Jesus Christ! It's Diana Ross!

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 6/5/13 at 7:50pm

Performing a medley from that Seventies chestnut I love so much...

Diana Ross - Superstar medley - 1973 (London)

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 6/5/13 at 7:54pm

Miss Ross will appear at a casino close to me in the near future. When we saw the billboard, my husband spontaneously blurted, "Will they wheel her out in a chair"?

I had to point out that Ross is only a year older than Bette Midler.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 6/5/13 at 7:55pm

And she's really not all that bad for her age, if you don't expect quite the youthful purity in the high notes.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 6/5/13 at 7:58pm

And why should we expect her to sound like she did when she was 20? Thanks for the tip.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 6/5/13 at 7:59pm

On topic, though... random medley from JCS. What do you think? Was it because she was in London?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/5/13 at 9:22pm

She performs a winning version of "Corner of the Sky" from PIPPIN on her 1974 album, DIANA ROSS LIVE AT CAESAR'S PALACE.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/5/13 at 9:26pm

and that's a great JCS medley performed by Miss Ross proving once again she can sing anything she sets her beautiful voice to. God I love that woman!

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 6/5/13 at 9:27pm

On topic, though... random medley from JCS. What do you think? Was it because she was in London?

Maybe, but those were monster pop hits. I graduated from h.s. the year before and everyone I knew had the "concept" album. I'm not sure it was a "random" choice so much as an attempt to stay current.

Updated On: 6/5/13 at 09:27 PM

[darquegk]

Posted: 6/5/13 at 11:18pm

Back in the days of standards and song interpreters (and yes, that does include the sixties and early seventies), context mattered fairly little. A good song was a good song. Take, for instance, "Cabaret," which was stripped of the bridge about a drug overdose and a dead hooker, and became a feel-good jazz anthem for Louis Armstrong and Tom Jones, whose hard-swinging version with a bluesy coda is fantastic on its own, and deliciously bizarre camp when you consider what the song actually is.