ALBUMS: Diana Ross Greatest Hits (1976); The Supremes ‘Where Did Our Love Go.’ (1964)
MVC RATING: Ross, 3.5/$$; Supremes ‘Where Did Our Love Go.’ 4.5/$$$$
Doggone it. And gone is it. I was going to try and finish a Diana Ross and Diana Ross and the Supremes review yesterday — a few days after Supreme Mary Wilson died on April 8.
But soon as I hit send to post it, it disappeared. And then later it did the same thing. Computer error, operator error, probably a combo. So I’m just going to tell you what I wrote so I won’t have to write it again.
I have an old Supremes album (actually think I inherited this with/from my wife.) And (also likely, I have a solo Diana Ross album inherited).
I basically said if you are just getting started collecting the Supremes you can find all sorts of compilations and anthologies. Heck, they had 12 No. 1 singles.
Number 1!
They are easily the most popular all-female band in history. You can see I only have two albums but I also have an anthology of Motown that includes some more Supremes. Many of the Supremes songs came from the Dozier Holland Dozier songwriting team, part of the Motown hit-making machine.
I was going to write that the Ross solo album wasn’t as great as the Supremes stuff. I like — ‘Touch Me in the Morning; I like, ‘Last Time I Saw Him,’ ‘Love Hangover’ is too disco for me and the theme from the movie Mahogany is just too much everything.
So I was going to say yesterday to get the anthologies and get familiar with all of the old stuff: ‘Where did Our Love Go,’ ‘I Hear a Symphony,’ and ‘Stop in the Name of Love’ to name just a few. There now you know a little bit about what I was going to post yesterday.
I have been busy not ill, thank God. So, I haven’t been making progress on my post count. Will be coming as well as the ‘big reveal’ — the medication that has worked over my roguish Lewy body proteins like the young Cassius Clay worked over Sonny Liston.