Re: [Harp-L] Leo Diamond and Neil Diamond

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 14, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Winslow Yerxa wrote:

> I went to Neil Diamond's personal website
>
> http://www.neildiamond.com/popup-f.html
>
> and went to the "timeline" section, which gives this information for
> the period 1941-1950:
>
> January 24, 1941
>
> Neil Leslie Diamond
>
> "Neil Leslie Diamond is born in Brooklyn, New York at the Isreal Zion
> Hospital, to Akeeba and Rose Diamond."
>
> So it would appear that the famous singer-songwriter Neil Diamond is
> no relation to the famous harmonica plyer Leo Diamond.
>
> (Trying to do a search on Leo Diamond bography is complicated by the
> existence of a well-known composer named David Diamond who happens to
> be David *Leo Diamond, and from a type of gem known as a Leo Diamond.)
>
> Winslow
 Hey Winslow, that's why I call you the 'Wizard'. I had the same 
difficulty researching it. I would say that YOUR source is THE 
difinitive word. I really DO appreciate this as I have thought they 
were related for most of my life. My sister Suzy went to school with 
some Diamonds in Brooklyn (near Bensonhurst). Since I had lived in 
Brooklyn, then Manhattan, then Staten Island, even I didn't remember. I 
should have known that if anyone could find the answer, it would be 
you.

 It's just like the Minevitch thing, There are conflicting stories as 
to how he died. One says heart attack, another says he was thrown down 
a flight of stairs by his new bride's former lover and got a broken 
neck.

 Then there is Les Thompson. Some interviewers say he plays different 
keyed tunes on harmonicas tuned to THOSE keys (like McCoy) while others 
say he plays a 64 in ALL keys. Some say he reads music and HE says he 
doesn't read. The there's all the blues legends and how THEY died.

I tell ya, it's confusing. Again, thanks, I feel much better now.
smo-joe

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