Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Sweet Caroline

For 40 years, the world has wanted to know. Now, it's finally revealed: 'Sweet Caroline' Was Caroline Kennedy.



Neil diamondNeil Diamond held onto the secret for decades, but he has finally revealed that President Kennedy's daughter was the inspiration for his smash hit "Sweet Caroline."


"I've never discussed it with anybody before _ intentionally," the 66-year-old singer-songwriter told The Associated Press on Monday during a break from recording. "I thought maybe I would tell it to Caroline when I met her someday." He got his chance last week when he performed the song via satellite at Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg's 50th birthday party.


Diamond was a "young, broke songwriter" when a photo of the president's daughter in a news magazine caught his eye. "It was a picture of a little girl dressed to the nines in her riding gear, next to her pony," Diamond recalled. "It was such an innocent, wonderful picture, I immediately felt there was a song in there."


Now, if we only knew who Cracklin' Rosie is...


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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank God he's from the 60's, you sing about a little girl now and you're up on charges.

Anonymous said...

"Cracklin' Rosie" is a bottle of wine. This song tells of an Indian tribe in Canada who apparently had more men than women. Diamond said he'd visited the tribe and Cracklin' Rosie was a nickname they used for their own homemade alcoholic brew which the single men of the tribe would sit round the fire together drinking - he thought the name was catchy so he used it in a song.

Derek Brink said...

...pretty sure it's O'Donnell...