Songs That Take You Back Into Books

Aw - I didn't know Neil Diamond has Parkinson's. Sad, sad. I LOVE him. I've got a great cd of his greatest hits and it makes it way into my CD player often. (yes, I'm that old and vintage). I think a musical made from Neil Diamond songs needs to happen.

I think of Velcro Fly and The Wastelands (right?). The drums from the town of Lud.

Um. Doc got it with All She Wants to Do Is Dance - I've never seen the movie and glad of it.

Also Dark Tower music - near thinnies - that song I hear in my head - when I think of thinnies. I wish I could tell you what it is - I've heard it in movies before - often during a beach scene intro - do you know what I mean? I know you do - just listen. What thinnies sound like - and so then I googled and if you google "What do thinnies sound like" - there's actually an answer. Everything is possible.

GNTLGNT said:

....from Wiki:
Two versions of "Cherry, Cherry" have been released. The version familiar to most listeners was recorded in late January 1966 and released by Bang Records in mid-1966, and was recorded as a demo, with Butler on keyboards, and Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich on backing vocals and hand-claps.[7] The other version, with different lyrics and originally intended to be released as the single, was finally released by Diamond and Sony Music Entertainment in 1996 on the compilation album In My Lifetime.

Cover versions[edit]

• Dizzy Gillespie recorded a cover of this song for his 1966 LP, The Melody Lingers On (on Limelight Records).
• The Music Machine recorded a cover of this song on their 1966 LP, (Turn On) The Music Machine (on Original Sound).
• Jonathan King recorded a cover of this song in 1970 and it became a hit all over Europe, especially in the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
• Kramer recorded a cover of this song for his 2012 solo LP, The Brill Building (on Tzadik Records).[8] Sung entirely in Spanish/Cubano, it is the first known version of the song to have not been sung in English.

....I saw that you had found this Gerald, after I already replied-but this is a nice nutshell bit.....

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What I also liked about the early Diamond is that he worked a lot with orchestras. I love the combination of orchestras and pop/rock (ELO is just about my absolute favourite). He's most known for doing this on Jonathan Livingston Seagull of course, but he did it several other times also. The beginning of Hot August Night is amazing - it begins very delicate with strings and builds from there, until it truly explodes into the first song Crunchy Granola Suite.
He talks about it here:


He was also quite experimental with world music early on, like The African Trilogy (side two of Tap Root Manuscript). But later on he abandoned things like that almost completely unfortunately.

"Bad Company"
-Bad Company- .........That one is always about "the Gunslingers" now.
Sai agreed back in the day, when we were dreamin' up the soundtrack....as well as the cast.

"Don't stand so close to me"
-The Police-...........Nabakov's "Lolita".Of course.

mm......Gordan Sumner. Another Rock Star-Professor of English.