Question: What is the middle name of the man who wrote and performed the single "Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)?"

Context articles: Holly Holy
1995–96 New York Knicks season
A World to Win (Conroy novel)
Neil Diamond
Good Times Burgers &amp; Frozen Custard
On Arrival
Sweet Caroline
Goodtimes virus
Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show
Mount Faraway

"Holly Holy" is a song written and recorded by Neil Diamond with instrumental backing provided by L.A. session musicians from The Wrecking Crew.
 Released as a single on October 13, 1969, it was a successful follow-on to "Sweet Caroline", reaching #6 on the U.S. pop singles chart by December.
 It became a gold record and then eventually a platinum record.
The 1995–96 NBA season was the 50th season for the Knicks in the National Basketball Association in New York City, New York.
 After Pat Riley left to coach the Miami Heat, the Knicks hired Don Nelson and won ten of their first twelve games.
 However, the team never seemed to get under Nelson down the stretch, as he was replaced by long time assistant Jeff Van Gundy after 59 games.
 At midseason, the Knicks traded Charles D. Smith to the San Antonio Spurs for J.R. Reid, and dealt Doug Christie to the expansion Toronto Raptors for Willie Anderson.
 Under Van Gundy, the Knicks finished the season playing around .500 to post a 47–35 record, second in the Atlantic Division, with Patrick Ewing being selected for the 1996 NBA All-Star Game.
A World to Win is a novel written by Jack Conroy and published in 1935.
 It was republished in 2000.
 This novel, which is set before and during the Great Depression, follows two brothers through their lives both together and separately.
 One brother, Leo, represents the life of a working man, while the other, Robert, shows the life of a writer, a struggle that Conroy himself dealt with.
 Despite Robert being determined to be the brother who becomes famous for his writing, he does not.
 In fact Leo, who never seemed to have a plan, becomes "famous" first when he becomes a wanted man.
 Although the brothers have led very different lives, they end up together in the end when Robert decides to do something unplanned and free his brother from the police.
Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor.
 One of the world's best-selling artists of all time, he has sold over 135 million records worldwide since the start of his career in the 1960s.
 With 38 songs in the Top 10, he is the second most successful artist in the history of the "Billboard" Adult Contemporary Top 10 charts.
 His songs have been covered internationally by performers from a variety of musical genres.
Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard is a Golden, Colorado-based fast-food restaurant specializing in premium burgers and frozen custard.
 Good Times Restaurants Inc. owns and operates 38 Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard locations, 36 in Colorado, and two in Wyoming.
On Arrival is the eighth studio album released by country music artist Dan Seals.
 The album reached #13 on the Top Country Albums chart.
 "Love on Arrival" and "Good Times" were the first two singles which both reached #1 while the last two singles, "Bordertown" and "Water Under the Bridge" only reached #49 and #57, respectively.
 "Good Times", which was his last #1 single and last Top 40 hit, was originally performed by Sam Cooke.
 "Made for Lovin' You" was also recorded by Clinton Gregory on his 1990 debut album "Music 'n Me", and would later be a Top Ten hit for Doug Stone who released it from his 1992 album "From the Heart".
"Sweet Caroline" is a song written and performed by American recording artist Neil Diamond and officially released on September 16, 1969, as a single with the title "Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)".
 It was arranged by Charles Calello, and recorded at American Sound Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Goodtimes Virus was a computer virus hoax that spread during the early years of the Internet's popularity.
 Warnings about a computer virus named "Good Times" began being passed around among Internet users in 1994.
 The Goodtimes virus was supposedly transmitted via an email bearing the subject header "Good Times" or "Goodtimes," hence the virus's name, and the warning recommended deleting any such email unread.
 The virus described in the warnings did not exist, but the warnings themselves, were, in effect, virus-like.
 In 1997 the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective announced that they had been responsible for the perpetration of the "Good Times" virus hoax as an exercise to "prove the gullibility of self-proclaimed "experts" on the Internet."
Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show is the name of Neil Diamond's fourth studio album, released in 1969.
 Four months after the title cut became a #22 hit, Diamond recorded and released a new single, "Sweet Caroline", which reached #4.
 Because of its popularity, this song was added to the end of later pressings of the album, which was also given a new sleeve with the album shown as Sweet Caroline/Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show although the title was still written as "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show" on the label.
Mount Faraway ( ) is a prominent, snow-covered mountain, 1,175 m high, marking the southern extremity of the Theron Mountains of Antarctica.
 It was discovered by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1956, and so named because during days of sledging toward this mountain they never seemed to be any nearer to it.