4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week ending August 16, 1969, and was certified gold by the RIAA on August 18, 1969, for sales of one million singles. The song has proven to be enduringly popular and, as of November 2014, has sold over two million digital downloads in the United States. However, in 2014 Diamond said the song was about his then-wife Marcia, but he needed a three-syllable name to fit the melody. On December 21, 2011, in an interview on CBS's The Early Show, Diamond said that a magazine cover photo of Caroline as a young child on a horse with her parents created an image in his mind, and the rest of the song came together about five years after seeing the picture. Diamond sang the song for her at her 50th birthday celebration in 2007. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline, who was eleven years old at the time it was released. In a 2007 interview, Diamond stated the inspiration for his song was John F.
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