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Re: Beautiful Noise #11

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> 
> sweet taste" in "A Modern Day Version of Love" and "As you lay sleeping
> in my arms" in "And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind".  I've lately gotten
> into collecting cover versions of Neil's songs. 

Just off on a tangent, there's a couple of CD's of Neil covers available 
here in Australia, I don't know if you've seen them in the U.S. One is 
"The Neil Diamond Songbook", the other is definitely an Australian 
produced CD called "Diamonds". Each CD has about 25 Neil songs covered by 
various artists, notable tracks include "The Boy With the Green 
Eyes","That New Boy in Town", Tony Tribe's reggae version of "Red Red 
Wine" (leaves UB40 in the dust), "Sunflower", and all sorts of bizzare 
cover versions you never wanted to hear (Sonny and Cher, Hot Chocolate, 
Deep Purple, etc)

> As for the studio version of "I Dreamed a Dream", I'd like to know that
> answer, too!

It came out on 45, I can't remember what the flip side is but I have it 
at home.(Much better than the live version IMHO). Here in Australia I think 
it was also available as a track on an Alan Jones (radio DJ) compilation CD, 
I'll investigate and see what I can find out.

Scott Lemon
slemon@jolt.mpx.com.au