Diana Ross

Love Hangover

Where is Swept Away? I loved the fauxhawk!

I've always been partial to "Love is Like an Itching in My Heart". But that's as much about the Funk Brothers (and in particular, the xylophone player) as it is Miss Ross.

#1 wins. Love Hangover is the epitome.

So many good ones missing, but that's natural as she has so many great songs.

I love "It's My House" (such a funky little number), "You Keep Me Hanging On", "Muscles", "Upside Down" and "Take Me Higher" (such an underrated song).

No Love for "The Boss"?

Not even in the poll?

Ridiculous.

Isn’t she like 95 years old???

The force behind the power, written by Stevie Wonder.

I preferred her Simplicity pattern line! I even have one of her patterns from a charity shop!

My old piano

Currently feeling this, which happens to be Miss Ross’s quite recent single

My jam

I hear a Symphony

This is from a *serious* Diana fanboi

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thedianarossproject It’s Diana’s birthday — and since she just gave us the album of her career, let’s give something back to help make it a special day for our diva.

Join me in streaming THANK YOU over and over again today — not playing the physical album or CD, but STREAMING it from a streaming service. As we know, streams are what counts in today’s musical landscape. The more streams the album gets, the better it performs.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Ms. Ross…and THANK YOU!!

#dianaross #dianarossproject #thankyou

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Happy birthday, Miss Ross!

One Queen to another

Who’s that queen at R14?

Come See About Me

Her take on the Billie Holiday catalog in Lady Sings the Blues. TWO LEGENDS for the price of one.

Mahogany and Touch Me in the Morning are great easy listening songs. There's also Take Me Higher, which is truly an underrated single.

We Shall Overcome, backed by a full orchestra and choir at an open-air evening performance in Budapest. It must have been a memorable night.

The one sampled in this:

Never mind. I Remembered. LOVE HANGOVER!

Come See About Me was soulful. I loved it.

“Last Time I Saw him” is a funny song. I always liked when she imitates the bullshit artist guy at the end.

R20 Yes I thought she did a good job. Didn’t try to imitate Billie Holiday, just did the songs her own way with a suggestion of Lady Day.

I have always loved her version of Amazing Grace. Clarity and simply fresh.

I was never a fan. I liked a few of her tunes, but I never put her in a class with Aretha or some others. I felt like her voice was too reedy. Diana was not an original. She was manufactured. Like Beyonce...who has a better voice. I do think she had some talent for acting. She was better at acting than Whitney. Diana is someone you might listen to while you cleaned house.

This ballad

The Boss. Peak Diana Ross in the Motown era.

Her voice and style is distinctive, instantly recognizable, which for me is the important quality of a singer.

Eaten Alive is great, and I love the Island of Dr Moreau-inspired video.

How about a Marvin / Diana duet?

I love her sound.

And she did well on the Billboard charts — she had 6 number one songs on her own after the 12 with The Supremes. It exceeded what all her then peers had accomplished.

My favorite is I Hear A Symphony.

True r36, but her post Supremes career was really a case of under-performance, even with the full might of Motown. When I look over Diana Ross in the 70s and 80s there just seems to be a desperate gasping for straws with a high album output but little in the way of lasting artistry. Motown put loads of effort into Diana's chart success. It finally paid dividend with her DIANA album, but you'd think she would have hit it out of the park more than once, but that's the only album that captured the public's attention. The rest were just vehicles for her singles.

So she never seemed to reach the heights set for her career. Then by the era RCA she was straddling that line of being a housewife some days and a legacy act pumping out CDs hardly anyone under 40 was listening to other days.

I feel like Diana could have slayed the 80s but she has terrible taste in the music she selects and needed a strong helping hand to guide her. RCA gave either gave her too much artistic freedom or didn't know how to market her at 40.

I still love her to bits but she feels like a manufactured artists. But I wasn't alive for any of the eras I speak of, and I can read of her success on the charts and know she was more successful than most female artists in the 70s, but I feel like Motown had to spend a lot to make her 70s era into a success. Didn't seem organic. Diana seemed completely lost at RCA.

As I said, I love her and she remains one of my favorite artists. I just think things could have been a lot better, especially in the 80s.

Singers are prisoners of songwriters. There's been no fresh material for 30 years that really suits her. Songwriters write for the current era and no more write '60s songs after that era than architects design '60s buildings today.

r38, she didn't need 60s songs in the 1980s, she just needed better 80s songs and maybe a few less ballgowns. Diana was hip in the 70s. Classy but hip. By the 80s she looked like a character from Dynasty. Certainly the same type of career coasting as JLo today.

I would have to say it is impossible for me to pick my "fave" from Diane.

And I'm sure there are many of her recordings equally impossible for me to choose that I have not heard.

She's been remarkably consistent over the many decades, after all.

Fuck, yes, she has. Oh - still got about fifty of these cassette tapes available. I let Diana have top billing so it didn't sell as well as it would have.

Sure she's become a bit of a caricature of herself with the gowns. But it's like singing Baby Love: that's what her fans expect and a core of her success has always been playing to her fanbase. It's just a shame that for so long there haven't been any great new songs produced that really fit her.

I must be the only one in the States who loves "Chain Reaction". I am perplexed as to why it bombed over here, but was a big hit in Europe.

I liked her remake of Why Do Fools Fall in Love?

Mirror, Mirror was a jam

No love for her Marvin tribute, Missing You?

Take Me Higher was fab

The extended version of "Muscles" is hot. Proved that MJ could pen a sexy tune when he wanted to (and that's him singing background with the Waters sisters)

R42 I like it too, especially the video. But probably too disco for broad staying-power appeal. It's also quite a production and the music really dominates her voice.

This concert premiered on HBO in January, 1980, when I was nine years old. Seeing this concert then is what made me a life long Diana Ross fan.

R37 Motown was always a very single-centric label. Big albums like the Diana/Chic one and Marvin Gaye's What's Going On were exceptions. And Diana took this mindset with her to RCA, where she kept chasing hits and building albums almost entirely centered on them.

She really needed some figure like Donna Summer's Giorgio Moroder and Olivia Newton-John's John Farrar. Some talented person who could work with her style/strengths.

R50 Someone who could do for her what Nelson Riddle did for Sinatra. But arrangers of his talent are as rare as singers of her talent.

Fun Fact: One of the hunky bodybuilders in the "Muscles" video is Gil Birmingham -- Thomas Rainwater on "Yellowstone" & Billy Black in the Twilight movies.

When I worked at Universal Studios in the mid-80s (at the live attractions/shows), he was one of the Conans in the Conan the Barbarian "Sword & Sorcery Spectacular".

How about the fan un-favorite “Workin’ Overtime” from 1989?

Touch me in the morning and Aint no Mountain are the best of her solo career. I like Diana when she talk sings. The songs aren't so fabulously structured but they are great vehicles for her glamor especially live. She's a glamor puss as a solo artist. She was a LOT more dynamic and musical in the Supremes.

[quote] dianaross Verified I am so grateful for all the blessings in my life for there are so many. I am very proud and happy, I have so much to be grateful for. Thank you ALL for your birthday wishes, my heart is filled with joy and so much love.

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