People forget this was a number ONE Top 40 hit in 1965! I always thought this was a pretty good song and got a good amount of radio play. I'm glad Gary is still around and seems pretty happy.
25 years, i can still see and hear my 6 year old daughter, sitting in the back seat of my 1978 Impala, smiling a mile wide while singing this song along with our cassette player. She turned 31 yesterday. Like seriously wow.
You sure man?... the math doesn't come out right, I was born in 1989 and I'm 33 this February of 2022.... ahhh I see my confusion now🤣, I mixed up the year of the car with what I thought was the year you and your daughter were listening to this song🤣🤣👌... well good morning to you also.
I may be a millennial, but I definitely have a baby boomer soul. I love sixties and seventies music. Such a powerful era and much better than the crap I’m growing up with. Keep in mind, I’m saying that at 26. LOL!
Back in 1998, I was a teenager hanging out at the bowling alley back when they had nighttime bowling. This song was grooving in the background. I wasn’t fully listening to it, but I remembered the bass groove and the melody. I always remembered the song, and hoped to find it as I got into oldies and Motown. I never heard the song again, despite searches and asking people. This song was just playing on Sirius, 23 years later, and, when I heard it, I said to myself “this was the song from the bowling alley.” Indeed, it sounds better than when I originally heard it. It makes you appreciate the easy identification of music now. A true diamond in the rough with 23 years of love behind it.
Back in my 13 year old, Jr. High mind of 1965, I thought this song was cutting edge it had such different sound to it. That simple reverb guitar solo is still haunting. Could have been used in a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western. It got played a million times at the dances, along with Yesterday. Those were the days...
Well, every song that played at that moment stays with you forever we just forget, but as we grow older and hear them we appreciate even more., this is one of them Gary's dad was comedian Jerry Lewis.
This tune was an absolute fave in '65. This and Secret Agent Man was all I recall from the sixties, of course being a snot nosed kid. If you wrote any of it, then thanks!
@@Pimp-Master Irwin Levine Who wrote this song The night before went to see the show Oliver In the show Oliver sings WHO WILL BUY THESE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS The next day Levine wrote WHO WANTS TO BUY THIS DIAMOND RING
When I was a kid my mom had this album. Wish I knew what happened to it. I would listen to her records for hours! Also Bobby Vinton. The Andrews Sisters. Glenn Miller. All the oldies!! We lived in N Idaho just across the Canadian border. One winter we got 12 foot of snow. So want much to do.
I was 9 in 65' and loved the arrangement, fast forward 40 years my 9 year old hears it in the car and ask, "who was that" I ask why? (since he was more into the music of today) he responds, "I love it!"
My mom got me to listen to this. The 60s was her childhood growing up and she would tell me what the 60s was like. I'm only a 2000s kid, but I like retro music too.
My favourite song by Gary Lewis and the play boys. The original got played on the UK Northern soul scene back in the mid 1980s. And was probably played earlier at verious venue's before I got into it All. They done some great other cover versions..A great 60s Pop group always be remembered!🎶🎶👍👍🛵
I was born in 1985 and still listen to the oldies (anything between the 60's and 80's) as I grew up listening to them, most of the songs that I listen to are mainly because the melody is what i enjoy about it.
This came over the radiowaves as a very big hit for the younger Lewis. I remember how welcome the cool echo within the oriental sounding melody was - that I never bothered to listen to the lyrics🎆
Merci pour ce partage et vos photos J'aime bien la voix de Gary Lewis que j'ai découvert il y a quelques semaines sur internet J'aime beaucoup ce qu'il fait avec son groupe
@larreey : I wish you the all the best. My dad is 69, and has definitely been going through some challenges in recent years. I thank him for introducing me to some of the nostalgia of his youth as there used to be an oldie station he used to play as I was growing up (long gone now). I truly gained a great appreciation for the excellent pop music of the sixties, which has remained with me to this day. Even though I was into punk, post punk and grunge music during my adolescence, I still had a place in my heart for this music even way back then. Stay strong my friend.
@@MrShobar Gary Lewis served in a non combat area of Korea, not active duty in Vietnam.. I have heard him tell lies that "he was traumatized by Vietnam"...
This song reminds a lot me of my dad because his relationship with my mum went downhill after she gave birth to my two brothers!My two brothers started high school the same year our parents divorced I started high school the year before that!
In the 6th grade. Pitcher on the baseball team and first love is the May queen. I thought life could not get better. This song was the background music of those times. Played it so often. Great memories.
Gary Lewis - vocals, drums Dave Walker - lead guitar, vocals Dave Costell - guitar Al Ramsay - bass John R. West - keyboards Ron Hicklin - lead vocal overdubs & background vocals Leon Russell - keyboards, arrangements Hal Blaine - drums Tommy Allsup - guitar Mike Deasy - guitar Joe Osborn - bass Al Kooper, Bob Brass, Irwin Levine - songwriters Snuff Garrett - producer Over the years, there has been much discussion & debate regarding the roles of various musicians used on these recording sessions. According to Gary Lewis, The LA Wrecking Crew only did overdubs and/or solos: "So we went into the studio, we cut the basic track. The only other person from The Wrecking Crew that we had in there while we were doing the basic track was Hal Blaine, and he played the tympanis on 'Diamond Ring' ". However, Snuff Garrett says that The Wrecking Crew played everything on this track, as well as on the entire album: "I didn't use The Playboys at all except as overtones." There is also a question regarding whether or not Carol Kaye contributed bass. We will never know the truth (even though my money is on The Wrecking Crew), so let's just enjoy the masterful end result....
I've read that his Mom was a supported the band , his Dad not so much, and that they doubled him with a studio singer....but who knows about a lot of this stuff? I did see them live and seeing a Cordo vox on stage was a little strange... an accordion organ combo deal.
@@normyamada37 If you listen from 2:02 to the end you can hear Gary singing on his own. The rest of the song seems to include vocals blended in with Gary.
There is no doubt that The Wrecking Crew did all of this - the music is perfect and has that "energy". Gary's little friends did not make this recording - real pros did.
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These are the songs we need in this world.
Right here in 2024!
I still listen to the Good Old Songs.
Why not their the best.
And, I'm 77 years young,
Such a sad song, but I love the melody. Anyone still listening in 2020?!
Yes, I still love to listen to these "golden oldies".
Yep
NO!!! I'm not listening
Hear this often on Big R radio Golden Oldies
Yes always loved this song
People forget this was a number ONE Top 40 hit in 1965! I always thought this was a pretty good song and got a good amount of radio play. I'm glad Gary is still around and seems pretty happy.
The 60s were fun happy times
One of my favorite songs
One of the best songs that the entire world needs to hear.
25 years, i can still see and hear my 6 year old daughter, sitting in the back seat of my 1978 Impala, smiling a mile wide while singing this song along with our cassette player. She turned 31 yesterday. Like seriously wow.
You sure man?... the math doesn't come out right, I was born in 1989 and I'm 33 this February of 2022.... ahhh I see my confusion now🤣, I mixed up the year of the car with what I thought was the year you and your daughter were listening to this song🤣🤣👌... well good morning to you also.
@@china_is_asshole szecnksrypis
@@china_is_assholeI made the same miscalculation.
At least it was a cassette player, I'm old enough to remember 8 tracks!!!
😮😮😮
I may be a millennial, but I definitely have a baby boomer soul. I love sixties and seventies music. Such a powerful era and much better than the crap I’m growing up with. Keep in mind, I’m saying that at 26. LOL!
I have always love most of his song's. I'm 69.
Back in 1998, I was a teenager hanging out at the bowling alley back when they had nighttime bowling. This song was grooving in the background. I wasn’t fully listening to it, but I remembered the bass groove and the melody.
I always remembered the song, and hoped to find it as I got into oldies and Motown. I never heard the song again, despite searches and asking people.
This song was just playing on Sirius, 23 years later, and, when I heard it, I said to myself “this was the song from the bowling alley.” Indeed, it sounds better than when I originally heard it. It makes you appreciate the easy identification of music now.
A true diamond in the rough with 23 years of love behind it.
Ain't that the truth
Good for you, sister.
It's Sad. But
Brilliant!
Haha I used to do the same thing back then 97-01 night time glow bowling jamming to tunes.
Loved this
Oldies But Goodies: thanks for posting. Happy Birthday today(July 31) to Gary Lewis. Cheers!🥨
Always loved this song
Back in my 13 year old, Jr. High mind of 1965, I thought this song was cutting edge it had such different sound to it. That simple reverb guitar solo is still haunting. Could have been used in a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western. It got played a million times at the dances, along with Yesterday. Those were the days...
That's Leon Russell on keys.
Damned song has been stuck in my head for the past few days... Love it!!
Same. Which is why I'm here
I second that.
Me today
Cheers 🍷
They had some pretty good Dam songs
Love Gary Lewis and the playboys-had all of their records. Beautiful songs.
Is it right when I say that this band is highly underrated?
Yes
the hits yes...Lewis scored a lot more top tens than people realize...but "The Playboys" are really studio players
Without question, paisan.
Their last 2 albums "New Directions" and "Now!" are both masterpieces. Check them out!
Absolutely
Well, every song that played at that moment stays with you forever we just forget, but as we grow older and hear them we appreciate even more., this is one of them Gary's dad was comedian Jerry Lewis.
When I was about five years old, I sent in a cereal box top for the 45 of this song.
I still love this song!
I loved this song growing up in the 1960s, music was music back then.
Remember buying this record. Music today can not compare to music from sixties and seventies.
Went into Army 1966, in Vietnam 67-68, that "ring" didn't shine for me either!!
My late partner
Irwin Levine wrote this unforgettable tune....we began writing 4 years later
Our 1st song
Sold 10 million records
L.Russell Brown
This tune was an absolute fave in '65. This and Secret Agent Man was all I recall from the sixties, of course being a snot nosed kid. If you wrote any of it, then thanks!
@@Pimp-Master
Irwin Levine
Who wrote this song
The night before went to see the show Oliver
In the show Oliver sings
WHO WILL BUY THESE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS
The next day
Levine wrote
WHO WANTS TO BUY
THIS DIAMOND RING
October 8, 2022, and still loving my 60s music!! Timeless
I love this song
Who's listening 55 years ago?
Me !
Great song
the beatles made a fortune on songs just like this
short sweet melodic
its a formula that todays music just cant duplicate
It's sort of a jingle feeling, and no wonder that most 60's music has now been used for commercials, or at least tapped by commercial people.
Those are Beatle chord changes aren't they? I'm no musician so I could be wrong but it reminds me of Beatles chords and changes. Good song
Timeless haunting musical magic, one of the best songs ever made!
Composed by Al Kooper ?
What a terrific early/mid sixties pop song!
I love 60s music. This is so beautiful.
Gary Lewis held his own. During the brit. Invasion
One of the deepest songs of the 60's... So well written, so well performed...
+Rpg Horror Fan. everything will be fan.i,promise you
definitely one of the best "lover's angst" songs of the era! A sock-hop standard!
Deep? You've got to be high
Lover's concerto
A good song yes , but saying it's deep might be a little of a stretch
Best song ever recorded
Wrecking Crew luv
Respect
Awesome
As a small boy this song really stood out - what a message !!!!!! part of a wonderful childhood and significance throughout my whole life!!!!!!
I loved him at 14 I still love his hits 52 yrs later.:o)
When I was a kid my mom had this album. Wish I knew what happened to it. I would listen to her records for hours! Also Bobby Vinton. The Andrews Sisters. Glenn Miller. All the oldies!! We lived in N Idaho just across the Canadian border. One winter we got 12 foot of snow. So want much to do.
Lots of good music from the 60s
Pure gold on this one. One of those perfect pop songs. Beautifully captures the heartbreak of unrequited love just like "Midnight Confessions"
Absolutely, love Gary Lewis and the Playboy's
This song pops in my head now and then and I'm only 40
The HIT song from 1965 that started the success of Gary Lewis And The Playboys!
They really put out some great ones; especially in the face of full-on Beatlemania....
It was amazing. The Supremes too ! 🎶👍
Loved Gary Lewis and the playboys I was a teenager and saw him in concert in Washington DC lol I was one of those screaming teenagers 😅
I was 9 in 65' and loved the arrangement, fast forward 40 years my 9 year old hears it in the car and ask, "who was that" I ask why? (since he was more into the music of today) he responds, "I love it!"
I have always loved this song and Save Your Heart for me! Great songs! Great memories!
My Mother had this album and it’s in my record collection now.
I love Gary Lewis and the Play boys very much ❤❤❤🥰
Those great old songs from my childhood kinda tug at the heartstrings : )
Times of innocence and change.
So true I was 6 yrs old when I first heard this
that was the magic of the wrecking crew you were feeling.
My mom got me to listen to this. The 60s was her childhood growing up and she would tell me what the 60s was like. I'm only a 2000s kid, but I like retro music too.
No doubt
My favourite song by Gary Lewis and the play boys. The original got played on the UK Northern soul scene back in the mid 1980s. And was probably played earlier at verious venue's before I got into it All. They done some great other cover versions..A great 60s Pop group always be remembered!🎶🎶👍👍🛵
I was born in 1985 and still listen to the oldies (anything between the 60's and 80's) as I grew up listening to them, most of the songs that I listen to are mainly because the melody is what i enjoy about it.
I'm not sure why but this song was playing in my head all day at work this entire week and I have not heard it in yours
Hal Blaine on drums, John Osborne on e-bass, Leon Russel keyboard and arranged the music, good tune.
Some people say this is a sad song, I always thought of it as a happy, up tempo song.
Always loved this song. Still great in 2022 😊
Thanks, Gary for the great music that will always last.
This came over the radiowaves as a very big hit for the younger Lewis.
I remember how welcome the cool echo within the oriental sounding melody was - that I never bothered to listen to the lyrics🎆
Sounds like his dad Jerry Lewis I was in the seventh grade when record came out what a song
Merci pour ce partage et vos photos
J'aime bien la voix de Gary Lewis que j'ai découvert il y a quelques semaines sur internet
J'aime beaucoup ce qu'il fait avec son groupe
From my childhood and still sounds good!
Man, this is such a great song. I keep on listening to it and love it all the more.
Good song of the sixties
No a GREAT song of the sixties.
That it is a very great song for any time of any time and year
@larreey : I wish you the all the best. My dad is 69, and has definitely been going through some challenges in recent years. I thank him for introducing me to some of the nostalgia of his youth as there used to be an oldie station he used to play as I was growing up (long gone now). I truly gained a great appreciation for the excellent pop music of the sixties, which has remained with me to this day. Even though I was into punk, post punk and grunge music during my adolescence, I still had a place in my heart for this music even way back then. Stay strong my friend.
That super pure sounds of the 60s. For sure yo!!
I had the 45 record I would play it and sing and dance around my room. Great childhood memories ♥️😁
This song came out during the british beatles era and hit top of chart. I love this song.
Amazing time for pop music 🎶 👌
I used to listen to their songs when I was around 6 and id sing to them all the time
I remember I always loved this song even as a little kid.
I love. Gary Lewis and the Play Boys❤❤❤🥰❤
I love this song so much because it takes me to my childhood.
In the Sauna? @ #upperDarbyAlpInes
I remember my dad listening to this awhile back… Don’t know why this song just now popped into my head. Lol
Ive always loved this song since i was a little girl i been listening to it a lot lately!
Love this song. This was always my fathers favorite song of all time.
Lovely band...
Great song :) brings back memories!
Their breakthrough release from early 1965-A solid gold classic that went to # 1!
I thought this was summer 1964.
@@m.e.d.7997 It was recorded in November 1964, released in January 1965
I was 8 years old, loved this song, a great time to start a music centered life,,,,now 65,,,where has the magic gone?
There was a youtube video where Gary boasted about knocking the Beatles off the number one spot with it.
Such a wonderful song !
percussion is spectacular, gary lewis is so talented... should have continued to pour out hits.
percussion is Hal Blain from the wrecking crew.
He allowed himself to get drafted instead...
@@MrShobar Gary Lewis served in a non combat area of Korea, not active duty in Vietnam.. I have heard him tell lies that "he was traumatized by Vietnam"...
@@1953childstar Being drafted upturned his life for a war that shouldn't have happened. It's not your place to say he wasn't traumatized.
Great Song
Selling my ring now! How true these words are!...
BobbyD omg really????? Wow. Well i hope you have true happiness now.
@@TQGraham11 don't do it
This song reminds a lot me of my dad because his relationship with my mum went downhill after she gave birth to my two brothers!My two brothers started high school the same year our parents divorced I started high school the year before that!
Always liked this tune in grade school. Ole transistor radio days! Ahhhh
In the 6th grade. Pitcher on the baseball team and first love is the May queen. I thought life could not get better. This song was the background music of those times. Played it so often. Great memories.
I grew up with this. What a great song from a great group.
I never heard this song, when i was in prayer it was put in my heart to look up this song. God works in mysterious ways.
I remember 3WS playing this!! Awe good memories.
2022 still kicks ass
Im here in Nov 2023. Brings back great memories of my youth.
Yes I love this song and still listening to it in 2023!! 🐱
Gary Lewis - vocals, drums
Dave Walker - lead guitar, vocals
Dave Costell - guitar
Al Ramsay - bass
John R. West - keyboards
Ron Hicklin - lead vocal overdubs & background vocals
Leon Russell - keyboards, arrangements
Hal Blaine - drums
Tommy Allsup - guitar
Mike Deasy - guitar
Joe Osborn - bass
Al Kooper, Bob Brass, Irwin Levine - songwriters
Snuff Garrett - producer
Over the years, there has been much discussion & debate regarding the roles of various musicians used on these recording sessions. According to Gary Lewis, The LA Wrecking Crew only did overdubs and/or solos: "So we went into the studio, we cut the basic track. The only other person from The Wrecking Crew that we had in there while we were doing the basic track was Hal Blaine, and he played the tympanis on 'Diamond Ring' ". However, Snuff Garrett says that The Wrecking Crew played everything on this track, as well as on the entire album: "I didn't use The Playboys at all except as overtones." There is also a question regarding whether or not Carol Kaye contributed bass. We will never know the truth (even though my money is on The Wrecking Crew), so let's just enjoy the masterful end result....
I've read that his Mom was a supported the band , his Dad not so much, and that they doubled him with a studio singer....but who knows about a lot of this stuff? I did see them live and seeing a Cordo vox on stage was a little strange... an accordion organ combo deal.
@@normyamada37 If you listen from 2:02 to the end you can hear Gary singing on his own. The rest of the song seems to include vocals blended in with Gary.
There is no doubt that The Wrecking Crew did all of this - the music is perfect and has that "energy". Gary's little friends did not make this recording - real pros did.
I Love the Hicklin Group
They cut stuff like this in under 3 hours. I doubt that any of Gary Lewis's band could keep up with The Wrecking Crew!
I remember listening to this on my transistor radio on the same campus Gary had graduated from a year earlier, Black Foxe in Hollywood.
One of their best songs-a classic!
Loved that song when it was new and still do now in 2022 !!!
Gary Lewis on Cousin Brucie's Saturday Night Rock n Roll Party September 10, 2023 WABC radio. WONDERFUL interview. Even had a medley of songs.
THANK YOU. I JUST LOVE THIS RECORD