Motown barely promoted Baby It's Me as it is. That always bothered me.
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I know Barry Gibb and i have discussed his working relationship with Diana. He says that Chain Reaction is his all time favorite creation for another artist. He even sent some demos to Diana a couple of years back which she foolishly rejected. He said he would happily work with Diana again. It is the late Maurice Gibb who clashed with Diana, and that was never a great issue because he was hardly involved with the Eaten Alive album. It was Barry and to a lesser extent Robin who were in the studio with her.
Barry may yet be involved again with Diana again on a future project. Watch this space.
How do you get Maurice and Barry Gibb confused? BG loved Diana, still does. Maurice, bless his soul, didn't work as hard as Barry. Robin, bless HIS soul as well, was more attentive but Barry controlled the sessions. Eaten Alive could've been okay had a certain pop star not been added and the album was called Chain Reaction lol
I hope you have peanut butter 'cause I'm bringing the jelly! [[A USA slang for 'jealous'). Always loved the Bee Gees and on my after-midnight drives home from a second job I've been listening to, and luxuriating in, lesser-known Gibb lp's. 'Life In a Tin Can', 'Odessa', etc. My GOODNESS those Gibb guys were brilliant. Not good. Not great. Brilliant.
One of my favorite internet radio stations in the early 2000s is also recognizing the 50th Anniversary of "Someday We'll Be Together":
https://www.accuradio.com/featured/s...io.com/sharing
I totally agree. What a fantastic body of work they have left us with as performers, songwriters and producers. They are up there with Lennon and McCartney in the rock music era for coming out with classic after classic, and they have been far more prolific too. Musical geniuses for sure that have to be respected even if they are not your actual cup of tea.
Barry always was the driving force of the group. He usually gave equal credit to his brothers, but it was usually Barry who did the writing and most of the hard work in the studio. I am not going to diss Maurice who was a nice guy, but he did not have the work ethic of Barry and neither did Robin.
It would be fair to say there have been producers who have enjoyed working with Diana over the years and others [[although not many) less so.
Surely this is the situation with most [[not all) recording artists. Thats life.
I really don't see the big deal.
Yes, perfectly stated. During my after-midnight listenings I had a similar Beatles thought and could not help but wonder ... of the Gibbs had less distinctive voices perhaps they may have been taken more seriously. 'Trafalgar' is a decades-long favorite. Saturday night's ride home will begin with 'Mr. Natural'.
They were respected by their peers more than the critics. That always meant more to them than being fashionable and trendy. Trafalgar is also a personal favorite of mine which has stood the test of time.
Barry takes things a little easier these days. The passing of his brothers made him take stock of his life, but he has a couple of projects planned including another solo album, and maybe just maybe linking up once again with a certain legendary diva with whom he claims he has unfinished business. nudge nudge, Wink wink.
What does this say about Diana Ross though? Again, her main producers over the years have gone on record time and time again to speak about the work ethic of Diana Ross. Sup Fan does a fantastic job of outlining this in a previous post. Whatever Robin witnessed needs some context. What song was it? When was this? Isn't an artist allowed to have a weakness, like finding it difficult to figure out a particular song? Isn't the job of the producer to figure out how to get the best possible performance from the singer, no matter what? Berry Gordy was apparently the producer of this session. Could the problem have been him? After all, we've never heard that HDH had to spoon feed anything to her.
Did he tell you that or are you going off of these mysterious "reports"? And let's say it is the truth that they didn't get along while recording Baby It's Me. Apparently whatever it was wasn't so bad that they refused to work together on not one but two projects in the 1980s. Are you willing to admit that you were at least wrong about Perry not working with Ross again?
Wasn’t their one recording session where HDH were literally writing or rewriting the lyrics while the Supremes/Diana were laying down vocals?
Thank you, RanRan. In The Hollands' Come And Get These Memories, in the chapter "Diana, Mary & Florence", Eddie Holland has a great account of the Where Did Our Love Go recording session. It was ultimately "the only time I have ever had friction with Diana. Because to me, she was a jewel...always inspirational.."
He confirms that it was he who thought Mary's voice would be more suited for the song but both Brian and Lamont Dozier laughed and didn't think he was serious. They did agree to cut the track in a lower key. The main take-away I got from this is that Where Did Our Love Go was an important song, a serious concerted project to take the Supremes to the next level. It was not a trivial ditty meant for other artists at Motown.
Lionel Richie had a problem with her and he did one more song with her called Missing You about 3-4 years after they recorded "Endless Love" and nothing else since! I don't even think they have appeared together anywhere to reprise "Endless Love". He said everyone at Motown was friendly, but she was "aloof"!
Why is this man obsessed with people's thoughts on Diana? Lionel has pushed for Diana to be at Glastonbury for years! Not even Mary hates Diana and neither did Flo. Like come on... this man is holding on to this grudge that started when the woman told him "no cameras", and he won't go to a Mary show because she might say the same thing. Just let him post by himself. We know what he says is not true at the slightest.
I contacted my local library about this book a couple weeks ago for purchase. They hadn't bought it yet. I got an email last week saying it's on the way and expect to read it soon. Can't wait!
But HDH have been very vocal about their love of Diana Ross. I suspect that if they hated working with her there's no way they would've gotten ten number ones and additional smash hits and albums out of their collab with one another. Something would've been off and the stuff wouldn't have been so good.
Marv I have a headache from beating my head against your brick wall.:p You pulled the Lionel thing out of your ass and I don't feel the need to address it. What will do is ask you again: are you willing to admit that you were wrong about Richard Perry? You said the reason he never worked with her again was because they didn't get along and you were wrong about them never working together again [[which of course also means you could be wrong about them having a problem in studio). You gonna man up or what?
Another lie! They have never appeared anywhere to reprise Endless Love. Well what is this? Lol
If he has a problem with her. Then why appear with her here?
https://youtu.be/7Bwwo7ctG10
This board is chocked full of nuts man. One dude is obsessed with Mary, while another dude is obsessed with Diana, and then they both have an army who champions their cause. And then there's this new thing of a group of them following Marv around to every thread and concerned with what shows he's attending and what books he's buying. What the fuck is going on in this place?! This is why my breaks from the forum get longer and longer. It's exhausting to read through a lot of this crap.
I am sorry, but I did not make that up. I could pull the article up where says that. BUT! This thread was suppose to be about the 50th Anniversary of a great song, "Someday We'll Be Together", at least that was how it started and that was my original intent. I was hoping to hear more of people's personal memories about this song and the time that it was released. I can remember Diana Ross saying on their "Farewell" album that the song means different things to different people. I've heard it played right after funerals etc. For me it just brings up memories of what was a carefree childhood and how happy I was in general around the time this song came out. I don't want to talk about anything else here from this point on.
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Or insert any telenovela here.