Motown M7-877R2 An Evening With Diana Ross

personnel Diana Ross (voc); Greg Wright (keyb); Marty Harris (p); John Col - lins (g); Louie Spears (b); Jerry Steinholtz (cga); Gene Pello (dr), The Jones Girls ( background vocals)

tracks Overture; Here I Am; I Wouldn’t Change A Thing; The Lady Is A Tramp; Touch Me In The Morning; Smile/ Send In The Clowns; Love Hangover; Girls; Everybody’s Got ‘Em; Me And My Arrow; Lifeline; Everybody’s Got 'Em (Reprise); Lady Sings The Blues; ‘Tain't No - body's Bizness If I Do; I Cried For You (Now It’s Your Turn To Cry Over Me); Aux Iles Hawaii; Stormy Weather; Jump In The Pot (And Let’s Get Hot); I Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl; My Man; Motown Overture; Money (That’s What I Want); Please Mr. Postman; Fingertips; I Want You Back; You Keep Me Hangin’ On; Baby Love; Someday We’ll Be Together; Stop! In the Name Of Love; You Can’t Hurry Love; Reflections; My World Is Empty Without You; I Hear A Symphony; Reach Out And Touch (Somebody’s Hand); The Music In The Mirror; What I Did For Love; Improvisations; Dance: Ten, Looks: Three; Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To); Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

catalogue # 7877 It was in the second half of the Seventies that Diana Ross’s career took off with a vengeance set contents 2 LPs / gatefold sleeve after her time with The Supremes. Although she hardly shone out for her acting talents in her second movie Mahogany , in which Motown boss Gordy assumed the director’s chair pricecode SC02 himself, she landed at the top of the charts with the theme song. Fired with enthusiasm after the success of her excellent solo album Diana Ross (Motown MS-711) from 1976, it release date was followed up in the same year with the Broadway show An Evening With Diana Ross , tba which was taken on tour. barcode The live recording with the same name, made in the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles, is impressive for two reasons. In addition to the lively interaction between the singer, big '!2G00BJ-hbdgcj! band and the audience, the album documents the all-round talent of the great lady of soul, who shines out in all facets of show business. Evergreens such as Stormy Weather and The original recording Lady Is A Tramp are sung with a new gleam, former top numbers ( I Hear A Symphony ) or the September 1976 at the Ahmanson ballad Do You Know Where You’re Going To , which portrays Ross herself in the movie, are Theatre, Los Angeles, by Ray Thomp - brought back to our memories, and even the disco hit Love Hangover is not missing on this son and Guy Costa evening. Irrespective of whether this album is regarded as a starter package, an artist por - trait, or as a collector’s item – it remains a “must have”. original production Berry Gordy

Die zweite Hälfte der 70er Jahre brachte für Diana Ross den wohl stärksten Leistungsschub seit den Zeiten mit den Supremes. Auch wenn sie in ihrem zweitem Kinofilm Mahogany , den Motown-Chef Gordy höchst persönlich inszenierte, kaum durch schauspielerisches Vermö - gen glänzte, so punktete sie mit der Titelmusik in den Charts. Beflügelt vom Erfolg des ex - zellenten Solo-Albums Diana Ross (Motown MS-711) von 1976, legte man nach und ging im selben Jahr mit der Broadway-Show An Evening With Diana Ross auf Tournee. Der gleichnamige Mitschnitt aus dem Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles besticht in dop - pelter Hinsicht: Neben der lebhaften Interaktion zwischen Sängerin, Big-Band und dem Publikum dokumentiert das Album das universelle Können der Soul-Ikone, die in allen Show-Genres überzeugt. Standards wie Stormy Weather und The Lady Is A Tramp erstrahlen in neuem Glanz, einstige Top-Titel ( I Hear A Symphony ) oder der eigene Filmsong Do You Know Where You’re Going To melden sich ins Gedächtnis zurück und auch der Disco-Hit Love Hangover fehlt an diesem Abend nicht. Ungeachtet dessen, ob dieses Album als Starterpa - ket, künstlerische Bestandsaufnahme oder Sammelobjekt gesehen wird – es bleibt ein must have.

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