Neil Diamond

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career that began in the 1960s. Diamond has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. He is the third most successful adult contemporary artist on the Billboard charts behind Elton John and one-time duet partner Barbra Streisand. His songs have been covered internationally by many performers from various musical genres.

Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Additionally, he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and in 2011 was an honoree at Kennedy Center. On the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts, he has had eleven No. 1 singles: "Cracklin' Rosie", "Song Sung Blue", "Longfellow Serenade", "I've Been This Way Before", "If You Know What I Mean", "Desiree", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "America", "Yesterday's Songs", "Heartlight" and "I'm a Believer". "Sweet Caroline" is played frequently at sporting events, and has become an anthem for the Boston Red Sox.

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Neil Diamond (filmmaker)

Neil Diamond is a Cree filmmaker based in Montreal, Quebec, born and raised in Waskaganish, Quebec. Working with Rezolution Pictures, Diamond has directed the documentary films Reel Injun, The Last Explorer, One More River, Heavy Metal: A Mining Disaster in Northern Quebec and Cree Spoken Here, along with three seasons of DAB IYIYUU, a series for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network about Cree elders.

In the 2008 docudrama The Last Explorer, Diamond explored the story of his great-uncle George Elson, a Cree guide who helped to map Labrador as part of an ill-fated 1903 expedition with Leonidas Hubbard and Dillon Wallace, and a return voyage in 1905 with Hubbard's widow Mina Hubbard.

As of April 2011, Diamond is developing a project with Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk about the 18th conflict between Cree and Inuit, which lasted almost a century.

Reel Injun

Reel Injun was inspired by Diamond's own experiences as a child in Waskaganish, where he and other Native children would play cowboys and Indians after local screenings of Westerns in their remote community. Diamond remembers that although the children were in fact "Indians," they all wanted to be the cowboys. Afterwards, when he was old enough to move south to study, he would be questioned by non-Native people about whether his people lived in teepees and rode horses, causing Diamond to realize that their preconceptions about Native people were also derived from movies.

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12 Songs (Neil Diamond album)

12 Songs is the twenty-sixth studio album by Neil Diamond, released in 2005. It was his first album of all-original, all-new material since 2001's Three Chord Opera. It was produced by Rick Rubin and is often erroneously cited as the first Diamond album since the Bang Records era to feature the artist playing acoustic guitar; in truth he played guitar on his Uni/MCA output and his Columbia output, possibly uncredited on most, if not all, albums.

The working title for the album was self-titled. The original pressing of the album was copy-protected using Sony's controversial XCP technology.

Album history

Initial work on the album began after Diamond had concluded his tour behind Three Chord Opera in 2002. Retreating to his Colorado cabin, Diamond found himself temporarily snowed in, and started to pass the time away by working on new material.

Not long afterward, Diamond met Rick Rubin. Rubin expressed interest in working with Diamond, and the two got together several times at each other's homes before ever going into the recording studio.

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Moon River

"Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It received an Academy Award for Best Original Song for its performance by Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). It also won Mancini the 1962 Grammy Award for Record of the Year and won Mancini and Mercer the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. The song has been covered by many other artists.

It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1961 and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1962. He sang the first eight bars of the song at the beginning of each episode of his eponymous television show and named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri after it. His autobiography is called "Moon River" and Me. Williams' version was never released as a single, but it charted as an LP track that he recorded for Columbia on a hit album of 1962. Cadence Records' president Archie Bleyer disliked Williams' version, as Bleyer believed it had little or no appeal to teenagers. Forty years later in 2002, a 74-year-old Williams sang the song at the conclusion of the live telecast of the NBC 75th Anniversary Special to a standing ovation.

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Moon River (TV series)

Moon River is an upcoming television series which will air on ABS-CBN as part of the Primetime Bida line-up. It stars Rayver Cruz, Maja Salvador and Ms. Claudine Barretto in her comeback in a teleserye.

Claudine and Rayver will portray the role as rich siblings. While Maja as the poor love interest of Rayver. Claudine will make Maja's life miserable in this series because she is against of the affair of Maja and Rayver.

Cast

Main cast

  • Claudine Barretto as Cassandra
  • Maja Salvador as Lea
  • Rayver Cruz as Martin
  • Rafael Rosell as Bernard
  • Jodi Sta. Maria as Sarah

    • Supporting cast

  • Will Devaughn as Leo
  • William Martinez as Ricardo
  • Dianne Medina as Francina
  • Eda Nolan as Juvy

    • See also

  • List of programs broadcast by ABS-CBN

    • References

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    Moon River (Andrea Ross album)

    Moon River is the debut album by American singer and actress Andrea Ross, released in March 2007. The record was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Nigel Wright and recorded in the UK in March 2006 when Andrea Ross was just 14 years old. The album sold 6,500 in its first week in the UK entering the UK Albums Chart at # 42.

    Track listing

  • "Moon River"
  • "No Matter What" (From Whistle Down The Wind)
  • "Songbird"
  • "White Horses" (Theme to The White Horses)
  • "Heart Like A Wheel"
  • "The Prayer"
  • "All The Love I Have"
  • "What the World Needs Now Is Love"
  • "You Raise Me Up"
  • "Popular" (From Wicked)
  • "Learn to Be Lonely"
  • "Start of Something New" (From High School Musical)
  • "Whistle Down the Wind"
  • "One World"

    • References

    External links

  • Andrea Ross Official website
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    Crooked Street

    by: Neil Diamond

    Where I am, what I am
    You're the only reason
    Held me up, filled my cup,
    Had the faith in me and love....
    Owe it all to you, knowin' we're in love
    There's nothing I can't do
    And I'm not afraid to lose my way
    'Cause if I walk a crooked street
    You're there to lead me home
    I've been through bad times
    And some times worse
    And till I met you 'happy' was just a word
    But that all changed the day you came
    Now if I walk a crooked street
    You're there to lead me home
    [Guitar instrumental]
    And I'm not afraid to lose my way
    'Cause if I walk a crooked street
    You're there to lead me home
    If I walk a crooked street




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