You Don't Bring Me Flowers
Neil Diamond Barbra Streisand
Song Lyrics / Chart History / Artist Information

• Written by Neil Diamond along with the lyric writing team of Alan & Marilyn Bergman
• Diamond attended Brooklyn's Erasmus High School, where he was in the chorus with another star to be, Barbara Streisand, yet they didn't really know each other until years later 
• The song was originally performed by Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand
• It was #1 on the Billboard Top 40 chart in 1978
• Diamond was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall Of Fame in 1984
• At an interview at the ASCAP Extended Songwriters' Workshop, held in November, 1996, the Bergmans related the story of how the song came into being:

Marilyn: That's a very funny story. Neil Diamond -- this sounds like a real Hollywood story, but it's the truth -- was at a dinner party with Norman Lear, the television producer, and he asked if Norman had any great television series coming up, because he'd like to write the theme song.

And Norman said, "Yes, I've got a show that we're getting ready to do a pilot on called All That Glitters, and I don't have main title for it. 

Neil offered to write it, and Norman asked that he write it with us. So we wrote this 45-second (because that's all the time we had for a theme) song called "You Don't Bring Me Flowers." 

The show was about the reversal of roles; a woman-dominated society was the premise of the show. 

Now, between the time that the song was written and the pilot was filmed, the premise of the show changed, and the song didn't fit anymore. So we scrapped it, and about six or eight months later we ran into Neil, and he said that he was doing the song on the road and that everybody liked it. 

We said, "What song? It's 45 seconds long!" He said, "Well, I do a little instrumental part, then I come back," and we decided to finish the song, and he recorded it. And I guess Barbra heard it and liked it. She recorded it, and she and Neil had unknowingly recorded it in the same key, and a disc jockey in... Tulsa? Someplace like that... intercut the two versions --

Alan: He was getting divorced, and he made it as a present for his wife. The station started getting calls asking where they could get the record, and of course there was no record, but Neil and Barbra went in and recorded it. Anyway, the show died a very quick death, and perhaps the song would have gone with it if it had been used.

Other Songs by Neil Diamond Performed by Oracle:

• America
• Cherry Cherry
• Forever In Blue Jeans
• Hello Again
• Holly Holy
• I'm A Believer
• Love On The Rocks
• Song Sung Blue
• Sweet Caroline
• Up On The Roof
• You Don't Bring Me Flowers
• You've Lost That Lovin Feeling