DIAMOND/STREISAND HAVE CLEVER DJS TO THANK FOR FLOWERS HIT
NEIL DIAMOND’s duet with BARBRA STREISAND on YOU DON’T BRING ME FLOWERS only became a hit when radio DJs started merging the two superstars’ renditions of the same song.
Diamond wrote the beloved ballad for a TV show but never submitted it, instead choosing to put it on his I’m Glad You’re Here With Me Tonight album in 1977.
Streisand fell in love with the tune and also recorded a take with Diamond’s musical arranger. Both singers released their versions at the same time.
Diamond recalls, "It was in the same key that I did and using the same arranger, so it was very similar.
"After both records were out, disc jockeys around the United States intercut the two records and made a duet out of them.
"Barbra and I somehow received some copies of these, and we looked at each other and a light bulb appeared in a bubble above our head and we said, ‘Hey, let’s go in and do if for real.’ It was an enormously successful record."
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