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Article: Great Lake Swimmers lend talents to Neil Diamond film.
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- amNewYork (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2008
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Byline: Scott A. Rosenberg
Sep. 26--If you said that the Great Lake Swimmers would be scoring a film that heavily involved the work of Neil Young, it wouldn't be so shocking. The Canadian indie rock band's beautiful, somber music is akin to the Young's early work.
But it was another Neil -- Diamond, the one filled with bravado and swagger -- who is the subject of the film the Swimmers' Tony Dekker is working on.
Dekker was approached by writer/director Greg Kohs, who was putting together a documentary, "Song Sung Blue," about Milwaukee-based Neil Diamond husband and wife cover band, and was asked to score the film, which is not something Dekker ...