The Jazz Singer is an album by Neil Diamond

Neil Diamond

Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....

 from 1980

1980 in music

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, which served as soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

 to the 1980 remake of the film The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer (1980 film)

The Jazz Singer is a 1980 American musical remake of the 1927 classic The Jazz Singer. It starred Neil Diamond, Sir Laurence Olivier, and Lucie Arnaz and was co-directed by Richard Fleischer and Sidney J...

. The soundtrack was released in November 1980 originally on Capitol Records

Capitol Records

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. EMI Films

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 (owned by EMI

EMI

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, also the parent of Capitol Records) produced the film. The soundtrack was re-released in February 1996

1996 in music

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 on Columbia Records

Columbia Records

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 in the US and Sony

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 elsewhere.

While the film received mixed reviews and was moderately successful, its soundtrack was a huge success and became Neil Diamond's biggest selling album in the United States, selling over 5 million copies there and reaching #3 on the pop albums chart

Billboard 200

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. Three of the songs from the album became Top 10 pop singles

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, with "Love on the Rocks," "Hello Again" and "America

America (Neil Diamond song)

"America" is the name of a patriotic song written and originally recorded by Neil Diamond, released in 1980 as part of The Jazz Singer soundtrack album...

" reaching #2, #6, and #8 respectively. The Jazz Singer Soundtrack, along with Diamond's album Beautiful Noise (1976), are considered two of Diamond's

Neil Diamond

Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....

 finest recording projects.

Track listing

Side 1

1. "America
   America (Neil Diamond song)
   "America" is the name of a patriotic song written and originally recorded by Neil Diamond, released in 1980 as part of The Jazz Singer soundtrack album...
   
   " (Neil Diamond) (4:18)
2. "Adon Olom
   Adon Olam
   Adon Olam is a strictly metrical hymn in the Jewish liturgy. It has been a regular part of the daily and Sabbath liturgy since the 15th century...
   
   " (:32)
3. "You Baby" (Diamond) (3:01)
4. "Love on the Rocks" (Diamond, Gilbert Bécaud
   Gilbert Bécaud
   Gilbert Bécaud was a French singer, composer and actor, known as "Monsieur 100,000 Volts" for his energetic performances. His best-known hits are "Nathalie" and "Et Maintenant", a 1961 release that became an English language hit as "What Now My Love"...
   
   ) (3:40)
5. "Amazed and Confused" (Diamond, Richard Bennett) (2:53)
6. "On the Robert E. Lee" (Diamond, Bécaud) (2:03)
7. "Summer Love" (Diamond, Bécaud) (3:17)

Side 2

1. "Hello Again" (Diamond, Alan Lindgren ) (4:04)
2. "Acapulco" (Diamond, Doug Rhone) (2:48)
3. "Hey Louise" (Diamond, Bécaud) (3:00)
4. "Songs of Life" (Diamond, Bécaud) (3:32)
5. "Jerusalem" (Diamond) (3:03)
6. "Kol Nidre
   Kol Nidre
   Kol Nidre is an Aramaic declaration recited in the synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on every Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement...
   
   /My Name is Yussel" (Trad. adapt Diamond, Grenkel/Diamond)(1:38)
7. "America (Reprise)" (Diamond) (2:22)