on the Repertoire label [27] and, most recently, the song also appeared on the anthology double album, Into My Music , [28] However, it has also been included on her own Best of Lynsey de Paul, [29] Best of the 70s, [30] as well as on The Singles Collection 1974-1979 and the de Paul album, I Love You. [31] It is listed as one of de Paul's song highlights on the online music site, AllMusic. [32] "If I Don't Get You The Next One Will" was also a track on the US compilation album Glitter Girlz, that featured female glam rock era contemporaries such as Noosha Fox (lead singer of Fox), Dana Gillespie and Fanny. [33] [34]

Book chapter and citations

It also became the title of a chapter in the book [11] and audiobook, Ringo Starr: Straight Man or Joker, by the writer Adam Clayson, which related this and other amusing stories about de Paul and Starr's time together, both of whom were well known for their sense of humour. [35] An audio book narrated by DJ Mike Read, and with a chapter entitled "If I Don't Get You, the Next One Will", was released in 2003 on the Sanctuary label. [36] [37] The song is also mentioned in the book The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music [38] as well as in the German book Pop-History Band 3: Duos & Sängerinnen. [39] The story behind the song was also recounted by de Paul herself in an interview for the book The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia, written by Bill Harry. [40] To celebrate Ringo Starr's 84th birthday on 7 July 2024, the U.S. radio station WSND included the song in their playlist "Deep Dive of Ringo Starr". [41]

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Before You Go Tonight also known as Take Your Time is a Lynsey de Paul album recorded in 1976 for Jet Records, but shelved out of spite by then manager Don Arden, and not released until 1990. Then it appeared as a CD release in Japan on Century Records, and again on the Vivid Sound under licence from Trojan Records. The album was originally called Singer-Songwriter and was finally released on de Paul's music store as Take Your Time, albeit with a slightly different track listing. All of the songs were written by de Paul, except the amusing "You've Either Got It or You Ain't", which was co-written with David Jordan. The album was produced by de Paul. The track "If I Don't Get You The Next One Will" was released as a single in 1976 and this version is included. "My One and Only" is de Paul's version of a song recorded and released in 1975 by her label mates at the time, the British female vocal trio Bones.

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"I Gotcha Now" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul and released as a single by Zakatek on the Bell Records label on 2 March 1973. The release of the single received interest from the British music press. The song features a pounding piano, fuzz guitar and "I Am the Walrus"-esque strings. De Paul's own demo of the song, with the title "Got You Here Now" and recorded at Orange Studios, London, by David Humphries in early 1973 resurfaced in 2022 and features a xylophone in place of the piano break in the middle of the song. The B-side is also a de Paul song, "So Good To You", and both songs were recorded at 10cc's Strawberry Studios with Eric Stewart, the lead guitarist and singer of The Mindbenders and later a member of 10cc, being the co-engineer. De Paul recorded her own version of "So Good To You" and released it in October 1973 as the flip side to her single "Won't Somebody Dance with Me". In Japan, this was the A-side of the release. Both songs were however, originally written by de Paul for Zakatek, after she co-discovered him together with the actor Dudley Moore, her boyfriend at the time. However, some years later de Paul revealed that she had offered "I Gotcha Now" to Slade. Lenny Zakatek discussed recording the song in an interview given to Black Music & Jazz Review.

"Don't You Remember When" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul and Barry Blue, that was released as a single by Vera Lynn on 20 February 1976 on the EMI record label, in the UK as well as in Europe. The song was recorded at the Marquee Studios, London and was produced by de Paul and she also sang backing vocals on the track. In an interview with Tony Robinson of the "Sunday Mirror" at the time, De Paul said "I was absolutely thrilled at working with Dame Vera". Ringo Starr, who was de Paul's partner at the time, was widely reported as playing the tambourine on the song, with Lynn recently recalling this in a 2019 interview in Saga Magazine. The music collectors magazine "Goldmine" listed it as one of Starr's 5 greatest session performances. De Paul also produced the B-side of the single, "That Old Feeling", written by Lew Brown and Sammy Fain. The English keyboard player, pianist and composer Tony Hymas, who had worked with de Paul before on her Love Bomb album and who went on to be a member of the duo Ph.D., arranged the song. The song received favourable reviews, with the Record Mirror writing that the song is "a perfect vehicle for her with a well-honed nostalgic lyrics and lots of big long notes". Lynn performed the song on her own BBC 1 TV show.

<i>Love Bomb</i> (Lynsey de Paul album) 1975 studio album by Lynsey de Paul

Love Bomb is the fourth album released in 1975 by the British singer-songwriter Lynsey de Paul, and her second album released on Jet Records in the UK and Polydor in Germany, Australia and Japan. In the US and Canada, it was released in January 1976 on Mercury Records. The album was recorded at the Marquee Studios, London, England, produced by de Paul and arranged by Tony Hymas, with Terry Cox playing drums, John Dean percussion, Chris Rea guitar and Frank McDonald bass. The striking sleeve cover photo of de Paul in U.S. military style clothing was taken by Brian Aris.

"All Night" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul and Ron Roker. De Paul released her version of the song on 27 April 1973 as her third single released on MAM Records, with arrangements by Martyn Ford and John Bell and produced by de Paul. The song is listed in the U.S. Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries and in "The Directory of American 45 R.p.m. Records". It features an uncredited male vocal. A slinky, sexy song, it compares a love relationship to that of the spider and a fly. The single is backed by the more socially aware song "Blind Leading the Blind", composed and produced by de Paul. The song was an unusual release since neither the A-side or the B-side featured as tracks on her debut album. Surprise had been released a little more than a month earlier - presumably it was not included since "All Night" has a very different style than the tracks on Surprise.

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