NEIL DIAMOND - FOREVER IN BLUE JEANS

 FOREVER IN BLUE JEANS

NEIL DIAMOND

SONGWRITERS: RICHARD WINCHELL BENNETT & NEIL DIAMOND

COUNTRY: U. S.A.

ALBUM: YOU DON’T BRING ME FLOWERS

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1978

 

       Neil Leslie Diamond(born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and occasional actor. He has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time. He has had ten Nº 1 singles on the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts: "Cracklin' Rosie", "Song Sung Blue", "Longfellow Serenade", "I've Been This Way Before", "If You Know What I Mean", "Desirée", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "America", "Yesterday's Songs", and "Heartlight". Thirty-eight songs by Diamond have been featured in the Top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts. He also played in movies such as The Jazz Singer, a musical drama film.

         Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, and he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 2011, he was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors, and he received the 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, or aesthetically significant".

          You Don't Bring Me Flowers is Neil Diamond's twelfth studio album. It was released in 1978 to capitalize on the success of the title song of the same name, a duet with Barbra Streisand, which had originally appeared as a solo recording on Diamond's previous album, I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight.

Money talks

But it don't sing and dance and it don't walk

And long as I can have you here with me

I'd much rather be forever in blue jeans

 

Honey's sweet

But it ain't nothin' next to baby's treat

And if you'd pardon me, I'd like to say

We'd do okay forever in blue jeans

 

Maybe tonight

Maybe tonight, by the fire

All alone, you and I

Nothing around but the sound

Of my heart and your sighs

 

Money talks

But it can't sing and dance and it can't walk

And long as I can have you here with me

I'd much rather be forever in blue jeans, babe

 

And honey's sweet

But it ain't nothin' next to baby's treat

And if you'll pardon me, I'd like to say

We'd do okay, forever in blue jeans

 

Maybe tonight

Maybe tonight, by the fire

All alone, you and I

Nothing around but the sound

Of my heart and your sighs

 

Money talks

But it don't sing and dance and it don't walk

And long as I can have you here with me

I'd much rather be forever in blue jeans

 

And if you'd pardon me, I'd like to say

We'd do okay forever in blue jeans, babe

 

And long as I can have you here with me

I'd much rather be forever in blue jeans, babe.