Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes

Name: Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Duration: 5 min 48 s

~ Recording by Paul Simon

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Country/Date
Official
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986-08-29 DE
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:34	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986-08-29 XE
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland (made in West Germany)	1986-09-01 US
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:34	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986-09-01 US
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986-10-25 JP
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland (made in West Germany)	1986 US
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986 CA
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986 FR
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986 GB
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland (WMME Alsdorf)	1986 XE
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland (Matrix/Runout: 925 447-2 SRC-02)	1986 XE
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland (club release, Columbia House)	1986 US
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986 AU
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986 US
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986 ZA
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986 GB
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland (club release, Columbia House, DIDY 780 on disc)	1986 US
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland (BMG club release)	1986 US
1.15	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:46	Paul Simon	Negotiations and Love Songs: 1971–1986	1988-10-18 US
1.15	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:46	Paul Simon	Negotiations and Love Songs: 1971–1986	1988-11 US
1.15	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:46	Paul Simon	Negotiations And Love Songs (1971-1986) (Columbia House club edition)	1988 US
2.6	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:46	Paul Simon	Negotiations and Love Songs 1971–1986	1988 GB
2.6	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:45	Paul Simon	Negotiations and Love Songs 1971–1986	1988 US
1.15	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:46	Paul Simon	Negotiations and Love Songs: 1971–1986	1988 CA
1.15	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:46	Paul Simon	Negotiations and Love Songs: 1971–1986	1988 XE
6.12	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:49	Paul Simon	The Rolling Stone Collection: 25 Years of Essential Rock	1993-01 US
6.12	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:49	Paul Simon	The Rolling Stone Collection: 25 Years of Essential Rock	1993-01 US
3.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:49	Paul Simon	1964–1993	1993-09-28 US
2.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:49	Paul Simon	The Paul Simon Anthology	1993 XE
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland	1996 CA
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland	1997-04 US
1.2	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:45	Ladysmith Black Mambazo	The Best of Ladysmith Black Mambazo: The Star and the Wiseman	1998-09-21 GB
2.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:49	Paul Simon	The Paul Simon Anthology	1999-09-21 US
1.13	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:49	Paul Simon	Greatest Hits: Shining Like a National Guitar	2000-05-01 US
1.13	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:49	Paul Simon	Greatest Hits: Shining Like a National Guitar	2000-05-29 XE
1.13	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:49	Paul Simon	Greatest Hits: Shining Like a National Guitar	2000-05 AU
1.13	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:50	Paul Simon	Greatest Hits: Shining Like a National Guitar	2000 CA
1.13	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Greatest Hits: Shining Like a National Guitar	2000 ZA
6.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	The Studio Recordings 1972–2000	2004-07-12 XE
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland	2004-07-27 US
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland (remastered)	2004 XE
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland (digipak)	2004 XE
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland (expanded & remastered)	2004 AU
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland	2006-09-20 JP
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland	2007-03-06 US
1.15	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:46	Paul Simon	Negotiations and Love Songs: 1971–1986	2008 XE
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland	2011-10-21 DE
1.15	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:46	Paul Simon	Songwriter	2011-10-24 US
1.15	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:46	Paul Simon	Songwriter	2011-10-24 GB
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland	2011-11-23 JP
1.15	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:46	Paul Simon	Songwriter	2011-11-23 JP
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:50	Paul Simon	Graceland	2012-06-01 XW
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland (2004 Re-issue)	2012-06-01 XW
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:50	Paul Simon	Graceland (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)	2012-06-01 XW
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland (25th anniversary edition)	2012-06-04 GB
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland (25th anniversary edition)	2012-06-04 XE
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland (25th anniversary edition)	2012-06-05 US
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland (25th anniversary edition)	2012-06-05 XE
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland (25th anniversary edition)	2012-06-05 CA
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland (25th anniversary edition)	2012-06-05 US
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland	2012-06 AU
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland	2012 US
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland (25th anniversary edition)	2012 US
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland	2012 US
8.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	The Complete Albums Collection	2013-10-11 XE
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	Graceland	2013 XE
1.15	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:46	Paul Simon	Over the Bridge of Time: A Paul Simon Retrospective (1964–2011)	2013 US
8.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:51	Paul Simon	The Complete Albums Collection	2013 -
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland	- CA
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:48	Paul Simon	Graceland (approx. 1990 or earlier)	- XE
1.15	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:46	Paul Simon	Negotiations and Love Songs: 1971–1986 (BMG club edition-horizontal label)	- US
1.15	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:46	Paul Simon	Negotiations and Love Songs: 1971–1986	- CA
Promotion
1.5	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	5:34	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986 JP

Relationships

assistant engineer:	Mark Cobrin
engineer:	Roy Halee
producer:	Paul Simon
alto saxophone:	Alex Foster
bass guitar:	Baghiti Khumalo
drums (drum set):	Isaac Mtshali
guitar:	Chikapa “Ray” Phiri Paul Simon
percussion:	Assane Thiam Babacar Faye Youssou N’Dour
tenor saxophone:	Leonard Pickett
trumpet:	Earl Gardner
choir vocals:	Ladysmith Black Mambazo
vocals:	Paul Simon

recorded at:	The Hit Factory in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States (in 1986-05)
mixed at:	The Hit Factory in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States (in 1986)

has remixes:	Diamonds Dub (Todd Terje Tangoterje dub remix)

recording of:	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes

Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes

lyricist and composer:	Paul Simon
additional writer:	Joseph Shabalala

publisher:	Paul Simon Music (in 1986)

Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes

Genres: rock, pop, pop rock, singer-songwriter, folk

Other tags: adult contemporary, contemporary pop/rock, folk-rock, international, male vocal

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Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes

Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes

Genres: rock, pop, pop rock, singer-songwriter, folk

Other tags: adult contemporary, contemporary pop/rock, folk-rock, international, male vocal

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Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes