"I've Been This Way Before" | ||||
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Single by Neil Diamond | ||||
from the album Serenade | ||||
B-side | "Reggae Strut" | |||
Released | 1974 (US) | |||
Genre | Soft rock | |||
Length | 3:08 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Songwriter(s) | Neil Diamond | |||
Producer(s) | Tom Catalano | |||
Neil Diamond singles chronology | ||||
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"I've Been This Way Before" is a song written and performed by Neil Diamond. It was released as the second single from Diamond's 1974 album Serenade. "I've Been This Way Before" was Neil Diamond's third No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart and also peaked at No. 34 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[1]
Billboard magazine stated that the song was "stronger lyrically" than recent Neil Diamond songs and also praised the vocal performance and the arrangement.[2] Cash Box said, "This moody ballad gleams," describing, "A simple piano opening builds lovingly into a rich mix of strings and things with Diamond's voice rising confidently above it all."[3]
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