Diamond Girl

1. Diamond Girl

2. Ruby Jean and Billie Lee

3. Intone My Servant

4. We May Never Pass This Way (Again)

5. Nine Houses

6. Standin' on a Mountain Top

7. It's Gonna Come Down (On You)

8. Jessica

9. Dust on My Saddle

10. Wisdom

Diamond Girl,Seals & Crofts,Rhino Flashback,Pop,Pop/Rock,Rock,Rock/Pop,Singer/Songwriter,Soft Rock,United States of America

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Diamond Girl

Average customer rating: Another Seventies Duo With A big Sound memories About time... a great duo, but they were really off their game here Vintage folk-rock tunes clearly rooted to the mid-70s

Diamond Girl Seals & Crofts Manufacturer: Rhino Flashback ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Summer Breeze Seals & Crofts - Greatest Hits Homecoming America Traces ASIN: B0007KTAWW Release Date: 2005-02-08

Tracks:

1. Diamond Girl
2. Ruby Jean and Billie Lee
3. Intone My Servant
4. We May Never Pass This Way (Again)
5. Nine Houses
6. Standin' on a Mountain Top
7. It's Gonna Come Down (On You)
8. Jessica
9. Dust on My Saddle
10. Wisdom

Customer Reviews:

Another Seventies Duo With A big Sound.......2006-10-05

This is another of those '70s groups which all sounded alike. I thought they had recorded "Sweet Surrender" and led CSouthcott astray back in the past by suggesting such. He didn't look very far. Diamond Girl was their best, in my opinion, but 'We May Never Pass This Way Again' and 'Summer Breeze' are what gets played today. I wish someone would resurrect 'Diamond Girl" just once.

memories.......2005-07-30

This is just the best music and memories of the best times of my life. My daughter was named after the song Jessica, and I could not find the song anywhere so she has never heard it. 24 years old and she will now get to hear where her name came from. This is something everyone who grew up in the 70's should have, and take out and listen to when you need to smile.

About time..........2005-06-29

Like many I owned this in Vinyl and was amazed it took so long To come out.
And to those who said they found this album a little bit sappy, I say "So the hell what." Everything in that era was sappy and if your worried that a little sappiness may alter your manhood then I recommend against the purchase of this Cd.
But if you want to listen to something thats gonna make you feel pretty damn good this is it.
S&C have a well blended album here. The well known and recognized "Diamond girl" followed by "Ruby jean and Billy Lee"leads it off.
Both were big hits and still sound good.
"Intone my servant" follows and though not a hit you'll wonder why. like all the others a beautifully uplifting harmonic piece.
"We may never pass this way again" another hit shows once again how S&C can change a beautifull melody and lift your soul right out of your body and make it fly.
"Nine houses" starts off kinda odd (The song has a mid east flare to it) but hear it out. Vocals will come in lator and pick it up.
"Standing on a mountain top" by far is one of my favorites a great countryish sound and a really great sounding guitar in this one that'll make you feel like dancing and singing to it.
"It's gonna come down on you" a minor hit shoulda been "major" starts off mellow and beautifull and like most of there songs in this album just lifts you right up with an increase in tempo.
"Jessica" has got to be the most sappy song of the bunch. But, Hey! my niece's name is "Jessica and It was once a favorite of mine and still is a beautifull song.
""Dust on my saddle" A country diddy that you may find yourself singing word for word after some time.
"Wisdom" is the only song I never listen to its a jazzy piece and I dont care for Jazz much but even I gotta admit they do show off their talent on the horns.
In short this is a great album from beginning to end (Which is rare to find nowadays) and really represents the times in which it was written (Early 70's)
ENJOY

a great duo, but they were really off their game here.......2005-05-20

I think Seals & Crofts are a really underappreciated duo who made a lot of great music over the course of their initial run from 1969-1980. However, 1973's "Diamond Girl" is a painfully weak record which, ironically, was also their highest charting album in the US, peaking at #4--these two things don't sit together well, and as a result, it becomes easy to understand why many people would trash the group. It does start off great with the somewhat jazzy title track which was a big hit, and alas, has received an endless amount of airplay over the years, so it's likely that you may be rather sick of it. "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)" certainly displays songwriting craft and also has some touching sentimentality, but it's sickly-sweet and the merciless amount of airplay it's received over the years doesn't entirely help. "Ruby Jean And Billie Lee", written for the duo's wives who are featured on the back cover, is an overwrought ballad with some really clumsy and cringe-worthy turns of phrase. "Nine Houses" is one of their characteristic epic tributes to the Baha'i faith, and despite the accomplished musicianship, it feels thrown together and incoherent, failing to build up momentum, and it starts to really drag over the course of its 7-minute length. "Jessica" is a sickly-sweet pop tune that also suffers from some corny melodicism as well as the guitar + mandolin breaks that interrupt the flow of the song. "Standin' On A Mountain Top" and "Dust On My Saddle" are both tracks that James Seals had written in the '60s, and they sure do sound like they were hauled out in desperation as if the duo hadn't be able to come up with enough strong new material--the former is a generic bluesy rocker, and the latter is country-western fluff with silly 'spoken' sections and an overly-repeated chorus. The album closing instrumental "Wisdom", which sounds like something you're likely to hear in a driver's education feature from the early '70s, has James Seals demonstrating his technical proficiency on the saxophone, but his playing rambles on as if he was more interested in merely showing off than anything else. On the more positive side, "Intone My Servant" does have some catchiness and a nice bluesy feel on the chorus, and the ballad "It's Gonna Come Down (On You)" is okay, although it feels underdeveloped. All that said, this is NOT the album to use if you're trying to demonstrate the excellence that this duo frequently offered--writer's block seems to have been the key problem, but the strange thing is that their 1976 masterpiece album "Get Closer" contains 3 songs that are copyrighted no later than 1972, so it's a mystery why Seals would haul out a track like "Dust On My Saddle" when he had a gem like "Don't Fail" waiting in the wings. Even with the extremely low list price of $6.98 that this CD is currently going for, the album is so weak and lacking standout songs that it's really not the bargain you may initially think it is; apart from the title track, there's not a single track on the whole damn album that's truly a gem--you keep hoping with each passing song that there must be at least a gem or two, but to no avail. I do want to add though that one can't help but wonder if healthy sales of this CD would help to FINALLY spur Rhino to release other Seals & Crofts albums on CD which remain woefully unavailable. Still, "Diamond Girl" is a terrible introduction to their work and should really only be sought out by Seals & Crofts' biggest fans.

Vintage folk-rock tunes clearly rooted to the mid-70s .......2005-05-06

Diamond Girl" is a vintage collection of folk-rock tunes clearly rooted to the mid-70s and one of the finer albums to emerge from that cluttered genre. Though Seals and Crofts were a duo, their fine-honed sound would not have caught the public's ear without the able assistance of producer Louie Shelton, who really shaped and smoothed their sound, and multi-instrumentalist Jim Lichtig, who shares writing credits for several Seals and Crofts' songs. A cast of fine session musicians contribute as well, and the set.

I would say that nearly all of us who listened to the radio back when this CD was popular will always recognize the opening chords of Diamond Girl within a millisecond and drew comfort and permission from the philosophy in We May Never Pass This Way (Again). This CD has other jewels as well, Nine Houses, Jessica, and Wisdom, and all in all contains more Baha'i themes than some find comfortable. A pair of older tracks, such as Dust on My Saddle and Standin' on a Mountain Top, both penned before there was a Seals and Crofts, do not hold up as well.

Note that this CD is not actually a Warner Brothers release, which may bode well for those, like myself, hoping to see more of this duo's catalog appear on CD. After their antiabortion stance on a later recording, "Unborn Child," the band's popularity began to wane and they found themselves being judged more on politics than music.

Average customer rating:

Rock On 1973: Diamond Girl Various Artists Manufacturer: Madacy Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music | Dance Pop | Easy Listening | General | Oldies | Traditional Vocalists General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Compilations | Classic Rock | Styles | Music General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Soul General | Soul | R&B | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Soul General | Soul | R&B | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classic Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 R&B | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Classic Masters Anthology: The First 30 Years ASIN: B00000I5YD Release Date: 1999-03-16

Tracks:

1. Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers Band
2. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
3. Spiders And Snakes - Jim Stafford
4. Brother Louie - Stories
5. So Very Hard To Go - Tower Of Power
6. We May Pass This Way Again - Seals And Crofts
7. Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed
8. The Morning After (From 'The Poseidon Adventure') - Maureen McGovern
9. Heartbeat (It's A Love Beat) - DeFranco Family
10. Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
11. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
12. I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby - Barry White

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Superhits: 1973 Dobie Gray , Tony Orlando and Dawn , Todd Rundgren , Maureen McGovern , Stealers Wheel , Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show , B.W. Stevenson , Skylark , Art Garfunkel , and Helen Reddy Manufacturer: Time Life Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000SXFWNO

Product Description

Song list: 1. Helen Reddy: Delta Dawn 2. Jim Croce: Bad, Bad Leroy Brown 3. Tony Orlando and Dawn: Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree 4. Three Dog Night: Shambala 5. Dobie Gray: Drift Away 6. Al Green Call Me (Come Back Home) 7. James Taylor: Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight 8. Aretha Franklin: Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) 9. Carly Simon: You're So Vain 10. Todd Rundgren: Hello It's Me 11. Maureen McGovern: The Morning After 12. The Four Tops: Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got) 13. Stealers Wheel: Stuck In The Middle With You 14. The Spinners: Could It Be I'm Falling In Love 15. Gladys Knight and the Pips: Midnight Train to Georgia 16. Seals and Crofts: Diamond Girl 17. Diana Ross: Touch Me In The Morning 18. Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: The Cover of "Rolling Stone" 19. B.W. Stevenson: My Maria 20. Skylark: Wildflower and 21. Art Garfunkel: All I Know.

Average customer rating: Very Fine Audio Quality Vaughn Deleath has a very sweet soft voice Vaughn DeLeath Edison recordings audio quality tops for 1928 Some good 20's pop singing...

Original Radio Girl (Edison Laterals 5) Vaughn DeLeath Manufacturer: Diamond Cut [Cit570] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Tin Pan Alley | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Nostalgia | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000061WQ Release Date: 1998-02-17

Tracks:

1. Mah Lindy Lou
2. Nobody But Baby
3. Birmingham Bertha
4. Come Back Chiquita
5. Everything We Like, We Like Alike
6. Mariana
7. Honey
8. Honey, I'se A Waitin' Jes Fo' Yo'
9. Jeanine, I Dream Of Lilac Time
10. I Ain't Got Nobody
11. Me And The Man In The Moon
12. When I'm Walking With My Sweetness
13. Some Sweet Day
14. Reaching For Someone
15. Happy Days And Lonely Nights
16. I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling
17. There Ain't No Sweet Man
18. I'm Ka-razy For You
19. Dusky Stevedore
20. Giggling Gertie
21. Am I Blue?

Customer Reviews:

Very Fine Audio Quality.......2003-03-31

This is an excellent example of Audio Restoration of late 1920's music. Vaughn has a very sweet voice that is addictive to listen to.

Vaughn Deleath has a very sweet soft voice.......2003-02-20

Vaughn Deleath has a very sweet soft voice. Very nice to listen to. I love this Cd.

Vaughn DeLeath Edison recordings audio quality tops for 1928.......2001-01-16

From an audio technical point of view this recording is way ahead of its competitors considering it was 1928 and electrical recording had just been invented. I like the fact you can clearly understand every single word she sings. I for one am looking forward to hearing any new releases. I know more masters do exist

Some good 20's pop singing..........2000-05-19

Vaughn DeLeath was a popular vocalist during the late 20's. A very popular radio star, who was definately under the influence of Annette Hanshaw(a superior jazz singer from the same era) however she is limited in her style by also being influenced by Al Jolson, therefor there are plenty of sappy overly dramatic ballads, and vaudevillian style singing, at times almost operetic, though not bad for a singer in the pre Crosby & Armstrong 20's. Try Annette Hanshaw if you want pure jazz singing in the 20's.

Average customer rating:

Town Bad Girl Legs Diamond Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Rough Cutt/Rough Cutt Wants You! ASIN: B000008HNV Release Date: 1990-09-14

Average customer rating: Okay

Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend Marilyn Monroe Manufacturer: Krb Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Vocal Pop | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Vocal Pop | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B00079YYP6 Release Date: 2007-05-14

Product Description

1. Diamonds are a girls best friend 2. I Wanna Be Loved By You 3. Some Like it Hot 4. Let's Make Love 5. My Heart Belongs to Daddy 6. Kiss 7. Incurably Romantic 8. I Found a Dream 9. Heat Wave 10. Happy Birthday, Mr. President

Customer Reviews:

Okay.......2005-10-20

As much as I love Marilyn Monroe and this style of music, I found this album to be incredibly dull and lacking real magic!
"Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" is the best track on this album and is possibly one of my favorite songs.

Average customer rating: The First Lady Of Radio

Original Radio Girl (Edison Laterals 5) Vaughn DeLeath Manufacturer: Diamond Cut ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Tin Pan Alley | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Nostalgia | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music ASIN: B000253JB0 Release Date: 1998-02-17

Tracks:

1. Mah Lindy Lou
2. Nobody But Baby
3. Birmingham Bertha
4. Come Back Chiquita
5. Everything We Like, We Like Alike
6. Mariana
7. Honey
8. Honey, I' Se a Waitin' Jes Fo' Yo'
9. Jeanie, I Dream of Lilac Time
10. I Ain't Got Nobody
11. Me and the Man in the Moon
12. When I'm Walking With My Sweetness
13. Some Sweet Day
14. Reaching for Someone
15. Happy Days and Lonely Nights
16. I've Got a Felling I'm Falling
17. There Ain't No Sweet Man
18. I'm Ka-Razy for You
19. Dusky Stevedore
20. Giggling Gertie
21. Am I Blue

Customer Reviews:

The First Lady Of Radio.......2007-01-16

Vaughn DeLeath ("The Original Radio Girl") was credited with inventing "crooning," a style later employed by Bing Crosby and others. DeLeath did so to solve a technical problem. Early linear radio amplifier tubes were delicate and suseptible to shorting out from powerful female vocalists, so DeLeath cooed her numbers in a low, lullabye style.

In the 1920s, Vaughn DeLeath was quite popular. Today, very few remember who she was. This is a shame, because this gal's mellow alto voice was so pleasant to hear. Several sides on EDISON LATERALS 5 * VAUGHN DELEATH are never-released test pressings. The laterally recorded discs the EDISON company made in the last year or so of its existence were treated with indifference, shoved onto dusty shelves in the Edison Laboratory attic. That any have survived at all is miraculous.

Some tracks in this set would nowadays be considered politically incorrect, as they're sung in dialect. "Mah Lindy Lou," "Dusky Stevedore" and "Honey, I'se A Waitin' Jes' Fo' Yo'" are examples of what were once called "coon songs," while "Mariana" has DeLeath using a pseudo-Italian accent. On many selections here, she performs with only piano backup, which is usually the way DeLeath appeared on NBC radio. And that is the appeal of this album-- the chance to turn back the clock to the 1920s and experience "The First Lady Of Radio" in her element.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME -- 68:17

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The Girl's Attractive Diamond Nights ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000E4FDSG Release Date: 2006-02-28

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Israel at 50 Ziv Ben , Oded Pintus , Amir Beckman , Haya Koren , Efrat Lavry , Orit Messer , Dan Tidhar , Mira Zakai , Dan Ettinger , Friedemann Herz , Sabrina Kunze , Bart Berman , and Meir Wiesel Manufacturer: Opus One ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000296X2 Release Date: 1999-10-26

Average customer rating: a magnificent telling of the first half of a love affair tuc@sprintmail.com

This Time It's Love Manufacturer: Reference Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Duke, Vernon | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Porter | Porter, Cole | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional & Vocal Pop | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sings Rodgers & Hart It's Over Sings Torch Songs ASIN: B00000158R Release Date: 1993-12-17

Tracks:

1. Easy To Love
2. The More I See You
3. My Foolish Heart
4. What Is There To Say?
5. The Nearness Of You
6. More Than You Know
7. Put Your Dreams Away
8. Alone Together
9. My Romance
10. A Game For Two
11. Love Dance
12. The Music That Makes Me Dance
13. Everything I Love

Customer Reviews:

a magnificent telling of the first half of a love affair.......2000-02-03

which is to say, the fun part...

this album MUST be listened to in conjunction with farrell's "it's over", maybe the best history of a romance gone wrong ever put down on record.

no need to go into the singer's career here; if you're bothering to look at this page, you probably already know the details. suffice to say that ef was the only classically trained singer who was as great a performer of broadway-style tunes as she was in her main field.

of all the recordings she made a few years back, this one is essential to any fan of pop music. and her version of "the music that makes me dance" leaves ms. streisand in the dust!

thank god she augmented her few earlier pop albums with this series of recordings. and can this woman really have been in her 70s?

tuc@sprintmail.com.......1998-10-13

Here is a grand opera star who in her 70's now sings popular music like a 40 year old. Her voice was always a marvel to listen to when she sang at the Met or with Toscanni. But she saved her voice and now she sings pop music that is incredible for a singer of her age. Her recordings are becoming very less frequent. To listen to these romantic ballads can bring the youth and romance back into your life. A super lady that will never grow old.

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