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| The Jazz Singer | 
 enlarge | Creator: Leonard Rosenman
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 2347
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5.1 x 0.4
MPN: 67569
UPC: 074646756928
EAN: 0074646756928
ASIN: B000002BIB
Release Date: February 20, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | America - Neil Diamond, Diamond, Neil | | • | Adon Olom - Neil Diamond, Traditional | | • | You Baby - Neil Diamond, Diamond, Neil | | • | Love on the Rocks - Neil Diamond, Becaud, Gilbert | | • | Amazed and Confused - Neil Diamond, Bennett, Richard | | • | On the Robert E. Lee - Neil Diamond, Becaud, Gilbert | | • | Summerlove - Neil Diamond, Becaud, Gilbert | | • | Hello Again - Neil Diamond, Diamond, Neil | | • | Acapulco - Neil Diamond, Diamond, Neil | | • | Hey Louise - Neil Diamond, Becaud, Gilbert | | • | Songs of Life - Neil Diamond, Becaud, Gilbert | | • | Jerusalem - Neil Diamond, Becaud, Gilbert | | • | Kol Nidre/My Name Is Yussel - Neil Diamond, Traditional | | • | America (Reprise) - Neil Diamond, Diamond, Neil |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 36 more reviews...
 "America" is one of the most spectacularly horrible songs! September 25, 1999
12 out of 25 found this review helpful
"America" is quite the phenomenom. It collects so many of the hallmarks of a horrible song into such a concise package. We have a wonderfully insincere patriotic message, a marvelously cheesy pseudo-heavy guitar part, a woefully synthesized orchestra, a flat spoken word section, and a terrifically horrendous choir of everyday people containing some sort of message about democracy, I think. Few songs reach a peak of sheer banality this high. After this monumental opener there's not too many other places the album can go. There's no way it could possibly get worse, but that doesn't mean that it gets that much better. All in all, a spectacular achievement in the annals of horrible music!
 A great injustice was done to Neil refgarding this album. October 13, 2001
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
For some reason, Neil Diamonds's peers have not held him in the same high esteem his fans have. The fans are rigght and his peers are wrong. This CD has three top ten tunes in it, "America," "Hello Again," and "Love on the Rocks." All are great songs and all were hits 20 years ago. There were additional great rockers like "You Baby Baby" on this CD. Inexplicably the academy did not even so much as nominate the movie "The Jazz Singer" for the best score nor did any of the three mega hits get a nomination for best song. This was an unconscionable dump on a great star and songwriter. He deserved an Oscar and did not even get a nomination!I recommend both the cd and a video of the movie. The cd has great studio versions of the songs whereas the movie has some great, energetic live performances, particularly of "You Baby," and "Amazed and Confused." This cd is abslolutely classic and as of the writing of this review, "America" is particularly uplifting so soon after the terrorist attack on New York & the Pentagon. Indeed, the night before this review was written, I saw Neil Diamond in concert at Madison Square Garden & he had the crowd on it's feet with "America." This is a cd that we as fans know is great regardless of what his peers may have thought. I hope in the future, some justice will be done and he will be inducted into the Rock n roll Hall of Fame.
EXTRAORDINARILY HIGH CALIBER OF SONGS! I LOVE IT! August 7, 2000
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Neil Diamond is a mega talent, plain and simple. He is able to create a wide range of music from the simplistic, catchy, "you baby" to "America," "Hello, Again," and so many others. He is a gifted composer, singer and performer. I love Neil Diamond! Neil Diamond has a place of honor in my CDs for the car! "America" is a wonderful welcoming song for all citizens and this collection of songs is a cultural enrichment. IT IS EXCELLENT! I have seen him in concert twice and each time he put on a spectacular show! I hope to hear him live again soon. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT COLLECTION! How can anyone not like it?
If you ask me . . . April 2, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
"America' should have won the Oscar for the best song of 1980! Actually the year 1980 was a great one for pop music in the movies, unlike the stark crops of recent years. The official nominees included "Fame" and "Out There On My Own," both from FAME, "On the Road Again" by Willie Nelson, and "9 to 5" by Dolly Parton. There was also one dud, "People Alone," from THE COMPETITION which hasn't stood the test of time.
If you ask me, "America" should have been nominated and could have won, even under such stiff competition. And I know some of you will say the same of "Hello Again" and "Love on the Rocks" two of Neil's softer tunes.
However, XANADU fans are still smarting over the total lack of Oscar recognition for the many great tracks in the movie--"Suddenly," "Magic," "Xanadu," "All Over the World" and "Suspended in Time." As for which soundtrack LP is the better bargain, I call it a draw!
PS, by the way, the award went to FAME which isn't a disgrace.
A True Classic November 3, 2000
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
It is always risky to say an album is a classic but I will take that chance happily here because this one is. It contains the highlights everyone knows - "Love on the Rocks" and the even stronger "Hello Again" which must rate as one of his best songs ever. The strength comes from the quality of the other songs - "America" with it's message of hope and infectious beat, "You Baby" and "Hey Louise" adding good up tempo backing, and the under rated "Amazed and Confused". It contains a couple of lesser tracks which set the scene for the film, otherwise it is pure Diamond at his best, writing and singing his songs like no one else can.
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