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Miss Ross releases her first album in several years! Any other Ross fans here?


Release early October - UK edition has two extra tracks and a DVD edition with video clip of 'Remember' and footage from the recording session.

Diana Ross

I Love You
1. Remember
2. More Today Than Yesterday
3. I Want You
4. I Love You (That's All That Really Matters)
5. What About Love
6. Look Of Love
7. Lovely Day
8. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
9. Only You
10. To Be Loved
11. I Will
12. This Magic Moment
13. You Are So Beautiful
14. Always And Forever
15. Remember

i liked some of her 90's recordings including WHEN YOU TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME, IF WE HOLD ON TOGETHER and YOUR LOVE.

I like some of Diana Ross's music---"All of my life" was a lovely song, and the 2 duets she did with Marvin Gaye---"Stop, look listen to your heart" and "You are everything"--are just terrific----then she comes out with rubbish like "My old piano"!!!!1

Marian

I liked 90% of Diana Ross' music---of course all the Supremes songs and most of her solo material. My favourites of the solo period are Love Hangover, Upside Down, I'm Coming Out, The Boss, Good Morning Heartache, and Ain't No Mountain High Enough.

I have so many favourites with the Supremes, but the tops are Reflections, Someday We'll Be Together, No Matter What Sign You Are, Forever Came Today, Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart, Nothing But Heartaches, The Happening, and Some Things You Never Get Used To.

Dean -- Is the October release a brand new recording or the release of the jazz material she recorded in the early 1970s?

paul jh wrote:Dean -- Is the October release a brand new recording or the release of the jazz material she recorded in the early 1970s?

This is completely new recording, the album you might be refering to is "Blue" which was recently released, this summer. That album was recorded in 1972, just after 'Lady Sings The Blues' but shelved by Motown as they decided to revive Diana's 'pop' career.

Brought the CD on Diana Ross disc on Saturday - we are lucky here in Holland as Thursday is the release day for new releases, which means International releases are issued here first. Have only had a couple of quick listens but I am impressed, Diana is singing better thatn she has for a LONG time, less high register more of her deeper voice and she sounds great, less 'breatless' and thin. The opening song 'Remember' is fantastic, and great ballad recorded with an orchestra. Classic Ross again!

Thanks for the first impressions, Dean. The song titles imply that this contains no new songs, but only covers. Is "I Want You" the Marvin Gaye song? If so, that is the most interesting thing about this album. I don't think I could bear to hear Crazy Little Thing Called Love, You Are So Beautiful, and Only You---recorded by too many people and sung too often in talent shows. And no one but Heatwave should sing Always And Forever.

Please send a full review later, Dean. Thanks!

Love the Supremes stuff too, one of the original Motown sounds. Won't list all of them, but Paul jh, as always seems to pick the best tracks. But never really warmed her as a solo artiste. The only one of hers I went out and bought was 'Chain Reaction' because it sounded so like a Supremes track!

Chain Reaction is like When A Child Is Born by Johnny Mathis. It was a huge UK hit, but a flop in the US. Kind of like the Scissor Sisters and Orson---American artists that hit it big in the US, but are nothing in the US. I don't believe I've ever heard Chain Reaction by Diana Ross. I think Steps or S Club 7 did a cover, which I may have heard once.

It was Steps that did that the cover, before their break-up in 2002.

Paul, you make it sound that we in the UK only buy the very worst of US music! Next thing you'll be telling me that 'Gloria' by Laura Branigan and 'Hi-Fidelity' by the Kids from Fame didn't make it to #1 in the US either! or YMCA perhaps ?!

Can never make up my mind about Diana Ross really. I like some of her songs (though I don't have any of them) like "Touch Me in the Morning" and "Chain Reaction", but I remember reading an interview she did once (can't remember when) in which she said that when she sings she "doesn't think about technique". Maybe that's why I'm indifferent to her, though that doesn't mean I wouldn't like a song sung by an untechnical singer.

Listening to her last recording I think that she has at last decided to use her voice correctly. I like Diana's voice but also find that she has been poorly recorded and that she used her voice incorrectly and her breathing was awful. I also like Mariah Carey but unfotunatley have no connection with 90% of the music she records and also find her mis-use of her voice terrible. If only someone would give the lady a singing lesson..

It's hard to believe Paul, that "Chain Reaction" didn't chart in the US, or that you have never heard Miss Ross sing it. It was all over the place in the UK, too much so actually

Robert - It's true, Chain Reaction was a flop in the US. I'm not even sure it was released. Also, that syrupy When You Tell Me That You Love Me was a flop. I may have heard Diana Ross sing these songs once but it was on Radio 2, Capital FM, or Heart FM, not on American stations.

Michael - I didn't mean to imply that we send our reject songs and artists to be popular in the UK! Orson's Happiness is a great song. I actually have a positive thing about the Scissor Sisters to report later. Gloria by Laura Branigan was a huge hit in the US. But the first I heard of the Kids From Fame was listening to last week's Pick Of The Pops. They weren't played on the radio in the US, and certainly didn't reach #1.

No wonder Chain Reaction was flop in the US Paul, if it wasn't released there!!

The Scissor Sisters wrote Kylie Minogues bit hit "I Believe In You" which I like very much