Boy, Neil Diamond must have ticked off everyone at BANG Records when he left the label in 1968. Even though Bert Berns (the label’s owner and a total jerk to all in the industry, towards Neil and Van Morrison in particular) died a year earlier, the lawsuits dragged on for a decade. They reissued Neil’s material to directly undercut sales for Uni, his new label. BANG re-released his first 45 from ‘66 which did much better this time (#21 vs. #55) but his current Uni single reached #1 in a few weeks.
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