Diamond (A Girl’s Best Friend)
Neil Diamond’s recording career, like Gaul, was divided into three parts: the Big Bang (on Bang Records, natch), the West Coast Incubation (on Decca/MCA’s less-unhip Uni label), and the OMGWTF Period (on Columbia, mostly). The man had dozens of hits, and a fair compilation wouldn’t attempt to squeeze him down to a single CD, but I never said I was being fair. And give Diamond credit: even some of the latter-day stuff has held up pretty well, and the ones that didn’t, well, they didn’t make it onto this disc. The cover photo, which is not called “Thank the Lord for the Knight Time,” derives from an old jewelry-store ad.
Track listing for 111135-2 (all tracks by Neil Diamond):
- Solitary Man
- Cherry, Cherry
- I Got the Feelin’ (No No No)
- You Got to Me
- Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon
- Thank the Lord for the Night Time
- Kentucky Woman
- Two-Bit Manchild
- Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show
- Sweet Caroline
- Holly Holy
- Cracklin’ Rosie
- I Am … I Said
- Done Too Soon
- Stones
- Song Sung Blue
- Play Me
- Longfellow Serenade
- If You Know What I Mean
- Forever in Blue Jeans
- September Morn
- Love on the Rocks
- Hello Again
- Yesterday’s Songs
Tags: Neil Diamond
December 11th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
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