Holly Holy by Neil Diamond

Genre: Pop
Year: 2008

"Holly Holy" is a song written and recorded by Neil Diamond. Released as a single in October 1969, it was quite successful as the follow-on to "Sweet Caroline", reaching number 6 on the U.S. pop singles chart by December. p. 88. It became a gold record and then eventually platinum. A work with a spiritual focus, "Holly Holy" was influenced by gospel music and was Diamonds favorites of the songs he had written to that point. pp. 65–66. It begins quietly with acoustic guitar against a bass line, with the sparse lyric stretched with elongated vowels. Gradually the arrangement builds up with a tempo shift in the bridge and a backing choir against Read full article at wikipedia.org

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