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Story behind the song “Sweet Caroline”

(WYTV)- “Where it began, I can’t begin to knowing…” The opening lines of the classic Neil Diamond hit “Sweet Caroline.” But ...
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Behind the Meaning, and ‘Women,’ of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”

Diamond said he wrote the song about his second wife, Marcia Murphey; the couple married in 1969 and later divorced in 1995. Apparently, Diamond needed a three-syllable name to fit the melody, and ...