Diana Ross

Can someone please help me clear up something? Joel Whitburn (God bless him but his chart designations do not always make sense) has listed "Top Of The World" with "Your Love Is So Good For Me" by Diana Ross as one entry in '77, reaching #15, charting for 18 weeks. However, I thought I had read somewhere that initially, these two LP cuts reached #15 and charted for 12 weeks. Later, in early 78 when "Your Love Is So Good" was remixed and released as a single, the remix re-charted and it reached #30, charting for 6 weeks.

Is this the case? Or the first scenario? One thing that irks me about my book Top Dance Hits 1974-2003 is that Whitburn lists all LP cuts together, when in some cases, there were separate runs for titles, or re-entries. Anyone have the actual charts and can clear this up for me?

Diana an UNLIKELY ARTIST?? You are way off, she was EARLY DISCO, CLASSIC DISCO, RETRO DISCO. Even with the SUPREMES she had DISCO like records. You put her in the wrong category. She was VERY LIKELY to make the transition from POP to DISCO>

Very disco-like. These songs all did very well as dance/disco hits. Some of them are technically soul or funk (Upside Down is technically funk). They are definitely worth adding to your disco library, regardless of what they are technically.

Diana Ross, The Boss, 1979
01 Upside Down
02 Tenderness
03 Friend to Friend
04 I´m Coming Out
05 Have Fun
06 ?
07 Now That You´re Gone
08 Give Up
09 No One Gets the Prize
10 I Aint´t Been Licked
11 All For One
12 The Boss
13 Once In the Morning
14 It´s My House
15 Sparkle
16 I´m in the World

And Cover for the Album

From 1976 to 1983, the average DJ had a Diana Ross dance hit collection:

Love Hangover
What You Gave Me
Living, Loving Again
No One Gets the Prize
Once in The Morning
I Ain't Been Licked
The Boss
Upside Down
Tenderness
Mirror, Mirror
Pieces of Ice

Diana Ross - The Boss

A Disco Anthem!!!!

IMO, "The Boss" is one of the quintessential albums of the disco era. The music and production by Nick Ashford & Val Simpson (stars in their own right) are top notch.

They had worked with Diana all the way back to the late Supremes days, and were so in tune with her voice and style, the entire collection is fits like a glove.

The year of its release ('79), was one (if not THE) most prolific in terms of disco songs/artists. Consequently, this gem was lost in the avalanche, and was never commercially or critically recognized for its quality.

Fortunately, the CD (including full extended dance versions of the title song & "It's My House") was released in '99.

Don't forget "I'm getting ready for love", from 1977, another disco number by Diana (which reached the UK pop charts).

"The Boss" was one of those songs that clilngs to my memory of the seventies. It was hugely popular in the summer of 1979 before I moved from Texas to San Francisco. The last Saturday night before I left I went dancing with all my friends and they mixed into "The Boss". What is so unbelievable is that I was dancing and kept stepping on something on the dance floor. When I reached down to pick it up, it was the broken middle portion of a 12" record of ...you guessed it..."The Boss"...

Most of Diana's designated-disco stuff was still pretty classy. "Love Hangover" was da bomb before there was "da bomb." But one that's rarely remembered is "Your Love Is So Good For Me"...killer hook on that one.