Classics: The Early Years

Neil Diamond | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000025VL
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,023 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank the Lord for Neil Diamond, January 24, 2004

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classics: The Early Years (Audio CD)

This CD features the best of Neil Diamond's recordings for Bang Records. Some people may be disappointed that some of his hits like "Sweet Caroline" aren't included, but that song was recorded for a different record company. This CD includes all his Bang Records hits, and that's good enough for me. This is my favorite period of Neil's career. You can't go wrong with songs like "Cherry, Cherry", "I'm a Believer" and "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon". I highly recommend this CD.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Early Diamond, November 2, 2005

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Fredric A. Cooper "Hollies fan" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classics: The Early Years (Audio CD)

This "Greatest Hits" CD, culled from Diamond's 1960s Bang label sessions, states on the cover "The Original Hit Recordings". This is not quite true; if it were true, they would all be the mono single versions. These are the stereo versions, often with a different vocal track. There is a compilation with the mono versions of most of these, but it is a multiple CD set. So this is still the only single disc collection available of Neil Diamond's great early rock & roll recordings, in my opinion, the most essential music ever made by Diamond.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Neil's best songs, September 19, 2003

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R. Rodriguez (Miami, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classics: The Early Years (Audio CD)

There isn't a single song on this CD i don't like. I remember this was the first Neil Diamond album my mom bought some years ago. These aren't actually the original mixes of the songs. They were originally released in mono. These are in stereo and have extra strings added to them. But it's still a collection worth getting if you're into Neil's early work. Actually the only one. The albums he released on Bang are all out of print and neither MCA or Columbia ever rereleased them. So a few of these songs are somewhat hard to fing on any other albums especially "Do It". The Boat that I Row is on the box set and the rest nine other ones are on the Essential ND and Shilo is found Live on Essential and hot august night. The remake is on Velvet gloves on spit, so the studio version is only available on this album. For those really into Neil Diamond's songs from the feel of neil and just for you and his first greatest hits album there is a rare album called the Bang collection which has all 25 of his songs from that era plus five additional mixes. Classics the early years is a great CD for anyone to start their ND colliction!