Originally Posted by
Bluebrock
Great choices David, and almost worryingly similar to mine!A few of your choices such as Surrender, All of my life, My old piano and of course Chain Reaction were big hits in the UK. As regards some of the early 70's songs Berry was more interested in making Diana the black Streisand rather than concentrating on just the music. He kept Diana off TV, wanting her few appearances to be "event tv"I think this affected songs such as Surrender in the USA. He was determined to make her an all round entertainer. He had big plans for her movie career, and he also wanted further tv specials that failed to materialize.Meantime Diana's preference was primarily her singing career, with the film career just an added bonus. She was very unhappy with the quality of some of her Motown albums namely Everything is Everything, Last time i saw him and Ross78, but Berry called most of the shots. He really did take his eye off the ball with some of those singles choices, but it was what it was and it is great fun for us to speculate. Great post David.
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