{"id":7976,"date":"2014-09-06T23:37:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T23:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/09\/06\/the-diamonds-47-years-later\/"},"modified":"2014-09-06T23:37:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T23:37:17","slug":"the-diamonds-47-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/09\/06\/the-diamonds-47-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DIAMONDS &#8211; 47 YEARS LATER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nTom Hanks&#8217; Father &#8230; THIS WILL PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\tIf you were alive in 1957, and old enough to enjoy Rock and Roll, you will probably remember the group, &quot;The Diamonds&quot; who had just launched their super hit &quot;Little Darlin&#8217; &quot;.<\/p>\n<p>\tFor those of you that are too young to remember &#8211; it was a time when the performers were happy, enjoying themselves, respecting their fans, dressed appropriately and their lyrics could be understood. They did not feel obligated to scream, eat the microphone, mumble inaudible lyrics or trash the set.<\/p>\n<p>\tIn 1957, The Diamonds had a hit with &quot;Little Darlin&quot; 47 years later, they were requested to perform at Atlantic City &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\tThis link leads to both performances. Watch the first one then scroll down for the new one 47 years later.<\/p>\n<p>\tTom Hanks father is much better looking than Tom, and even better looking with age. In the linked videos Tom Hank&#8217;s father is the lead singer on the left. <\/p>\n<p>\tHe still has it! Hope you enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>\t47 years apart two Performances &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>\tVideos:<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flixxy.com\/the-diamonds-little-darlin-1957-2004.htm\">http:\/\/www.flixxy.com\/the-diamonds-little-darlin-1957-2004.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Pit Boss on September 12, 2014, 3:40 am<\/p>\n<div>Never knew that. Wath this show when public TV is doing fundraisers.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hanks&#8217; Father &#8230; THIS WILL PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE&#8230; If you were alive in 1957, and old enough to enjoy Rock and Roll, you will probably remember the group, &quot;The Diamonds&quot; who had just launched their super&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee-chat-lounge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}