Never Again gave Diana an early opportunity to experiment, to inject an additional element of drama into a song for the first time. I think that she as well as Berry and others at Motown experienced...
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Never Again gave Diana an early opportunity to experiment, to inject an additional element of drama into a song for the first time. I think that she as well as Berry and others at Motown experienced...
Motown Maniac: Thanks for your 01-08-2023 post; I had been wondering how people might react to seeing both the Diana Ross [[original) version and the Jean Terrell version.
You thought it was...
If the Jean-led Supremes had been offered the chance to record an album written and produced by Norman Whitfield, would Jean have been more or less inclined to do it if the song He Means The World To...
Flo's weight changes were a problem almost as soon as the group became successful, and you can track this on their album cover photos:
On A Bit Of Liverpool, all three women looked very trim in...
Sup_fan, I must agree with you. Everybody Gets To Go To The Moon was done to death by Leslie Uggams and others in the late '60s, as the moon walk occurred in July '69, and it seemed, aside from the...
The Stranger In Paradise introduction is a perfectly superb way to usher in the lush, moody feel of the I Hear A Symphony album. The opening to Ask Any Girl, too, is unexpected and grabs one's...
Was it Diana's choice in Mahogany to name her aunt Florence, in honor of Miss Ballard?
sup_fan noted that "Mary doesn't seem to have the elocution that Diana did. We do know that Diana worked and practiced this, endlessly."
Apparently Motown noticed this too, and Diana was called...
As for lip syncing, let's recall that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers did just that in their classic movies. This ensured the best possible soundtrack production and enabled the two to concentrate on...
No Dusty Springfield? I know she released only a few albums and was on several different labels, but she was still an iconic figure and many of us continued to find delight in her recordings.
A Change Is Gonna Come, Nothing Can Change This Love, Only Sixteen and You Send Me, all from We Remember Sam Cooke, Tears In Vain from Sing Country, Western & Pop, Moonlight and Kisses from Motown...
And currently, too, there's a Slim-Fast ad with I'm Coming Out heard a bit in the background. One might think Motown's promotional department is letting people know the diana album was released just...
All I can say is this: when Diana Ross first saw my smiling face up close, she was singing Reach Out And Touch and there were thousands of people around, waiting to hear the rest of her show, so she...
Where was this photo made? Is the setting part of a hotel suite? Is it someone in the family's home? In New York? In California?
Received notice that my copy was sent out, from California, on Monday night...
Where are The ShangriLas, The Paris Sisters, The Angels, The Toys, The Dixie Cups, etc.? About half the groups in this list made no impression whatsoever on me; I never heard of them and have no...
Where Did Our Love Go/More Hits By The Supremes
The cropped version allowed one to see the shoes Ms. Ross was wearing; the uncropped version did not. Her shoes seem to have polka dot trim on the heels, mirroring the polka dots on her snood or...
Cindy had been with The Supremes for two years and seven months when Diana left; she was not brand-new, as Ms. Wilson seems to suggest. And I understand that Ms. Wilson was frustrated when Cindy had...
"...they’d delivered the Latin-Christmas standard “Feliz Navidad” in 1968..."
Where did they deliver it? Why, after all these years, have I not heard word one about it, let alone the song itself?...
Yes, as mentioned by nomis, Frank Sinatra and Diana Ross were acquainted. On March 1 8, 1984, they joined forces with Luciano Pavarotti and Montserrat Caballe at Radio City Music Hall in a benefit...
Cindy Birdsong had more acting experience -- as a nun on Tarzan -- than Florence Ballard had at this point, and I doubt that David Merrick would have asked Cindy to step into a major show with all of...
Having never recorded an album -- but I'm still waiting, Motown, if you want to give me the chance -- I believe intense concentration would be necessary and normal, as the artist would want to get...
Florence's best off-stage outfits included the orange sweater she wore on the cover of More Hits... and the cream with taupe unobtrusive windowpane plaid long-sleeved dress shown, for instance, on...
Baby I Need Your Loving - The Four Tops; Diana Ross & The Supremes
Ask The Lonely - The Four Tops
Reach Out [Ill Be There] - The Four Tops
Come See About Me - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Ask Any...