While Diamond has never topped the work he did in the "Cherry, Cherry" days, some of his late-"70s adult-contemporary hits have aged better than they perhaps had a right to. If nothing else, his gruff voice can now be heard as a rebuke to Barry Manilow"s chirpy tones. To paraphrase Neil Young, when Diamond answers Barbra Streisand on "You Don"t Bring Me Flowers," he very nearly pushes the song out of the middle of the road and into the ditch. --Rickey Wright