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Hello Again (Neil Diamond song)

song by Neil Diamond

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ5708591 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Hello Again" is a song written by Neil Diamond and Alan Lindgren that appeared in the 1980 movie The Jazz Singer, and was performed by Diamond on the soundtrack album to the film. It was also released as a single and reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. Billboard also ranked as the 70th top pop single for 1981. In the UK, the song peaked at No. 51. The song also peaked at No. 18 in Ireland.

Background

"Hello Again" was described by Neil Diamond biographer Laura Jackson as a "slow tender ballad." AllMusic critic Johnny Loftus considers it Diamond's "signature late-career ballad." Author T. Mike Childs rated it as a "terrific" ballad.

Editorial summary

“Hello Again (Neil Diamond song)” enters the record as song by Neil Diamond. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hello, Again and Neil can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 1981—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hello, Again and Neil.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Hello Again (Neil Diamond song)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hello, Again and Neil provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5708591. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980 and 1981.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Tracing reception history
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Hello Again (Neil Diamond song)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Hello Again (Neil Diamond song) primary sources, Hello Again (Neil Diamond song) archive and Hello research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Hello Again (Neil Diamond song)”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “Hello Again (Neil Diamond song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.