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I went to a Neil Diamond concert. I think it was back East over 50 years ago. Memories get a little foggy when they're that old.
It’s not the memories it’s you :mook:
 
I liked the song until I learned he wrote it when he saw a picture of Caroline Kennedy and was so smitten by her. She was 10 years old. The concept of " filling the night" with a 10 year old is rather ucky.
 
I liked the song until I learned he wrote it when he saw a picture of Caroline Kennedy and was so smitten by her. She was 10 years old. The concept of " filling the night" with a 10 year old is rather ucky.

Well, maybe this will make you fill better about it:

For years the lore has been that Neil Diamond's 1969 song "Sweet Caroline" was an ode to the then young daughter of late president John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline.

On Monday, the singer revealed the truth behind the hit.

"I was writing a song in Memphis, Tennessee, for a session. I needed a three-syllable name," Diamond said during an appearance on "Today." "The song was about my wife at the time — her name was Marsha — and I couldn't get a 'Marsha' rhyme."

https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/20/showbiz/music/neil-diamond-sweet-caroline/index.html

Yeah, not sure that "Sweet Mar-ar-sha" would have worked out quite as well.
 

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