MOTOWN - VBTV.05

DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES

Side 1: Stop ! in the name of love - My world is epmty without you - I hear a symphony - Wher did our love go - Baby love - Come see about me - You can't hurry love - Love is like an itching my heart - Back in my arms again - Some things you never get used to

Side 2: The happening - Reflections - You keep me hangin' on - Forever came today - In and out of love - Love child - Love is here and now you're gone - I'm livin' in shame - The composer - Someday we'll be together

DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES - CREAM OF THE CROP

Side 1: Someday we'll be together - Can't you see it's me - You give me love - Hey Jude - The young folks - Shadows of society

Side 2: Loving you is better than ever - When it's to the top (still i won't stop giving you love) - Till Johnny comes - Blowin' in the wind - The beginning of the end

Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944) is an American soul, R&B and pop singer and actress. Ross is one of the most successful female artists of her era, both due to her solo work and her role as lead singer of The Supremes during the 1960s.

In 1976, Billboard magazine named her the female entertainer of the century. In 1993, The Guinness Book Of World Records pronounced her the most successful female artist ever (the title is now attributed to Madonna), partly due to her combined total of eighteen number-one singles, six of them recorded solo and the remaining dozen from her work with the Supremes.

She was also one of the few pop singers to find modest success in the acting world winning an Academy Award nomination for her role as Billie Holiday in the 1972 flick, Lady Sings the Blues.

The Supremes were a very successful Motown all-female singing group active from 1959 until 1977, performing at various times doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway showtunes, psychedelia, and disco.

One of Motown’s signature acts, The Supremes were the most successful African-American musical act of the 1960s[1], recording twelve #1 hits between 1964 and 1969, many of them written and produced by Motown’s main songwriting and production team, Holland-Dozier-Holland. The crossover success of the Supremes during the mid-1960s paved the way for future black soul and R&B acts to gain mainstream audiences both in the United States and overseas.

Founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes began as a quartet called The Primettes. Founding members Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, and Betty McGlown, all from the Brewster-Douglas public housing project in Detroit, were the sister act to The Primes (later The Temptations). In 1960, Barbara Martin replaced McGlown, and the group signed with Motown in 1961 as The Supremes. Martin left at the end of 1961, and Ross, Ballard, and Wilson carried on as a trio. After they achieved success in the mid-1960s with Ross as the lead singer, Motown president Berry Gordy renamed the group Diana Ross & the Supremes in 1967. Ballard left the group that same year because of personal differences and was replaced by Cindy Birdsong. Ross left the group for a solo career in 1970, and was replaced by Jean Terrell. After 1972, the lineup of the Supremes changed frequently, with Lynda Laurence, Scherrie Payne, and Susaye Greene all becoming members before the group ended its eighteen-year existence in 1977.