I mostly agree with this. Disco was at its saturation point in 1979, couldn't have gotten any bigger. The Top 40 stations though had generally
never liked disco and only played it reluctantly , and in order to maintain a blend of music and fulfill obligations to so many labels with such a variety of performers , they wouldn't/couldn't play every disco song no matter how deserving. [[ A lot of brilliant but forever 'secret' disco songs out there) They had to maintain a balanced playlist of rock, disco, soul, country , MOR etc. . I agree that Donna had largely displaced Diana Ross as the current diva favorite , but a large constituency remained forever loyal to their Miss Ross and amongst much competition, THE BOSS managed to work in a turn at #1 on the disco chart , and rightly so. But radio didn't grant it the same justice, with so many ladies [[ and others) singing disco, there just wasn't room.
Motown did a lot of things right for THE BOSS though, I think , including creating a 12" remix and selling it commercially in the stores,
something they dropped the ball on with much of their disco product [[ any Supremes 12" remixes created?
Eddie Kendricks??
).
Plus about then Diana Ross was a tad older and a mother of youngins and I don't think she was in the right space in her life to aggressively wrestle against the competing ladies with a disco queen image.
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