Money talks, but it don't sing and dance and it don't walk! When Neil was Forever in Blue Jeans

"Forever in Blue Jeans" was a song by Neil Diamond which was co-written with his guitarist Richard Bennett. This up-tempo track, released as a single by Columbia in February 1979, was taken from the previous year's Neil Diamond album, "You Don't Bring Me Flowers."

The song officially peaked at No20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No2 on the Easy Listening chart in March, 1979.

According to Cotton Incorporated "Neil Diamond might have been right when he named his 1979 No1 hit “Forever in Blue Jeans”: 81% of women are planning their next jeans purchase to be some shade of blue." The song has been used to promote the sale of blue jeans, most notably Will Ferrell, impersonating Neil Diamond singing, for The Gap. Ironically, Diamond himself did radio ads for H.I.S. brand jeans in the 1960s, more than a decade before he sang this song.

The song was referenced on an episode of The King of Queens, Doug Heffernan incorrectly refers to it as "Reverend Blue Jeans" thinking it was a song about a hip reverend that wore jeans.

Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond (1972)

"Song Sung Blue" was a 1972 song written and recorded by the legendary Neil Diamond. The song was released off his album, Moods and later appeared on many of Diamond's live and compilation albums.

It was his second No1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, after 1970's "Cracklin' Rose". The song spent twelve weeks in the Top 40. In addition, "Song Sung Blue" spent seven weeks at No1 on the Adult Contemporary chart. In addition, the song made the pop chart in the United Kingdom, reaching No14 on the UK Singles Chart. The song has become one of Diamond's standards, and he often performs this song during concerts.

"Song Sung Blue" was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 1973 Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Both awards that year were won by Roberta Flack's rendition of Ewan McColl's song, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face".

Diamond described "Song Sung Blue" in the liner notes to his 1996 compilation album, In My Lifetime, as a "very basic message, unadorned. I didn't even write a bridge to it. I never expected anyone to react to "Song Sung Blue" the way they did. I just like it, the message and the way a few words said so many things."