Moods (Neil Diamond Album)
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''Moods'' is the eighth
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Neil Diamond Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling musicians of all time. He has written and ...
, released by Uni Records in 1972. It contained the second of his No.1 songs, "
Song Sung Blue "Song Sung Blue" is a 1972 hit song written and recorded by Neil Diamond, inspired by the second movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto #21. It was released on Diamond's album '' Moods'', and later appeared on many of Diamond's live and compilatio ...
", and was something of a follow-up in style to the highly experimental '' Tap Root Manuscript''. The album entered ''Billboard'' on July 15, where it reached No. 5 in early September. ''
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'' praised ''Moods'' highly, saying it contained "brilliant, diversified material." This album, and its follow-up live album ''
Hot August Night ''Hot August Night'' is a 1972 live double album by Neil Diamond. 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 m ...
'', are generally acknowledged to be the two most important recording projects of Diamond's career in terms of defining his signature sound for the future. Within the music industry and among music professionals this is considered one of Diamond's better and more creative recordings. It received a Grammy Award nomination for Album of the Year for 1972. Song Sung Blue was nominated for Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
Lee Holdridge Lee Elwood Holdridge (born March 3, 1944) is a Haitian-born American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. An 18-time Emmy Award nominee, he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Daytime Emmy Awards, two News and Documentary Emmy Awards, and o ...
was the arranger and conductor of the orchestra. According to ''
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'', the third single from the album, "Walk on Water," sounds a little like
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. ''
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'' called it "One of iamond'smost interesting records since ' Soolaimón.'"


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Neil Diamond Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling musicians of all time. He has written and ...
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* Neil Diamond albums 1972 albums MCA Records albums Albums conducted by Lee Holdridge Albums arranged by Lee Holdridge Albums produced by Tom Catalano Uni Records albums Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical {{1970s-pop-album-stub