Diana Ross - Surrender (Expanded Edition)
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Free Music Notes for Surrender (Expanded Edition)
Free Music Review: All this time later a misfire sounds like a pure masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
This album never got an audience. I always thought the problem was the cover, dark and undistinguished and succeeding in making a legendary beauty look like she'd just been shot in a dime-store photo booth. But another problem was the single "Surrender," a great album track but not the lingers-in-the-mind-head-and-heart which makes a hit. Nearly everyone I've ever talked to on the subject believes "I Can't Give Back the Love" should have been the single (Rita Wright, who originally recorded it, became Syreeta and nearly succeeded Ross in the Supremes!). Most interestingly, an album which went almost unnoticed originally today sounds like a brilliant piece of work, among Ross' best. Every track is riveting and Ashford and Simpson's writing, production and vocals are brilliant. I always suspected Ross' reputation would grow through the years, not diminish, and that certain is the case here.Free Music Review: Total Surrender at Last!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
It's ridiculous that it's taken nearly 4 decades for Surrender, a 1971 Diana Ross project in combination with Ashford and Simpson as producers, to emerge after having been buried in the vaults ever since. Motown had some squirrelly notions of what was valuable in their archives, but to turn an album with one of her best R & B cuts plus a certified pop hit to total obscurity has never made any sense. (You always knew the Deep Dyed Diana fans by their awareness of this LP.) Then again, the Blue album, with some of her best renditions ever of standards, was also buried until last year. Thank heavens the long beauty sleep of reason has finally ended. It's an album with great moments, if not on the level of later classics like The Boss.
If you like or love Miss D., you'll enjoy hearing the session, and the alternate takes, too. Go ahead, pounce.
Free Music Review: Diana's Masterpiece!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I loved Diana's debut album, and I always wondered how the second round of production from Ashford & Simpson for Diana measured up. Before this re-release, I only knew Remember Me and Surrender, but I yearned to hear the entire album. I am so glad that it was released because it knocks Diana's debut out of the water. Ashford & Simpson and Diana did a stellar job here - this is a classic. As Valerie said in the liner notes, you can "hear Diana's determination", and that is not a lie. I can't stop listening to the album. The songs just flow from beginning to end.
I now have three albums produced by Ashford & Simpson for Diana Ross, and I love them all. It was would be nice if Diana could work with Ashford & Simpson one last time (fourth round).
Amazing!! Thank you for the wonderful music.
Free Music Review: This IS Motown in the 70's
Hit: 5 Stars
When Diana Ross left the Supremes to start on her solo career, it was up to Berry Gordy to put whom he thought would be the best producers to showcase her talent. Little did he know that when he put the fledgling producing team of Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson with Ms. Ross that they would hit the jackpot. This is my all time favorite album that they produced for her followed closely by the debut album with the long version of "Ain't no Mountain High Enough". This album is a "must have" for any Diana Ross fan and the the alternate versions of a lot of the original album only make it even better. Another of one of my favorite songs by her is also included on this set which is the highly underrated, "I'm Still Waiting" which is just icing on a very delicious cake. Congrats to Motown for reissuing this album.Free Music Review: "SURRENDER" - One Of Diana's Definning Momemts
Hit: 5 Stars
This was a fine project for our "Diva" Diana. She mastered all the songs. I actually got her to autograph a "early" release copy of this album at her then home in Beverly Hills, California. I shyly told her that I loved the "Can't Give Back The Love" song and that I felt that it would be a smash single. She was gracious and appreciated my comments while being very, very pregnant with her first child (Rhonda). Those of you that don't have this CD are missing out on songs with unmatched "SUPREME" vocals along with her signature phrasing and diction. "DID YOU READ THE MORNING PAPER" and "A SIMPLE THING LIKE CRY" are standout cuts. There has always been and will forever be only one.....DIANA ROSS!