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"You Don't Bring Me Flowers" is a song that hit the top of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in 1978. It is a song about two lovers who have drifted apart while they "go through the motions" and heartache of life together. The song was written by Neil Diamond with Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman for the ill-fated TV show ''All That Glitters''.〔(Alan and Marilyn Bergman on Songwriting: Part 1 )〕 The song was intended to be the theme song, but Norman Lear changed the concept of the show and the song was no longer appropriate. Diamond then expanded the track from 45 seconds to 3:17, adding instrumental sections and an additional verse. The Bergmans contributed to the song's lyrics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/you-dont-bring-me-flowers-mw0000650075/credits )〕 In 1977, Diamond released the album ''I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight'', which included the track "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" as a solo performance. Early in 1978, Barbra Streisand covered the song on her album ''Songbird''. The roots of the duet version, as chronicled in myriad Streisand and Diamond biographies as well as Streisand's ''Just for the Record'' box set, revolve around WAKY-AM/Louisville KY program director, Gary Guthrie, who spliced the two solo tracks together as a going away present to his wife, whom he had just divorced. As the real life fairytale behind the song unfolded, it triggered a media buzz worldwide from ''Good Morning America'' and ''People'' magazine to the BBC. Interest in the duet caused such a clamor on the retail level that Columbia Records was compelled to bring Streisand and Diamond into the studio to record an "official" version in October 1978. The song reached number one on the Hot 100 chart for two non-consecutive weeks in December 1978, producing the third number-one hit for both singers.〔Whitburn, Joel (1996). ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits'', 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)〕 Acknowledgment and gratitude for Guthrie came from CBS with a Gold record plaque, flowers from Diamond and a telegram from Streisand. The duo performed the song at the 1980 Grammy Awards show, a performance released on the 1994 album ''Grammy's Greatest Moments Volume I''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grammy's Greatest Moments, Volume 1: Various Artists )〕 Chicago’s WGN radio personality Roy Leonard and producer Peter Marino are also credited for coming up with the idea to create this duet. Leonard and Marino had put the separately recorded versions together and played them on the air. Radio personalities Jack Hood and Gene Kruszewski of WJR-AM/Detroit also cut a duet version of the song which was a local and regional hit and helped escalate the song’s novelty. Columbia Records granted gold records to Hood and Kruszewski in recognition of their efforts. Diamond and Streisand had planned to star in a motion picture based on the song, but such plans were canceled when Diamond starred in a remake of ''The Jazz Singer''. ==Other versions== Concurrent with the success of Diamond and Streisand's version of the song, country singers Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius released a country version of the song which reached number ten on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart in early 1979. Also, in the same year, Lynda Carter (of ''Wonder Woman'' fame) re-performed this song on Dick Emery's British variety show, ''The Dick Emery Hour''. In 1980, a cover version of the song was recorded by expatriate American singer Dean Reed and Hungarian vocalist Kati Kovács in German and in English. In 1982, Julie Andrews covered the song for her country music inspired-album, ''Love Me Tender'', though it was only included on the international version of the album. Norwegian soprano Sissel Kyrkjebø performed the song on Norwegian Television in 1986, in the tv-show "Kanal 1". In 2006 this performance was included on her album De beste, 1986–2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sissel - You Don't Bring Me Flowers (1986) )〕 In 1993, UK TV presenter Noel Edmonds was tricked into singing the whole song on his show, ''Noel's House Party''. Noel Edmonds had earlier recorded a duet of the song sung by fellow DJs John Peel and Tony Blackburn for use on his BBC Radio 1 show in 1979. In 1996, the song was sung by rappers Ice-T and Tupac Shakur during a ''Saturday Night Live'' show. In 1997. it was parodied by Bob Rivers as "You Don't Smell Like Flowers Anymore".〔http://www.last.fm/music/Bob+Rivers/_/You+Don%27t+Smell+Like+Flowers〕 There is also a parody by Weird Al Yankovic which he performed on the Dr. Demento show, "You Don't Take Your Showers". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「You Don't Bring Me Flowers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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