"This Diamond Ring" is a 1965 song written by Al Kooper, Bob Brass, and Irwin Levine. It was first recorded By Sammy Ambrose on Musicor #1061, then by Gary Lewis & the Playboys on Liberty #55756. Lewis's version charted first, #101 on the January 2, 1965 Billboard "Bubbling Under" chart. Both versions charted on January 9, Lewis still at #101 and Ambrose at #117. Ambrose dropped off the charts at that point, but Lewis made #65 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the next week (January 16) and his version continued to climb until it reached #1 on February 20, 1965.

Gary Lewis & the Playboys version

None of the Playboys played their instruments on the hit recording and Lewis's vocals were heavily supported by Ron Hicklin's overdubs. The music was performed by members of The Wrecking Crew. The session drummer was Hal Blaine,Carol Kaye played bass and Leon Russell both played keyboards and arranged the music. The song was produced by Snuff Garrett.

Stylistically, the song's recording features the then common "basic 'combo' instrumentation...(electric guitar, organ, bass, drums), modal (dorian) inflections in the harmony and melody of the verse and a basic rock beat pattern." Unusually the chorus features timpani and the transition between verse and chorus creates a daring modulation from C minor (dorian) to G-flat major.

Diamond ring or diamond rings may refer to:

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Kensuke Sasaki (佐々木 健介, Sasaki Kensuke, born August 4, 1966) is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist who currently runs his own agency, Diamond Ring. He is the first of two men ever to hold all three of puroresu's major heavyweight titles (the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship, and the GHC Heavyweight Championship), the other being Yoshihiro Takayama.

Professional wrestling career

Early years (1986–1989)

Sasaki debuted in Riki Choshu's Japan Pro-Wrestling - a satellite of All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in February 1986. Sasaki follow Choshu as he returned to New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) in 1987. During that time, he teamed up with the likes of Osamu Matsuda and Kenichi Oya.

International excursion (1989–1990)

In January 1989, Sasaki embarked on an excursion to North America, where he first started wrestling in Puerto Rico in World Wrestling Council (WWC), where he held his very first championship, the WWC Caribbean Tag Team Championship, with Mr. Pogo twice between January 14, 1989 and April 1, 1989.

Diamond Ring was an independent Japanese professional wrestling promotion that, until 2012, was known as Kensuke Office. The promotion was founded by and is owned by puroresu legend Kensuke Sasaki, who has owned and operated it since its creation in 2005. In February 2014 the promotion ran its last card, after which Sasaki announced his retirement.

History

As Kensuke Office

After Kensuke Sasaki became a freelancer he established his own promotion named Kensuke Office, and the promotion was run by Sasaki's wife (former joshi wrestler), Akira Hokuto, and represented Sasaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kento Miyahara, Takashi Yoshioka and Takashi Okita,under the name Kensuke Office, Sasaki and pupil Katsuhiko Nakajima toured other promotions, particularly All Japan Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Noah, and they also opened a traning school. In September 2006, Kensuke Office was announced as a member of the Global Professional Wrestling Alliance and they held their first show on February 11 and it was televised by Gaora TV. Beginning in 2007, Kensuke Office has organised its own shows, and some of the talent featured on the shows include Minoru Suzuki, Jun Akiyama, Genichiro Tenryu, Yoshihiro Takayama, Kikutaro, Takeshi Morishima, KENTA and Catfish Man. Kensuke office served as developmental territory of Pro Wrestling NOAH, featuring several of its superstars. On August 1 to August 4 2011 they held their fist tournament named Summer Volcano Tag Tournament and featured outside participants from Kaientai Dojo (Kaji Tomato), some other freelancers (Kikutaro, Kenichiro Arai, Namazu Man), from Pro Wrestling Noah (Genba Hirayanagi and Kentaro Shiga), and from DDT (Antonio Honda) and the winners were Antonio Honda and Kento Miyahara. In January 2012, Kensuke Office was changed their name Diamond Ring.