Diana Ross - Diana Ross (1970) [2002, Remastered & Revisited Edition]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Diana Ross - Diana Ross (1970) [2002, Remastered & Revisited Edition]
R&B, Soul/Funk, Pop-Soul, Motown | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 01:10:26 | 681,84 Mb
Label: Motown Records/Universal Music (USA) | Cat.# 440 016 818-2 | Released: 2002-04-18 (1970-06-19)
"Diana Ross" (later reissued rarely as "Ain't No Mountain High Enough") was the debut solo album for Diana Ross. It reached #19 in the USA (#1 R&B) and sold over 500,000 copies. The album was the ultimate test to see if the former Supremes frontwoman could make it as a solo act. With the help of the songwriting-producing team of Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson, Ross turned out a successful album. Ross did extensive work with other producers before settling with Ashford & Simpson, including Johnny Bristol, producer of her final single with The Supremes, "Someday We'll Be Together". Bristol here produces "These Things Will Keep Me Loving You" (which was a UK hit when originally recorded by The Velvelettes); the rest of the LP is fully written and produced by Ashford & Simpson. Ross' first solo single, "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)", sold over 500,000 copies in the USA, was something of a disappointment when it charted at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its follow-up, a cover of Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", peaked at #1 on the Hot 100, selling approximately 1,245,000 copies in the USA only and garnering a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. As a result of the single's success, Diana Ross was reissued as Ain't No Mountain High Enough, and another Ross solo LP (her 1976 LP featuring "Love Hangover") would be issued as an eponymous release. Today, Diana Ross is widely regarded as the singer's finest solo album.
~Wikipedia


Her self-titled debut LP (later retitled Ain't No Mountain High Enough after the single became a hit) was arguably her finest solo work at Motown and perhaps her best ever; it was certainly among her most stunning. Everyone who doubted whether Diana Ross could sustain a career outside the Supremes found out immediately that she would be a star. The single "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)" remains a staple in her shows, and is still her finest message track.
~Review by Ron Wynn


March 26, 2002 marked Diana Ross’s 58th birthday, but it was her legions of fans that received an amazing birthday gift. Motown finally re-released her 1970 debut album, Diana Ross, which had been out-of-print for some time; better yet, the CD came loaded with eight bonus tracks, including live performances, alternate vocals takes, and - best of all - a batch of tracks from the vaults. Those tracks were produced by Bones Howe, and had apparently been recorded as possibilities for Miss Ross’s debut album as a solo artist. Her former manager Shelly Burger is quoted in the liner notes of that re-release: “I had known Bones for a while and he was very hot at the time, particularly with the Fifth Dimension. The thought was we should go outside the company to do something completely different for Diana’s first album.” Motown, of course, was scrambling to hit upon a winning formula for Miss Ross the solo artist; she’d been delivering #1 hits as lead singer of the Supremes for almost a decade, and expectations were high for her first post-group offering. One of the first solo possibilities, the Johnny Bristol-produced “Someday We’ll Be Together,” ended up being released as a Supremes single. Then the brilliant writing/producing/performing team of Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson began working on songs for Diana, as did Howe. Miss Ross finished four songs with Mr. Howe, including the Laura Nyro-written “Time And Love” and “Stoney End,” but it was Ashford and Simpson who ended up handling her debut album. It’s impossible to argue with that decision today, given that Diana Ross was a solid success and game Miss Ross a top 20 hit, “Reach Out And Touch (Somebody’s Hand),” and a Grammy-nominated #1 masterpiece, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” Still, what’s surprising is just how good the Bones Howe-produced songs are. The four songs lean more toward the “pop” side of the spectrum than Ross’s soulful, darker work with Ashford and Simpson, and after years of crooning pop standards on television and in clubs, she is more than adept at the sunnier style of music. There’s a youthful sparkle to her performances on these songs, but they also showcase Diana in fine, full voice, giving her chances to belt and reach for high notes that many listeners still don’t realize she’s capable of. While 1970’s Diana Ross really is the perfect debut album for Miss Ross - spectacular and stylish and still surprising more than 40 years later - it’s a treat to hear what might have been with a different direction and team behind her.
~Review by Paul Milliken




Release of the album: 1970, June, 19 [LP Motown, Cat.# MS-711, USA]
Release of this CD: 2002, April, 18 [CD Motown Records/Universal Music (USA), Cat.# 440 016 818-2 / UPC: 044001681820]
℗&© 2002 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution, Corp.
Made in U.S.A.


Credits:

Photography By – Harry Langdon
Produced By – Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson, except "These Things Will Keep Me Loving You", written by Johnny Bristol/Harvey Fuqua/Sylvia Moy and produced by Bristol.
Tracks 16-19 produced by Bones Howe.


Tracklist:

01. Reach Out And Touch (Somebody's Hand) (03:08)
(Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
02. Now That There's You (03:32)
(Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
03. You're All I Need To Get By (03:30)
(Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
04. These Things Will Keep Me Loving You (03:12)
(Johnny Bristol / Harvey Fuqua / Sylvia Moy)
05. Ain't No Mountain High Enough (06:20)
(Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
06. Something On My Mind (02:29)
(Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
07. I Wouldn't Change The Man He Is (03:21)
(Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
08. Keep An Eye (03:18)
(Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
09. Where There Was Darkness (03:20)
(Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
10. Can't It Wait Until Tomorrow (03:20)
(Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
11. Dark Side Of The World (03:13)
(Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)

Bonus Tracks:
12. Something On My Mind (Live At The Grove, August 7, 1970) (02:38)
(Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
13. Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Alternate Mix) (06:06)
(Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
14. Now That There's You (Alternate Vocal Version) (03:08)
(Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
15. These Things Will Keep Me Loving You (Alternate Mix) (03:13)
(Johnny Bristol / Harvey Fuqua / Sylvia Moy)
16. Time And Love (04:08)
(Laura Nyro)
17. Stoney End (03:39)
(Laura Nyro)
18. The Interim (04:49)
(Jimmy Webb)
19. Love's Lines, Angles And Rhymes (04:03)
(Dorothea Joyce)

Tracks 12, 17-19 previously unreleased.

Tracks 13-15 from the promotional LP "Doral Presents Diana Ross", DLT-104,
originally avaialable only as a premium mail-order item in 1971.
previously unreleased commercially


Track 16 first issued on Diana Ross: The Motown Antology, Motown 440 013 583-2, October 2000.

Tracks 16-19 produced by Bones Howe.

Exact Audio Copy V1.3 from 2. September 2016

EAC extraction logfile from 12. July 2017, 22:13

Diana Ross / Diana Ross (Remastered & Revisited Edition)

Used drive : PIONEER BD-RW BDR-208D Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 667
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo


TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 3:08.15 | 0 | 14114
2 | 3:08.15 | 3:31.67 | 14115 | 30006
3 | 6:40.07 | 3:29.49 | 30007 | 45730
4 | 10:09.56 | 3:11.73 | 45731 | 60128
5 | 13:21.54 | 6:20.13 | 60129 | 88641
6 | 19:41.67 | 2:28.49 | 88642 | 99790
7 | 22:10.41 | 3:21.07 | 99791 | 114872
8 | 25:31.48 | 3:17.61 | 114873 | 129708
9 | 28:49.34 | 3:19.41 | 129709 | 144674
10 | 32:09.00 | 3:19.67 | 144675 | 159666
11 | 35:28.67 | 3:13.35 | 159667 | 174176
12 | 38:42.27 | 2:37.44 | 174177 | 185995
13 | 41:19.71 | 6:06.25 | 185996 | 213470
14 | 47:26.21 | 3:08.03 | 213471 | 227573
15 | 50:34.24 | 3:13.35 | 227574 | 242083
16 | 53:47.59 | 4:08.15 | 242084 | 260698
17 | 57:55.74 | 3:39.04 | 260699 | 277127
18 | 61:35.03 | 4:49.30 | 277128 | 298832
19 | 66:24.33 | 4:02.38 | 298833 | 317020


Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename D:\BlondStyle\Diana Ross.wav

Peak level 98.7 %
Extraction speed 6.8 X
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 4D771FE4
Copy CRC 4D771FE4
Copy OK

No errors occurred


AccurateRip summary

Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [39F22AB6] (AR v2)
Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [E1C7C1E0] (AR v2)
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [8C27C350] (AR v2)
Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [7DEC6DBA] (AR v2)
Track 5 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [551863CA] (AR v2)
Track 6 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [0C9B4801] (AR v2)
Track 7 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [51D62694] (AR v2)
Track 8 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [4A6606BB] (AR v2)
Track 9 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [50FD765F] (AR v2)
Track 10 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [04FEF35A] (AR v2)
Track 11 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [A7D6DBE5] (AR v2)
Track 12 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [C3779952] (AR v2)
Track 13 accurately ripped (confidence 7) [E92104DC] (AR v2)
Track 14 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [4DA5B14E] (AR v2)
Track 15 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [F6C310CB] (AR v2)
Track 16 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [BF083C8E] (AR v2)
Track 17 accurately ripped (confidence 8) [931FFB03] (AR v2)
Track 18 accurately ripped (confidence 7) [B5D2A57D] (AR v2)
Track 19 accurately ripped (confidence 7) [A92AB9A9] (AR v2)

All tracks accurately ripped

End of status report

–– CUETools DB Plugin V2.1.6

[CTDB TOCID: FfzicbTtBaInQIcicmUgPU3j84M-] found
Submit result: FfzicbTtBaInQIcicmUgPU3j84M- has been confirmed
Track | CTDB Status
1 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
2 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
3 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
4 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
5 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
6 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
7 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
8 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
9 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
10 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
11 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
12 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
13 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
14 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
15 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
16 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
17 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
18 | (6/7) Accurately ripped
19 | (6/7) Accurately ripped


==== Log checksum 0D62680BE783DB2A78BFC8D0A497B499D6339E255FE8C4B503D04CEB297A003D ====

[Disc ID: 002f1022-02955f64-fb108213]
Track [ CRC ] Status
01 [18c0a5a6] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
02 [bd7a7b32] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
03 [b3f7ce0c] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
04 [725d5894] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
05 [df4c9ca4] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
06 [bb206b5d] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
07 [d665a866] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
08 [27920924] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
09 [1ef844c8] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
10 [ecba4553] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
11 [d62c0cb9] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
12 [24130280] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
13 [1fdb7be6] (10/17) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
14 [01432f27] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
15 [3037d339] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
16 [88366080] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
17 [80aa4630] (10/18) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
18 [a45bf6d4] (10/17) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1
19 [8edaa6c4] (10/17) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Analyzed: Diana Ross / Diana Ross (Remastered & Revisited Edition)
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

DR Peak RMS Duration Track
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
DR9 -0.30 dB -11.64 dB 3:08 01-Reach Out And Touch (Somebody's Hand)
DR9 -1.41 dB -12.00 dB 3:32 02-Now That There's You
DR9 -1.20 dB -12.72 dB 3:30 03-You're All I Need To Get By
DR8 -1.39 dB -11.19 dB 3:12 04-These Things Will Keep Me Loving You
DR8 -1.32 dB -11.76 dB 6:20 05-Ain't No Mountain High Enough
DR9 -1.18 dB -11.77 dB 2:29 06-Something On My Mind
DR8 -1.29 dB -12.50 dB 3:21 07-I Wouldn't Change The Man He Is
DR8 -1.25 dB -11.33 dB 3:18 08-Keep An Eye
DR8 -1.27 dB -11.54 dB 3:20 09-Where There Was Darkness
DR9 -1.22 dB -13.17 dB 3:20 10-Can't It Wait Until Tomorrow
DR9 -1.37 dB -12.82 dB 3:13 11-Dark Side Of The World
DR8 -1.57 dB -12.09 dB 2:38 12-Something On My Mind (Live At The Grove) (Bonus Track)
DR9 -0.20 dB -12.12 dB 6:06 13-Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Alternate Mix) (Bonus Track)
DR8 -1.31 dB -11.76 dB 3:08 14-Now That There's You (Alternate Vocal Version) (Bonus Track)
DR9 -0.11 dB -10.30 dB 3:13 15-These Things Will Keep Me Loving You (Alternate Mix) (Bonus Track)
DR8 -2.25 dB -11.24 dB 4:08 16-Time And Love (Bonus Track)
DR7 -2.37 dB -11.36 dB 3:39 17-Stoney End (Bonus Track)
DR8 -2.34 dB -12.13 dB 4:49 18-The Interim (Bonus Track)
DR8 -2.40 dB -11.76 dB 4:03 19-Love's Lines, Angles And Rhymes (Bonus Track)
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Number of tracks: 19
Official DR value: DR8

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 943 kbps
Codec: FLAC
================================================================================

♫~Welcome To My Blog~♫

password: BlondStyle