The primary chart chew of the High 40 cherry for Neil Diamond arrived in America on September 10, 1966. Within the days when he’d been making his identify as a songwriter for others, and taking faltering business steps as an artist in his personal proper, “Cherry Cherry” gave him his first look in that higher echelon of Billboard’s Sizzling 100, on its method to his High 10 debut.
Diamond had first appeared in that chart a number of weeks earlier with “Solitary Man,” which made it as excessive as No.55 in its preliminary ten-week run. In the summertime of 1970, with Diamond much better identified by then, it reappeared and bought to No.21. However “Cherry Cherry,” in its pacy, strumming mid-Sixties type, charted in August 1966 and rose 54-39 en path to a No.6 peak.
A private favourite
Neil has at all times had fondness for “Cherry Cherry,” performing it on his celebrated 1972 dwell album Sizzling August Evening. It even grew to become a High 40 US single from that report the next spring.
Neil adopted “Cherry Cherry” with a string of strong US hits in his personal identify, together with the High 20 entries “I Got The Feelin’ (Oh No)” and “You Got To Me.” They had been adopted by a No.10 hit in his house nation that worldwide audiences can be rather more conversant in on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack a era later, the brooding and atmospheric “Girl You’ll Be A Woman Soon.”
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