Neil Diamond - Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show flac album

Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show" is a song written and recorded by Neil Diamond which appeared as the opening track on the eponymous album. Released as a single in early 1969, it hit number 22 on the . The song tells the story of Brother Love, an evangelist who travels from town to town preaching. In the middle of the song, Diamond gives a sermon in typical evangelical style.

It's Love, Brother Love, say Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies And ev'ryone goes, cause everyone knows Brother Love's show. Diamond’s original intent for this song was to take evangelical preachers to task for what some of them did: take advantage of the down-hearted and troubled. The evangelical community in the south called for a boycott of Diamond concerts and he then changed his introduction for the song at concerts, saying he attended one of these meetings and found them inspirational and uplifting. Moral: Never denigrate your audience. Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show" Track Info. Written By Neil Diamond.

Watch the video for Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show from Neil Diamond's His 12 Greatest Hits for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer and songwriter, born in Brooklyn, NY. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Diamond was one of the more successful pop music performers, scoring a number of hits. As critic William Ruhlmann writes, "as of 2001, he claimed worldwide record sales of 115 million copies, and as of 2002 he was ranked third, behind only Elton John and Barbra Streisand, on the list of the most successful adult contemporary artists in the history of the Billboard chart.

Neil Diamond's second album for Uni offered the typical strengths and weaknesses of his LPs for the label. The strengths? A good single (the title track) and a rather remarkable stylistic diversity.

First issue; Unipak-style gatefold cover, does not contain "Sweet Caroline".

Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show. Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show is the name of Neil Diamond's fourth studio album, released in 1969.

Neil Diamond's Greatest Hits (1968). Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show (1969). Touching You, Touching Me (1969). As a presenter he is arguably best known as the host of The Brian Conley Show, as well as presenting the Royal Variety Performance on eight occasions. In his 40-year television career, he has starred in multiple award-winning television sitcoms including Time After Time and The Grimleys. In the West End, he has played the lead role in musicals such as Me and My Girl, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Hairspray, Oliver!, The Music Man, Barnum and Jolson for which he was nominated for a prestigious Laurence Olivier Award.

It's love, Brother Love say. Brother Love's Travelin' Salvation Show. And grab the old ladies. Cause everyone knows. Room gets suddenly still. And when you'd almost bet.