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somebody must have been hungover when they left out ......

Billboard’s Hot 100/ Top 40
Chart #13
March 30, 1974

Number of singles reviewed this week: 91
last week: 95

Record World:
STEVIE WONDER "DON'T YOU WORRY 'BOUT A THING" [prod. by S....

Disco was centered around a very limited demographic ... 18- 23 year-old gays There were plenty of record buyers who couldn't care less about dancing in a club [including many 18-23 year old...

"SOMETHING NICE" could've been an upgrade as the title, except ..
.... I don't find the songs to be particularly nice. :rolleyes:

Diana needed some fresh air from being stuck over in that subforum.

Well that's my thought .....The Supremes segment was just one piece of a much bigger concept for that show....and not treated in any way as especially special. I think certainly everyone had...

I think it was calculated. In '76 disco was still mostly a gay thing. Diana Ross didn't have to play to that crowd, she already had them.

As said SNF hadn't broken yet taking disco to the...

You'd think so , but what's the evidence? No costuming, no staging , no lighting, no special-ness in any way or manner. More fuss was made for Diana's solo entrance than the uniting of the three....

It might have worked, but my concern is that two back-to-back giant disco records so early in the disco years might've pigeon-holed her as a disco act. As it is disco served her very well in properly...

as hoped by who ?? there was zero planning around it [by any of them] to make it anything more than three ladies , now basically strangers, tossed onto stage together ..... with a "good luck,...

Wow this is so enlightening


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_AiYA9iZ4


This is not just singing a song, this is a performance ....role playing if you will.


I wonder if this is how...

Having two giant disco records in a row might have hindered Diana's long term singing trajectory, dooming her to discoville.

Also there is an added element of believability of the record coming...

she never got around to hanging Tracee's giant thumbprint that Tracee gave her as a house warming.

Aha ! I might've said most of this too, fifty years ago , ten years ago , yesterday.


But now let's think about the title LOVE HANGOVER and what Diana Ross brings to the subject that no other...

I think we're on the same track. And only by thinking of it in this way [her percentage for its success] have I come around to thinking of her importance this way.

except Diana Ross spends more time being distracted by her fidgeting with her enhancement devices than performing.

View Tony Orlando's final concert . He doesn't sound thirty nor is he...

As a #1 record, there's no denying LOVE HANGOVER is one of Diana's recording career pinnacles.

It's also one of disco's pinnacles.
At the time it came out, I got to witness the dance floor ...

however I believe Earl ain't on here ......[and there is no MFSB affiliation.]



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHETghEvcsI


there's no mistaking the voice of Jimmy Ellis. And their...

Originally you're likely right, Mary takes over here the duties at 1:53 and 2:09


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0WBcAHw4qI

She has her part down* ...


... seems the whistle is what...

Have the channel preset in the car.
imo Smokey is the perfect choice as the voice of the era. Great name recognition [everyone knows who "Smokey' is] and he represents not only his own career...

Wow had no idea the whistle had become such a thing regarding this song.

Have I ever given its presence on the record much thought?

Certainly contrived and at odds with the sentiments .......

good job folks !!:)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTK7fiOIsNE

on the "demo" at the end, you can hear the club crowd cheering from the movie scene

[I've added to the original heading as...

ran across this :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-47AkCmgyQ

new to me, with apologies if this is old news

OK.

I'll word it another way, were there any other women at Motown that weren't sleeping with their bosses, that had longer contracts than Mary Wilson?

Billboard’s Hot 100/ Top 40
Chart #12
March 23, 1974
Number of singles reviewed this week: 105
last week: 117
including:
Pop:
STEVIE WONDER - Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing [3:40];
producer:...