Word: diana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last decade. They pushed the smooth syncopation of Detroit's Motown sound onto the top of the charts with twelve No. 1 records. But then came the new rocks-and the Supremes suddenly sounded a little rinky dink. Kind of nice, maybe, but definitely oldfashioned. So Diana decided to go another route. A song that she sings in her new nightclub act points the direction...
...weeks back, Diana, in company with her longtime friend, Motown Mogul Berry Gordy Jr., returned to her old neighborhood in Detroit to see "where I came from and to get an idea of what made me the kind of person I am." From that perspective, there is no doubt that Diana Ross has been energetically traveling the road to superstardom most of her life...
Etiquette. Her family's third-floor walkup, located in a "very, very poor" area, looks shabbier to her now. "I remember when I was growing up that it was decorated nicely," she told TIME Correspondent Sandy Burton. "We had a red velvet couch that I thought was beautiful." Diana's youthful memories are free of the usual ghetto scrounging and deprivation. Her whole family (three brothers, two sisters) sang in the choir of a Baptist church, and Diana learned secular music from a cousin who was known as "the girl with the golden voice." Diana took high school...
Half a semester before graduation, Diana and her friends Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson auditioned for Gordy. His advice was quick and certain: Finish school and come back when you graduate. The trio showed up again in July, and Gordy enrolled them in his special course of daily "artist's development" etiquette lessons. Under Gordy's tutelage, the Supremes, as they called themselves, turned into the most immaculately coiffured, intricately turned-out trio since the McGuire Sisters. And they were ever so poised. The girls were taught how to sit properly, how to shake hands ("The firmness...
Nicotine. There was, however, considerable talk of their music. After a few forgettable singles, the Supremes hit it big with a tune called Where Did Our Love Go. Florence and Mary sang the background, while Diana did the lead in a voice that was equal parts coyness, sexiness, nicotine and velvet. "Baby, baby, where did our love go?" they purred together, and that little question sent them right...