i was so excited to get that cd. i thought the cover pic of the girls was amazing. and then i discovered that the cassette version was a different track lineup!
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i was so excited to get that cd. i thought the cover pic of the girls was amazing. and then i discovered that the cassette version was a different track lineup!
i have no idea if Diana knew Marlo personally or what. Diana would later appear on Sesame Street and Muppet Show. and during the early 70s she included a Sesame Street segment in her shows and...
i scrolled through the online version of Billboard for all the July issues and didn't see anything about the Flamingo run - no reviews, no photos. of course i could have missed it
yes - i believe Randy had a pic in his last Diana book and it was at the Steel Pier. he also mentioned that Gordy wasn't 100% of exactly how they wanted the billing to read. until they eventually...
agree - too little too late.
and they were also plagued with some really odd choreography on tv.
the Sullivan debut had those weird "climbing the ladder" movement which is just too literal...
one of the ironies of the problems we all are calling out regarding the MSS lineup is that i think during the JMC lineup there wasn't ENOUGH breaking out. it's like they were a pendulum and after...
this is great!! it's so interesting to hear how other fans would reorder things. i even went all the way back to A Go Go and started with it. revamped it and then had to do Sing HDH, and then...
oh completely agree. Mary's voice and style just wasn't a great match for fast-paced disco. on a more moderate dance tune like You're What's Missing, she fits much better.
and i would assume...
i think Susaye was also woo'd into the group with talk of potentially writing and producing for the group. I mean she had just had a #1 with Deniece Williams after all. so she had the chops for it....
somewhere i thought we've seen a review of their gig their but i'm not sure if it was this particular night. i think they were on night #4 of their 2 week gig when it all fell apart. i thought the...
what would you do for the Reflections lp instead of Bah?
it's an exciting track, great rhythm and dance beat. Diana is delivering an assertive lead and isn't too nasal or whiney. to be honest, the song is sort of a Heatwave knockoff. i could easily hear...
oh of course you can change things! lol that's half the fun ;)
it would very interesting to hear what some of the original proposed lineups for the LC album were to be. we've heard that at...
i think they mostly kept that in for sentimental reasons. that was one of their first "blockbuster" MOR songs. and sort of their signature tune. most of the other MOR stuff cycled in and out. ...
i believe that story is in reference to the winter 66 performance there.
to some degree, i get it. I don't think Podell really cared all that much about Flo. it was more about inconsistencies...
there are so many excellent tunes left in the vaults and yet so many albums were filled with endless cover tunes. of course we all know this was a sales ploy - fans would see tunes they recognized. ...
i don't blame disco - look at how perfectly Diana incorporated The Boss into her act or look at her 1980 HBO concert in Vegas promoting the whole The Boss album. the audience is absolutely alive...
with both Lynda and Susaye [[and frankly even Scherrie) there wasn't a very strong effort to help redefine the group with the onset of a new singer and personality. They did eventually do some with...
totally agree that they were trying to sort of ease things in. on GH it was definitely smaller. and then the bubble lettering on Reflections just helped to make "Supremes" more legible than DR.
you'd think they could have spent the 5 mins in trying to come up with some NEW stage patter. this sassy Pearl Bailey persona just wasn't Cindy
there were the ad libs in My World - maybe that's more of what i was thinking. You're right in You're nobody and also in Queen of the House Cindy kept the flo lines too
it's also interesting to wonder what the DRATS years might have been like with Flo still part of the group. clearly motown management understood flo's appeal. they were still giving her these...
i would imagine at someplace like the Copa, it must have been amazing to see the group. especially as time went on. the 65 Copa show was great but when we listen to the 66 Roostertail or the 67...
the 3 personalities really worked magic together. Diana was flamboyant. Mary really was the sexy one with her $10,000,000 smile and looks. Flo was the earthy Pearl Bailey one. and they...
some of the other tunes from spring 68 that might have worked with this revised Reflections lp could be If You Should Walk Away. You Gave Me Love was also recorded later but from an audio...