Rock God gives the greatest rock performance ever !

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January 25, 2021 4:49 AM

I like Neil, but he is not a rock god, nor is this the greatest rock performance ever.

(it is a fun song, though)

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July 16, 2020 9:11 PM

Rock God! Better then Freddie at Live Aid. Better then Robert Plant or Mick! R1 is stone cold wrong.

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July 16, 2020 9:14 PM

SO "hip" and "with it" (makes air quotes)

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July 16, 2020 9:16 PM

Sex on a stick! The feel of Neil.

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July 16, 2020 9:17 PM

R2 bwahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa

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July 16, 2020 10:11 PM

R5 you dare doubt the sadaka magic ! Hell you speak!

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July 16, 2020 10:13 PM

I love this song. It came out when I was in high school. But I didn't realize until years later that Elton John was also singing along with Neil Sedaka. It was just advertised as "Neil Sedaka" when it came out.

Other musicians included David Foster, Lee Sklar on bass, Nigel Olsson on drums.

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July 24, 2020 5:56 PM

Neil Sedaka was always one of those people whose success I rooted for, even though I never actually went out and bought any of his music. There's just something about his vibe that resonates with me. And this is a funky little track. Neil could get pretty funky for a Jewish kid from Brighton Beach. I'm talking musically, not the dance moves...although he was doing that "sassy black girl neck roll" years before it became a thing.

He's been broadcasting mini-concerts from his house while under lockdown, and you can tell how much he loves music and performing. His voice is still decent, better on some days than others. I believe he's 81 years old now. A couple of weeks ago he sang "My Yiddishe Mama" and at the end he started to sob a little, which made me start sobbing.

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July 24, 2020 5:58 PM

Here's Neil this morning:

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July 24, 2020 6:04 PM

Almost as good as Steve and Eydie covering SoundGarden's Black Hole Sun:

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July 24, 2020 6:05 PM

[quote] There's just something about his vibe that resonates with me.

He's a big ole queen?

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July 24, 2020 6:13 PM

And he sang "Do the Jelly Fish"......

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July 24, 2020 6:15 PM

[quote]He hit on a guy I know

Was it Rod Stewart's son while in rehab?

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July 24, 2020 6:17 PM

The video in the OP is the studio recording of the song, synced with a live performance. You're not hearing the actual live performance.

Much in the same way that the video below is just the studio recording, synced with the video of a live performance from "The Midnight Special." (By the way, the performance on "The Midnight Special" was better than the studio recording.)

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July 24, 2020 7:01 PM

I saw Neil and Suzanne Somers on the Mike Douglas Show and they were getting on famously. I thought a) he's gay and b) she's a fag hag.

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July 24, 2020 7:02 PM

Neil Sedaka: the 1960's version of Sean Mendez.

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July 24, 2020 7:17 PM

I always get him and Jim Neighbors mixed up.

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July 24, 2020 7:20 PM

R14 That is the whitest thing I have ever seen in my life.

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July 24, 2020 8:31 PM

As a kid in the 70s with my sister babysitting me, I queened out over this song when it came on the radio.

I miss those days.

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July 24, 2020 11:14 PM

I'm sure Jim Nabors would be confused as well.

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July 25, 2020 2:07 AM

He wrote some great songs.

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July 25, 2020 2:38 AM

Op here. I love neil. He’s great. The video i posted just isn’t

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July 25, 2020 3:12 AM

I was probably the only person in my part of the US who liked this song.

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July 25, 2020 3:28 AM

It’s a great song. The vocals and the flute.

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July 25, 2020 3:41 AM

Neil Sedaka is like a grandmother's idea of rock and roll.

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July 25, 2020 3:41 AM

Neil makes me moist as a snack cake!

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August 12, 2020 8:35 PM

r30, you shut your mouth!

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August 12, 2020 8:40 PM

Now this is a performance for the ages by Peter Allen-Minnelli.

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August 12, 2020 8:42 PM

the best of Neil holds up 50 years later. He needs another comeback before covid shuts the planet down.

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January 25, 2021 3:17 AM

I didn't realize he wrote so many hits for other artists. Love Will Keep Us Together and Lonely Nights for Captain and Tennille, Where The Boys Are for Connie Francis, Solitaire for the Carpenters, etc.

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January 25, 2021 3:25 AM

Solitaire was a great song.

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January 25, 2021 3:40 AM

You have to admire him for resurrecting a faded career and making a fortune touring off a few songs.

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January 25, 2021 3:41 AM

He also wrote Stupid Cupid and Fallin' for Connie. Stupid Cupid was his first hit. Fallin' is a great song. Connie's friend, Don Kirschner, introduced Neil and Howie Greenfield to Connie.

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January 25, 2021 3:48 AM

I loved “Laughter in the Rain” as a young gayling.

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January 25, 2021 4:32 AM

Great singer and songwriter; TERRIBLE dancer (LOL),

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January 25, 2021 4:40 AM

I will ALWAYS, ALWAYS love him for writing this song.

if you've never watched this clip, btw, you've really missed something. Just when you think you've seen an outfit that couldn't be more Seventies, another even weirder one pops up...

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January 25, 2021 4:48 AM

Sedaka was horrible in his comeback era. Bad Blood an example.

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January 25, 2021 4:49 AM

I liked his bluesy, slowed-down second version of “Breaking up is Hard to Do”.

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January 25, 2021 4:49 AM