词条 | Done Too Soon |
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“Done Too Soon” is a song written, composed, and performed by Neil Diamond, and released on his 1970 album Tap Root Manuscript. Listed as Track 4 on Side One of the album, it was jointly arranged by Marty Paich and Lee Holdridge and jointly produced by Diamond and Tom Catalano. Content"Done Too Soon" is a song of mortality, divided, stylistically, into two sections, a fast-paced first part and a slower, more introspective second part.[1] LyricsThe lyrics of "Done Too Soon" drop the following names, in order, in its fast-paced first part:
The slower, more introspective second part notes the commonalities between these twenty-five individuals, with Gunga Din being the one fictional character mentioned because his name both rhymed within the context of the lyrics and was a fit to the syllabic count. Those commonalities were these: having sweated beneath the same sun, having looked up in wonder at the same moon, and having wept when it was all done--for being, as Diamond identified each, "done too soon," or, in other words, having died before their time, for better or worse. MusicThe music of "Done Too Soon," which Diamond composed for his own baritone range, is in the key of A major. The first couplets of each of the first part's two halves range in tone from A3 to A2, and the second couplets are primarily in the tone of Ab3, but these latter couplets each rise to a single B3 note before returning to A3. The second part starts with a couplet whose two lines have the tones E1-D2-D2-B2, and in toto, its music is almost elegiac in sound. History"It was kind of esoteric, especially at that time. But it's just me trying to say something a little different, just try and jog something in a person's memory, or to elicit a reaction. That's what my job is, to do something a little bit different, and yet something that's me and something that's you." - Neil Diamond Chart performance"Done Too Soon" spent 5 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart as the B-Side of "I Am...I Said" reaching #65. (The A-Side charted for 10 weeks peaking at #4.) Notable cover versionsNone as of April 2015. References1. ^"Done Too Soon" by Neil Diamond at Songfacts.com External links
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