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Spreadinglove21
Diana delivers some of her best recording studio vocals as a Supreme on the album. The arrangements are well done. It's a good album.
But the project itself was crass and tacky. DRATS was one of the top acts in the country and their label decides to issue an album to cash in on the publicity of Funny Girl the movie? No way should Berry and Motown should have been engaging in such foolishness by 1968. That's the trick of a fly by night, shady label.
My hindsight being 20/20 [[ha ha), a better album would have been Diana Ross and the Supremes on Broadway. Sure, put in a couple of Funny Girl songs, but also other Broadway songs, especially from the 60s. Certainly they were already doing that in their live show, Ed Sullivan performances and the next year with GIT on Broadway TV special, so it would have been a better showcase for an act like Diana Ross and The Supremes. Sure an "On Broadway" album may not have been novel in concept, but there's no shame in it, and it would certainly not be viewed as a crass opportunism either.
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