Neil Diamond - If You Know What I Mean - Ballet version 1976 TopPop

This ballet performed by Penney de Jager was first broadcast by Toppop on June 25, 1976. If artists were not available for a Toppop performance (Neil Diamond visited the Toppop studios himself in 1971), dancer Penney de Jager was asked to do a performance on the track inspired by the artists music. Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time. He has had ten No. 1 singles on the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts: “Cracklin’ Rosie“, “Song Sung Blue“, “Longfellow Serenade“, “I’ve Been This Way Before“, “If You Know What I Mean“, “Desirée“, “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers“, “America“, “Yesterday’s Songs“, and “Heartlight“. 38 songs by Diamond have featured in the Top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts. ’If You Know What I Mean“ is a song written and recorded by Neil Diamond. It is a track from Diamond’s 1976 album, ’Beautiful Noise’, and was his third number one on the Easy Listening chart, where it spent two weeks. “If You Know What I Mean“ went to number one for two nonconsecutive weeks and peaked at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100. In Canada, the song reached number 19 on the pop singles chart and hit number one on the Adult Contemporary chart. This song reached #7 on the Dutch Top 40 on 17 July 1976. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 25 June 1976 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.