As I was sitting in the theater waiting for Song Sung Blue to start, I was dreading hearing one song in the movie, which was released this week as one of the final movies on the 2025 movie schedule. The movie is a different kind of music biopic, named for a Neil Diamond song, and is about a husband and wife duet called Lightning and Thunder, who were a popular Neil Diamond tribute act in the ‘90s in Milwaukee. I knew that “Sweet Caroline” was coming, and I knew I was going to cringe when it did. It did, and I did. But that's only half the story.
