Tag Archives: Diana Ross

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19/1/17 – Buddy Greco – August 14 1926 – January 10 2017 – Pre Dylan Lyricists /The Lady Is A Tramp – Tommy Dorsey Featuring Edythe Wright – 1937 / Sophie Tucker – 1937 / Lena Horne – 1948 / Ella Fitzgerald – 1956 / Pat Suzuki – 1958 / Frank Sinatra – 1958/1965 / Buddy Greco – 1960 / Shirley Bassey – 1966 / Diana Ross And The Supremes – 1968 / Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga – 2011

Who were the great lyricists before Dylan? Well, from the fifties into the sixties you would probably say the men that wrote the words for the musicals, writers like Lorenz Hart. Hart wrote the lyrics for The Lady Is A Tramp and My Funny Valentine and was Richard Rodgers partner till alcoholism (Hart died tragically of […]

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22/4/15 – Diana Ross And The Supremes – Reflections – 1967

Motown goes Psychedelic! Strange sounds, an opening line “Through the mirror of my mind” and the Summer Of Love has reached Detroit. This was in fact the turning point in the billing where Diana Ross’s name preceded the Supremes pushing her into the spotlight. This also was the end of the line for original member Florence Ballard […]