NEIL DIAMOND'S 'SWEET CAROLINE' IS GOLD
Memphis, Tennessee (JFK+50) Neil Diamond's hit song 'Sweet Caroline', released in June 1969, soon went GOLD selling more than one million single copies. The recording was made here in Memphis where the singer says he was writing a song about his wife, but, because he couldn't come up with a rhyme for Marsha, chose Caroline instead.
Neil Diamond* revealed that he was inspired to choose Caroline** when he saw a picture of the President's daughter in a magazine dressed in riding gear and standing beside her pony named 'Macaroni.'
Diamond said...
"It was such a...wonderful picture, I felt certain there was a song there."
*Neil Leslie Diamond was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1941. He has sold 100 million records worldwide & has 38 songs in the Top Ten. NLD was inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 & the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
**Caroline Bouvier Kennedy was born on November 27, 1957 in NYC. CBK graduated from Radcliffe College (1980) and earned J.D. degree at Columbia Law School. She married Edwin Scholossberg in 1986. Their children are Rose, Tatiana, & John.
SOURCES
"Neil Diamond reveals story behind 'Sweet Caroline'", by Lisa Respecs France, CNN, October 20, 2014, www.cnn.com
"Neil Diamond Reveals the Cute, Pervy Roots of 'Sweet Caroline'," Intelligencer, November 21, 2007, www.nymag.com
Memphis, Tennessee (JFK+50) Neil Diamond's hit song 'Sweet Caroline', released in June 1969, soon went GOLD selling more than one million single copies. The recording was made here in Memphis where the singer says he was writing a song about his wife, but, because he couldn't come up with a rhyme for Marsha, chose Caroline instead.
Neil Diamond* revealed that he was inspired to choose Caroline** when he saw a picture of the President's daughter in a magazine dressed in riding gear and standing beside her pony named 'Macaroni.'
Diamond said...
"It was such a...wonderful picture, I felt certain there was a song there."
*Neil Leslie Diamond was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1941. He has sold 100 million records worldwide & has 38 songs in the Top Ten. NLD was inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 & the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
**Caroline Bouvier Kennedy was born on November 27, 1957 in NYC. CBK graduated from Radcliffe College (1980) and earned J.D. degree at Columbia Law School. She married Edwin Scholossberg in 1986. Their children are Rose, Tatiana, & John.
SOURCES
"Neil Diamond reveals story behind 'Sweet Caroline'", by Lisa Respecs France, CNN, October 20, 2014, www.cnn.com
"Neil Diamond Reveals the Cute, Pervy Roots of 'Sweet Caroline'," Intelligencer, November 21, 2007, www.nymag.com
Caroline on Macaroni
March 30 1962
Photo by Robert Knudsen
JFK Library Photo
