Hiring a Neil Diamond cover band remains a very popular way of marking celebrations across the world. Few singers and songwriters have enjoyed as much success as Diamond over the years, and many of his songs have become known as standards. Anyone playing in this type of groups has an enormous choice of songs that they can perform.
With Diamond having sold over 125 million records across the globe, any group which wants to use his material as the basis for their act has plenty of choice of songs. Not many artists have written and sung so many successful numbers as this Brooklyn-born musician. This makes choosing the right numbers to include in a set list can be a tricky process for musicians.
At a wedding, for example, people are there to enjoy themselves; they do not necessarily want to be made to think too much. They are also much more likely to enjoy material with which they have some familiarity. For this reason, it is best to choose some of the absolute classics from the great singer's repertoire of material.
Not that that really narrows down the options, with the singer having enjoyed a long career which began in the early 1960s. It is songs from the late 1960s which many people know, hits such as 'Sweet Caroline' helping to catapult Diamond to international stardom at this stage of his career. Songs such as this hit will be well known, and even people unfamiliar with the titles will recognize the tunes.
It was in the 1970s when the star's career really began to take off, though. 'Song Sung Blue' came out in 1972, and it still goes down well with audiences wherever it is played. Bands who really want to get a better idea of what Diamond was all about during this stage of career should listen to the live LP 'Hot August Night', which has some cracking tunes to learn on it.
The 1970s was when this wonderful singer-songwriter really found huge fame, however, and this decade is a rich source of material for bands who perform covers. The singer himself recorded a new version of his 60s song 'I'm a Believer', a number which The Monkees made very famous indeed. Barbara Streisand covered another of his well-known songs, 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers' during this era too.
Almost everyone knows the hit song 'Red Red Wine', though few people will know that Diamond wrote it, if you ask them. It was a song which was made very famous by British reggae act UB40 in the 1980s, though it was Tony Tribe in the 60s who first gave the number a reggae arrangement. The song retains its ability to grab audiences, and should be considered by any covers group.
Anyone who is playing in a Neil Diamond cover band has plenty of great material from which they can build some killer set lists. The key to making the most of the singer-songwriter's stunning musical legacy is to make sure that the material matches the mood of the event at which the band are playing. Thankfully, there is no shortage of superb songs, which can played in a range of generic styles, to be included.
With Diamond having sold over 125 million records across the globe, any group which wants to use his material as the basis for their act has plenty of choice of songs. Not many artists have written and sung so many successful numbers as this Brooklyn-born musician. This makes choosing the right numbers to include in a set list can be a tricky process for musicians.
At a wedding, for example, people are there to enjoy themselves; they do not necessarily want to be made to think too much. They are also much more likely to enjoy material with which they have some familiarity. For this reason, it is best to choose some of the absolute classics from the great singer's repertoire of material.
Not that that really narrows down the options, with the singer having enjoyed a long career which began in the early 1960s. It is songs from the late 1960s which many people know, hits such as 'Sweet Caroline' helping to catapult Diamond to international stardom at this stage of his career. Songs such as this hit will be well known, and even people unfamiliar with the titles will recognize the tunes.
It was in the 1970s when the star's career really began to take off, though. 'Song Sung Blue' came out in 1972, and it still goes down well with audiences wherever it is played. Bands who really want to get a better idea of what Diamond was all about during this stage of career should listen to the live LP 'Hot August Night', which has some cracking tunes to learn on it.
The 1970s was when this wonderful singer-songwriter really found huge fame, however, and this decade is a rich source of material for bands who perform covers. The singer himself recorded a new version of his 60s song 'I'm a Believer', a number which The Monkees made very famous indeed. Barbara Streisand covered another of his well-known songs, 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers' during this era too.
Almost everyone knows the hit song 'Red Red Wine', though few people will know that Diamond wrote it, if you ask them. It was a song which was made very famous by British reggae act UB40 in the 1980s, though it was Tony Tribe in the 60s who first gave the number a reggae arrangement. The song retains its ability to grab audiences, and should be considered by any covers group.
Anyone who is playing in a Neil Diamond cover band has plenty of great material from which they can build some killer set lists. The key to making the most of the singer-songwriter's stunning musical legacy is to make sure that the material matches the mood of the event at which the band are playing. Thankfully, there is no shortage of superb songs, which can played in a range of generic styles, to be included.
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