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Post by hector on Jun 22, 2017 11:27:19 GMT
Is there any wonder why Motown dropped her once and for all?
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Post by mpn1jco on Jun 29, 2017 2:09:02 GMT
Is there any wonder why Motown dropped her once and for all?
When Motown dropped Ross the unthinkable happened. In reality, with her record sales, any other label would have dropped her in the 70s. Berry Gordy lost money on her on her solo career up until the Diana album and Endless Love, he started to recoup his losses. Clive Davis is too much of a businessman to sign her.
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Post by hector on Jun 29, 2017 4:58:17 GMT
Is there any wonder why Motown dropped her once and for all?
When Motown dropped Ross the unthinkable happened. In reality, with her record sales, any other label would have dropped her in the 70s. Berry Gordy lost money on her on her solo career up until the Diana album and Endless Love, he started to recoup his losses. Clive Davis is too much of a businessman to sign her. I've read where Mr. Gordy referred to her as a "prestige artist", but never as a record selling artist. He marketed her as a crossover artist which probably hurt her ability to sell albums, etc. She had an album, "Diana Ross" in 1976 that contained a Charlie Chaplin song "Smile" as well as "Love Hangover. A strange mix if you ask me. It is no wonder her record sales were so low. People that like one type of music had to really stretch to enjoy a whole Diana Ross album. Motown worked very hard to protect her image. It was all over once the books started hitting the market and people learned that she was really not so "fabulous".
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Post by mpn1jco on Jun 29, 2017 7:07:09 GMT
When Motown dropped Ross the unthinkable happened. In reality, with her record sales, any other label would have dropped her in the 70s. Berry Gordy lost money on her on her solo career up until the Diana album and Endless Love, he started to recoup his losses. Clive Davis is too much of a businessman to sign her. I've read where Mr. Gordy referred to her as a "prestige artist", but never as a record selling artist. He marketed her as a crossover artist which probably hurt her ability to sell albums, etc. She had an album, "Diana Ross" in 1976 that contained a Charlie Chaplin song "Smile" as well as "Love Hangover. A strange mix if you ask me. It is no wonder her record sales were so low. People that like one type of music had to really stretch to enjoy a whole Diana Ross album. Motown worked very hard to protect her image. It was all over once the books started hitting the market and people learned that she was really not so "fabulous".
All of her albums on RCA are a hodgepodge of musical styles. My grade school friend was a big Diana Ross fan. He loved the Supremes, The Boss and Diana. He stopped buying her albums beginning with the RCA period. He said he was through with her. I remember playing a tape of her RCA material for him, and he asked me to take it off. He said he couldn't listen to it compared to the 'classy' Motown material. He had been a Diana Ross maniac. I guess all of those people who had all of the groups and tribute sites had a similar epiphany because each and everyone one of them is shut down. A book entitled Diana's Dogs covered the Ross internet phenomenon, which doesn't exist anymore. The only active group that supports her on the internet is Soulful Detroit.
When I played Red, Hot, Rhythm and Blues he was disgusted.
"Why does she still need to prove that she can sing various music styles. It's not necessary."
What is interesting is that he purchased the remixes of Workin Overtime and the Shep Pettibone House Remix of Paradise. Those records were big in the club and were actually edgy.
"Remember I purchased the REMIXES."
In other words, he was actually supporting Blaze and Shep Pettibone and not Diana Ross.The 1976 album only sold 700,000 or so copies despite having two number one records. At a minimum, an album with two number one records would go double platinum. Not Ross, she didn't even go platinum. The album had the long version of Love Hangover which makes the low sales even more inexplicable.
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Post by hector on Jul 6, 2017 8:53:24 GMT
Diana Ross NEVER sells out! She is a "cult act". Her fans live in a fantasy World.
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