I am currently in Hawaii on a department-sponsored until Friday, Sept. 12. In celebration of returning to Boston for the year, I am going to be a “countdown” of sorts of Boston-themed music. This is good stuff.
While this is not a song about Boston strictly speaking, it is sung after every Red Sox victory and is as a part of Boston culture as is any Song. Neil Diamond announced last fall that JFK’s daughter, Caroline, who was only 11 years old at the time, was the inspiration for the song.
#3, “Sweet Caroline,” Neil Diamond
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Those lyrics do not seem appropriate to be sung in honor of an 11 year old.
Who knew that Neil Diamond used to look like a cross between Ben Stiller and Peter Gallagher?
There was a little bar in Long Beach, NY (Lawn Guyland) that used to play this and “Buttercup Baby” every night at about 2 am, and the whole bar (which was packed at that hour) would drop everything and “mass karaoke” them both out.
Now, this is one of my kids favorites. Odd, no?
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