who wrote sweet caroline?
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- Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. Diamond wrote this song about his second wife, Marcia Murphey, who he married in 1969 (they divorced in 1995). He needed a three-syllable name to fit the melody, however, so Sweet Marcia didn't work.
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Who wrote sweet soul music? Why sweet Caroline played at Red Sox? Neil Diamond and the Boston Red Sox are two American institutions with a very loyal following. And since the late '90s these two pop culture icons have been linked together th…rough one of the more odd traditions at Fenway Park.
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Caroline Aherne, comedian, actress and creator of The Royle Family, dies after 'brave' battle with cancer Caroline Aherne, comedian, actress and creator of The Royle Family, dies after 'brave' battle with cancer. Caroline Aherne, who created, wrote and starred in the Royle Family, has died of cancer at the age of 52, prompting a flood of moving tributes yesterday to her ‘comic genius’. Aherne had spent much of her life battling cancer and other demons, including depression and alcoholism.
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Lost Cause of the Confederacy Caroline E. Janney is associate professor of history at Purdue University. She is the author of Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (2013) and Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (2008).
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- Love Me Tender is track #4 on the album ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits. It was written by Vera Matson, Elvis Presley. Love Me Tender is track #4 on the album ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits. It was written by Vera Matson, Elvis Presley. (No other information is available for this lyric-would you like to add something today?).
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Neil Diamond: 'didn't like Sweet Caroline' Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline on MUZU.TV. There have been three distinct mixes of this song. The original mono 45 mix had a loud orchestra and glockenspiel played by Mike Leech. Diamond overdubbed the track in California.
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- Ain't She Sweet. song. Ain't She Sweet is a song composed by Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics) and published in 1927 by Edwin H. Morris & Co., Inc./Warner Bros., Inc. It became popular in the first half of the 20th century, one of the hit songs that typified the Roaring Twenties.
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"""A Terrible Evil"": Edgar Allan Poe Writes About His Wife's Illness and Death" The Harry Ransom Center’ s former curator Molly Schwartzburg, who wrote about this 1848 letter for the archive’s blog, reports that Poe’s correspondent, George Washington Eveleth, was a fan who first wrote to Poe in 1845.
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- Forgive Me, John. (1953) A Dear John Letter, or Dear John is the name of a popular country music song, written by Billy Barton, Fuzzy Owen and Lewis Talley. It was popularized by Ferlin Husky and Jean Shepard, and was a crossover country-pop hit in 1953.
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- Ain%27t She Sweet by The Beatles Songfacts. 1  This was written in 1927 by songwriters Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, and it quickly became a standard. 2  This song was first recorded in 1927 as a piano tune by Frank Banta. 3  The Beatles recorded this in June 1961 in Hamburg, Germany.
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- Farewell, My Lovely (1940) - renamed Murder, My Sweetwas created by 'cannibalizing' the plots of 'Mandarin's Jade' (Dime Detective ,1937) and two Black Mask stories, 'The Man Who Liked Dogs' and 'Try the Girl' (published, respectively, in 1936 and 1937). At the centre of the novel there is a quest for absent love.
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- My Old Kentucky Home  is an anti-slavery ballad written by Stephen Foster, probably composed in 1852. It was published as My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night in January 1853 by Firth, Pond, & Co. of New York. The song was introduced by Christy's Minstrels the same year.
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Please, banish âSweet Carolineâ from Fenway Park Please, banish ‘Sweet Caroline’ from Fenway Park. Risk-takers. That’s my Red Sox, whether it’s sticking Daniel Nava on the bench for a beard with a “winning personality” or starting a kid with 44 regular season at-bats at third. As the Sox push for their eighth championship, here’s another change to make. Please, Ye Olde Towne Team, ship “Sweet Caroline” out of Boston.
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- April 26, 2013 10:30 AM. A favorite song to sing along to at bars and ballgames took on a different meaning this past week after the tragic Boston Marathon bombing. Neil Diamond‘s “Sweet Caroline” helped to further galvanize the community in Boston and unite the rest of the country in support.
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- Singing Sweet Caroline. That's cool, said Red Sox third basemen Mike Lowell when asked about the vibe at Fenway Park. How the song became so popular in the first place is another story, and no less than the songwriter himself is mystified at the success of Sweet Caroline.
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- William Hill Brown (1765-1793) was an American poet, dramatist and novelist who anonymously published The Power of Sympathy, considered to be the first American novel. The son of a prominent clockmaker, Brown received his education at a Boston boy's school. His literary spark and encouragement came from his step-aunt, Catherine Byles.
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Success is Counted Sweetest As first published under the title Success in A Masque of Poets, 1878. Success is Counted Sweetest is a lyric poem by Emily Dickinson written in 1859 and published anonymously in 1864.
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Fireflies  (Faith Hill album) Of the singles, Mississippi Girl, Like We Never Loved at All and Sunshine and Summertime were co-written by John Rich of Big & Rich, while The Warren Brothers (Brad and Brett) co-wrote The Lucky One, a song on which Brett also sings backing vocals.
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Neil Diamond: 'didn't like Sweet Caroline' Diamond wrote this song about his second wife, Marcia Murphey, who he married in 1969 (they divorced in 1995). He needed a three-syllable name to fit the melody, however, so Sweet Marcia didn't work. The name Caroline is one he had written down, and it fit the song perfectly, so that's what he used.
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What Eats Hermit Crabs? Hermit crabs use their shells to hide from predators like seagulls, larger crabs, sea stars and snailfish. These animals are at their most vulnerable when they leave one shell for another, which they must do as they grow because their shells do not grow with them.
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The Mystery of 'Sweet Caroline' and the Sox And finally, I did. I spoke to a woman named Amy Toobey(ph), who had been the music director before Megan Kaiser. It was Amy who started playing Sweet Caroline. The reason: She just liked the song. That's it. She just liked the song, and when she played it at Fenway the first time eight years ago, people went crazy. Crowd: (Singing) Good times never seemed so good. So good, so good, so good... ORLEAN: So good, so good, so good, so bad. Crowd: (Singing) Sweet Caroline, bah, bah, bah.
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- Riperton wrote this with her husband, Richard Rudolph. Maya Rudolph of Saturday Night Live is their daughter, and Riperton mentions her in the lyrics. In the end, she sings Ma-ah-aha-aha-ah-ya. (thanks, Cher-Ny, NY). Riperton worked with Stevie Wonder as a backup singer, and Stevie produced this track for her.
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Sweet Home Alabama Sweet Home Alabama is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, Second Helping. It reached number 8 on the US chart in 1974 and was the band's second hit single. The song was written in reply to Southern Man and Alabama by Neil Young; Young is name-checked in the song's lyrics.
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Rock and Roll Midterm Studyguide Hound Dog, a hit for Elvis Presley, was co-written by Jerry Leiber, who has died at the age of 78. 1  Elvis Presley in 1957 Photo: Rex. 2  Songwriter Jerry Leiber (right) in 2009 as he attends an ASCAP reception with lyricist Alan Bergman in Los Angeles Photo: Getty.
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- Sweet Child O%27 Mine by Guns N%27 Roses Songfacts. 1  The lyrics came from a poem Axl Rose was working on. He wrote the song about his girlfriend, Erin Everly, who is the daughter of Don Everly of the Everly Brothers. 2  Appetite For Destruction was Guns N' Roses first album, and it took a while for the band to catch on.
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Who sang the original song Darling? The classic pop song Suspicion written by Doc Pomus was originally sung by Terry Stafford in 1964, and has since been covered by dozens of artists, including Elvis Pre … sley.