Neil Diamond - All I Really Need Is You (1992, Live Version)

Neil Diamond - All I Really Need Is You Live Version 1992 from the The Greatest Hits 1966 - 1992 compilation album by Neil Diamond released in 1992. Songs representing his years with Uni/MCA (1968--1972) by live or studio re-recordings.
"All I Really Need Is You" studio version, originally appears on the "Lovescape"album.
Written by: Neil Diamond, Tom Hensley and Alan Lindgren

"Lovescape" is the nineteenth studio album by Neil Diamond released Aug 27, 1991 on the BMG (distributor) label. . It peaked at #44 on the Billboard 200. "Hooked on the Memory of You" was a duet with Kim Carnes, while "Don't Turn Around" was co-written by legendary songwriter Diane Warren (who was ruling the charts at the time).

Lovescape uses a variety of producers, like Diamond's fellow singer-songwriter Albert Hammond, the talented Don Was, and Diamond himself, to craft its multi-faceted message.
Love is found ("Someone Who Believes in You"), treasured ("All I Really Need Is You"), and lost ("Hooked on the Memory of You"), over the course of this 15-song cycle.

Lovescape features some of Diamond's most impassioned performances on songs like the Was-produced "Wish Everything Was All right," and a sensitively realized version of Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein's "One Hand, One Heart," from WEST SIDE STORY.

Personnel includes:
Neil Diamond (vocals, acoustic guitar)
Kim Carnes (vocals)
Doug Rhone, Hadley Hockensmith, Andrew Gold (guitar)
Dan Dugmore (pedal steel guitar); Benjamin Tench (organ)
Alan Lindgren, Tom Hensley, Robbie Buchanan (keyboards)
Robby Buchanan (bass, drums)
Reinie Press, Lee Sklar (bass)
Ron Tutt, Vince Charles, Kenny Aronoff (drums)
King Errisson (congas); Peter Asher (tambourine)
Linda Press (background vocals).
Producers: Neil Diamond, Don Was, Albert Hammond, Peter Asher.

After all these years
After all these tears between us
Still I couldn't find
Someone half as right as you

And each time I stop to think
What it is I really need
Here's what I conclude
All I really need is you

Just say what you want to say
You don't have a chance in the world
Can I, knowing how I've tried
Still come close to losing you, girl
When you are my world

Have I spent so many years
Trying but in vain to tell you
Don't you know it's true
All I really need is you

How was I to know
We'd have ended here
Where we finally did
You tied your life to mine
Once upon a starry night

And when someone asks for me
What it is that I believe
Say, I believe it's true
All I really need is you

Just say what you want to say
We don't have a chance in the world
Can I, knowing how I've tried
Still come close to losing you, girl
When you are my world

Have I spent so many years
Tryin' but in vain to tell you
Feelings come and go
Me, I'm never gonna ever let you go
Promise you I'm gonna always love you so
Cause all I really need is you...

[fernandotorressanchez]

Grandiosa canción. Prefiero ésta versión en vivo que la incluida en el álbum Lovescape.

[tonypriest]

I'm going to have a go on karaoke of this song wish me luck love the true feelings bin this song

[rinieriferrari]

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[meekmaster]

Thank you for posting this. This was always one of my favorites as a kid and I kind of love this live version so much more than the original.