Fox the Fox - Precious Little Diamond TopPop

“Precious Little Diamond“ is a 1984 song by the Dutch Euro disco group Fox the Fox. It’s the sixth track on the 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. Fox the Fox was founded in 1981 by Berth Tamaëla and Sylvia 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. In 1984 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, 15 in France, 38 in Belgium and 86 in the United Kingdom. Subsequent singles and albums were not successful. Dieter Bohlen has been cited with this song as the inspiration for using falsetto choruses in his songs, such as Modern Talking, C.C. Catch and Blue System. In 2013, the song was sampled in The Weeknd’s song “Wanderlust“, on his album Kiss Land. The Weeknd samples the melody, the original chorus and a part of the original lyrics. This Toppop recording was first broadcast on May 31, 1984. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 31 May 1984 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.