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:''One Is the Loneliest Number redirects here. The phrase is also the title of a novel from the Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers series''. "One" is a song written by Harry Nilsson and made famous by Three Dog Night whose cover in 1969 reached #5 on the ''Billboard Hot 100.〔(Three Dog Night, "One" Chart Position ) Retrieved February 18, 2015〕 The song is known for its opening line "One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do". Nilsson wrote the song after calling someone and getting a busy signal. He stayed on the line listening to the "beep, beep, beep, beep..." tone, writing the song. The busy signal became the opening notes of the song. In 1968, Al Kooper released the song on his debut album ''I Stand Alone''. In 1969, the song was covered by Australian pop singer Johnny Farnham, reaching #4 on the ''Go-Set'' National Top 40 Chart. ==Other versions== *Mike Melvoin released an instrumental cover of "One" on his 1970 album ''The Plastic Cow Goes Moooooog''. *The New Seekers released a version on the 1971 album ''Beautiful People''. *In 1992, it was covered by the band Chainsaw Kittens on the single for the song "High in High School". *The song was covered by Aimee Mann for the 1995 Nilsson tribute album ''For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson''. Mann's version also appears in the 1999 film ''Magnolia'' and on the film's soundtrack. *In 1995, the song was sung briefly on ''The Drew Carey Show'' at the Warsaw Pub between both Carey and his boss, Mr. Bell, in the first season episode "Nature Abhors a Vacuum". *The song was also covered by the rock band Filter for the soundtrack to the 1998 film '. *Dokken covered the song on their 1999 album ''Erase the Slate''. *The Beta Band closed their 2001 album ''Hot Shots II'' with "Won", a hip-hop track built around extensive samples of Nilsson's song. * The song was sung by Nathan Lane and was featured on the soundtrack ''Stuart Little 2'' *In 2013, Tracii Guns' League of Gentlemen covered "One" on the album ''First Record''. *Mastodon recorded a cover of the song for the ''Army of Two'' trailer. * Electric Six covered the song on their cover album ''Mimicry and Memories'' (2015)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Final track listing for Mimicry and Memories )〕 * In 2014, the Three Dog Night cover of the song appeared in the teaser trailer for Season 5 of the American crime drama Boardwalk Empire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「One (Harry Nilsson song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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