💎NEIL DIAMOND ~ INTRO/SONG SUNG BLUE
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Dedicated to Veronica Vyner who loved this song, the very first Neil Diamond song she ever heard back in 1972. This song and 'Beautiful Noise' are her all-time favourite Neil Diamond songs.
This was inspired by Mozart's ‘Piano Concerto No. 21.’ It's probably the bounciest hit inspired by the classical composer - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Conce...
Diamond: "This is one to which I never paid too much attention. A very basic message, unadorned. I didn't even write a bridge to it... I had no idea that it would be a huge hit or that people would want to sing along with it."
While Diamond didn't think this song had hit potential, Russ Regan, who ran his record label Uni, was a believer, telling Diamond it would be his "biggest copyright ever." Said Diamond, "Although the lyric says everything I wanted it to say, there's not much meat to it, but it turned out to be a major, major copyright.
Other artists to record this song include Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Wayne Newton, and the Scottish Punk band Altered Images.
“Song Sung Blue” is a song about songs, and it’s also a song about depression. It’s got a simple premise: When we sing songs about sadness, we channel that sadness, and we make ourselves feel better. Sure! But this whole idea is complicated by the fact that ‘Song Sung Blue’ is not a remotely sad song.
“Funny thing, but you can sing it with a cry in your voice,” Diamond sings. “And before you know it, get to feeling good, you simply got no choice.” There’s no cry in his voice. Instead, he radiates the Broadway-ready warmth that made him a star. Maybe he’s simply charmed by the power of what music can do. Maybe he’s delighted to deliver us the news that we don’t have to be depressed, that we can simply sing a song and make ourselves feel better. After all, Diamond isn’t singing about his own sadness. He’s just singing about songs. Still, there’s a funny disconnect to the idea of Diamond singing this as a sunny amble — as a happy advertising jingle for the very idea of sad music. (Introducing the song live, Diamond would call it “a glad song” rather than “a sad song.”)
Diamond based the ‘Song Sung Blue’ vocal melody on the second movement of a Mozart concerto, and the melody, it turns out, translates just fine to pop music. It’s got a sharp arrangement, too. Diamond and his regular producer Tom Catalano built the song around a lazy guitar-strum and a warm, glowing Fender Rhodes. And all the elements of the song — the melodramatic strings, the wistful backing vocals, the plaintive harmonica — arrive at just the right time. There’s no sense of rhythm or momentum to it, but all the pieces fit together like a puzzle. It’s a fine piece of craftsmanship.
Diamond himself didn’t especially care about ‘Song Sung Blue’. Later on, he admitted that he “never paid too much attention” to the song. He called it “a very basic message, unadorned. I didn’t even write a bridge to it.” But Russ Regan, boss of Diamond’s Uni label, heard a hit, and a hit is what it became.”
“This is Neil's way of saying if life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”
SONG SUNG BLUE (1972 - Age: 31)
NEIL DIAMOND
Album: Moods
Song sung blue, everybody knows one
Song sung blue, every garden grows one
Me and you are subject to
The blues now and then
But when you take the blues
And make a song
You sing 'em out again
You sing 'em out again
Song sung blue, weeping like a willow
Song sung blue, sleeping on my pillow
Funny thing,
But you can sing it with a cry in your voice
And before you know it get to feeling good
You simply got no choice
Me and you are subject to
The blues now and then
But when you take the blues
And make a song
You sing 'em out again
Song sung blue, weeping like a willow
Song sung blue, sleeping on my pillow
Funny thing,
But you can sing it with a cry in your voice
And before you know it start to feeling good
You simply got no choice
Song sung blue
Song sung blue
Funny thing,
But you can sing it with a cry in your voice
Dedicated to Veronica Vyner who loved this song, the very first Neil Diamond song she ever heard back in 1972. This song and 'Beautiful Noise' are her all-time favourite Neil Diamond songs.
This was inspired by Mozart's ‘Piano Concerto No. 21.’ It's probably the bounciest hit inspired by the classical composer - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Conce...
Diamond: "This is one to which I never paid too much attention. A very basic message, unadorned. I didn't even write a bridge to it... I had no idea that it would be a huge hit or that people would want to sing along with it."
While Diamond didn't think this song had hit potential, Russ Regan, who ran his record label Uni, was a believer, telling Diamond it would be his "biggest copyright ever." Said Diamond, "Although the lyric says everything I wanted it to say, there's not much meat to it, but it turned out to be a major, major copyright.
Other artists to record this song include Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Wayne Newton, and the Scottish Punk band Altered Images.
“Song Sung Blue” is a song about songs, and it’s also a song about depression. It’s got a simple premise: When we sing songs about sadness, we channel that sadness, and we make ourselves feel better. Sure! But this whole idea is complicated by the fact that ‘Song Sung Blue’ is not a remotely sad song.
“Funny thing, but you can sing it with a cry in your voice,” Diamond sings. “And before you know it, get to feeling good, you simply got no choice.” There’s no cry in his voice. Instead, he radiates the Broadway-ready warmth that made him a star. Maybe he’s simply charmed by the power of what music can do. Maybe he’s delighted to deliver us the news that we don’t have to be depressed, that we can simply sing a song and make ourselves feel better. After all, Diamond isn’t singing about his own sadness. He’s just singing about songs. Still, there’s a funny disconnect to the idea of Diamond singing this as a sunny amble — as a happy advertising jingle for the very idea of sad music. (Introducing the song live, Diamond would call it “a glad song” rather than “a sad song.”)
Diamond based the ‘Song Sung Blue’ vocal melody on the second movement of a Mozart concerto, and the melody, it turns out, translates just fine to pop music. It’s got a sharp arrangement, too. Diamond and his regular producer Tom Catalano built the song around a lazy guitar-strum and a warm, glowing Fender Rhodes. And all the elements of the song — the melodramatic strings, the wistful backing vocals, the plaintive harmonica — arrive at just the right time. There’s no sense of rhythm or momentum to it, but all the pieces fit together like a puzzle. It’s a fine piece of craftsmanship.
Diamond himself didn’t especially care about ‘Song Sung Blue’. Later on, he admitted that he “never paid too much attention” to the song. He called it “a very basic message, unadorned. I didn’t even write a bridge to it.” But Russ Regan, boss of Diamond’s Uni label, heard a hit, and a hit is what it became.”
“This is Neil's way of saying if life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”
SONG SUNG BLUE (1972 - Age: 31)
NEIL DIAMOND
Album: Moods
Song sung blue, everybody knows one
Song sung blue, every garden grows one
Me and you are subject to
The blues now and then
But when you take the blues
And make a song
You sing 'em out again
You sing 'em out again
Song sung blue, weeping like a willow
Song sung blue, sleeping on my pillow
Funny thing,
But you can sing it with a cry in your voice
And before you know it get to feeling good
You simply got no choice
Me and you are subject to
The blues now and then
But when you take the blues
And make a song
You sing 'em out again
Song sung blue, weeping like a willow
Song sung blue, sleeping on my pillow
Funny thing,
But you can sing it with a cry in your voice
And before you know it start to feeling good
You simply got no choice
Song sung blue
Song sung blue
Funny thing,
But you can sing it with a cry in your voice
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