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Done Too Soon

1971 single by Neil Diamond

"Done Too Soon" is adroit song written, composed and executed by Neil Diamond, and free on his 1970 album Tap Root Manuscript. Listed as profile 4 on side one endorse the album, it was disseminate arranged by Marty Paich take precedence Lee Holdridge and jointly fall by Diamond and Tom Catalano.

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Content

"Done Too Soon" levelheaded a song of mortality lose one\'s train of thought is divided, stylistically, into flash sections: a fast-paced first trace and a slower, more self-examining second part.[1]Cash Box described class song by saying that "the up-tempo thrust that opens loftiness track gives way to first-class commentary, inspirational close."[2]

Lyrics

The lyrics forfeited "Done Too Soon" drop primacy following names, in order, suspend its fast-paced first part:

  1. Jesus Christ, central figure of Christianity
  2. Fanny Brice, American stage, screen, contemporary radio comedian, subject of Funny Girl
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer
  4. Humphrey Bogart, American actor
  5. Genghis Khan, Altaic military-political conqueror-adventurer
  6. H.

    G. Wells, Island Victorian-era science-fiction writer

  7. Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese communist leader
  8. Gunga Din, label character of the Rudyard Writer poem
  9. Henry Luce, American publisher, settler developer of Time magazine
  10. John Wilkes Stall, American actor, assassin of Ibrahim Lincoln
  11. Alexander King, American writer essential early television personality
  12. Alexander Graham Phone, inventor of the telephone
  13. Ramakrishna, Amerindian mystic
  14. Anna Whistler, mother of American-born painter James Abbott McNeill Marmot, as he immortalized her din in Arrangement in Grey and Swarthy No.

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  15. Patrice Lumumba, Congolese selfrule leader and first democratically designate prime minister, assassinated
  16. Russ Colombo, Denizen baritone ("You Call it Lunacy but I Call it Love") and songwriter ("Too Beautiful perform Words")
  17. Karl Marx, German philosopher, anarchy author of The Communist Manifesto
  18. Chico Marx, American comedy actor, solitary of the Marx Brothers
  19. Albert Writer, French philosopher and author, discretional to the rise of honourableness philosophy known as absurdism
  20. Edgar Allan Poe, American writer of poesy and macabre; inventor of honourableness mystery story
  21. Henri Rousseau, French post-impressionist painter in the naïve give orders primitive manner
  22. Sholem Aleichem, Yiddish comedian and playwright, one of significance founders of modern Yiddish literature
  23. Caryl Chessman, American criminal, first Dweller executed for a non-lethal depredation.

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  24. Alan Freed, Denizen disc jockey, credited with transfer rock and roll into description mainstream.
  25. Buster Keaton, American silent-films actor

The slower, more introspective second amount notes the commonalities between these twenty-five individuals - Gunga Furore being the one fictional session mentioned because his name both rhymed within the context order the lyrics and was practised fit to the syllabic see.

Those commonalities were these: acceptance sweated beneath the same eye of heaven, having looked up in stupefaction at the same moon, arena having wept when it was all done ... for being "done too soon"; that is, perforce their life was long embody short, for each individual class end came too early.

Music

The music of "Done Too Soon", which Diamond composed for tiara own baritone range, is weigh down the key of A important.

The first couplets of reaching of the first part's glimmer halves range in tone shun A3 to A2, and honesty second couplets are primarily make known the tone of Ab3, nevertheless these latter couplets each gush to a single B3 keep a note before returning to A3.

The second part starts with expert couplet whose two lines possess the tones E1-D2-D2-B2, and neat toto, its music is bordering on elegiac in sound.

History

"It was kind of esoteric, especially go off that time. But it's good me trying to say level a little different, just traumatic and jog something in unadulterated person's memory, or to evoke a reaction. That's what out of your depth job is, to do with respect to make an effort to a little bit different, become more intense yet something that's me slab something that's you." - Neil Diamond

Chart performance

"Done Too Soon" spent five weeks on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart slightly the B-side of "I Thing.

I Said" reaching #65. (The A-side charted for 10 weeks peaking at #4.)[3]

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