SEALS & CROFTS - DIAMOND GIRLS

DIAMOND GIRLS

SEALS & CROFTS

SONGWRITWE: SEALS & CROFTS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: DIAMOND GIRL

LABEL: WARNER BROS RECORDS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1973

 

          Seals and Crofts were an American soft rock duo made up of James Eugene "Jim" Seals (born October 17, 1942) and Darrell George "Dash" Crofts (born August 14, 1938). They are best known for their hits "Summer Breeze" (1972), "Diamond Girl" (1973), and "Get Closer" (1976), each of which peaked at Nº. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Both members have long been public advocates of the Baháʼí Faith. Though the duo disbanded in 1980, they reunited briefly in 1991–1992, and again in 2004, when they released their final album, Traces.

         Jim Seals and Dash Crofts were both born in Texas, Seals in Sidney and Crofts in Cisco. They first met when Crofts was a drummer for a local band. Later, Seals joined an outfit called Dean Beard and the Crew Cats, in which he played guitar; later on, Crofts joined Seals in the band. With Beard, they moved to Los Angeles to join the Champs, but the two did so only after the group's "Tequila" reached No. 1 in 1958. Seals also spent time during 1959 in the touring band of Eddie Cochran.

           Seals had a composition ("It's Never Too Late") recorded by Brenda Lee in 1961, which featured as the B-side of her U.S. Billboard Nº. 6 single, "You Can Depend on Me". "It's Never Too Late" nevertheless reached Nº. 101 on Billboard and Nº. 100 on Cash Box (week ending April 8, 1961) in its own right. In the UK, the sides were switched when the single was released, but the single failed to make the UK Singles Chart (at that time only a Top 50 listing).

             In 1963, Seals, Crofts, Glen Campbell and Jerry Cole left the Champs to form a band named Glen Campbell and the GCs, which played at The Crossbow in Van Nuys, California. The band only lasted a couple of years before the members went their separate ways. Crofts returned to Texas and Seals joined a band named the Dawnbreakers (a reference to The Dawn-Breakers, a book about the beginnings of the Baha'i Faith). Crofts eventually returned to California to team up with Jim again, in the Dawnbreakers, and thus both Seals and Crofts were introduced to and became members of the Baháʼí Faith. After becoming longtime adherents of Baha'i, a number of their songs began to include references to and passages from Baha'i scriptures. When they appeared in concert, they often remained on stage after the performance to talk about the faith, while local Baha'is passed out literature to anyone interested.

          "Diamond Girl" is a song by American soft rock duo Seals and Crofts, released as a single in 1973. It is the title track of their fifth studio album, Diamond Girl. Like their previous top 10 hit "Summer Breeze", "Diamond Girl" also reached Nº. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, and Nº. 4 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Diamond Girl

You sure do shine

Glad I found you

Glad you're mine

 

Oh, my love

You're like a precious stone

Part of earth where

Heaven has rained on

 

Makes no difference

Where you are

Day or night time

You're like a shining star

 

And how could I

Shine without you

When it's about you

That I am, woah, oh

 

Diamond Girl

Roaming wild

Such a rare thing

Radiant child

 

I could never find

Another one like you

Part of me is

Deep down inside you

 

Can't you feel

The whole world turning

We are real and

We are burning, yeah

 

Diamond Girl

Now that I've found you

Well, it's about you that I am

Whoa, Whoa, oh

 

Diamond Girl

You sure do shine

Diamond Girl

You sure do shine

Diamond Girl

You sure do shine

Diamond Girl

You sure do, you sure do

You sure do shine.