Stones (Neil Diamond album)

Stones is the seventh studio album by Neil Diamond, recorded and released in 1971. It was one of the biggest hit recordings of his career. The conductors and arrangers were Lee Holdridge, Marty Paich and Larry Muhoberac.

Stones
Studio album by
Neil Diamond
ReleasedNovember 5, 1971
Recorded1971
GenrePop
Length32:52
LabelUni
ProducerTom Catalano
Neil Diamond chronology
Tap Root Manuscript
(1970)		 Stones
(1971)		 Moods
(1972)
Singles from Stones
  1. "Crunchy Granola Suite"
    Released: 1971
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Rolling Stone(mixed)[1]
Allmusic[2]

The cover photo was taken at Luxford House, Crowborough, East Sussex. The house was occupied at the time by rock music manager Tony Stratton-Smith.

Early copies of the LP album featured a picture label and a unique version of the cover with a grommet-string style closure on the back.[3] The cover itself was styled as an envelope that opened from the top. This was later abandoned and replaced with a standard side-opening sleeve.

Inspired by the experience of a failed screen test for a film about rebel comic Lenny Bruce, " 'I Am...I Said' would ultimately turn out to be the single most challenging and time-consuming song that [Diamond] ever wrote." And while "it took four months every day, all day...It was a daily battle to put that song on paper...but when it was done, it turned out to be one of the most satisfying songs I had ever written."

Track listing
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Am...I Said"Neil Diamond3:32
2."The Last Thing on My Mind"Tom Paxton3:31
3."Husbands and Wives"Roger Miller3:54
4."Chelsea Morning"Joni Mitchell2:32
5."Crunchy Granola Suite"Neil Diamond3:14
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Stones"Neil Diamond3:02
2."If You Go Away"Jacques Brel, Rod McKuen3:47
3."Suzanne"Leonard Cohen4:41
4."I Think It's Gonna Rain Today"Randy Newman2:36
5."I Am...I Said (Reprise)"Neil Diamond2:33

References
  1. Rolling Stone review Archived October 1, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Stones at AllMusic
  3. "Universal City Records [UNI] Album Discography". Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved August 21, 2015.

2. "He Is...I Say" by David Wild (DeCapo Press, 2008)



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