Neil Diamond

so I hired her for this session and she liked something about what I was doing, my writing or my singing.

And she brought me to her husband, Jeff, and he liked something about my, what I was doing.

I don't know if he liked the writing or the singing, but one liked one and the other one liked the other.

So we started a working relationship.

We were both working for the same music publisher and, uh,

I kind of got let go by that music publisher, and I asked Jeff and Ellie if they were interested in producing me.

I like the idea of anything on those records.

I was just thrilled to be there.

Yes, if you can call it a hit.

Yeah.

Melinda was mine till the time that I found her Holding Jim, loving him Then Sue came along, loved me strong, that's what I thought

But until I can find me The girls will stay and won't play games behind me And I'll be what I am A solitary man A solitary man I've had to heal That's Neil Diamond.

No, I wrote this for myself.

I had a contract with Jeff and Ellie, and I started to focus in on just what I wanted to do.

And so Solitary Man was written for me and for the first sessions that I was to do with Jeff and Ellie.

Well, I can tell you that I wasn't conscious of it until you just mentioned it.

I've never thought of my songs having that sense of urgency, but I'll listen again, and maybe as an objective observer, you can pick up on that stuff.

But I never felt that there was an urgency, a sense of drama, a sense of yearning.

Lots of things, but not urgency.

But you may be very...