Hot August Night is a 1972 live double album by Neil Diamond. It is a recording of a Diamond concert on Thursday August 24, 1972, one of ten sold out concerts that Diamond performed that month at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. The album has become a great success for Diamond, and in Australia, it spent 29 weeks at number 1 on the album charts during 1973 & 1974. It was the number one charting album in Australia for the 1970s, entering the Australian album charts in late 1972 and was still charting in the top 20 in 1976. It re-entered the Australian top 10 in 1982.
A1a Prologue 2:58
A1b Crunchy Granola Suite 4:08
A2 Done Too Soon / Dialogue
A3 Solitary Man 3:03
A4 Cherry Cherry 4:36
A5 Sweet Caroline 3:49
B1 Porcupine Pie 1:46
B2 You're So Sweet 2:05
B3 Red Red Wine 3:34
B4 Soggy Pretzels 2:49
B5 And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind 4:25
B6 Shilo 3:17
B7 Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon 2:36
C1 Play Me 4:22
C2 Canta Libre 4:53
C3 Morning-Side 5:17
C4 Song Sung Blue 4:36
C5 Cracklin' Rosie 2:38
D1 Holly Holy 5:23
D2 I Am... I Said 4:33
D3a Walk Off 1:53
D3b Soolaimon / Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show 8:14
D3c Encore 1:17
Bass – Reinie Press
Conductor – Lee Holdridge
Drums – Dennis St. John
Engineer – Armin Steiner
Guitar – Danny Nicholson, Neil Diamond, Richard Bennett
Guitar, Vibraphone – Emory Gordy*
Keyboards – Alan Lindgren
Percussion – Jefferson Kewley
Producer – Tom Catalano
Strings – Alice Ober, Baldassare Ferlazzo, David Turner, Donald Bagley*, Giacinto Nardulli, Haim Shtrum, Henry Ferber, Hyman Goodman, Jay Rosen, Jerome Kessler, Jess Bourgeois, Jesse Ehrlich, John De Voogdt, Linn Subotnick, Marylin Baker, Myron Sandler, Nathan Gershman, Paulo Alencar, Philip Candreva, Philip Goldberg, Ralf Shaeffer, Raymond Kelley*, Richard Kaufman, Robert Lipsett, Ronald Folsom, Salvatore Crimi, Samuel Boghossian, Shari Zippert, Sidney Sharp, Sven Reher, Tibor Zelig, Timothy Barr*, Walter Rower, Walter Wiemeyer, Wilbert Nuttycombe, William Henderson (2)
