This Soundtrack & Neil Diamond ROCK!!!!
This was one of the most successful movie soundtracks in that it remained on Billboard's top 100 albums for nearly 3 years. It produced 3 #1 songs, Love on the Rocks, America, and Hello Again, a personal favorite as it's my wedding song. This is not Diamond's only musical appearance in films. He also wrote the famous song "Be" for the film "Jonathan Livingston Seagull."
Neil Diamond has legions of fans and it is well-deserved recognition. The CD is excellent in regards to Diamond's work, but the quality of the CD is rough in some places where you can hear an annoying hiss sound when the volume is pumped up and for his rock songs you certainly want to do that, but with ballads on high volume you can here the hiss more. Other than that, this soundtrack remains ageless as does most of Diamond's music.
I wrote a review for the film that covers how I feel about that work so you can check there to read that, but for brevity's sake here I'll just recommend that you buy or rent the film. It is so much better than the critics who ripped into it both then and now. Of course, being a Diamond fan helps, but Lucie Arnez and Laurence Olivier also make the film very watchable.
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