I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight

I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight
Studio album by
Neil Diamond
ReleasedNovember 11, 1977
Recorded1977
Studio
GenrePop
Length39:20
LabelColumbia
ProducerBob Gaudio
Neil Diamond chronology
Love at the Greek
(1977) 		I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight
(1977) 		You Don't Bring Me Flowers
(1978)
Singles from I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight
  1. "Desirée"
    Released: November 1977
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[2]

I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight is the eleventh studio album by Neil Diamond, released on Columbia Records in 1977. It includes a solo version of the song "You Don't Bring Me Flowers". Diamond would score a #1 hit with a new version recorded as a duet with Barbra Streisand the following year.

I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight was the second Neil Diamond album in a row to also garner a television special, which was broadcast on November 17, 1977, over the NBC television network. The television special received a Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety for Director Art Fisher, Associate Director David Grossman and Stage Manager Bob Graner. It was also nominated for three Emmy Awards. The special was a thematic and "behind the scenes" based program with interspersed live performances. It also features a pioneering segment with one of the earliest broadcasts of what would come to be known as a music video with its treatment of Diamond's song "Morningside".

Track listing

All songs written by Neil Diamond, except where noted.

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."God Only Knows"Brian Wilson, Tony Asher4:01
2."Let Me Take You in My Arms Again" 2:56
3."Once in a While" 3:34
4."Let the Little Boy Sing"Diamond, Bob Gaudio3:24
5."I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight"Gaudio, Judy Parker4:18
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Lament in D Minor"Richard Bennett1:10
2."Dance of the Sabres" 4:46
3."Desirée" 3:19
4."As If" 3:26
5."You Don't Bring Me Flowers"Diamond, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman3:08
6."Free Man in Paris"Joni Mitchell4:46

Personnel

Neil Diamond's Band
Orchestra and guest musicians
  • Alan Lindgren – orchestra arranger and conductor on all tracks except "Dance of the Sabres"
  • The Sid Sharp Strings – strings
  • Murray Adler, Arnold Belnick, Al Bruening, Sal Crimi, Isabelle Daskoff, Henry Ferber, Elliott Fisher, Ronald Folsom, Jimmy Getzoff, Meg Grabb, Lou Klass, Bernie Kundell, Bill Kurasch, Marvin Lamonick, Joy Lyle, Gordon Marin, Stan Plummer, Jay Rosen, Nate Ross, Sheldon Sanov, Marcia Van Dyke, and Tibor Zelig – violin
  • Sam Boghossian, Richard Dickler, Pam Goldsmith, Alan Harshman, Myra Kestenbaum, Linda Lipsett, Mike Nowak, Dave Schwartz, Linn Subotnick, Herschel Weiss – viola
  • Jesse Erlich, Armin Kaproff, Ray Kelly, Jerry Kessler, Harry Schultz, Gloria Strasner – cello
  • Peter Mercurio, Buell Neidlinger, Bob Stone – double bass
  • Gayle Levant – harp
  • Bobby and Chuck Findley, Jack Laubach, Bobby Shew, Tony Terran – trumpet
  • Charlie Loper, Bob Payne – trombone
  • Ernie Tack – bass trombone
  • Tommy Johnson – tuba
  • Tom Scott – horn soloist
  • Alan and Marnie Robinson – French horn
  • Harold Diner, James A. Dseker, Bob Hardaway, Terry Harrington, Dick Hyde, Robert Jung [de], Barbara Korn, Steven P. Madaio, Arthur N. Maebe, Lew McCreary, Oliver E. Mitchell, Brian Dennis O'Conner, William R. Perkins, Johnny Rotella, George B. Thatcher – reeds
  • Tommy Morgan – harmonica
Production

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[15] Platinum 100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[16] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[17] 2× Platinum 2,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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  2. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 195.
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