This thread has been inspired by those infernal quizzes one sees on social media, like Facebook.
But... we're hardcore fans here, so I've tried to be a little bit deeper in the questions, to give it a bit of a twist, and to make you all think a little more rather than the normal "favourite" quiz.
To do it, please copy the questions from my post, pate it into your reply, and add your answers. But do please just copy the questions only, don't just quote my post to reply, or you'll quickly render the thread unreadable.
I'll post the questions only in a reply at the end of my post to make them easier for you to copy.
Here goes:
Favourite scene from LSTB - the drug scene with Richard Pryor. The whole scene was all ad-libbed!
Favourite live album - An Evening With Diana Ross. I love the Motown Story on the album.
Favourite TV special - An Evening With Diana Ross. The Ethel/Josephine/Bessie section is breathtaking, especially the make up.
Favourite Ed Sullivan performance - For me it is a toss up between Mille/Rose/Mame and the Fats Waller Tribute. So... Fats Waller by a whisker, because the vocals were tighter.
Favourite music video - One Shining Moment
Favourite Johnny Carson appearance - The show she hosted in 1979, Muhammad Ali and Lynda Carter [[Wonderwoman!)
Favourite Supremes no 1 - The Happening. I know we're not supposed to like this one, as it's not a 'true' HDH, but I really do like it. It really evokes the 1960s for me, more than any other Supremes track [[ I am too young and wasn't alive then)
Favourite duet - Big Bad Love with Ray Charles. Diana's sweet, kittenish vocal on this is the perfect counter to Ray's more earthy sound.
Favourite RCA-era album - Swept Away. Forever Young is a real highlight for me. I quite like Telephone, too. The video for Swept Away is fun.
Favourite Oscars ceremony moment - Somewhere Over The Rainbow, 62nd Oscars, 1990. Somehow, with just a few changes in phrasing, she made this very well known song her own. Even the cheesey "sing along" [[the director's idea, not Diana's, she was just obeying direction) doesn't detract from a classy vocal performance. She looked good, too.
Favourite cover by Diana [[I mean a song she wasn’t the original artist of) - this can be live performance or a recording - I think Reach Out I'll Be There is very underrated. The live performance with Lynda and Sherrie on the RTL tour is incredible.
Favourite Ashford & Simpson song by Diana - It My House
Favourite Diana background vocal - i.e. a song where she is background on, not lead - It Should Have Been Me, Kim Weston, 1963 - you can clearly hear The Supremes, and particularly Diana, on background here
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