Beautiful Noise by Neil Diamond (CD, Oct-1990, Columbia (USA))

Album Features
UPC:	074643396523
Artist:	Neil Diamond
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1990
Record Label:	Columbia (USA)
Genre:	Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Beautiful Noise
2. Stargazer
3. Lady Oh
4. Don't Think...Feel
5. Surviving the Life
6. If You Know What I Mean
7. Street Life
8. Home Is a Wounded Heart
9. Jungletime
10. Signs
11. Dry Your Eyes

Details
Playing Time:	37 min.
Contributing Artists:	James Newton Howard, Bob James, Tom Scott
Producer:	Robbie Robertson
Distributor:	Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	AAD

Album Notes
Also available in a CD 3-pack with CLASSICS: THE EARLY YEARS (1966-1967) and THE JAZZ SINGER.Personnel includes: Neil Diamond (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, dobro); Robbie Robertson (electric guitar); Tom Scott (tenor saxophone); Bob Findley (trumpet); Bob James (Fender Rhodes piano); James Newton Howard (ARP synthesizer); Bob Boucher (bass); Dennis St. John (drums); Joe Lala (percussion); Oma Drake, Venetta Fields, Carolyn Willis (background vocals).Engineers include: Nat Jeffreys, Neil Brody, Ed Anderson.All tracks have been digitally remastered.Personnel: Neil Diamond (guitar, acoustic guitar, dobro); Richard Bennett (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, ukulele); Robbie Robertson (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Jesse Ed Davis (electric guitar); Alan Lindgren (strings, piano, synthesizer, Moog synthesizer); James Getzoff, Ronald Folsom, David Hungate, Glenn Dicterow, Dennis Karmazyn, Elliott Fisher, Joy Lyle, Yukiko Kamei, Harold Dicterow, Selene Hurford, Henry Ferber, Tibor Zelig, Murray Adler, Armand Karpoff, Hershel Wise, Stanley Plummer, Sid Sharp, Bernard Kundell, Harry Shlutz, Michael Nowak, Ray Kelley, Isabelle Daskoff, Jay Rosen, Paul Shure, Harry Bluestone, Jesse Ehrlich, William Kurash, Samuel Boghossian (strings); Jerome Richardson (flute, clarinet, horns); Tommy Morgan (harmonica); Nick DeCaro (accordion); Tom Scott (tenor saxophone); Bob Findley (trumpet, bugle, flugelhorn, horns); Donald Waldrop, Ralph Lee, Norman Benno, David Duke , Harold Garrett, Don Menza, Ernie Watts, Gary Grant, Gene Cipriano, Arthur Maybe, Robert Bryant, Hugo Raimondi, William Perkins, Jack Nimitz, Robert Findley, Bernard Fleischer, Oscar Brashear, Snooky Young, Steve Madaio, Maurice Spears, Jack Redmond, Lew McCreary, Paul Hubinon (horns); Larry Knechtel (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards); David Paich, Bob James (Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards); Garth Hudson (organ); Bob Boucher (synthesizer, electric bass, bass guitar); James Newton Howard (synthesizer); Jim Gordon (drums, congas); Dennis St. John, Russ Kunkel (drums, percussion); Jim Keltner (drums); Joe Lala (congas, tambourine); Hank Altman, Sue Roberts, Freddy DeMann (sound effects); Carolyn Willis, Clydie King, Verlene Rogers, Gerald Garrett, Oma Drake, Joseph Greene, Jesse Kirkland, Monalisa Harrington, Linda Press, Mildred Lane, Jim Gilstrap, Julia Waters, Oren Waters, Venetta Fields (background vocals).Recording information: Kendun Recorders, Burbank, CA; Shangri-la Studios; Village Recorder.Arrangers: Nick DeCaro; Bob James.Produced by the Band's former leader Robbie Robertson, 1976's BEAUTIFUL NOISE features the cream of L.A. sessionhood, as well as New Orleans pianist Dr. John and Robertson's ex-Band mate Garth Hudson, in a set which, though it hews closely to Diamond's Tin Pan Alley roots, was the rawest the singer had sounded on record since the days of "Cracklin' Rosie." Songs like the gospel-tinged "Surviving the Life" and the jazzy "Street Life" conjure Diamond's gritty Coney Island roots, while the title track is one of the most appealing of his '70s hits.