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Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

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Neil Diamond
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 24
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Brooklyn
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Neil Leslie Diamond
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