Word: motown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Bob Dylan or the Motown mold. But never mind, music fans. Columbia's executives are smiling. The song is a well-deserved triumph for Puppeteer Jim Henson, who sings for and animates Ernie. And Sesame Street, which needs all the money it can get, stands to earn enough in royalties to produce two more programs in the series...
...Supremes were one of the biggest -and for a time, one of the best -rock groups of the 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...
...shake hands ("The firmness of the grip," says Diana, "is very important"), and how to climb up on a piano. When they started going out on concert tours, they went with a chaperone. "There has never been an ounce of scandal connected with the Supremes," boasts a Motown executive. "No talk about drugs or anything...
...They branched out, adding some show tunes to their repertory. They even tried playing three nuns on the Tarzan TV series. But things weren't the same. Diana felt that "the spirit was gone" from the group and started to make plans for a solo act. Says one Motown executive: "It occurred to us we might have a 2-for-1 stock split...