The latest effort by Neil Diamond, The Very Best of Neil Diamond – The Original Studio Recordings was released by Columbia/Legacy Recordings on December 6, 2011. The single disc collection features Neil Diamond hits from the last five decades of his illustrious singing career. This is the first collection of Neil Diamond songs that contains hits from his entire career.

The Very Best of Neil Diamond contains the original studio recordings of 23 of Neil’s hits. The song list includes some of his first hits such as “Solitary Man”, “Cherry, Cherry” and “Shilo”, tracks from the movie “The Jazz Singer”, and the more recent hits “Hell Yeah” and “Pretty Amazing Grace”. Neil has had 37 Top Ten singles and 16 Top Ten albums in his almost-50 year career. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.

Here is the complete track list from The Very Best of Neil Diamond:

1. Forever In Blue Jeans
2. Beautiful Noise
3. Love On The Rocks
4. Cherry, Cherry
5. I Am…. I Said
6. Sweet Caroline
7. Cracklin’ Rosie
8. Play Me
9. I’m A Believer
10. Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon
11. Holly Holy
12. Solitary Man
13. Song Sung Blue
14. You Don’t Bring Me Flower
15. Hello Again
16. Red, Red Wine
17. If You Know What I Mean
18. Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show
19. Pretty Amazing Grace
20. Kentucky Woman
21. Shilo
22. America
23. Hell Yeah

A special set liner notes called “Recollections” was written by Neil Diamond and was created especially for The Very Best of Neil Diamond.