"Solitary Man" is a song written by American musician Neil Diamond, who recorded the song for Bang Records in late January 1966. ✨️🎵 This was Neil Diamond’s first hit in the US. The lyrics is about a guy’s struggle to find and hold a relationship but beset on all sides by hordes of fickle women who are waiting just to dump him and get off with his mates. Johnny Cash won a Best Country Male Vocal Grammy for his version of the song, which appeared on the 2000 album American III: Solitary Man. In

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