Cherry Cherry Christmas

Album: A Cherry Cherry Christmas (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Cherry Cherry Christmas" is the title track of Neil Diamond's third Christmas album (yes, he's Jewish, but he loves Christmas). The song weaves into its lyrics a number of his previous songs. The ones we spotted are:

    "Cherry Cherry" (of course)
    "Holly Holy"
    "Song Sung Blue"
    "Pretty Amazing Grace"
    "If You Know What I Mean"
    "I'm A Believer"
    "Red Red Wine"
    "Sweet Caroline"

    Diamond explained to The Daily Telegraph December 4, 2009: "I thought it might be fun, a little novelty, just to squeeze in a bunch of my familiar titles as part of the story. I thought it would be just fun and games, but it took me three or four months."

Comments: 3

  • Xia from Dallas A Beautiful Noise
    Pretty Amazing Grace
  • Frank from Rochester, PaYou missed "Beautiful Noise", great song.
  • Dana from Greenwood, ScI just heard this song and was wondering what all it meant - it's a cute song!
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