Diana Ross post-Stonewall Motown songs 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s * Original Dreamgirl * Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Diana Ross "Supreme Lady" Wallpaper
[Created by Carlos Alberto Lopez a.k.a. Luv Chile]

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Music Royalty: Diana Ross Reopens the grand Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, NYC
www.NYTimes.com/2015/02/05/Arts/Music/Diana-Ross-Reopens-the-Kings-Theater-in-Brooklyn.html
Attention: Jon Caramanica, NYX music reporter -- besides all the news why not print all the facts and not careless innacuracy?
Diana Ross hit songs like "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" are not 'other people's songs'! That is ridiculous! And, you ludicrously misstated that "about one third of the songlist" were other's songs. Math is not your forte. That's like saying, Jon, you have too many "o"'s in your last name! Each of the three songs that you mentioned were single release records, besides in studio albums and record compilations, by Diana Ross! They then became hers! For example, Motown owner Berry Gordy, Jr. and songwriters Valerie Simpson and Nicholas Ashford wanted Motown's sole #1 female star to re-record "ANMHE". She sure did and with a totally different arrangement and style and hit it out of the international park at #1 with a bullet! Diana's version is considered by most as the ultimate theme song of Motown! Did you see the Broadway musical "Motown"? Jon, think Marvin Gay re-doing Gladys Knight & The Pips' song "I Heard It Through The Grapevine". Mind you, this is all with in the same record company! Duh! Would you refer to James Taylor performing "You've Got A Friend" as "someone else's song"? We don't think so. And what about all the singers who have 'covered' the songs of The Supremes and Diana Ross?!

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Diana Ross Headlines Brooklyn Theater Grand Reopening
www.HollywoodReporter.com/Review/Diana-Ross-Concert-770105
This on-the-scene story covers both of the stars: Diana and the theatre!! The article's sub-title is: "The veteran star Diana Ross is the first to perform at the historic theatre in Flatbush since its $95 million dollar restoration." This story is an interesting and accurate accounting of the evening. Reporter Frank Scheck describes Diana Ross later in the show requesting the house lights to be turned on and talking to the audience about the grandness and the beauty of the theatre, encouraging them to look around and up. "I feel like a queen", Diana appropriately quipped. The feature article uniquely includes the concert songlist of Miss Ross.

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Diva Diana Ross Shines at Opening of Kings Theatre
www.NYPost.com/2015/02/03/Diana-Ross-Shines-at-Kings-Theatre-grand-Re-Opening
This Diana Ross article in the New York Post authored by (the unknown to us) Hardeep Phull may have the least errors in the three main dailies of the star, the songlist and the event but nonetheless it has them. The story is also, unfortunately, sprinkled with snide remarks. No doubt the author Hardeep was not alive in 1975 or in another land not knowing that the thought-provoking and inspiring "Do You Know Where You're Going To" was a solid across-the-baord, top-of-the-charts song. Instead, he fluffs it off and disses the song? Duh! He ludicrously implies that Diana does not like the theme song of her movie "Mahogany". The heck she don't! By the way, many people think the film "Slumdog Millionaire" was 'sappy'. The article has a stupid ending paragraph not about Miss Ross or the fabled theatre but about an unprecocious child. Of course, a 5-year youngin' was 'reluctant' to bounce onto a stage screamin' "here I am!" in a strange land in front of 3,000 people! Then worse, speaking from the imagined mind of the child, the author ended the off-track story with a mindless analogy reference to the demised Donna Summer!

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Grand Dames: The Eternally Regal Diana Ross Opens Brooklyn's Lavish Kings Theatre
www.Vulture.com/2015/02/Diana-Ross-Brooklyn-King-Theater.html
Diana Ross's show, gowns, songs, audience and venue are excitingly described in this best article on the great event! The author Lindsay Zoladz (the only female reporter) actually arrived by subway on the appropriate "Q" for Queen line. Most of the STONEWALL Veterans Association members who train-ed it also took the "Q". This reporter clearly and effervescently enjoyed the entire show from "I'm Coming Out" to "I Will Survive"!

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Diana Ross Performs her Hits at Re-Opening of Kings Theatre
www.NYDailyNews.com/entertainment/movies/Diana-Ross-Performs-Hits-Re-Opening-Kings-Theater-1.2102592
Attention: Jim Farber at the New York Daily News (for a quarter-of-a-century)!
Diana Ross's playlist, unlike what you incorrectly wrote (set-list is up to the 1980s), actually includes the 1990s and, in fact, the 2000s!
"Take Me Higher" #1 dance hit song is from 1995, "I Will Survive" is #1 dance song (and incredibly exciting video) from 1996 and "(I Love You) More Today Than Yesterday" is her single from 2007 -- just eight years ago, Jim, not the 1980s! "Take Me Higher" was memorably (we thought unforgetably) performed by Diana Ross when she was the half-time entertainment for Super Bowl XXX in 1996! For your info, folks, "Survive" was written by two former Motown songwriters. While at Motown, Freddie Perren co-wrote "I Want U Back", "ABC" and "The Love U Save" and more for the Jackson 5. "Survive" was intended for Diana Ross but Berry Gordy, Jr., rejected it as the songwriters left Motown. (Berry quickly admitted the big mistake.) It is quite fitting that the song was recorded two decades later and released as a single by the intended singer: Diana Ross!

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Diana Ross's 1996 hit song (#1 Dance) "I Will Survive" with Photo Collage
www.Ask.com/YouTube?q=Diana+Ross+%22I+Will+Survive%22&v

Diana was Super Bowl XXX "Take Mme Higher" Haltime Show performing Many Hits
www.ask.com/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXX?lang=en#Halftime_show_DianaRoss

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STONEWALL Newzletta Editor's Note: Ever since there have been singing divas, going back to Judy Garland in 1939, it seems that the usually Gay male writers who review their shows always have to add disparaging remarks as if they are in competition with these multi-talented, who are also glamorous, female legends including Barbra, Shirley Bassey, Cher, Madonna, Mariah Carey and, of course, Diana! And, these seemingly envious wannabes are carelessly music fact-challenged such as falsely stating that Miss Ross's setlist hasn't changed since the 1980s. In fact, diva Diana's concert songlist has three singles from the 1990s and 2000s! The reality is that it would be irrelevant if Miss Ross's stellar songlist didn't change from the 1960s! She has at least 25 hit songs just from then! In conclusion, "Someday We'll Be Together"!

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Glamorous Diana Ross performing her 1996 hit song "I Will Survive" on the "The Late Show"
www.Ask.com/YouTube?q=Diana+Ross+%22I+Will+Survive%22&v=472

The Almighty Remixes include Diana signature singles: "Reach Out And Touch", "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "Remember Me", "I'm Still Waiting", "Surrender", "Touch Me In The Morning", "It Took A Little Time This Time", "Love Hangover", "Lovin', Livin', Givin'", "The Boss", "No One Gets The Prize", "Upside Down" and "I'm Coming Out" among other remixed Ross single record releases.

Twenty-song collection of singles -- spanning immediate post-Stonewall from "Reach Out And Touch" and "Good Morning Heartache" to "Muscles" (written by MJ) and "Mirrror, Mirror" to "Swept Away" and "What A Diff'rence A Day Makes" -- in an unusual and interesting order of play and including two duets with two different male singers.

1. "I'm Coming Out"
2. "More Today Than Yesterday"
3. "My World Is Empty Without You"
4. "Where Did Our Love Go"
5. "Baby Love"
6. "Stop! In The Name of Love"
7. "Touch Me In The Morning"
8. "Love Hangover"
9. "The Boss"
10. "It's My House"
11. "Upside Down"
12. "Love Child"
13. "Ease On Down The Road" (from 'The Wiz' movie)
14. "Fine And Mellow" (from 'Lady Sings The Blues' film)
15. "Don't Explain" (from 'LSTB' movie)
16. "Reflections"
17. "Why Do Fools Fall In Love"
18. "Do You Know Where You're Going To" (from 'Mahogany')
19. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
20. "I Will Survive"
21. "I Love You"

Diana's long-anticipated 2007 album contains three songs from the Stonewall Era: "More Today Than Yesterday" (1969), the top of the charts song originally by the Spiral Starecase; "The Look Of Love" (1968), the hit single by Dusty Springfield; and "This Magic Moment" (1969), the popular remake of The Drifters song by Jay & The Americans.

Note: This Diana Ross album is on her new label Manhattan Records located in.... Manhattan!
Update: The original 'Dreamgirl' Diana Ross perfectly performed her new single-release, the bouncy song "(I Love You) More Today Than Yesterday (But Not As Much As Tomorrow)" with her own band "live" on "The Late Show with David Letterman" (CBS t.v.) in New York on Tuesday evening, January 16, 2007. A musically terrific and animated performance was showcased by enthusiastic Diva Diana to overwhelming applause!

This imported compilation contains an untypical assortment of 41 Ross songs. Nine of them are DRS #1 hits such as "Where Did Our Love Go", "You Keep Me Hangin' On", "The Happening", "Reflections" and their signature swan song "Someday". Interestingly, the two-disc set starts off with the solo yet Supremish "Chain Reaction". The solo songs beside all the basic big hits include "Work That Body", "The Force Behind The Power", "Not Over You Yet", "Until We Meet Again" and the original "WYTMTYLM".

After "9/11", Diana Ross helps get America back on the ball!
Diana performed a poignant version of "God Bless America"
Location: Shea Stadium, home of the New York Mets, Queens, NYC

Disco Diva Diana's 1996 soul survivors:

* "I Will Survive" (remake of Gloria Gay-nor song) {#1 Dance}

* "If You're Not Gonna Love Me Right"

* "Voice Of The Heart"

* "In The Ones You Love"

* "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" {#1 A.C.} {#1 U.K.}
(The song was repopularized on "American Idol" (ensemble) in 2005
and again later in 2005 when Diana dueted with boy band Westlife.)

* "The Force Behind The Power"

Sexy shockwaving singles by La Ross in 1987:

* "Dirty Looks"

* "Tell Me Again"

* "Shockwaves" {Europe}

* "We Are The World" [w/ Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Dionne Warwick, Billy Joel, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Lionel Ritchie, Cyndi Lauper, et al.] {#1 int'l song}

The televised spectacular of the 25th anniversary of Motown Records was and is an incredible showcase of super and unforgettable talent with everlasting songs. The two-hour special culminates with an impressive collage of television performances and studio photos of Diana Ross & The Supremes spanning a decade seguing into the appearance of Diana Ross sweeping down the aisle singing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" continuing to the stage. After over a baker's dozen years, it finally happened: Reunion of Diana Ross & The Supremes -- Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong -- on stage! To a rousing and dazzled audience, 'the Girls' sang "Someday We'll Be Together". As the finale number of the show, the girls were joined on stage and in song by: Michael Jackson & The Jacksons, Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves, The Four Tops, Dennis Edwards & The Temptations, Mary Wells, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, High Energy, Junior Walker, DeBarge and other Motown luminaries. See it all in this incredible 'live' film clip from the show:

* "We Can Never Light That Old Flame Again" =b/w= "Old Funky Rolls"
{Note: Although Miss Ross was now with RCA, this single released by Motown.}

This double album contains a whopping 41 Diana Ross songs from several #1 songs with The Supremes to platinum solo smashes such as "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" to "Endless Love".

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* "Pops, We Love You" [w/ Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder]
{dedicated to Berry Gordy, Jr.'s father Berry Gordy, Sr., on his 90th Birthday}

* "Do You Know Where You're Going To" (from her "Mahogany" film) {#1 int'l song}

* "Good Morning Heartache" (from "Lady Sings The Blues" film) =b/w= "God Bless The Child"

Note: The album name was subsequently, smartly and rightfully changed to its #1 megahit song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".

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Sponsored by the STONEWALL Veterans' Association ("S.V.A.")
of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in Greenwich Village, New York

"DIANA! R*o*s*s DISCO-graphy"
compiled by:
Dr. Stone Wall of Manhattan, New York
and
Ms. Rachael Wood-House of Twin Cities, Minnesota + Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming

Call the STONEWALL V.A. (24/7/365) with comments, suggestions or requests
at the S.V.A. headquarters in Manhattan, New York City at (212) 6-27-1969.
The telephone is equipped with a private voice mail system to leave messages.

The STONEWALL Veterans' Association
earns, needs and appreciates your support!

21 November
2017
Diana Ross honored and performed on American Music Awards on Nov. 19th!

March 11, 2013: "Motown The Musical" opened to sold-out
previews at the famous Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway!

March 29, 2013: STONEWALL Veterans' Association contingency
headed up by S.V.A. director Williamson Henderson, S.V.A. office
manager AnDre M. Christie and Youth-4-SVA Elton L. Johnson,
in premium seats, enjoy an out-standing new musical: "Motown"!

Diana Ross's 61st Supreme Anniversary in Show Biz!
1961 to 2022 (and supremely counting.......)

=in Memoriam to International Superstar
and longtime Diana Ross intimate friend=

=tribute song=
Diana & Michael + Others:
"We Are The World" (1985) {int'l #1 song}