With the previously announced reissue of Neil Diamond‘s Columbia titles to brand them with Capitol Records, it’s only natural for any label acquiring a huge hit-maker like Neil Diamond to revisit his hits in a new Greatest Hits package. In July, Capitol released a single CD set with 23 hits. That set, All Time Greatest Hits, was released in July of 2014. It conveniently left out some legitimate hits thus ignoring classic, fan-loved albums like Serenade. Serenade had “Longfellow Serenade”, amid a strong selection of great songs.
Shortly, and previously mentioned, title-wise, Capitol Records will expertly expand that July release with 19 more songs including two from Serenade. Songs like “Longfellow Serenade”, “I’ve Been This Way Before”, “Brooklyn Roads”, “Glory Road”, “And The Grass Won’t Pay No Mind”, “Crunchy Granola Suite”, “Stones” (“STONES”!), “Something Blue” (from his latest album, Melody Road), “Pretty Amazing Grace”, “Hell Yeah”, to name a few (see track list below).
This 2CD, 42-track , all Studio recordings (no live messes included) expansion is planned next week for November 24. I know I’m in.
CD1:
BROOKLYN ROADS
SHILO
BROTHER LOVE’S TRAVELING SALVATION SHOW
GLORY ROAD
SWEET CAROLINE
HOLLY HOLY
SOLITARY MAN
FOREVER IN BLUE JEANS
AND THE GRASS WON’T PAY NO MIND
SOOLAIMON
I AM…I SAID
CRUNCHY GRANOLA SUITE
STONES
PLAY ME
DONE TOO SOON
KENTUCKY WOMAN
MORNINGSIDE
YOU DON’T BRING ME FLOWERS (ORIGINAL SOLO VERSION)
SONG SUNG BLUE
SOMETHING BLUE
CRACKLIN’ ROSIE
CD2:
CHERRY, CHERRY
I’M A BELIEVER
GIRL, YOU’LL BE A WOMAN SOON
YOU GOT TO ME
LOVE ON THE ROCKS
LONGFELLOW SERENADE
I’VE BEEN THIS WAY BEFORE
BEAUTIFUL NOISE
RED, RED WINE
SEPTEMBER MORN
HELLO AGAIN
AMERICA
DESIREE
WE
YESTERDAY’S SONGS
HEARTLIGHT
PRETTY AMAZING GRACE
THE BOAT THAT I ROW
THANK THE LORD FOR THE NIGHT TIME
HELL YEAH
IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
Glad I didn’t bite on the single disc version. And am I the only one who thinks “Walk On Water” should be on this? Oh well.
How about all of Moods, or even Serenade. Both wall to wall classics.
When “Walk on Water” wasn’t included on the single disc, well that was annoying, but seriously, it couldn’t make the cut of a 2 disc set…???
And what a random song order.
Do we know yet if the individual albums will be remastered, or simply reissued?