No. 7

Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond (1969)* Video - "Where it began, I can't begin to know when." The first line is exactly how I feel about this song. It seems as though I've always known it. It's as American as the Star Spangled Banner. Neil Diamond wrote the song for an 11-year-old Caroline Kennedy and sang it for her 50th birthday. It's also a Fenway Park staple, but perhaps the most telling sign of how huge this song is, when concert buddies Billy, Tasha, Dustin and I saw him live last year, Neil Diamond, with his catalogue of monstrous hits, sang Sweet Caroline TWICE!