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Why were you embarrassed for her Guy??. I think the video great fun and is one of her best.. Just a shame it was wasted on promoting such a daft song.
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^i wouldn't say embarrassed but i do find many of her videos weird lol
how many "official" 80s videos did she do? that Visions of DR only had a couple on it.
here's what i've found:
My Old Piano
Why Do Fools
Muscles
Pieces of ice
Swept Away
Missing You
All of you
eaten alive
There were also the back-to-Motown 80s videos of WORKIN' OVERTIME, THIS HOUSE, and PARADISE.
There was a video of Mirror, Mirror. I remember the tv program America's Top 40 with Casey Kasum highlighted it when it was in the top 10. If I remember it correctly, he mentioned the fact that Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson also had hits in the top 10 at the same time!
It's a real shame the main singles from 'The Boss' and 'diana' didn't have videos - they would have boosted the songs even higher at least in markets outside the US.
I remember when Upside Down hit #1 in Australia, 'Countdown' [[our 'Top of the Pops') had to make their own video. It was a bit like some of the home-made things you see on YT clips these days - floating album covers and publicity shots.
I'm not sure that videos would have helped those songs, there would not have been an outlet to have them shown. In the early days of MTV they rarely played videos by black artists, they rarely even played Michael Jackson's videos. In the early days of music videos you would have to catch black artists videos on BET [[Black Entertainment Television). The president of CBS records threatened to pull all CBS music videos from MTV because they were refusing to play Michael Jackson's Billy Jean video even though it was the #1 song on the charts in 1983!
In the UK there was Top Of The Pops. A prime time music countdown of the charts where colour was never an issue.
We didn't have that problem here in the UK.
I recall reading how amazed Otis Redding was that he could be a guest on music shows and talk shows here in the UK, yet he felt there were barriers in the States that prevented him from feeling as relaxed as he did when in the UK. Colour should never have been an issue. It should have been all about talent.
If you are a thinking person and not just a fanatic that believes any and everything these people told the public, you would know that didn't even make sense! He concocted that story as a reason just as he made up that story about why he wanted Diana Ross to be the lead singer of the Supremes. People didn't think much about it,but are now questioning all these things decades later.
He was the boss. And if that’s what he wanted. He had every right. Miracles also became Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. And people can question all they want why he made Diana Ross the lead singer. All these decades later. History proves he made the right choice. Her voice leads 12 #1 records. How can any logical person say that was a mistake? Lol.
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I wished I could tell you what one of his lawyers from back in the 60s said one day in NYC while I was waiting for meeting, but I can't LOL!
LMAO. The most Mr Gordys lawyer EVER said to you was "why would I tell you anything about my client Mr Gordy. Now move outta my way." LOLOLOLOL Hehehehehehehehehehe
Mirror Mirror
Work That Body
Chain Reaction [[I remembered that one because that was actually the first video, besides Missing You, that first hipped me to Diana as a child)
Dirty Looks
Mr. Lee
Experience
Workin' Overtime
Paradise
This House
So that's a total of 17 videos in the '80s.
Exactly. I don't know why folks keep going back and forth with this.
If there was one thing Berry Gordy was good at, it was strategy. He knew that having someone else besides the very soulful and raw Flo take over the lead position would work as long as he could find the material. Flo was vocally like Etta James [[who herself wasn't a crossover act despite her influence on white artists later on) while Mary Wilson's vocals were considered too jazzy for pop. Diana had the perfect voice for what was happening on the air but also had the voice that would bring in a different sound people weren't used to.
Obviously the general public agreed with BG's sentiments. 12 number one hits and then 6 solo number ones when she left? Berry decided Diana should be the leader, not Diana herself [[not that Diana minded lmao).
Hi midnightman; thank you for your most recent post. It was very balanced, unlike some of the posters on this forum who swear that neither Flo nor Mary can sing. For what Berry wanted, Diana was the perfect candidate for the job. She had the most "pop" voice. What people get mad about, especially in Detroit is: ok, we know that Diana is the lead singer. But on some album cuts, give Flo and Mary some leads. It would not have hurt the group in the long run.
Exactly. Folks weren't hating on Diana singing the hits, but Mary & Florence definitely deserved more vocal leads. Berry treated the group as a vehicle for Diana Ross rather than a self contained vocal group and as we saw, all three had the talents to take things up to eleven. Imagine if all three were given equal vocal times during the hit years! Are you kidding?!
Interesting that Classic Pop Magazine just put out an article about 'hits that got away' - here's what they say about It's Raining Men:
First offered to Donna Summer, the singer who was by now a Born Again Christian, turned it down claiming its lyrics were “blasphemous”. She then sent songwriter Paul Jabara a Bible the following day to show him the error of his ways. Diana Ross, and Barbra Streisand all rejected the song, too, only for The Weather Girls to finally pick up the track for inclusion on their 1983 album,Success.
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Jesus, the early 80s were a mess for Donna. :D
Why give Paul the Bible?! LOL