
Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970: #218: “Soolaimon [African Trilogy}- Neil Diamond. May 2, 1970.
- Single: “Soolaimon [African Trilogy}- Neil Diamond
- Record Company- Uni
- Genre: Pop
- Written by Neil Diamond
- Time: 4:25
- B-side:” And The Grass Won’t Pay No Mind”
- Album- Tap Root Manuscript
- Grade-B
- Peaked at #30 7 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100.
Neil Diamond- that is his real name- from Brooklyn, New York- he went to the same high school as Babs Streisand- had 7 Hot 100 singles in 1970- 5 of which went Top 40-including his first #1 “Cracklin’ Rosie.”
I liked this song well enough, but asked myself “what the hell is N.D. thinking?”
This rules.