Diva Canon #7: DIANA ROSS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

DIANA FACTS:

Her middle name is 'Ernestine'.

She used to sh4g Gene Simmons out of KISS.

She once served a two-day jail sentence.

She is actually a MERMAID hence the fishtail dresses.

The original diva (if you don't count Marie Antoinette) made sure she had a separate credit on pretty much every song she appeared on for maximum importance. As such, I have only included singles where Diana is named separately. I nearly made this a smaller, Supremes-only poll, but the whole point of canonizing is to weed the wheat from the chaff, and there's certainly a lot of chaff down here. EIGHTEEN ticks? Ndoobedoobedoo!

[Poll #879379]

Comments

UK vs US

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

"Forever Came Today"
"Some Things You Never Get Used To"
"I'm Livin' In Shame"
"No Matter What Sign You Are"

All of these songs are missing/have been lost from the Supremes canon in the US (also to a lesser extent, "The Happening," which may be my favorite little known classic).

Re: UK vs US

[koganbot]

"Forever Came Today" is in the U.S. canon, I think - at least it's on the greatest hits Supremes two-fer I bought in the Seventies (which I realize is some time ago). [Also, the fact that something once went top 20 in Britain doesn't mean it's still in the Brit canon]. But the first three of those are great songs, the fourth I've not heard (which perhaps means it's really not in the canon).]

Re: UK vs US

[koganbot]

Well, since I'm the only one who's ticked it so far, maybe "Forever Came Today" isn't in either canon, Brit or U.S.

Re: UK vs US

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Using "canon" very loosely. I really don't think I've heard any of those songs, which means that they are neither on my (single-disc) Supremes best of) nor my Motown singles boxes (neither of which are completist, like the Stax-Volt ones).