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The Diamonds received national attention once again in 2000, when the original members were invited to sing in TJ Lubinsky’s PBS production of Doo-Wop 51, and again in the PBS production entitled Magic Moments - The Best of '50s Pop in 2004. Stetson received a heart transplant in 2000, and died in 2003.
The Diamonds have been honored and inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame, The Doo Wop Hall of Fame, The Rockabilly Hall of Fame and are recipients of Canada's Juno Award. Somerville's last stage show, On The 1957 Rock & Roll Greyhound Bus , was based on rock and roll’s first major tour.
"The Stroll" is a song written by Nancy Lee and Clyde Otis and performed by The Diamonds. It reached No. 1 on the Cashbox chart, [1] #4 on the U.S. pop chart, and #5 on the U.S. R&B chart in 1958. [2] The song was ranked #48 on Billboard magazine's Top 50 singles of 1958. [3] The Diamonds were the first to record "The Stroll". [4]
The group's most recent television appearance was with the award-winning 2004 PBS special, Magic Moments: The Best of 50s Pop. The current incarnation of the Four Preps features co-founder and original lead singer Bruce Belland, Bob Duncan (formerly with the Diamonds and the Crew Cuts), Michael Redman (of the Crew Cuts), and Jim Armstrong. [1]
The Diamonds' version is generally considered superior. Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine argues that the Diamonds "Little Darlin'" is an unusual example of a cover being better than the original: [T]he Diamonds' take remained the bigger hit, and over the years, the better-known version.
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Social justice, she stated in the PBS series American Masters, is the true core of her life, "looming larger than music". [27] Baez spent much of her formative youth living in the San Francisco Bay area , [ 28 ] where she graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1958. [ 29 ]