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Precious Little Diamond
"Precious Little Diamond" is a song by Dutch funk band Fox the Fox, released in October 1984 as the second single from their debut studio album, ''In the Dark of the Nite''. The single peaked as number 11 on the Dutch singles Chart, staying on the chart for 7 weeks. In Germany and the US it peaked at number 5.offiziellecharts.de - German Chart Archive, retrieved December 11, 2018 The track has been cited with this song as the inspiration for using choruses ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox The Fox
Fox the Fox was a group that was founded in 1981 by Berth Tamaëla and Sylvia Musmin, also known as Silhouette Musmin. The band is best known for their hit single "Precious Little Diamond". History Fox the Fox, was a Dutch funk band founded by Tamaëla and Musmin in 1981. Among the members were bassist Gino Jansen, guitarist Kier van der Werf, keyboardist Roy Kuschel, and drummers Robbie Brans, Tjalling Bos and Han Langkamp. Musmin wrote all the lyrics. Two years after founding the band they released "Flirting and Showing", which reached number 40 in the Netherlands and Germany.Hit-Bilanz, deutsche Chart-Singles auf CD-ROM, Taurus Press A year later they released the single "Precious Little Diamond", which reached fifth place in Germany, number 18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play, 11 in the Netherlands, 15 in France, 38 in Belgium and 86 in the United Kingdom. Subsequent singles and albums were not successful. The band split up after the departure of Tamaëla in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, and the mid-1970s saw the rise of electronic art musicians. After the breakthrough of Gary Numan in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra introduced the TR-808 rhythm machine to popular music, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
