Sweet Caroline Revealed
jamie on November 26th, 2007
Catching up on last week’s news: Neil Diamond confesses to writing his eponymous hit Sweet Caroline about the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg.
“It was a picture of a little girl dressed to the nines in her riding gear, next to her pony,” Diamond recalled. “It was such an innocent, wonderful picture, I immediately felt there was a song in there.”
Diamond revealed the inspiration while taking a break from recording his new album with mega-producer Rick Rubin, and recently performed the song via satellite for Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg’s 50th birthday party.
Read more of this story on yahoo! news.
Sweet Caroline Lyrics (just because):
Where it began, I can’t begin to know when
But then I know it’s growing strong
Wasn’t the spring
And spring became the summer
Who’d believe you’d come alongHands, touching hands, reaching out
Touching me, touching you
Sweet Caroline
Good times never seem so good
I’ve been inclined to believe it never wouldAnd now I, I look at the night
And it don’t seem so lonely
We fill it up with only two, oh
And when I hurt
Hurting runs off my shoulder
How can I hurt when holding youOne, touching one, reaching out
Touching me, touching you
Sweet Caroline
Good times never seem so good
Oh I’ve been inclined to believe it never would
I hope everybody that celebrates Thanksgiving had a great one! Now, here come the excuses: It was a short week… I was preoccupied with the great SF HQ relocation effort… and I’m cat-sitting. I’ve been a bad blogger this week. Holiday weeks are always tough to find time to scour the net for music, and this is one of those where the whole US seems to shut down. I hope to be all relocated to sunny Buckhead by the next time I post a mixtape, and also to have time during the move to pull another mix together. Anyway, I managed to pull together a set of tracks this week, and as I sit here listening to some of them while I put the post together, I didn’t do so bad. I hope you think so as well.
I have to move. My lease expires on the 30th, and the new management company at my complex, Worthing Company, really blows. So, I’m apartment hunting this weekend. Atlanta’s a big city, with lots of empty apartments- but I hate commuting, and therefore want to find a place that offers an easy route to the office (in the burbs), yet is still near all the ‘action’. As I’ve only got 2 weeks left to find a place, pack, move and clean out the old one, I’m starting to stress. I hate moving.
