"Diamonds"
Single by Herb Alpert with vocals by Janet Jackson
From the album Keep Your Eye on Me
Released	April, 1987 (U.S.) June, 1987 (U.K.)
Format	7" Vinyl maxi-single 12" Vinyl maxi-single Cassette single 5" CD single
Genre	Pop/R&B
Length	4:53
Label	A&M
Writers	Jimmy Jam Terry Lewis
Producers	Jimmy Jam Terry Lewis
Director	John Small
Certification
Chart positions	#4 (Canada) #4 (Holland) #5 (US)
Herb Alpert singles chronology
"UNKNOWN"	"Diamonds" (1987)	"Making Love In the Rain" (1987)
Janet Jackson singles chronology
"Let's Wait Awhile" (1987)	"Diamonds" (1987)	" The Pleasure Principle" (1987)

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Song information and music video

Herb Alpert in "Diamonds" music video.

This single marked a huge comeback for Herb Alpert. Its parent album, Keep Your Eye on Me, was produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, who melded Alpert's sound with their own Minneapolis funk. In the music video Herb Alpert appears in "Bucky's" night club where the DJ eventually plays his new single. The song is a hit with the crowd and Herb and his band end up performing onstage. Meanwhile, Janet heads back to the club in a limo. Janet only appears in the scenes involving the limo and dancing behind the white screen in the club.

Chart Performance

"Diamonds" was a big hit in America , peaking at five on the Billboard Hot 100. The song reached number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play and the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales. Outside the U.S. it was a hit in most countries like Canada and Holland but a modest hit in the UK and Australia. It's successor "Making Love In the Rain" would become a modest hit. The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ... Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, formerly known as Top Soul Singles, Top Black Singles, and Top R&B Singles (before the hip-hop term was added in the late 1990s), is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ...

Charts

Track listing

• Japan 5" CD single

1. Diamonds (Cool Summer Mix) (6:19)
2. Diamonds (Cool Summer Dance Mix) (5:55)
3. Diamonds (Cool Summer Instrumental) (5:27)
4. Diamonds (Cool Summer Dub Version) (4:23)
5. Diamonds (Cool Summer 7 Edit) (3:54)
6. Diamonds (Dance Mix) (6:48)
7. Diamonds (Instrumental) (5:14)
8. Diamonds (Beats Dubcapella) (3:12)

• UK 7" vinyl single

1. Diamonds (Edit) (3:58)
2. Rocket To The Moon (3:52)

• US 7" vinyl single

1. Diamonds (4:53)
2. African Flame (3:58)

• Japan 7" vinyl single

1. Diamonds (4:53)
2. Stranger On The Shore (2:54)