song sung blue

Neil Diamond adapted the melody for this moody pop song from Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 21 and took it to number one. Diamond says: "This is one to which I never paid too much attention. A very basic message, unadorned.  I didn't even write a bridge to it. I never expected anyone to react to 'Song Sung Blue' the way they did. I just like it, the message and the way a few words said so many things. I had no idea that it would be a huge hit or that people would want to sing along with it."  He didn't think it would be a hit; but UNI president Russ Regan told him the copyright would be huge. Diamond listened and 'Song Sung Blue' became the leadoff single for his album 'Moods' and his second number one.  Diamond admits: "Although the lyric says everything I wanted it to say, there's not much meat to it, but it turned out to be a major, major copyright."  'Song Sung Blue' went to seventeen in Ireland; fourteen in the UK; six in Germany; five in Australia; three in Belgium and New Zealand; and number one in Switzerland and on the US Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts. It spent seven weeks at the top of the Adult Contemporary chart and was nominated for Grammys for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. 









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Song sung blue
Everybody knows one
Song sung blue
Every garden grows one
Me and you are subject to the blues now and then
But when you take the blues and make a song
You sing them out again
Sing 'em out again
Song sung blue
Weeping like a willow
Song sung blue
Sleeping on my pillow
Funny thing, but you can sing it with a cry in your voice
And before you know it, get to feeling good
You simply got no choice
Me and you are subject to the blues now and then
But when you take the blues and make a song
You sing them out again
Song sung blue
Weeping like a willow
Song sung blue
Sleeping on my pillow
Funny thing, but you can sing it with a cry in your voice
And before you know it, start to feeling good
You simply got no choice
Song sung blue
(Song sung blue)
Song sung blue
(Song sung blue)
Funny thing, but you can sing it with a cry in your voice...