Jet Harris & Tony Meehan - Diamonds (1963).

Jet Harris & Tony Meehan - Diamonds (1963).

[@KelvinWilson53]

When I was 14 I was in a band with Jet and he asked me to show him how Diamonds went as he had forgotten. I think around 1967/68. He eventually got his thing back together and showed why he was the best of the best! R.I.P Jet and thanks for the pleasure of letting me play on stage with you even if I was a young sprat!

[@LuckyLarry33]

Was that just "The Jet Harris Band"?

[@michaelbruns449]

18 year old Jimmy Page is playing on this song, what a prodigy such a musical savant.

[@BeatlesFan1975]

That's why I came here !!!

[@WorthyAdversary]

John Paul Jones is playing bass on this track as well.

[@michaelbruns449]

@@WorthyAdversary Wow half of Led Zeppelin like five years earlier.

[@djangorheinhardt]

Didn't Joe Moretti have an input on Jet and Tony's two hit singles .I read somewhere he actually played the bass track on one of the hits .( I think !)

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

The sixties . This music will live for ever. A time when everybody was happy .

[@anthonynelson9136]

Not everybody was happy. Some of us were drafted to go to Vietnam.

[@veritasvincit2745]

My mom and dad went on their first date 60 years ago tonight and this was number one in the charts. They're both going on a date with each other this evening too.

[@signalenergie]

Wonderful.

[@peternewman3487]

Pop music from Telstar, Shadows, Beatles, The Hollies got me through my horrible secondary school years.

[@chainrelease]

Playing a drum solo on the saxophone - now that´s art!

[@klausrimdoi45]

😄😄😄😄

[@deanmays7133]

Those guys had skillz 😂

[@adenscoolvideos]

The man on the drums was my uncle

[@waltergeldof4360]

The hit by Jet Harris & Tony Meehan. yes, the original !!! Rest in Peace Jet and Tony. IN LOVING MEMORY XXX

[@jameswilson-cf7cy]

I tell you how this can sound even more thrilling: when you're 12, in a fairground and on a ride. The distorted megasound and the onion hotdog perfume fill your head like there's no tomorrow.

[@donnicholls9368]

Too true - 'you 'paint' an evocative picture!

[@j.b.9260]

I'm sure.

[@davidbaker8483]

That'll be the day..

[@andrewpollock4599]

With a name like Jet Harris-you just had to be a rock star,or a film star!

[@davidpost6902]

He was a very fast runner back in the day......hence the name "Jet" He could play bass like a lead guitar.......amazing musician!!

[@universalexports777]

One of the best instrumental singles ever-they dont make em like this anymore!

[@TJT45808]

Jimmy Page

[@waynewenck4760]

I'm pushing 78, a Shadows fan since "Apache" . They were the greatest instrumental group of that era and Cliff Richards backing group in the studio and movies of the sixties. Jett Harris and To y Meehan produced "Diamonds, Scarlet O'Hara and my favourite Applejack after leaving the Shadows. Wow such lost talent, but I'm an old man now and love to reminese.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Yep ,these were happy days .

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Hank Marvin has entered the book of Cockney Ryming slang . Hank Marvin = Starving .

[@sharonb2667]

@@waynewenck4760 Spoken true words tho.

[@kevins1852]

The early 60s had some great instrumental pieces.. some of the earliest music I remember, like Telstar and this classic. Sometimes I wish I could go back to those days when John F. Kennedy was President

[@user-bs8je8zu4e]

I was privileged to see Jet Harris play in Bradford , no too long before he died.

[@timchen5299]

Jet Harris is a Legend in his own right. The 4 Greats of British sixties pop were JetHarris, Tony Meehan, Hank Marvin & Bruce Welch.

[@djangorheinhardt]

Yes ,I'll second that !!!

[@sharonb2667]

certainly were but don't forget Brian Bennett on drums. Hw was pretty good also.

[@spgranorthiam123]

We grow old and die yet music is eternal. I was 17 years old when I first heard this, still good all these years later,

[@rowley1950]

Music from my early teens, im 73 years young now, wont be beaten. Simon Cowell can go and play with himself, this music will always be tops!

[@60Lambertus]

This is pure gold. Music as it's meant to be.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

When everybody had a sense of purpose .

[@waywolfjones8127]

Frrrrrrhhrt!

[@kinggeorge336]

How can you not love this!

[@LesD9]

Because it's the wrong soundtrack! Here's the original syncd (almost). kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmfEmaeEi7Z0pLs

[@bobradford2637]

I remember them and this song as a kid. loved it.

[@johnearl8460]

I was a schoolboy when this was a hit not k owing that years later i would be a promoter and booked Jet and his group for a few shows. A truly .lovely man bless him

[@michaeligoe3935]

I was 12 and this tumbled me into a love of music. Boys could safely admit to liking this because it was macho Western movie stuff and seemed to have absolutely nothing to do with love or kissing.

[@TheAnn2shoes]

Me too

[@deadfiero]

that's my dad on stage (shaking hands )he was the tour manager for the Shadows and jet & Tony

[@francismadden8561]

The time when you got the feeling that music was actually going somewhere exciting.

[@maximoo9861]

This reminds me of the days my mum and dad were courting before i was born, feel like i was there though the music is so magical

[@roystevens8741]

great music from Jet and Tony

[@LorraineAshby]

One of my husbands favourites - his dad used to play it to him when he was about 4yrs old.

[@roneyley8250]

Lorraine Ashby I

[@birchward]

hi Lorraine , funny seeing you here ! , my sister sent me this link to this song as I drove everybody mad with it !( when I was young ! , and thats the title of another ,) cheers ritchie .

[@lindakristinekjlibraten777]

That's one excample to how this music can go on and live for generations!

[@BeatlesFan1975]

You're hot

[@josephkane2852]

One of The Very Bes Instrumental singles of 1963 a top single also

[@joyceknox1341]

This was the theme tune for the Newcastle Diamonds speedway team from the 60s. Happy days

[@rayhemel2227]

Absolutely brilliant

[@mikesey1]

Wonderful music from a great duo. Memories!

[@terrywrigley9751]

Great!

[@Barbarapape]

I was only 8 was this was released. Jet and Tony were brilliant guitarists, players of this standard are very rare. At least the music lives on as the best time ever, unlike todays.

[@PeterTea]

I read that Jimmy Page played as a session guitarist on this track. Cool.

[@eggybrain2896]

this was probably the first number one hit single to be played on a Baritone Guitar. the shadows were never the same when Jet And Tony left.

[@alainquinzelaire1253]

Ils ont été beaucoup mieux depuis, mais chacun son style...

[@larrygoldstein3481]

This was recorded on a B-B tuned Fender Jaguar

[@djangorheinhardt]

Eggy brain, I agree the original drifters/ shadows with Hank,Bruce, Jet and Tony Meehan were the best version.They could cook it up when they needed like on "We say yeah" and could do a lovely subdued backing for Cliff on his ballads.Used to seem them whenever they were near Manchester,with or without Cliff and they did sound like the records......,absolutely great.!

[@oscaralo9818]

Never ever!! "The Shadows" were not the same since Jet Harris & Tony Meehan left... rest in peace Jet & Tony, you two are missed

[@LuckyLarry33]

​@@larrygoldstein3481so innovative and ahead of the times Jet was!

[@pjcurtis2476]

I was in a Chippenham band The Stereos in ´63 and we supported Jet and Tony. on a tour ..really nice guys!!

[@RS-xo7rd]

A great number from an era of many great instrumentals, all of which helped aspiring guitarists like me learn their instrument.

[@geoffreyharold]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JET!

[@davidrandle8707]

wonderful track from my teens

[@samoyo7054]

Music of 1962❤

[@marksimpson2321]

Boss drumming on this.

[@Phoebeangel123]

One of dad's favourite xxx

[@askovarjorinne9074]

Jet & Tony, osa nuoruuttani!

[@francois-mh5oz]

SUPER

[@marcy3127]

My fave drum solo

[@barrypurdy7389]

Looks like a meeting on stage waiting for jet 🎸🎸🎸

[@paulbuxton1326]

Great talent God bless you Jet 🇬🇧🎼🙏

[@williamnethercott4364]

Forever associated with Newcastle Speedway during the 1970s and early 80s, in my memory, and totally right for a speedway team. Confession: the same memories also dredge up "Loving You", which all the girls used to request from the Boogaloo Disco for Joe Owen or Tom Owen (not quite so apt).

[@peterharrison8565]

Bought it .................. Superb

[@myepiphone]

This footage comes from the NME Poll Winners concert of 1964 which was held at the Empire Pool Wembley.Its Jet Harris backed by a group called The Innocents.Tony Meehan did not appear.The 1963 record of "Diamonds" has been played over the footage,with the actual live ending grafted on.I have seen highlights of this concert on DVD on E Bay but its not an official release.

[@simongleaden2864]

I'm no expert, but that sounds like great drumming to me.

[@zagozago9893]

Tony Meehan was VASTLY superior behind a kit than Brian Bennett.

[@davidblack9430]

but that's not Tony Meehan on drums

[@djangorheinhardt]

Yes all the muso's in Manchester I know including session and jazz drummers rated Tony Meehan highly .He sounded good on the recording of Diamonds ,which is the recorded and released single which is playing above,on the video which is mute ! !!

[@roybeckerman7843]

Terrible miming.. definitely not Tony Meehan on drums..

[@kurtbergkvist8135]

That för shore,great,great,drumming!!!!!

[@PhukIT1865]

the Shadows had some awesome hits, this is cool

[@AffiliateAchievers]

+PhukIT1865 But not the shadows!

[@PhukIT1865]

+Paul Russell my bad :-), you are right!

[@davidhenrywall8619]

Great song great drummer Tony Mehen ,

[@thefacultyoffunk]

Loved this since I was 4

[@catspaw123]

...and Brilliant!

[@yardbirdmackay]

Unrelated video to the audio.....but it is the Jet and Tony audio.....the vid comes from a Jet Harris(solo) NME appearance.

[@jonathonjubb6626]

I remember them leaving The Shadows...

[@andyhowells2657]

I had the video this came from - I know it doesn't feature Tony but its a pity they didn't keep the original soundtrack to the film !

[@Cryptonics]

Damn I cant believe that this evolved into whole lotta love from pages session days

[@jeandanieljolivald6256]

not the same chord progression.

[@Cryptonics]

@@jeandanieljolivald6256 Jimmy Page played the acoustic on this record so yes it did evolve into Whole Lotta Love

[@MrObelisk2290]

and Jonesy

[@williamashton9235]

Jimmy Page played on hundreds of records ("It's Not Unusual" and "Downtown," among them) that sounded nothing like "Whole Lotta Love."

[@barrypurdy7389]

Classic sixty sound as good as Apache 🎸🎸😷😷

[@13towerofpower]

DIAMONDS najväčší hit dvojice JET HARRIS AND TONY MEEHAN, ktorý bol v UK rebríčku 13 týždňov od 10. januara 1963 a ako 146. hit dňa 31. januara 1963 nahradil na vrchole pieseň Dance On skupiny The Shadows ironiou osudu skupiny v ktorej hrali spoločne predtým krátku dobu. Po troch týždňoch skladbu z vrcholu zosadila The Wayward Wind od Franka Ifielda. Stali sa prvou inštrumentálnu dvojicou na vrchole rebríčka v UK. Autorom skladby bol Jerry Lordan nar. 30. apríla 1934, ktorý zomrel 24. júla 1995 na zlyhanie obličiek. V skladbe hral na akustickej gitare Jimmy Page neskôr v skupiny Yardbirds a Led Zeppelin. Lordan bol autorom aj inštrumentálnej skladby Apache, ktorá sa stala hitom č.1 skupny Shadows bez Cliffa Richarda. Terence Jet Harris sa narodil 6. júla 1939 v Kingsbury v Londýne dňa 19. oktobra 1958 nahradil v skupine Driffters pôvodného basového gitaristu Iana Samwella.V decembri 1958 Tony Meehan vl.m. Daniel Joseph Anthony Meehan nar. 2. marca 1943 v Hamsteade,Londýn nahradil pôvodného hráča na bicie Terryho Smarta. Obaja predtým hrali solu v skupine The Vipers.Sobáš Harrisa s Carol DaCosta mal za následok Jetove depresie a nadmernú konzumáciu alkoholu. Lordan skupine zahral na ukulele skladbu Apache z ktorej Shadoes urobili 6 týždňový hit č.1. Richard v skladbe hral na bongach.V oktobri 1961 odišiel Meehan zo skupiny. Nahradil ho Brian Bennett nar. 9. februara 1940 v Londýne bývalý člen skupiny Wildecats. V apríli 1962 zo skupiny odišiel aj Harris,ktorého nahradil Brian Liquorice Locking bývalý člen skupiny The Krew Kats. Dvojica mala v roku 1963 v rebríčku ešte Scarlett O´Hara na 2.m. a Applejack na 4.m. V septembri 1963 skončili spoluprácu potom ako mal Harris doprvnú nehodu na A44 v Eveshame v grofstve Worchestershire pri ktorej si zlomila čelusť jeho priateľka speváčka Billie Davis.Harris zomrel 18. septembra 2001 vo Winchestri a Meehan 29. novembra 2005 v Londýne na následky poranenia hlavy po páde zo schodov v byte v Maida Vale v londýnskej štvrti Paddington.

[@colinstafford7846]

When I was 3 or 4, my mum had this single and I loved it. Years later I was a huge fan of Led Zeppelin. I got a hell of a shock when I found out Jimmy Page was credited with the studio guitar solo.

[@leslieoscar]

Jimmy Page played rhythm guitar on an acoustic according to Wikipedia

[@colinstafford7846]

Amazingly John Paul Jones was their bass player on a live tour.

[@BBaldwin]

Correct. Jonesy was hired about a year later.

[@crests1]

1968. év életem legcsodálatosabb éve. Ekkor hallottam a Shadows zenekart először és egy életre elköteleztem magam a zenéjük mellett. EGY HATALMAS CSODA, AMIT EZ A ZENEKAR CSINÁLT. Ilyenek manapság, már nem lelhetők. A mai együttesek, pár éven belül elfelejtődnek, ám, ezek a régi együttesek, pl: a SHADOWS egy örök életre beírták magukat a történelemkönyvbe, de nem véletlenül. Zenéjük hangzása, több emberöltő után is megállja helyét.

[@mowbray99]

Jet played a de tuned Fender Jaguar ,his first two solo records he did play a Fender vi six string bass

[@leslieoscar]

the feeling of this music is so reminiscent of Ennio morricone's compositions for the Sergio Leone spaghetti western films that it makes me wonder who influenced whom. Looking at the dates I'd say Morricone was influenced by this music.

[@evagiagnorio5464]

Great

[@MASTERMIKY4]

love this my uncle colin could drum this spot on great getaring !!!!! & druming

[@daddydave3541]

Iv tried but cant still enjoyed trying , well done your uncle .

[@TheBim1987]

No it's Don Groom on drums, Colin Giffin on sax, Roger Brown on bass & Billy Kuy on guitar, a.k.a. Mike Berry's 2nd backing group, The Innocents.

[@djangorheinhardt]

That is interesting info.I like to see historical concerts as I wonder what ever happened to the musicians involved.I am reading the bio of Vic Flick at the moment and that is worth getting for the info.Got the John Barry Seven bio as well: that is fascinating too.

[@trevordixon1427]

Thanks Tony was much better looking.wheres jets whitish bloody hair

[@stuartarundale6219]

Nice to see the ABC Weekend Television banner above the set

[@colindale3027]

The BRITS are Coming

[@simonworman7898]

Did'nt know it,but age 13 in 1964 I moved to Sth London, from Nth Wales were all the guitar playing hopefully had gone straight from Lonnie D, Peter Paul & Mary to the Beatles. I hooked up with other guitar hopefully at my new school ,who were Jet Harris fan and I got to pickup this last fling of UK rock/ skiffle. Was it Shadow esque?or were the Shadows Jet esque? For my part then in 1964 it was great fretboard excercise but just did'nt ring my bell in the way , that Jonn+Paul did! ,however a talented fellow who did'nt die young but burnt out never the less. RIP.

[@graemekornicki6810]

They knocked their boss off the no1 spot, Nice!

[@TheAnn2shoes]

Strange how they hardly show the drummer during his brilliant solo!

[@iainscott1059]

Because it was live footage but the original track was played over it.

[@colindant3410]

@@iainscott1059 ...and the drummer in the live footage isn't Tony Meehan!

[@greyberet1]

@@colindant3410 So if it’s not Tony Meehan, who is it?!

[@colindant3410]

@@greyberet1 No idea!

[@greyberet1]

@@colindant3410 I just followed some threads of comments back and forth; apparently the drummer shown in the video is: Don Groom…?

[@Bren616uk]

This record was at No.1 in the UK when I started following the pop chart. I had never heard of Jet Harris or Tony Meehan and didn't realise they were former members of The Shadows, who I had heard about. At No.2 were a group with a funny name The Beatles, who I also had never heard of. I assumed they must be some kind of novelty act similar to The Chipmunks. I was quite a bit wrong about that.

[@wandasmith1690]

I'm no expert either...but when a drummer can mimick the notes to an instrumental...that is called...FABULOUS....

[@henrywilloughby8333]

Still got the 45

[@MrObelisk2290]

Jimmy and Johnsey

[@signalenergie]

End credits music from Quentin's last movie.

[@michaelclark5732]

Looks like 'Sounds Incorporated' backing Jet here.

[@johnknott6539]

I saw Jet and Tony play live at Nottingham Playhouse around 1964/5. Fun concert- Jet always moody and Tony looked like a preppy schoolboy.

[@gonzalogonzalez7716]

Jet is playing in the video with a Fender Jaguar not the Fender Bass VI he used in the original recording so the sound we hear in the audio is one octave lower than you can get playing with a guitar. I guess they used this other video for the sake of this KZbin clip. I searched for a live performance of Diamonds with Jet and Tony but could not find it.

[@fidomusic]

The video of course does not match the sound, which is the original studio single. The video is of Harris at the New Musicial Express Awards gig, without Meehan.

[@caspercasper896]

jet harris from 1962

[@georgesmyth6577]

Of course that's the studio version we hear.

[@gowarriors007]

This song came back to life 10yrs ago at the Kennedy Center during a Led Zeppelin’s induction video. Terrific hit. But who was first, these folks or The Ventures?

[@craiggerrard5117]

This version came out around eight months befor the Ventures one.

[@stssbs48]

Год моего рождения.

[@donzxcv1]

Bassist John Paul Jones also was in this band

[@MrUSSAM]

during the height of the "Copy Pop" phase of England's Music Scene.. hearing Duane Eddy here among others

[@JJMMWGDuPree]

Yeah, but the 'others' were just other people copying Duane. He was still the one everyone else wanted to be, Brit or American, or indeed Australian!

[@stephenhall3515]

Meehan was a brilliant drummer but Harris an indifferent talent. Harris, however, was able to see and bring out the talent in others, often in unusual combinations for that time. Had he become a producer and organizer he would have gotten British music out of a rut and in these ways he was ahead of his time. That is a special sort of greatness..

[@trevordixon1427]

They all mimed then..

[@johnlay3040]

The band like this could never beat the Shadows. It was totally out of proportion.

[@thomaspick4123]

I am switching back now to Pimper’s Paradise. I would rather listen to half-white Bob.

[@markn4779]

This song is exactly as old as I am! How many number one hits feature a drum solo?

[@flwolf2000]

To be honest, this sounds much more like Duane Eddy than the Shadows!

[@MrUSSAM]

so it's not just me,,This was during the "Copy Pop" phase of England's Music "scene",, when they just re-recorded the U.S. hits..

[@Gerri006]

U.S. SAM This is an original tune written specially for them. But I do agree that the sound is much like Duane Eddy who also played most melody lines on the bass strings.

[@JJMMWGDuPree]

@@MrUSSAM- Nope, it was after that. Jet and Tony were formerly in The Shadows who recorded original material, US artists covered their songs. The one thing I'm not 100% sure of is was Duane Eddy influenced by Jet Harris when he switched to bass guitar for his 3rd album, or did he record his 3rd before Jet started playing lead on his bass? Not that it matters much. Duane was king of the rock'n'roll instrumental. Everyone wanted to be him.

[@babybearsporridge]

What a shame there's no video footage of Meehan's drum solo.

[@Ken-ps6zf]

Go to Hereford and walk the streets. listen for the drums... go in the bar feel the beat. Tony Meham ?. go take a look geezer 😎

[@stratac30]

Something not quite right with this clip, it's Sounds Incorporated backing Jet Harris at the NME Poll Winners Concert, but for some reason the clip is not in sync with the music and there are two drummers on stage of which one may have been Tony Meehan, but the person shown is definitely not Tony Meehan.

[@kevinwhite616]

Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, later of Led Zeppelin, played on the original record.

[@robertscott7625]

To start with, it is Jet Harris playing live, but the Drummer is Not Tony Meehan

[@rodallcock743]

Sadly the sound is not live.

[@IBIZABIKE]

Big flat note at the end from the sax who mimed right through the tune

[@BBaldwin]

Jimmy Page plays on this and John Paul Jones would be hired about a year later- half of Led Zeppelin in 1963!