EMI's 20 Golden Greats collects many of Neil Diamond's biggest hits from the late '60s and early '70s, but the vinyl-only compilation has since been supplanted by several CD-era collections that offer better track selections and fidelity. EMI's 20 Golden Greats collects many of Neil Diamond's biggest hits from the late '60s and early '70s, but the vinyl-only compilation has since been supplanted by several CD-era collections that offer better track selections and fidelity. false 2025-11-08 02:11:49 20 Golden Greats 1991 1991-02-01 1991-02-01 71 Country Rock Folk Rock Pop Pop Rock Rock Soft Rock 111246 2261634 2662c43a-9415-4d31-a4fa-39d46d03f685 a42d3fd5-55de-4206-86c3-4fbb5404018f 69494764-d46b-3139-bff3-bdd04c7823f0 /media/data/media5/Music/Neil Diamond/20 Golden Greats (1991)/folder.jpg Neil Diamond Neil Diamond 1 1 Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good) 03:19 1 2 Holly Holy 04:37 1 3 And the Singer Sings His Song 03:37 1 4 Shilo 02:55 1 5 Play Me 03:49 1 6 Mr. Bojangles 04:48 1 7 Song Sung Blue 03:12 1 8 Cherry Cherry 03:03 1 9 Solitary Man 02:54 1 10 Kentucky Woman 02:30 1 11 Cracklin' Rosie 02:57 1 12 Soolaimon 04:16 1 13 Canta Libre 04:45 1 14 Stones 03:04 1 15 He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother 04:09 1 16 Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show 03:26 1 17 Cold Water Morning 03:22 1 18 Walk on Water 03:04 1 19 And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind 03:32 1 20 I Am... I Said 03:32 Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time. He has written and recorded ten singles that reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts: "Cracklin' Rosie", "Song Sung Blue", "Longfellow Serenade", "I've Been This Way Before", "If You Know What I Mean", "Desirée", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (which he co-wrote with Marilyn Bergman and performed with Barbra Streisand), "America", "Yesterday's Songs", and "Heartlight (co-written with Carole Bayer Sager and Burt Bacharach). A total of thirty-eight songs by Diamond have reached the top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, including "Sweet Caroline". He has also acted in films, making his screen debut in the 1980 musical drama film The Jazz Singer. Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, and he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 2011, he was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors, and he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.