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 nighttime, you’re like a shinin’star.
And how could I shine without you, when it’s about you that I am?
Diamond Girl, roamin’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 a-turin'. We are real, and we are a-burnin'.
Diamond Girl, now that I’ve found you, it’s about you that I am.
Diamond Girl, you sure do shine. Diamond Girl, you sure do shine.
Diamond Girl, you sure do shine. Diamond Girl, you sure do shine.
I was 28 when this song was being played on the radio - just catching my first wind. Those of us who were privileged, through no merit of our own, to live during this musical era will never forget the awesome music of that time. Yes, I know nostalgia comes into play with this sentiment, but it really was a 'special' place to be young and free. Now I am 71 years old, and I have no clue where time has gone. Enjoy every moment of every day, and if you're a young person and find yourself attracted to 70s music, it's most likely you lived then but your life was cut short. Be grateful you are listening to these sounds now.
I know I am getting old and nostalgia is boring but man I miss when this stuff was on the radio and the way life felt back then. Maybe we romanticize the past when the future is uncertain but this stuff is/was great.
The summer of 1973. Best summer of my childhood. I was 12 years old. Not a care in the world. Swam all day in the apartment pool. A boy named Bob had a crush on me. In the warm summer breeze we played truth or dare on the back steps of the apartment. Got my first kiss from Bob while someone played this song from their apartment balcony. Takes me back every time I hear it...makes me smile
Summer of '73, I was a 17-yr-old lifeguard at a resort pool for adults. My chair was right in front of the Tiki Bar, where adults would play this song all summer, along with "Pillow Talk" by Sylvia, "Me & Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul, and "Summer Breeze" by Seals & Croft. Some of the women who had a buzz from the bar would walk over and invite me up to their room after my shift. Each week, a new group of guests arrived. Best job ever.
Diamond Girl - pressed and formed by the hand of God. That's how I understood this song. Strong in faith and resolve to live in the world but not be in the world. A rare find and one to be treasured beyond earthly measure.
I was about ten and the family was shopping at a huge Sears store in Lakeland FL. They had all the television sets tuned to the same TV station. Some variety show was on. Seals and Crofts came up and did this tune. Everyone in listening distance just stopped and watched them perform on at least 25 TV sets. There must have been 40 people of all ages enjoying the show. I can see it to this day. Times have certainly changed.
Summertime 1972, riding my bike with my transistor Radio strapped to the crossbar, playing this song with a thunderstorm brewing in the distance. That’s how I’ll always remember this song.
Saturday mornings the radio would be playing and I'd grab my bike, hair in a ponytail and I'd hum this and ride in the breeze...not one care in the whole wide world...bliss baby, pure bliss.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think Seals and Croft were one of the most underrated duos ever with outstanding harmonies. Summer Brezze got all the attention, but this song is an example of their other great stuff! I used to have their Greatest Hits.