Sweet Caroline
2020 was a tough year for everyone, so we wanted to bring people together the best way we knew how:
through music.
Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He has sold more than 100 million records worldwide making him one of the best-selling musicans of all time.
Born January 24, 1941 in Brooklyn NY turned 80 this year and so we celebrate this iconic singer whom most of us grew up listening to and dancing to throughout the years.
Diamond has had ten No. 1 singles on the Hot 100 which included songs such as Cracklin' Rose, Song Sung Blue, Longfellow Sereade, I've Been This Way Before, If You Know What I Mean, Desiree, You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore, America, Yesterday's Songs and Heartfelt.
Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. He received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 2011, he was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors and he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
In 2019, his 1969 signature song Sweet Caroline was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant".
As many Pops attendees have come to know and recall the Diamond Project out of Ohio appeared on the floating stage in Bemus Point numerous times during the days of the Bemus Bay Pops. In the summer of 2019 when the first official Pops concert series was held in Mayville NY under the new name, Chautauqua Lake Pops the audience was once again treated to another Neil Diamond tribute concert by Diamond Project. The lead singer of Diamond Project is Gary Gomez and during the concert in Mayville Gary performed a duet with Sharon Owens, Barbra Streisand impersonator. The duet was You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore. The Pops audience was mesmerized by their rendition that evening.
Be Safe.
Pat Locke, Maestro Muse
