Tuesday, November 21, 2017

“Kentucky Woman” (Neil Diamond) #22 11/18/1967

This Neil Diamond single would cause yet another rift between him and the head of BANG Records, the notorious Bert Berns. Neil was a little burned out on writing simple pop songs, and thought this should be a B-side to the more ambitious "Shilo." Berns disagreed, and promoted "Kentucky Woman" as the A-side. Diamond would soon jump to another label. Deep Purple would release a very hard rockin' cover version in about a year. "Shilo" was re-released in 1970 to moderate success.


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