Love & Life: The Very Best of Diana Ross

by Diana Ross

Overview

A splendid 41-song set featuring Diana Ross' best recordings with the Supremes, along with Motown and post-Motown solo recordings. This is a very comprehensive and thoughtfully chosen package. The selections run the gamut from "Where Did Our Love Go" to "Love Hangover" to "I'm Coming Out" to Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers' "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" and Michael Jackson's "Muscles." It features her duets with Lionel Richie and Marvin Gaye, "Endless Love" and "You Are Everything," respectively, and "I'm Gonna Make You Love," a duet with Eddie Kendricks credited as Diana Ross & the Supremes and the Temptations. Ross' compelling soprano is often imitated, but has never been duplicated as successfully by anybody, and that includes her namesake, Jackie Ross ("Selfish One"). This is as good as it gets. Compiling a more complete and pleasing package with the same number of tracks to work with will never happen. The circus-sounding "The Happening" is a nuisance, but you can skip or program it out entirely if it bothers you. ~ Andrew Hamilton

Product Details

Release Date:	01/15/2002
Label:	Emi Music Distribution
UPC:	0724353586225
Rank:	19847

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Chain Reaction
2. Baby Love
3. Where Did Our Love Go
4. You Can't Hurry Love
5. Stop! In the Name of Love
6. You Keep Me Hangin' On
7. The Happening
8. Reflections
9. Love Hangover
10. The Boss
11. Why Do Fools Fall in Love
12. Mirror Mirror
13. Muscles
14. Work That Body
15. Force Behind the Power
16. Workin' Overtime
17. Take Me Higher
18. Until We Meet Again
19. Not Over You Yet
20. I'm Coming Out
21. Upside Down
22. My Old Piano

Disc 2

23. You Are Everything
24. Touch Me in the Morning
25. Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To?)
26. I'm Still Waiting
27. Ain't No Mountain High Enough
28. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
29. Someday We'll Be Together
30. Remember Me
31. Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)
32. Good Morning Heartache
33. It's My Turn
34. One Shining Moment
35. In the Ones You Love
36. Your Love
37. Best Years of My Life
38. Goin' Back
39. If We Hold on Together
40. When You Tell Me That You Love Me
41. Endless Love

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Diana Ross   Primary Artist,Vocals
The Supremes   Primary Artist
Lionel Richie   Primary Artist
Marvin Gaye   Primary Artist
James Waters, Jr.   Vocals (Background)
Marie Waters   Vocals (Background)
John Bristol   Vocals
Bernard Edwards   Conductor
Eddie Kendricks   Vocals
Otis Williams & the Charms   Spoken Word

Technical Credits

Stevie Wonder   Composer
Thom Bell   Composer
Gerry Goffin   Composer
Guy Chambers   Producer
Barry Gibb   Composer
Harvey Fuqua   Composer
Dan Fisher   Composer
Paul Jabara   Composer
Paul Riser   Arranger
Steve Power   Mixing,Producer
Frank DeVol   Composer
J. Davis   Horn Arrangements,String Arrangements
Carole Bayer Sager   Composer
Freddie Perren   Composer
Ervin Drake   Composer
John Bettis   Composer
Deke Richards   Composer
Johnny Bristol   Composer
Marilyn McLeod   Composer
Ron Miller   Composer
Linda Creed   Composer
Jud Friedman   Composer
Robin Gibb   Composer
Maurice Gibb   Composer
Nickolas Ashford   Composer,Producer,Vocal Arrangement,Rhythm Arrangements
Albert Hammond   Composer
Malik Pendleton   Composer
David Blumberg   Arranger
Ralph Terrana   Engineer,Mixing Engineer
Herb Ritts   Cover Photo
Jimmy Merchant   Composer
T. Baird   Arranger
James McLead   Composer
Charles Drayton   Arranger
Jeff Taylor   Remixing
Kenneth "Wally" Kelly   Composer
Firooz Zahedi   Photography
Garry Page   Arranger,Producer
Patricia Shaw   Cover Photo
Christopher Max   Composer
Fin Wilson   Producer
Denise Rich   Composer
Valerie Harris   Engineer
Dennis Matkowsky   Composer
Vanesse Thomas   Composer
The King   Composer
Nile Rodgers   Composer,Producer,Arranger
Michael Sembello   Composer
Michael Masser   Arranger,Composer,Producer,Rhythm Arrangements
Dennis Woloch   Design
A. Stewart   Engineer
Herman Santiago   Composer
John Bristol   Producer
Gen Rubin   Composer
Pam Sawyer   Composer
Stephen Allen Davis   Composer
Berry Gordy, Jr.   Executive Producer
Bernard Edwards   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Kenny Gamble   Composer
Irene Higginbotham   Composer
Lamont Dozier   Composer,Producer
Jackey Beavers   Composer
Nick Ingman   Arranger
Will Jennings   Composer
Frankie Lymon   Composer
Barry Fasman   Rhythm Arrangements
James Horner   Composer
Eddie Holland   Composer
Carole King   Composer
Lee Holdridge   Arranger,String Arrangements
Thomas Bell   Composer
Wade Marcus   Arranger
Lionel Richie   Composer,Producer
Valerie Simpson   Composer,Producer
Dino Fekaris   Composer
Peter Asher   Producer
Sally Jo Dakota   Composer
Narada Michael Walden   Composer
Vaneese Thomas   Composer
Ray Chew   Composer
Nikita Germaine   Composer
Marsha Malamet   Composer
Oliver Nelson   Arranger
Michael Jackson   Composer
Brian Holland   Composer,Producer
Hal Davis   Producer
Diana Ross   Composer,Liner Notes