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of course this sort of falls into our "what is a hit" discussion. BIM was successful in the general sense but us fans of course want everything to go to #1. and given the quality of the music on...

the medley goes

Baby Love although sounds like Susaye starts out wrong with WDOLG but then they all sing WDOLG. the intro is absolutely the BL intro and with the oooooo. but who knows. it's a...

i have an audio of the Caesar show. there are moments when the audience is quite engaged and happy, like at the end of Maybe This Time.

for the hits medley, there's a voice doing a [[poor)...

was that the Mary lawsuit against the FLOs?

i'm not 100% sure of the exact timing. i thought Mary's book just said "it was around this time..."

When did the Temps reunion occur? was the over and done prior to M25? Didn't the Tops...

but that was the outcome of how the evening progressed. the original plan was for a full medley of hits plus Someday. none of the groups really had a unique stage except Marvin doing his...

i think you're absolutely right about this being a game changer and a perfect reinvention of DR.

and let's look at this timeline too

64 - she's the pop ingenue with the sups. they're...

my guess is that disco hadn't TOTALLY overtaken the pop industry yet, as it would with Saturday Night Fever. BIM was released just a couple months prior to SNF. prior to this, you still had a...

i think the old station wagon story isn't so much about 1 specific incident back in 1961 or whenever. it was about who you were "with." Mary even mentioned this. that Berry knew mary was also 100%...

i would assume all involved [[at least prior to that evening) had hopes that DMC would reunite on a national stage and tv program and give a lovely tribute to their musical history. Prior to...

i think if Motown 25 had gone as hoped, there might have been an opportunity to do a RTL style reunion. Motown would have probably been interested in a Sup reunion but that woul have been MSC most...

ok i'm changing my mind a little. at first my thought was that LH doesn't have the vocal or lyrical complexities of many of her other tunes. that it was more texture and production than, say, what...

oh i completely agree this is a DR record. i don't know that i could hear other singer's doing it. and i'd say the same for Upside Down. but then look at something like The Boss or Mountain. not...

it's quite an odd medley, to say the least. the previous hits medley they had used [[like the live version with MSS on Mike Douglas) seemed to be a bit more of a representation of the "hits" whereas...

i think this is a producer's hit record. there's nothing challenging about the lyric, the notes, the interpretation, etc. that's not to say Diana doesn't contribute because she absolutely has to...

yeah i definitely see things as blocks or "eras"

pre-64: Diana's voice definitely has a youthfulness to it. there's less control, partly because she often had to sing in a much higher register. ...

rather than just focusing on the Beach Boys, your comment about Kokomo makes me wonder what could have happened if Diana did a movie theme song. a James Bond theme or something

just pulled up the tracks i have from the girls performing at Operation PUSH. The open with TCB, did the 60s hits medley, Stoned Love and Can't Take My Eyes. now it's very possible that i don't...

i thought i heard mary doing reflections in the early 90s but can't remember. I would guess that she would sort of rotate songs in and out, if for no other reason than to keep things interesting for...

makes you wonder if in the 71 time period, if things had maybe evolved a bit differently, maybe the group could have held on. i think you're right - the accounting situation and the monies was a big...

actually no - they would only use a snippet but it was often tied in with the end of Come See About Me. they would just sing the first line of the chorus and then segue into another hit. did they...

and if Jean was trying to fight/push internal forces at motown to do things differently but was not getting anywhere with them, that too had to be demoralizing.

i've always wondered who it was...

completely agree - all of the charts were all done and paid for for songs like Ladder, EGTR, NJ, Sunshine, YWSSL, River Deep, Touch. so it certainly couldn't have been hard to leave those in for...

i don't think Mary was the one that mentioned it but some fans. it was the Operation PUSH show in fall 72. and if my memory serves me correctly the fans didn't really say they were loudly boo'ed...

she did reflections in her show rather often. apparently in her early solo tours it was there. was also there for the Sup segment on the Evening With lp