This is my second favorite Neil live album, Hot August Night is one of the GREATEST Live albums ever. This CD contains many Neil Diamond standards and great songs from Beautiful Noise and Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

I have only one complaint. The CD cover states "2 Record Set on 1 Compact Disc". WRONG. I had the original album and 2 songs have been left off the CD, The Last Picasso and Longfellow Serenade from the Serenade album. Why? The CD is only 66 minutes long, so both songs could have been included. If something "had to be cut", why not Sweet Caroline or Song Sung Blue. Yes these are Neil Diamond standards, but they appear on multiple live albums already. I never will understand record companies.

I bought this album back in the 80s on 8 track cassett (remember them) Well, I played it so much that I soon wore out the player. I've still got the cassett and have recently bought a new copy of Love at the Greek on CD. I would recommend this album to all who enjoy the wonderful music of Neil Diamond. From the relaxing sounds of Jonathan Livingston Seagull to the Racey excitement of Street Life, this album is one of Neil's best.. Listen out for the guest appearances by Helen Reddy and Henry Winkler (the fonz) in Song Sung Blue, and Neil's opening words at the start of the album, "If the weather holds out tonight we'll do em all, and I think we'll do em all even if the weather does'nt hold out" Good luck to you all..

OK Sony/Columbia, it's your turn! The only reason this CD does not receive five stars from me is because there has yet to be a deluxe edition of it that contains the entire show. I still have my double-LP copy, and as a number of other reviewers have stated, two songs _ "Longfellow Serenade" and "The Last Picasso" _ were left off when this show was put on a single CD. This was understandable in the earlier years of the CD revolution. The whole program obviously wouldn't fit in 74 minutes and the powers that be didn't think a two-disc version would sell, I suppose. Given the number of Neil Diamond fans on this planet, I would say that was a false assumption!!!

In any case, I'm using this forum to urge Sony/Columbia to put out a deluxe edition of "Love at the Greek" with the entire show included. I am fortunate enough to have a laser disc entitled "Love at the Greek," which I believe was recorded at the same concert. Although it is only 52 minutes long and contains only 12 songs, it has four songs that are not even on the double LP version of "Love at the Greek." For those who are interested, those songs are "Cherry, Cherry," "Play Me," "Cracklin' Rosie," and "I Am...I Said." Add those four songs, plus "Longfellow Serenade" and "The Last Picasso," and you have a MINIMUM of 21 tracks for a deluxe, 2-CD "Love at the Greek." And I'm betting there are other songs from the show languishing in the vaults, waiting to be discovered as well.

So remaster it on a two-disc set and you'll make a whole lot of ND fans happy. And while you're at it, how about putting the whole thing on DVD with 5.1 sound? Since there was a laser disc, I'm sure the video footage is locked away somewhere!!!

This concert was televised live - I remember watching it and making a crude recording of it when I was a child. By far the best performace of the show was the song "I am I Said", and to my knowledge this was cut from the original soundtrack and never included in any issue of this album. With the length constraints of old recording media no longer an issue, it is a mystery why this recording was never remastered and reissued with all material included. Overall, this is a great, high energy performance.

Great CD. It replaced our old LP that was a bit scratchy and this one is so clear.