My husband and I are big Neil Diamond fans and this album is perfect for fans like us who love Neil's classics. We're such big fans that we even liked the movie Jazz Singer! Anyway I highly recommend this CD, it's great.

The item arrived at the time specified to me when I placed the order, was well packaged and had no defects in the CD tape.

Holy cow! I had no idea of the depths of Neil Diamond's songwriting genius! I was too young in the 70's to have appreciated his music and by the 80's most of his songs seemed a bit schlocky. Well, just recently I discovered my brother's Neil Diamond CD's and was shocked to find that he wrote so many great songs I've heard like "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon", "Red, Red Wine", "I'm a Believer"... Having only recently had the first taste of Mr. Diamond's early work, I was so curious that I went on YouTube to find more stuff on him. I have to say, I now love, love, love Neil Diamond --- most especially his early work -- "I Am, I Said", "Solitary Man", "I Got the Feelin' (Oh No, No...), "Longfellow Serenade". I've lost so much sleep recently staying up late at night to listen to his music.

Interestingly, if you watch his early TV appearances from the 60's and 70's that are posted on YouTube (I highly recommend his pared down, raw version of "I Am, I Said" performed for the BBC in a 1974 special), he's much, much less of the flashy Vegas-style showman he was in the 80's and more of an introspective singer/songwriter who seems haunted almost. That was Neil Diamond at his best.

Vote him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame already!

If you are a fan of Neil Diamond when he first started, this is the album for you! All the great 60s hits, like "Cherry Cherry", "Crunchy Granola Suite" and "Cracklin' Rosie" are here. Love it!

Neil Diamond represents one of these rare examples of a singer in constant innovation and reinvention.

Because although these singles span 1968 to 1973, show with absolute firmness, the enormous talent and notable free spirited lyricism that not only transcended the musical circuits in that decade so plethoric of memorable and highly inspired composers, but besides created his own place in the time and the collective memory. His well appointed voice, his innovative proposals and above all his evincible lyrics literally covered a wide spectrum; as a matter of fact he was one of the few singers that knew to please and envisage all the possible targets. Even he made a smart approach to the God spell through Brother Love' s traveling salvation Show and Holy Holy, his fabulous arrangement on the piece Soolaimon, his emblematic Song song blue or I am I said, but if you never danced Cherry Cherry, must have been because you never turned on the radio. .

I think to myself that due to that double feature as composer and singer was his winning ace to endure along several musical generations until his duos with Barbara Streisand (September Song) .

But this album keeps for you a wider set of possibilities and choices, because of the fact his versatility was his passport to the immortality.