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“Longfellow Serenade” is the title of a 1974 song by the American singer-songwriter Neil Diamond. The song was written by Diamond, produced by Tom Catalano and was included on Diamond’s album Serenade. Released as a single in the fall of that year, “Longfellow Serenade” spent two weeks at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in November. The song became Diamond’s second number-one hit on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, following his 1972 single, “Song Sung Blue”. Diamond described “Longfellow Serenade” in the liner notes to his 1996 compilation album, In My Lifetime: “Occasionally I like using a particular lyrical style which, in this case, lent itself naturally to telling the story of a guy who woos his woman with poetry.“ The... Read on...