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marybrewster
09-06-2013, 02:29 PM
I'm wondering if anyone at the time it was a bit cougarish of a 25 year old Diana to be singing "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" to a 19 year old Stevie Wonder.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxs2nRekH2w
paul_nixon
09-06-2013, 02:38 PM
Don't think so she's hardly older than him - a common occurrence I would think
Kamasu_Jr
09-06-2013, 03:00 PM
The record had been a hit but the Tempts were booked elsewhere and couldn't make it to the Palace. :-}
thomas96
09-06-2013, 03:20 PM
Not too far away in age... She's like an older sister to him though. Always loved this performance.. Stevie's voice and harmonica is amazing, and Diane, well she is just fantastic and beautiful. [[both looks and voice)
Kamasu_Jr
09-06-2013, 04:27 PM
Oh, and I forgot and Thomas reminded me, wasn't Stevie dating Diana's sister Rita around this time? He could have been Diana's brother in law had Syreeta not gotten him first.
Sacramento John
09-06-2013, 04:37 PM
As I recall Diana mentions something to Stevie about his willingness to sing with "an older woman" and he replies "Well, Mrs Robinson" For those of you that are of a younger age [[Not around in the late 1960's) the movie "The Graduate" had been quite the talk and success in 1968-69 and features a "cougar" Mrs Robinson [[Anne Bancroft) trying to seduce a young Dustin Hoffmann
Kamasu_Jr
09-06-2013, 04:43 PM
Mrs. Robinson didn't just try; She got Ben in the sack. I saw The Graduate, which was released in 1967. By the time the episode of the Hollywood Palace aired with Diana and Stevie in 1969, most people had seen it, so they got the Mrs. Robinson reference.
reese
09-06-2013, 05:08 PM
Oh, and I forgot and Thomas reminded me, wasn't Stevie dating Diana's sister Rita around this time? He could have been Diana's brother in law had Syreeta not gotten him first.

I think Rita was already married to Tommy Gardner by 1969, and actually gave birth that year. Maybe she dated Stevie before that.
thomas96
09-06-2013, 05:15 PM
As I recall Diana mentions something to Stevie about his willingness to sing with "an older woman" and he replies "Well, Mrs Robinson" For those of you that are of a younger age [[Not around in the late 1960's) the movie "The Graduate" had been quite the talk and success in 1968-69 and features a "cougar" Mrs Robinson [[Anne Bancroft) trying to seduce a young Dustin Hoffmann

That was a great movie. And yeah, that's a real cougar. The age difference between her and Dustin Hoffman was much more than 6 years.
Methuselah2
09-07-2013, 06:53 AM
Anne Bancroft
Born Sept. 17, 1931

Dustin Hoffman
Born Aug. 8, 1937

Less than 6 yrs. difference in age.
marybrewster
09-09-2013, 09:28 AM
Anne Bancroft
Born Sept. 17, 1931

Dustin Hoffman
Born Aug. 8, 1937

Less than 6 yrs. difference in age.

So basically the same age difference between Diana and Stevie.

I guess "cougar" aside; maybe it's just strange because of the relationship between Diana and Stevie; someone mentioned above they're like brother and sister....."I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" sounds a bit incestuous.