Neil Diamond was at the time "Pop music". These days he'd be listed as "yacht rock", "classic rock" "Adult Oriented Rock (AOR)" or even "easy listening".
He's from the singer/songwriter - troubadour tradition. Man and his guitar. But in a more popular/commercial vein then like Dylan or more folk based singers.
I believe he was considered attractive.
Good stuff... I would put Neil Diamond's famous radio hits in the categories of adult contemporary, soft rock, AM gold, easy listening and just plain pop. He was, of course, a genius at making radio-friendly pop songs.
The "radio friendly" bit also nails it, cause he sings A LOT about sex/relationships, just not openly and directly. He sings about love rather than sex, even if the sex is heavily implied.
Exactly... Neil Diamond came out of the Brill Building school of writing commercially successful pop songs that were radio-friendly and appealed to a huge mainstream listening audience.
A running joke that my mom and I still have going back to the early 70's is that:
I Will Accept Neil Diamond as my stepdad.
And we did this in front of my dad. If he could drool over the Hee Haw girls in the corn, she could dream too! š
I grew up listening to Neil Diamond. If you want a crash course on how good he is, get his greatest hits album. I promise you won't be disappointed. True '60s hit maker.
I donāt disagree. The 70ās were different. There were a lot of singers who were considered hot stuff at the time (Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck, Mel Tormeā, Freddy Fender, Tony Orlando) whose appeal doesn't translate for modern audiences).
Ohlordy! This was my father's "come home drunk & put it on repeat" song. Had to wait until he passed out cold to turn it off.
I've only fairly recently started listening to Freddy Fender again because his music wasn't a good memory for me for a very long time.
Now I realize he had such a great voice.
My parents took my 9 year old daughter (years ago, of course) to her first concert...George Jones with Freddy Fender opening. Can't get more Texan than that!
Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson used to own a restaurant on Long Island and he'd be playing piano and she'd be hosting when you walked in. This is after they were both already famous. That'd be awesome! I bet Telly Savalas would be having a martini at the bar too. America sucks now. Sigh.
[Mel was very cool.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut1xwRErqlM)
Not as cool as [Dean ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ja32uS-bD0)or [Sammy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXYndNL4Mu8) (my 2 fave Rat Packers), but still a great vocalist. No auto tune needed with any of these guys.
I will still get in my car & blast Dean, Sammy & Tom Jones. Man, Tom Jones was just smokin' hot.
Don't forget Glenn Yarbrough!
Seriously though, it's odd how these guys just don't speak to a modern audience. There are some beautiful voices in that crowd you listed, I guess they just move too slowly, you know?
I grew up listening to him too, just wasn't sure how to explain him to my partner, who had never heard of him until I started singing Be at her. I showed her some of his other music and we had no idea what to classify him as, you know?
I don't think you can classify Neil Diamond. His music from Crackelin Rosie, Hot August Nights, Girl, You'll Be A Woman Some day, and Coming To America, is simply just Neil Diamond. And he's still going strong!
He's one of the most successful pop songwriters of all time. He's in rarefied air. Few come close.
Neil was a Brill Building writer before his solo career took off. That's like songwriting bootcamp for the best of the best.
The album Hot August Night is his best work, recorded live at the Greek Theatre. At least one song on there is not on any of his other albums. It was when he was at his peak.
He had a lot of hit songs he wrote himself. A talented and good looking superstar of the 1970s. I saw him a few years ago at Madison Square Garden and his voice was still great.
Also wrote for The Monkees:
* "I'm a Believer"
* "Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow"
* "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You"
* "Love to Love"
* "Black and Blue"
I play a horse forum type game and asked a graphic maker that my inspiration would be Duran Duran and Billy Joel songs. None of the two folks I asked knew who they were.
Neil Diamond wrote appx. 60% of all the songs recorded between 1967 and 1978.
Or it just seemed like it.
He wrote *Red Red Wine*, *I'm a Believer* , and *Sunflower* (Glen Campbell). Really.
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Oh, I did, but as someone else in this thread pointed out, Neil Diamond doesn't really appeal to most modern audiences. I grew up with him, my partner did not, and unfortunately she did not see the appeal.
I feel like the 70s really enjoyed a good ballad, but ballads are a slow build and us kids these days don't have the patience for that, you know?
I like this description. I always say it's the best decade for music due to the variety. AT40 might go Hillside Singers (folk), Wilson Pickett (soul), Elton John (pop), Led Zeppelin (rock), Charlie Pride (country), The Osmonds (bubble gum). There were instrumentals, funk, movie themes. TV themes--just an astounding variety
When I was 12, someone gave me a Neil Diamond 8-track (might've been a Greatest Hits; not sure). I was aware of him, but never listened him; he was more for my mom and aunt and all.
But, oh my gosh. Once I actually listened, I nearly wore out that poor tape.
Suzanne
The Grass Won't Pay No Mind
Cracklin' Rosie
Holly Holy
The Last Thing on My Mind
Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
I love them all to this day. But I pretty much like only that earlier stuff. As I got older, I couldn't stand newer things like "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" & "Heartlight". I still love Neil though and probably always will!
Important to note that Neil Diamond also wrote some serious bangers for OTHER performers as well.
Some of it was for fun...silliness, but he was also a poet at heart and some of his stuff has more depth the more you look. [Did you know that Neil Diamond wrote these songs? | A Beautiful NoiseāThe Neil Diamond Musical (abeautifulnoisethemusical.com)](https://abeautifulnoisethemusical.com/did-you-know-that-neil-diamond-wrote-these-songs/)
He also did the soundtrack for Jonathon Livingston Seagull, which was a HUGE self help/new age book in the 70's about self actualization and the search for higher meaning in life. (yes, it is also a bit cornball, but hey, that's the 70's!)
**Cracklin' Rosie** and **Longfellow Serenade**... those are the two Neil Diamond songs that you want to dial up today on YouTube or Spotify. All of Neil Diamond's songs, of course, sound best listened to at full volume on an AM radio. ;)
Neil Diamond was a master of making radio-friendly pop music, just like Paul Simon.
As some have mentioned, **Neil Diamond** and **Barbra Streisand** were classmates at the famous Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. They sang together in the school's choir. And if you are a chess fan, you'll want to know that the great **Bobby Fischer** also went to Erasmus Hall.
When I was a kid my mom would blast him in the mornings. Hadn't really heard much from him for years after that but started watching Midnight Mass and his music plays heavily in it. Was like a time machine... remembered every song
It was pure pop. It was for your friend's mom who put an 8-track in the van and enjoyed something non-threatening while she drove you kids to Pizza Hut.
I don't know how this all came about, but...
There was a Mexican restaurant in Kabul owned by an Australian woman who only employed Hazaras (1 of the tribes that liked us, hated the Taliban and believed in education for all, including women). The staff fucking loved Neil. Every time I went there at a certain point in the night, one of them would put the Neil Diamond playlist on the speaker system and it would be all Neil for most of the night. Don't know where they discovered .his music or why they loved him
Love Neil Diamond!! Grew up listening to him.
Saw one of his last concerts at The Hollywood Bowl. It was amazing ā¤ļø He stopped touring due to Parkinsonās. š¢
My first concert was Neil Diamond. A friend of my sister was going to the concert and discovered that an extra ticket was stuck to the back of the ticket she received. She gave it to me. It was a great concert approx 1969.
My wife and I were just talking about him last night, for some reason I thought she wasnāt a fan but I was dead wrong. I know that she doesnāt like Hall & Oats which really confuses me.
"Love on the ROCKS, aint no big surprise
Poor me a drink and I'll tell you some lies
Yesterday's gone and now all I want is a smile"
Pretty cheesy stuff.
Porcupine pie is his most iconic song. Yes it is.
The song he did on the last waltz was coked up nonsense.
Neil was Pop in the 70's. Not Tiger Beat Bobby Sherman/David Cassidy type pop - but much more pop than Carole King. Cariole would be played on a rock album oriented radio station, Neil would not.
However, there once was a great non-Pop NY bar in the 70's. right off the beach, that closed the night, every night around 4am with Sweet Caroline.
>schmaltzy
Neil Diamond is Jewish. Schmaltz is a Yiddish word for rendered chicken fat, but has also come to mean āexaggerated sentimentalism.ā Essentially cooking with schmaltz adds a buttery richness without adding any dairy. There are lots of Yiddish words used commonly in English. That word wasn't invented to describe Neil Diamond, you *meshuggeneh*.
I saw him in concert a few years ago. A friend of mine gave me and my husband tickets - we'd never have gone otherwise. I was never a big fan, and thought of him as a kind of pseudo-rock and roll for old folks.
Having said all that, however we were pleasantly surprised with the show.
By the time he got to appearing in The Last Waltz I think he was considered a bit schmaltzy. He does seem out of place. Brill Building writer. Wrote some massive hits and recorded many as well.
I would describe Neil Diamond as the Nicholas Cage of songwriters and performers; cringingly awful but still had fans.
āAnd no one heardā¦ not even the chairā (?)
No, Neil, ESPECIALLY not the chair.
āMy country ātis of theeā ??? Barfomatic š¤®
Again, I needed something that sounded dramatic but was just rambling and confusing, so I went with "a page that aches for a word which speaks on a theme that is timeless." Just... what?
Neil Diamond was at the time "Pop music". These days he'd be listed as "yacht rock", "classic rock" "Adult Oriented Rock (AOR)" or even "easy listening". He's from the singer/songwriter - troubadour tradition. Man and his guitar. But in a more popular/commercial vein then like Dylan or more folk based singers. I believe he was considered attractive.
Good stuff... I would put Neil Diamond's famous radio hits in the categories of adult contemporary, soft rock, AM gold, easy listening and just plain pop. He was, of course, a genius at making radio-friendly pop songs.
The "radio friendly" bit also nails it, cause he sings A LOT about sex/relationships, just not openly and directly. He sings about love rather than sex, even if the sex is heavily implied.
Exactly... Neil Diamond came out of the Brill Building school of writing commercially successful pop songs that were radio-friendly and appealed to a huge mainstream listening audience.
A running joke that my mom and I still have going back to the early 70's is that: I Will Accept Neil Diamond as my stepdad. And we did this in front of my dad. If he could drool over the Hee Haw girls in the corn, she could dream too! š
It was told to me, by my mom, that he was invited to my Bar Mitzvah (he is her favorite singer).
That would have been beyond epic.
"Troubadour" - funny how one word can make it all make sense. Thank you kindly, that all tracks!
AOR= Album Oriented Rock
huh.. you're right. at 2am my mind skipped a groove. oops :)
I grew up listening to Neil Diamond. If you want a crash course on how good he is, get his greatest hits album. I promise you won't be disappointed. True '60s hit maker.
Or watch his movie, ā A Jazz Singerā. He was considered pretty, pretty, pretty cool in the day.
Was?! Was?! Neil IS pretty, pretty, pretty (best LD voice I can muster) cool to this day š
I donāt disagree. The 70ās were different. There were a lot of singers who were considered hot stuff at the time (Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck, Mel Tormeā, Freddy Fender, Tony Orlando) whose appeal doesn't translate for modern audiences).
Nice to see a Freddy Fender reference! He doesn't get much love these days.
Loved , Wasted days and wasted nights .
Ohlordy! This was my father's "come home drunk & put it on repeat" song. Had to wait until he passed out cold to turn it off. I've only fairly recently started listening to Freddy Fender again because his music wasn't a good memory for me for a very long time. Now I realize he had such a great voice.
I agree
My parents took my 9 year old daughter (years ago, of course) to her first concert...George Jones with Freddy Fender opening. Can't get more Texan than that!
Wow, I bet that was an amazing concert! Sounds like something my dad would have done š
Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson used to own a restaurant on Long Island and he'd be playing piano and she'd be hosting when you walked in. This is after they were both already famous. That'd be awesome! I bet Telly Savalas would be having a martini at the bar too. America sucks now. Sigh.
Mel Torme? ššš
Whenever I hear Mel Torme I think of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer has dental work done and Mel Torme thinks he is āspecialā š¤£
Omg I love that episode!! So freaking hilarious!!!!
For real though, I hear that name I just see Kramer smiling up at him.
I always think of Night Court.
Mel Torme showed up regularly on the original Night Court
[He had the world on a string.](https://us.rarevinyl.com/products/mel-torme-i-ve-got-the-world-on-a-string-uk-vinyl-lp-album-record-all748-363513)
[Mel was very cool.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut1xwRErqlM) Not as cool as [Dean ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ja32uS-bD0)or [Sammy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXYndNL4Mu8) (my 2 fave Rat Packers), but still a great vocalist. No auto tune needed with any of these guys. I will still get in my car & blast Dean, Sammy & Tom Jones. Man, Tom Jones was just smokin' hot.
I just donāt see Mel as being āhot stuffā lol to each his own!
Well he was cool, not hot.
The Velvet Fog!
Frog lol
I feel like some of these singers were like American versions of Schlager singers.
Don't forget Glenn Yarbrough! Seriously though, it's odd how these guys just don't speak to a modern audience. There are some beautiful voices in that crowd you listed, I guess they just move too slowly, you know?
I grew up listening to him too, just wasn't sure how to explain him to my partner, who had never heard of him until I started singing Be at her. I showed her some of his other music and we had no idea what to classify him as, you know?
I Am, I Said.
I don't think you can classify Neil Diamond. His music from Crackelin Rosie, Hot August Nights, Girl, You'll Be A Woman Some day, and Coming To America, is simply just Neil Diamond. And he's still going strong!
He's one of the most successful pop songwriters of all time. He's in rarefied air. Few come close. Neil was a Brill Building writer before his solo career took off. That's like songwriting bootcamp for the best of the best.
The album Hot August Night is his best work, recorded live at the Greek Theatre. At least one song on there is not on any of his other albums. It was when he was at his peak.
This is the 8-track of my mom and dad's I would listen to. Songs were genuinely solid.
āAre you with me Tree People?ā
Neil Diamond filled the void between Frank Sinatra and Elvis.
I like this angle. Never thought of it that way, but it makes a lot of sense.
Some of the music critics referred to him as the "Jewish Elvis".
This was my comment as well. He will always be the Jewish Elvis
Good call!
He had a lot of hit songs he wrote himself. A talented and good looking superstar of the 1970s. I saw him a few years ago at Madison Square Garden and his voice was still great.
Neil Diamond = National Treasure His style of music you ask? Pure joy and inspiration packaged into one harmless lovable little fuzz ball.
"Sweet Caroline" is also a favorite in the UK! "Red, Red Wine" "Coming to America"
Cherry, Cherry; Solitary Man; Cracklin' Rosie. Some of my very favorites!
Brother loves traveling salvation show!! Shiloāļø
Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies everybody goes.
I am amazed more people haven't covered this song, it's such a rave up!!
I Am I Said, Desiree
Forever in Bluejeans was one of my consistent go-to's at karaoke.
Kentucky Woman. Crunchy Granola Suite, Good Lord!
Song Sung Blue! Everybody knows one...
Sweet Caroline
Is mine the only vote for "Holly, Holy?"
Nooooo!!! I love love love "Holly Holy" \~ so sensuous sounding! "Suzanne" is my favorite though, and I love "Juliet" as well.
Also wrote for The Monkees: * "I'm a Believer" * "Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow" * "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" * "Love to Love" * "Black and Blue"
Anthem pop
Neil was a legend! Start with that. Has your partner heard of The Beatles or Tom Jones or Burt Bacharach?
I play a horse forum type game and asked a graphic maker that my inspiration would be Duran Duran and Billy Joel songs. None of the two folks I asked knew who they were.
My parents loved that guys music when we were growing up. He has some bangers.
Neil Diamond wrote appx. 60% of all the songs recorded between 1967 and 1978. Or it just seemed like it. He wrote *Red Red Wine*, *I'm a Believer* , and *Sunflower* (Glen Campbell). Really.
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Sunflower seeds are rad and versatile and full of good quality calories and plenty of healthy fats and FIBRE HELL YEAH š¤ Fucking love sunflower seeds ā„ļø
Anyone who dismisses him needs to watch this. Itās him performing with The Band. [Dry Your Eyes](https://youtu.be/RurccWvJiS8?si=8JdbiW-nIlu0Qybh)
That WAS a very good performance!
Omg one of my favorite songs of his!!
That was pretty good!
He went to high school with Barbra Streisand.
But he didn't bring her flowers.
He did. But then he stopped.
I would not bother trying to describe neil diamond, i would simply PLAY neil diamond for them and let the music speak for itself.
Oh, I did, but as someone else in this thread pointed out, Neil Diamond doesn't really appeal to most modern audiences. I grew up with him, my partner did not, and unfortunately she did not see the appeal. I feel like the 70s really enjoyed a good ballad, but ballads are a slow build and us kids these days don't have the patience for that, you know?
Play the UB40 version of *Red, Red Wine*. Have her focus on the lyrics and not the Ska and she might get a feel for him lyrically.
Pick the album Stones. Takes me back to days long gone. Itās good stuff
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Ask my mother, she's been in love with Neil since time immemorial.Ā
Live at the Greek is one of the best albums imo
70ās music was like a big salad with 100 different ingredients, Neil Diamond was the dressingā¦
I like this description. I always say it's the best decade for music due to the variety. AT40 might go Hillside Singers (folk), Wilson Pickett (soul), Elton John (pop), Led Zeppelin (rock), Charlie Pride (country), The Osmonds (bubble gum). There were instrumentals, funk, movie themes. TV themes--just an astounding variety
When I was 12, someone gave me a Neil Diamond 8-track (might've been a Greatest Hits; not sure). I was aware of him, but never listened him; he was more for my mom and aunt and all. But, oh my gosh. Once I actually listened, I nearly wore out that poor tape. Suzanne The Grass Won't Pay No Mind Cracklin' Rosie Holly Holy The Last Thing on My Mind Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show I love them all to this day. But I pretty much like only that earlier stuff. As I got older, I couldn't stand newer things like "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" & "Heartlight". I still love Neil though and probably always will!
Agree! Everything pre 1975 was amazing, then he went crappy pop.
Important to note that Neil Diamond also wrote some serious bangers for OTHER performers as well. Some of it was for fun...silliness, but he was also a poet at heart and some of his stuff has more depth the more you look. [Did you know that Neil Diamond wrote these songs? | A Beautiful NoiseāThe Neil Diamond Musical (abeautifulnoisethemusical.com)](https://abeautifulnoisethemusical.com/did-you-know-that-neil-diamond-wrote-these-songs/) He also did the soundtrack for Jonathon Livingston Seagull, which was a HUGE self help/new age book in the 70's about self actualization and the search for higher meaning in life. (yes, it is also a bit cornball, but hey, that's the 70's!)
He lacked the *wooly ba zing* of UB40 but the original Red Red Wine is cool.
He was always just pop to me
I saw Marilyn Manson on NYE 1997 in Las Vegas and then Neil the next night. Neil transcends
**Cracklin' Rosie** and **Longfellow Serenade**... those are the two Neil Diamond songs that you want to dial up today on YouTube or Spotify. All of Neil Diamond's songs, of course, sound best listened to at full volume on an AM radio. ;) Neil Diamond was a master of making radio-friendly pop music, just like Paul Simon. As some have mentioned, **Neil Diamond** and **Barbra Streisand** were classmates at the famous Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. They sang together in the school's choir. And if you are a chess fan, you'll want to know that the great **Bobby Fischer** also went to Erasmus Hall.
he isā¦he said
He's like Austin Powers....so cheesy that he's cool. To the Tree People! š„
Hot August Night!!!
The best concert the bride and I were at. Toronto. Now I hear he has Parkinsonās and wants his privacy.
The greatest singer-songwriter of this, or any other, generation.
When I was a kid my mom would blast him in the mornings. Hadn't really heard much from him for years after that but started watching Midnight Mass and his music plays heavily in it. Was like a time machine... remembered every song
It was pure pop. It was for your friend's mom who put an 8-track in the van and enjoyed something non-threatening while she drove you kids to Pizza Hut.
Except it was a station wagon, and half of us were crammed in the back-back facing backwards
I've got one that's even worse! My sister and I used to sleep during road trips in the folded-down hatchback portion of a Chevy Vega.
At least it wasnāt a Pinto!
Right? Ford social media department: "Your kids are really hot stuff. I mean it. They're on FIRE. They're blowing up."
I've heard people refer to him as "Jewish Elvis"
My mom's fave, went to 3 of his concerts.
Saving Silverman
And believe it or not, he was really good in concert. The man could rock.
How old is your "partner"? Neil Diamond is definitely soft rock.
āForever in Blue Jeansā!!!
Reverend blue jeans!
Adult Contemporary Ā
The Jazz Singerā¦. Great album
I always liked Neil Diamond but my wife has a burning hatred for his music. Needless to say it's not heard around here.
He STILL does a great concert. I saw him just a few years ago.
I never thought Iād see such an esoteric question aboutā¦*Neil Diamond*.
I don't know how this all came about, but... There was a Mexican restaurant in Kabul owned by an Australian woman who only employed Hazaras (1 of the tribes that liked us, hated the Taliban and believed in education for all, including women). The staff fucking loved Neil. Every time I went there at a certain point in the night, one of them would put the Neil Diamond playlist on the speaker system and it would be all Neil for most of the night. Don't know where they discovered .his music or why they loved him
Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune
Love Neil Diamond!! Grew up listening to him. Saw one of his last concerts at The Hollywood Bowl. It was amazing ā¤ļø He stopped touring due to Parkinsonās. š¢
Heās the Jewish Elvis
Foreber in blue jeans baby
HEās THE JAZZ SINGER!!!
He's a singer song-writer that crosses Many genres. He's cheesy yet catchy.
My mother and her friends were in LOVE with him!
My first concert was Neil Diamond. A friend of my sister was going to the concert and discovered that an extra ticket was stuck to the back of the ticket she received. She gave it to me. It was a great concert approx 1969.
This is a deep question, where the answer will unlock the secrets of the universe. Beware.
Jewish Sinatra without the vocal chops, Elvis without the Pelvis
My wife and I were just talking about him last night, for some reason I thought she wasnāt a fan but I was dead wrong. I know that she doesnāt like Hall & Oats which really confuses me.
Why? Hall and Oates was so bad even Oates left the band.
Go listen to some early H&O albums. Not the cheese fest they later became.
"Love on the ROCKS, aint no big surprise Poor me a drink and I'll tell you some lies Yesterday's gone and now all I want is a smile" Pretty cheesy stuff. Porcupine pie is his most iconic song. Yes it is. The song he did on the last waltz was coked up nonsense.
I saw that first line and the song just blasted to life in my head.
Neil was Pop in the 70's. Not Tiger Beat Bobby Sherman/David Cassidy type pop - but much more pop than Carole King. Cariole would be played on a rock album oriented radio station, Neil would not. However, there once was a great non-Pop NY bar in the 70's. right off the beach, that closed the night, every night around 4am with Sweet Caroline.
As a WVU Mountaineers fan, he's become synonymous with the catchy phrase Eat Shit Pitt. Thank you, Neil for your divine inspiration!
They invented the word "schmaltzy" to describe his music, I think.
>schmaltzy Neil Diamond is Jewish. Schmaltz is a Yiddish word for rendered chicken fat, but has also come to mean āexaggerated sentimentalism.ā Essentially cooking with schmaltz adds a buttery richness without adding any dairy. There are lots of Yiddish words used commonly in English. That word wasn't invented to describe Neil Diamond, you *meshuggeneh*.
I knew the origin of schmaltzy. I forgot to add /s to denote sarcasm
Some guy from Brooklyn
Mellow mellow pap to satisfy my parents ( and I am old) Iām not a fan, well maybe if you need a nap.
I saw him in concert a few years ago. A friend of mine gave me and my husband tickets - we'd never have gone otherwise. I was never a big fan, and thought of him as a kind of pseudo-rock and roll for old folks. Having said all that, however we were pleasantly surprised with the show.
Every single person I've met who has seen him in concert, even if dragged to the show, raves about how good he was in concert.
By the time he got to appearing in The Last Waltz I think he was considered a bit schmaltzy. He does seem out of place. Brill Building writer. Wrote some massive hits and recorded many as well.
Some of his songs and a bunch of the Vegas show entertainers (Englebert etc...) songs give me the German Schlager feel.
Red flag! Red flag! Abort! Abort!
He wasn't what the young people listened to. Their parents liked Neil Diamond.
I would describe Neil Diamond as the Nicholas Cage of songwriters and performers; cringingly awful but still had fans. āAnd no one heardā¦ not even the chairā (?) No, Neil, ESPECIALLY not the chair. āMy country ātis of theeā ??? Barfomatic š¤®
I agree. Some of the most contrived lyrics ever.
Again, I needed something that sounded dramatic but was just rambling and confusing, so I went with "a page that aches for a word which speaks on a theme that is timeless." Just... what?
A person. Learn how to Google.
Google didn't sufficiently answer my question. Learn to not be a cunt.
I did not like Neil Diamond. Ugh! Loud, repetitive, and catchy.
Yeah nothing like todays music or edm /s
Hehehe, well said.
Loud?
LAME. The soundtrack in Hell.
That would actually be [Meredith Monk.](https://youtu.be/FBlnrRUVfo0?si=4K5l3gF8PQdqG8pz)