The follow-up to Touching You, Touching Me was an ambitious set of songs, all originals except for a Top 20 cover of "He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother," including the side-long suite "The African Trilogy" (which featured the hit "Soolaimon"), the number one hit "Cracklin' Rosie," and "Done Too Soon." Going gold within two months, this album confirmed Diamond's breakthrough as a recording star. The follow-up to Touching You, Touching Me was an ambitious set of songs, all originals except for a Top 20 cover of "He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother," including the side-long suite "The African Trilogy" (which featured the hit "Soolaimon"), the number one hit "Cracklin' Rosie," and "Done Too Soon." Going gold within two months, this album confirmed Diamond's breakthrough as a recording star. false 2022-11-12 08:55:30 Tap Root Manuscript 6 1985 1985-02-18 1985-02-18 36 Folk Rock Pop Rock Soft Rock 111246 2109659 fc7915a2-fe43-4fae-ac9a-58c750ea39fd a42d3fd5-55de-4206-86c3-4fbb5404018f 43146f15-7cd1-363e-b4c5-4e85452ae8ce /media/data/media5/Music/Neil Diamond/Tap Root Manuscript (1970)/folder.jpg Neil Diamond AlbumArtist /config/metadata/People/N/Neil Diamond/folder.jpg Neil Diamond Artist /config/metadata/People/N/Neil Diamond/folder.jpg Neil Diamond Neil Diamond 1 Cracklin’ Rosie 02:59 2 Free Life 03:10 3 Coldwater Morning 03:21 4 Done Too Soon 02:41 5 He Ain’t Heavy…He’s My Brother 04:10 6 Childsong 02:11 7 I Am the Lion 02:07 8 Madrigal 01:53 9 Soolaimon 04:32 10 Missa 02:05 11 African Trilogy 04:28 12 Childsong (reprise) 02:05 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 had ten No. 1 singles 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", "America", "Yesterday's Songs", and "Heartlight". Thirty-eight songs by Diamond have reached the top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts, 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.