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Neil Diamond: Hot August Night

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Label: MCA Records
Released: 1972
Time:
 49:34 / 41:28
Category: Country
Producer(s): Tom Catalano
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.neildiamond.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2013
Price in €: 2,00





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Disc One

[1] Prologue (N.diamond) - 3:07
[2] Crunchy Granola Suite (N.diamond) - 4:26
[3] Done Too Soon (N.diamond) - 3:22
[4] Dialogue (N.diamond) - 1:22
[5] Solitary Man (N.diamond) - 3:14
[6] Cherry, Cherry (N.diamond) - 4:43
[7] Sweet Caroline (N.diamond) - 4:06
[8] Porcupine Pie (N.diamond) - 1:51
[9] You're So Sweet (N.diamond) - 2:17
[10] Red, Red Wine (N.diamond) - 3:56
[11] Soggy Pretzels (N.diamond) - 3:24
[12] And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind (N.diamond) - 4:39
[13] Shilo (N.diamond) - 3:35
[14] Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon (N.diamond) - 2:48
       Bonus tracks
[15] Walk On Water (N.diamond) - 3:30
[16] Kentucky Woman (N.diamond) - 2:01
[17] Stones (N.diamond) - 3:59


Disc Two

[1] Play Me (N.diamond) - 4:43
[2] Canta Libre (N.diamond) - 5:28
[3] Morningside (N.diamond) - 5:35
[4] Song Sung Blue (N.diamond) - 4:53
[5] Cracklin' Rosie (N.diamond) - 2:45
[6] Holly Holy (N.diamond) - 6:18
[7] I Am...I Said (N.diamond) - 6:09
[8] Soolaimon / Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show (N.diamond) - 9:36

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Neil Diamond - Vocals, Guitar

Richard Bennett - Guitar
Danny Nicholson - Guitar
Emory Gordy, Jr. - Guitar, Vibraphone
Alan Lindgren - Keyboards
Reinie Press - Bass
Dennis St. John - Drums
Jefferson Kewley - Percussion

String section:
Lee Holdridge (conductor)
Sidney Sharp, Philip Candreva, Paulo Alencar, Baldassare Ferlazzo, Robert Lipsett, Haim Shtrum, Ron Folsom, Henry Ferber, Hyman Goodman, William Henderson, John DeVoogdt, Wilbert Nuttycombe, Jay Rosen, Walter Wiemeyer, Shari Zippert, Ralph Schaeffer, Tibor Zelig, Walter Rower, Salvatore Crimi, Richard Kaufman, David Turner (violins)
Linn Subotnick, Philip Goldberg, Sven Reher, Myron Sandler, Marilyn Baker, Samuel Boghossian (violas)
Jesse Ehrlich, Jerome Kessler, Raymond Kelley, Nathan Gershman, Alice Ober, Giacinto Nardulli (violoncelli)
Timothy Barr, Jess Bourgeois, Don Bagley (bass violins)

Tom Bert - Photography
Ed Caraeff - Photography
Tom Catalano - Producer
Joe Gannon - Lighting, Stage Director
Richard Kaufman - Strings
Barry Korkin - Editorial Assistant
Erick Labson - Mastering
Stan Miller - Sound Advisor
George Osaki - Art Direction
Mike Ragogna - Liner Notes, Producer
Karen Shearer - Liner Notes
Armin Steiner - Engineer
Vartan - Art Direction
Bill Whitten - Clothing/Wardrobe, Wardrobe, Wardrobe Design

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2000 CD MCA Records ‎112 330-2

Recorded on August 24, 1972 at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.



This is the ultimate Neil Diamond record. Not necessarily the best - he's at his most appealing crafting in the studio - but certainly the ultimate, capturing all the kitsch and glitz of Neil Diamond, the showman. And that also means that it's not just loaded with flair, but with filler, songs like "Porcupine Pie," "Soggy Pretzels," and "And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind" - attempts to write grand, sweeping epics that collapse under their own weight. Still, that's part of the charm of Diamond and while it can sound unbearable on studio albums, it makes some sense here, surrounded by his pomp and circumstance. That spectacle is the great thing about the record, since it inflates not just his great songs, it gives the weaker moments character. And while this does wind up being a little much - 21 songs, 24 on the 2000 reissue - it nevertheless is the one record for casual Neil fans, after the hits collections, since this shows Diamond the icon in full glory.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music.com



Hot August Night is a 1972 live double album by Neil Diamond. ("Hot August night" is also the opening lyric to Diamond's 1969 single, "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show".) The album is a recording of a Diamond concert on August 24, 1972, one of ten sold out concerts that Diamond performed that month at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. This album, and its predecessor album Moods, are generally acknowledged to be the two most important recording projects of Diamond's career in terms of defining his signature sound, and in the case of Hot August Night his live performance style, for the future. Diamond later released two live "sequel" albums, Hot August Night II (1987) and Hot August Night/NYC (2009).

The album has become a great success for Diamond, and in Australia, it spent 29 weeks at number 1 on the album charts during 1973 & 1974, a feat only reachieved by Delta Goodrem with her Sony BMG-based album Innocent Eyes in 2003. This figure was surpassed in the 1980s by Dire Straits with their album Brothers in Arms spending 34 weeks at number one on the album charts. It was the number one charting album in Australia for the 1970s, entering the Australian album charts in late 1972 and was still charting in the top 20 in 1976. It re-entered the Australian top 10 in 1982.

In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, music critic Lester Bangs called Hot August Night a "fine presentation of the entire spectrum" of Diamond's work and praised its music as "great, pretentious, goofy pop" with a melodramatic, "hymn-like feeling". In his review for Creem, Robert Christgau panned the album as a failed attempt at "bad art", and found Diamond's humor "sententious" and his country-western songs tasteless. In a retrospective review, Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine called Hot August Night "the ultimate Neil Diamond record ... [which] shows Diamond the icon in full glory."[1] Rob Sheffield, writing in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), dubbed the album "the triumph of Neilness" and said that its music is slightly more "lax" than his studio recordings, but "festive".

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