When Marlo Thomas went to buy a children's book for her niece she was shocked by the stereotypical messages for boys vs. girls commonly found in them.


In reaction , she with others put together a project that became an album of thoughts, poems, and songs by an eclectic variety of people including Alan Alda, Tom Smothers, and Rosey Grier meant to encourage youngsters to think more freely about themselves.



On it is a bizarre variety of singers doing the songs heard here, The New Seekers, Carol Channing, Harry Belafonte, and .... Diana Ross!!,



Am curious how that came to be, how Diana Ross landed herself in this project. The collection is billed as Marlo Thomas and Friends, didn't know she and Miss Ross were friends.
There must be more to be known about this story ???


[and if this in of itself doesn't seem to come under the label of 'bizarre' ... it can be kicked it up a notch]