Hot August Night
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 also marks the first album released by the newly-formed MCA Records (a merging of the Uni, Kapp, and Decca labels).
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).
Australian reception
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 and 1974. 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. In 2003, Delta Goodrem with her Sony BMG-based album Innocent Eyes, also achieved number 1 on the Australian album chart for 29 weeks, thereby tying her with Neil Diamond.
Hot August Night II
Hot August Night II is a live album by Neil Diamond. This is a follow-up to his 1972 double album Hot August Night, which is also a live album.
Track listing
References
Podcasts:
Hot August Night
ALBUMS
- Cough It Up: The Hairball Story released: 1995
Cough It Up: The Hairball Story
Released 1995- Does It Ever Hurt to Be You
- Too Late
- Souped-Up Monte Carlo and Feathered Hair
- Someone Like You
- Be That Way
- Gladiola Lane
- Michael in Blue
- Yesterday's Gone
- Sniper at the Gates of Dawn
- Hinky
- All Ages Show
- Sweet Ramona
- Oh Honey Honey
- The Arab Shrine
- Mr. Rich Parts
- Trailer Park Romance
- The Last of You
- I Am, I Said (Four Bands)
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by Vaya Con Dios
Hot August Night
by: Vaya Con DiosThe only I'll get to keep
Are those lines on my face
Waves rolling on the shore
The music they make
Mermaids doomed by the sea
Of tears they have cried
Secrets we once revealed
The blue of your eyes
And those hot August nights
Your voice echoed by the wind
And how it disappeared
Hopes we tore limb from limb
Out of ignorance and fear
Spirits haunting my dreams
The turning of the tide
Truth the fools sometimes speak
The lures and the lies
And those hot August nights
Those mad dogs that were sleeping
In the corners of your soul
Woke up and started barking
As if they knew that it was time to go
By the pier, sirens howled
Sailors waved goodbye
And I never thought I'd lose you
On that hot August night
No, I never thought I'd lose you
On that hot August night
I sit alone by the fire
It's raining outside
The Tennessee River is swollen
There's peace in my heart
Everything now is different
The tears have gone by
They're flowing with the current
Under Alabama skies
No, I never thought I'd lose you
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