Motown released two of Diana Ross' better albums -- Ain't No Mountain High Enough (originally titled Diana Ross) and Surrender (titled I'm Still Waiting in the U.K.) -- on...
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Once "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" became a hit single, its source album, Diana Ross, was reissued under a different title -- Ain't No Mountain High Enough. Whatever it's...
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Another good hits package, although it isn't superior to the anthology. But as a single-disc item, it's probably the most concise and comprehensive sampler of Ross' Motown...
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Recorded live at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, An Evening With Diana Ross is, in some ways, a definitive Diana Ross album. It may have been recorded in California,...
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The double-disc set Anthology contains all of Diana Ross' solo hits for Motown Records, from "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" to "Endless Love." It's a comprehensive...
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A moderately successful late-'70s album for Diana Ross. She was evolving into celebrity/stardom status, and her albums were increasingly filled with less soulful, more...
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A fine anthology, although there's little here that hasn't been on similar packages. But Ross' best single cuts were among the finest material that Motown issued in the...
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Two of her biggest albums ever on a two-in-one package. Ross reportedly was miffed at the Rogers/Edwards team throughout the sessions for Diana, but it still was a hugely...
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An excellent collection featuring Diana Ross singing with The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, the Supremes, and Marvin Gaye. These songs, all brilliantly...
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Diana Ross landed one of the decade's definitive singles with "Love Hangover," instantly making this a major hit album. While it surprisingly didn't sell as well as some...
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Diana Ross got a lot of mileage from this album, although it didn't duplicate the success she'd enjoyed with Swept Away. The title track was a Top Ten R&B hit, thanks in...
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While the four-disc set Forever Diana could have been better -- it seems a little skimpy to give only one disc to the Supremes, while there are some odd choices on the...
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Not to be confused with Greatest Hits, which chronicled her post-Supremes solo hits, Diana Ross' Greatest Hits contains the cream of her mid-'70s hits, including "Touch Me...
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An entertaining, lavish, and sometimes a bit pretentious concert album from Diana Ross. It was the first album that really presented how a typical Ross live performance...
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Diana Ross made one of her better albums in quite a while, although this late-'80s number didn't fare as well as anticipated. But "It's Hard For Me to Say," aco-produced and...
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As a solo artist Diana Ross' ‘70s recording career was often marred by lack of inspiring material and her film career. Even with her busy schedule she could always release...
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Diana Ross continued her steady pace in the early '80s, scoring a hit single with the curious song "Muscles." She was now established as a stylist and show-business...
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On December 4, 1992, Diana Ross took the stage of the Ritz Theatre in New York for a concert commemorating her appearance as Billie Holiday in the film biography Lady Sings...
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A nice early-'70s date from Diana Ross, who at that time was unaffected by her diva/show-business persona and was sticking to singing. She turned in effective, unadorned,...
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Swept Away went gold on the strength of "Missing You" and the Julio Iglesias duet "All of You," but it nevertheless was one of her best efforts, thanks to restrained...
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For labels, collections of remixes can be the easy way out -- it's easier to remix major hits than to get the artist into the studio to take a chance on some new material....
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A good two-in-one CD covering two of Ross' earliest and best solo albums on Motown. The songs have none of the pedantic or self-important posing that have littered her 1970s...
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Diana Ross made a bid for new stardom by returning to Motown with a deal giving her profit participation in the company and creative control in 1989. This album was the...
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A splendid 41-song set featuring Diana Ross' best recordings with the Supremes, along with Motown and post-Motown solo recordings. This is a very comprehensive and...
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By the early '70s, Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye were in completely different creative territories. Ross was settling down as a professional diva, while Gaye was pushing his...
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The Supremes were signed to Motown in January 1961, and the 25th anniversary of that event provided the hook for yet another compilation. This one is a triple-LP/ double-CD...
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When it was released in 1974, Motown's Diana Ross and the Supremes Anthology was the most comprehensive compilation yet issued on one of the 1960s' most popular groups. A...
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The final Diana Ross & the Supremes' album before Ms. Ross' departure, a duet LP with the Temptations (the second for the two groups) came out the same month. This rag tag...
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Every track here except "Reflections" achieved number one pop status. If "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" had been included, and "Reflections" omitted, the whole CD would...
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One of many, many hits compilations released by Motown over the years, Motown's Greatest Hits contains a selection of Diana Ross' solo hits, as well as several songs she...
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In 1967, Motown released the double-LP, 20-song Greatest Hits album by Diana Ross and the Supremes. In 1986, the label reissued the album as two separate CDs (though it...
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Greatest Hits, Vol. 3, released in August 1967, was a double album, thus nominally constituting Volumes One and Two of The Supremes' hits, 1963-1967, and this 11-track album...
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In 1967, Motown released the double-LP, 20-song Greatest Hits album by Diana Ross and the Supremes. In 1986, the label reissued the album as two separate CDs (though it...
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I Hear a Symphony has some great soul numbers on it, mostly by the Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team, including not only the title track but also "Any Girl in Love...
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In the early days of the CD age, Motown released an astonishing number of CDs, including a whole line of single-disc sets that contained two original records on one CD....
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In the early days of the CD age, Motown released an astonishing number of CDs, including a whole line of single-disc sets that contained two original records on one CD....
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Through 1964 to 1967 the Supremes were Motown's biggest act. Singles like "Where Did Our Love Go," "Back in My Arms Again," and "You Keep Me Hanging On" defined the label's...
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The romantic and sentimental "Your Heart Belongs to Me," written by Smokey Robinson, should have been the Supremes' first hit. It's every bit as charming as his chartbusters...
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In the early days of the CD age, Motown released an astonishing number of CDs, including a whole line of single-disc sets that contained two original records on one CD....
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Its title might lead one to think this was a compilation, but it wasn't -- rather, More Hits by the Supremes is merely a valid presumption of its worth. It was also the...
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Since they were Motown's greatest stars, it makes sense that The Supremes would be the first band to lead off the Motown Superstar Series. What doesn't make such sense is...
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This album featuring a dozen studio performances by Diana Ross & the Supremes and the Temptations includes their biggest number together, the lilting "I'm Gonna Make You...
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Motown followed up on the success of "25th Anniversary" with another set straight from the Motown archives. It's weaker overall in comparison, but it has its moments with...
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Their last album with Holland-Doizer-Holland at the creative helm, it was apparent that both parties were battling creative fatigue and were exhibiting the appropriate scars...
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The group's best album per se; distinguished by the lack of show tunes, pop remakes, and filler that plague most of the act's--and the label's--'60s albums. Undiscovered...
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Anchored by two of their most popular recordings, "You Keep Me Hanging On," and "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone," this LP features Holland, Dozier & Holland (HDH)...
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Supremes A' Go-Go was the group's first number one pop album, propelled to that place with help from a chart-topping single ("You Can't Hurry Love") and a marketing ploy...
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The Supremes at the Copa suffers from its inclusion of numerous standards that pre-date rock & roll, likely in an attempt to appeal to the New York show's conservative...
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The Supremes were hot in the mid-'60s, and Motown tried to capitalize on the trio's success. And why not? Where Did Our Love Go? almost aced the Pop 200 album chart, zooming...
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In the early days of the CD age, Motown released an astonishing number of CDs, including a whole line of single-disc sets that contained two original records on one CD....
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Even though this long-player was the second collection to have featured the original Supremes lineup with Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Diana Ross, Where Did Our Love Go...
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What more could you want, two great groups, 11 great songs, and classic Motown productions. Contains the super groups' big hit "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" and the equally...
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In the early days of the CD age, Motown released an astonishing number of CDs, including a whole line of single-disc sets that contained two original records on one CD....
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Surprisingly, this television soundtrack featuring the Supremes and the Temptations soared to the pinnacle -- #1; a studio album by them released earlier climbed to #2 on...
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A narrower anthology, this covers only the sentimental love tunes and ballads, omitting the uptempo dance and funk hits. She sounds uniformly great, but it's only one side...
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The Supremes made a series of change-of-pace albums designed to show off their versatility as all-around entertainers in contrast to the pop/R&B style of their hit singles....
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Even as they released a steady stream of pop/R&B classics in the 1960s, the Supremes tried as a live act to escape the chitlin circuit and the teen tours and graduate to the...
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One Woman: The Ultimate Collection attempts to condense Diana Ross's most successful recordings into one 20-song, 71-and-a-half-minute disc. Well, there's good news and bad...
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Motown Records' Anthology series, first introduced in the 1970s, presented three-LP sets devoted to the work of its major artists, among them, of course, Diana Ross and the...
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"Gone" was released as a single in the U.S., supported by "Swing It." In the U.K., it was released as a two-part single under the title "I'm Gone." The first part was...
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Diana Ross' glossy 1981-1987 tenure on RCA is the subject of this 18-track collection, which includes her hit tribute to the late Marvin Gaye, "Missing You." Other...
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For those who believe the Supremes' best work can be found within the bounds of their many hits, this edition of Motown's solid, late-'90s repackaging job will be the...
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At the time of its release in 1984, Compact Command Performances: 20 Greatest Hits, credited to Diana Ross and the Supremes, was the only single-disc compilation covering...
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The irony of a 37-year-old woman having a huge hit covering an anthem for a bunch of teenagers aside, Diana Ross enjoyed tremendous success with this early '80s album. It...
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The Millennium Collection: The Best of Diana Ross & the Supremes Volume 2 gathers more of the Motown stars' latter-day hits, both with and without Diana Ross. "Nothing But...
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Even the diva herself would agree that it's been a while since her name graced the pop and R&B charts with any real significance. But with the release of her latest...
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20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection is a good, basic collection of Diana Ross & the Supremes' greatest hits, featuring their 11 best-known songs. There might be...
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Released simultaneously on CD and DVD in 2002 but recorded on December 4, 1992, at New York's Ritz Theatre, Stolen Moments: The Lady Sings Jazz & Blues ranks among Diana...
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Up until this release, consumers had a difficult task of finding a definitive compilation highlighting the post-Supremes career of Diana Ross -- mainly because there wasn't...
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The Best of Diana Ross: The Millennium Collection compiles 11 of her solo career highlights, including the #1 hits "Touch Me in the Morning," "Theme from Mahogany (Do You...
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The eight-song Motown cassettes, released in 1989, all follow the same pattern -- two or three hits mixed with obscure cuts. Diana, Mary and Florence rocks on "Those D.J....
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Coming off four Top Ten hits in three years for their group Chic, producers Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers were the hot R&B/disco team of the day when they wrote and...
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Christmas in Vienna is almost like a live Three Tenors album, only with Diana Ross taking the place of Luciano Pavarotti. That alone makes for quite a change, since Ross'...
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With the plethora of options currently in print, the question of whether listeners need another anthology paying homage to the Supremes is entirely a valid one. With...
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