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'' which was released the previous year. Diamond said about the song: "the simple things are really the important things". It peaked at #20 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and #2 on the

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chart in March 1979. '' Cash Box'' called the song "a pleasant tribute to 'doing OK' without the glitter of wealth and fame" and said that it has "a restrained carnival mood and solid jaunty rhythmic underpinning" and that Diamond's vocals are "gruff" and "appealing." According to

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, "Neil Diamond might have been right when he named his 1979 #1 hit “Forever in Blue Jeans”: 81% of women are planning their next jeans purchase to be some shade of blue." The song has been used to promote the sale of

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, most notably by

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who impersonated Diamond for

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. Coincidentally Diamond himself did radio adverts for H.I.S. brand jeans in the 1960s. Later in 1979,

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recorded a country version of the song, on his ''I'll Never Let You Down'' album.

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