Diana Ross & The Supremes "I'm Livin' In Shame" on The Ed Sullivan Show
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Diana was undoubtedly the star of the group, but Mary was most assuredly the great beauty.
I agree
Diana was also a 'beauty', and all of them were super feminine.
Diana photographed much better than Mary. Diana has one of the great faces of Hollywood lore. Her eyes, cheekbones, smile and jawline are legendary! Mary never photographed like Diana.
Mary didn't photograph like my Supreme Diva Diana because she photographed like the Super Duper Supreme Sexy One Mary Wilson...
@@eross8282 yeah no doubt, two different people. For me, Diana Ross though is one of the great face of Hollywood. Those signature eyes, cheekbones, nose and mouth put her in a bigger photographic/film category. Diana's little body, hair, gowns etc.. Diana's extravaganza just surpassed. Untouchable.
This song is so lyrically underrated. And they pulled a LOT of Soul out of Ross for this one. She interpreted the hell out of this here.
Underrated? This song has possibly the most awkward, ridiculous lyrics of any hit song of its era. "Came the telegram - Mama passed away while makin' home made jam" - seriously?
You are absolutely right I love that song
I love all Diana Ross's songs but this is one of my favorite songs by her it is very depressing song but this is life life is very depressing Diana Ross in Gladys Knight is the queen of oldies back in the 60s 70s and '80s but I only like the songs from the 60s and 70s it is a very depressive song but it also if you look at it in a different way it's a beautiful song like I said live is so f****** depressed
Been listening to Ross The Boss since 1965! Agree wholeheartedly!! 💅🎵💅🎵💅
Yes, Ross does a good job out of making something out of what is really an overly dramatic corny song...I mean..mama died while making homemade jam? Really? Homemade jam? How backcountry can one get? I also think that Mary and Cindy do a good job in overcoming the soapy soap opera of the song. Their smooth little shimmies toward the camera are pleasant to watch and make up for the rather dismal lyrics. Calling Holland Dozier Holland!! The Supremes need you back!!
I heard this song, I made sure my momma was at every event that may have been important to her. Highschool graduation. Grandkids,birth , dinners. Park picnics. College graduation . I was always approachable and accessible to her. It's only one momma. No matter what one obtains or achieves all you have is your momma. With love unconditional there is no substitute absolute
What a powerful song, its sad how we forget sometimes. 😪😪
True 😔
The guitar riff on this track is a killer but sadly drowned out for tv
When I was a teenager I played this record to death. I love Diana Ross and the Supremes. 🌹
Me too ..only later in life I discovered most Diana Ross and the SUPREMES records were just MS ROSS and session singers not MARY and CINDY
Me Too
you are not alone ......... I recall we were leaving my Grandparents house after the weekly Sunday meal and this came on the tube.............. I sat and refused to move until it was over. Yes, I got in trouble but it was so worth it.
This song always makes me sad
Yeah, it's a beautiful song, but it leaves me depressed.
This song is gold
Ditto 🥺
Dam..this song made me cry! Diana sure could sing.
Now that my Mother has passed... It means even more to me!
The writing of this song was inspired by the 1959 movie "Imitation of Life" and it's powerful ending.
Great movie
Oh wow, I didn’t know that. Hope I could find this movie and watch it.
Diana Ross had such an effortless star power and a magnificent voice.
...I came to this performance IMMEDIATELY, after hearing of Mary's passing; one of my FAVORITE looks from her during her run in the Supremes...now, after being the ONLY member to stay for the ENTIRE run....will ALWAYS be...SUPREME. .RIP, my Beautiful One, TOUCH......
Yes, Mary was the bomb. In fact, my favorite part of this performance is from 1:42 to 1:54 where Mary (with Cindy) is moving forward to the camera doing that little sexy swirl of hers...I have run that part multiple times.
I RAN TO THE RECORD SHOP WHEN THEY RELEASED THIS ONE ! I LOVE IT TIL THIS VERY DAY !
Yes, the good old days when buying a record at the record shop made it seem more special. Now, you can download any song in the top 20 for free.
I heared it on UK Radio 1 Paul Gambaccini Show in 1978. It was like a missile or a cosmic slap to me then - and as you say til this very day.
rip, mary. love.
This queen Diana Ross is still singing and touring 👑
Mary is SO GORGEOUS. OMG
Dedicated to my brother Richard who passed at 31, he introduced us to Miss Diana Ross..and..The Supremes.......I love this tune....It's so Motown...45 YEARS AND THIS SONG STILL BREAKS ME....THOSE DAYS ARE GONE, so long ago, MY MOMMA PASSED AT 64 she loved anything Motown too,; so HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL OF THE GOOD MOMS OUT THERE, enjoy it everyone, it flies by..05/14/2023.....
Another top ten hit for Diana and the Supremes. Dramatic song, very “Imitation of Life” (movie) in its content.
great analogy!!
Only DIANA sings on this track backgrounds are sung by Motown session singers
Michael
You’re right! The record label may have read “Diana Ross and the Supremes” but it really was a Diana solo effort as the Supremes didn’t record it with her.
Did you know that their “Supremes sing Country Western and Pop” LP from 1965 featured Mary and Flo on only 2 of the album’s cuts? And the “Merry Christmas the Supremes” was recorded pretty much by Diana without Mary and Flo as well. She really was the voice of the group.
I love that movie,"imitation of Life"
This song describes my young life it wasn’t a picnic for me me or mom
This is a great performance. Diana Ross is a superstar
Honor thy mother and thy father...always did and always will...
Amen!
When a song tells a story. This was always one of my favourite Supreme songs.
I started tearing up listening to this song.😢
RIP Mary my favourite and special supreme
Love the arrangement of this song.
I miss the Ed Sullivan Show. Be nice if CBS would show a complete Sullivan Show on a Sunday night once a month.
CBS Don't Own Them Anymore They Sold Them to Sofa Entertainment
@@mikejones-yh7xk CBS never owned them, Ed Sullivan did and that is why almost all the shows exist. Networks threw out kinescopes, erased video tapes etc., so that many other shows from the 50s do not exist. Thirty years ago, Andrew Solt, a British/American producer bought the archive from Ed's daughter and her husband and formed SOFA.
@Bruce Pappas ... The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show airs on the Decades channel, 7:00am and 7:30am Eastern, and then again at 7:00pm and 7:30pm Eastern, week days.😁
@@MostlyBrenda There is also the issue of song copyrights. SOFA signed a deal with Universal Music which has allowed most of these musical clips to be posted.
You can watch it Sullivan Sunday night on Me-TV
This was always one of my fav songs by them
Mine too
Killer drum beat from the first go! Motown forever!
The intense emotion from Diana is so moving❤
I’ve always loved this song; but now that I’m older I listen more to the lyrics and man this’ a heart wrenched very sad song the way the character in this song treated her momma. We must always treasure our mother. Even through their faults and short comings; that’s still mom. I really thank God for both my mom and dad. They’re the best.🙏🏾
I wish two of my daughter's thought that way.x
I hear you girl it is very depressing I play that song to that too when I was young into here all the lyrics now that I'm older every time I hear this song I get chills up and down my spine I still love that song but she does put her mom down so bad I could never do that and no song or any song I Love Diana Ross
YES
Ome of my 45's when I was a kid.
My favorite part is from 1:42 to 1:54 where Mary and Cindy do that little sexy dance and swirl while moving forward to the camera. I say...Mary you go girl.
Diana sounds so good 😊
The original queen.
Inspired by the plot of Douglas Sirk's 1959 film Imitation of Life, The Clan composed "I'm Livin' in Shame" as a sequel to the Supremes' number-one hit single, "Love Child." The song explores the quest of the 'love child' to shun both her impoverished childhood and her mother, and pass herself off to her friends and new husband as the daughter of a rich family. The woman's mother ends up dying without ever seeing her daughter as an adult, or ever meeting her two-year-old grandson, to the child's regret and chagrin.
This articulate black woman became a legend.We love you Ms.Ross.
Confused on why you felt the need to say ‘Articulate’ black woman ?…
@@SeanAPalmer confused by your confusion
@@winstonsmith9424 I’m confused because this person could have just said, “This woman became a legend.”
It’s almost as if this person, by their statement, is implying that black women can’t be articulate and that Diana Ross is this out-of-the-ordinary exception.
Watch the movie Imitation of Life. This song is based on that movie.
Like an addendum to Love Child.
I love the Supremes
I Cry everytime
Heartbreaking song that only Ms Ross can deliver
Billy Fisher was the musical arranger for Ray Bloch's Orchestra and the Sullivan Show for the full run and this is one of his arrangements. He was my father and he took me to the rehearsal at the Henry Hudson Hotel in New York the day before this show aired when I was 14. I still have the autographs from that day. What a thrill to find this!
Nice story! You must have had a blast growing up. I would've been 16 at the time. I remember checking out the Sullivan musical guests in the TV listings in order to decide between that and 'Bonanza', having unfortunately outgrown Disney by then.
@@miked6335 It was a lot of fun, Mike. When I got old enough to ride trains into the city from Connecticut, I would deliver Dad's arrangement's to Ray Bloch's office a few days before the show. I got five bucks a run. That was my first non-chore job. It beat weeding! :) I'll always cherish the memories of those times at the rehearsals.
@@w.scottfisher5164 Hey, my first job was as a messenger delivering advertising materials in NYC in the Summer of '69. I had a great time but was I a real rube! I had no idea of how the addresses worked as far as East-West sides nor what Park Avenue South meant. Made for an interesting first week. But once I learned the ins and outs of the buildings, look out! Did it a for a few summers, maybe we passed each other on Broadway. I also cherish those days; driving in with my dad, no cares in the world (told you I was a rube) and plenty of girl watching (It was acceptable back then. There were 2 top ten hits dedicated to it!).
So you're saying that they didn't use the arrangements from the actual record? I don't understand why not.
The original Girl band...and they've never been bettered. Love this song and the performance of the girls
No, they're not the original Supremes, but the group after Florence Ballard left. In the future, their names are/were Diana Ross, Mary Wilson (not the bigger one) & Cindy Birdsong.
One of my favorite
In the story of this song, a woman who was born into poverty (or so she says) has been ashamed of her mother ever since she was a kid. After she grows up and leaves home, she lies about her past and her socioeconomic status in order to move up into higher societies and then marries a man who's well off. She ostracizes her mother and even makes up a story about her mother dying while going to Spain. On top of that, after she gives birth to her first child, she doesn't even bother to tell her mother about it. Then, one day, the woman receives a telegram saying that her mother died and she now feels extremely guilty about the damages she caused. Talk about learning a lesson the hard way!
It's inspired by Imitation of Life originally a book by Fanny Hurst which spawned two film adaptations, one in the 1930s the other from 1959. The book/films is actually more about racism as the biracial daughter tries to pass as white and shuns her black mother
Thanks for summarizing the song. But - What makes you think she learned any lesson? Anyone who lied about so many things in their life probably isn't going to change. But the real mystery to me is why anybody would do this. If the mother was a serial killer maybe. Here, the mother is a saint. The lyrics are just plain stupid. Just a vehicle to make money from people who idolized Diana's voice.
@@maddykamen2530 Great grief can effect great changes.
But never are the words "Mama, I'm sorry" or "Mama, I love you" uttered. I wonder if this was intentional?
I knew this way to well
RIP Mary Wilson......
One of my favorite Supremes' songs.
Diana was amazing, the Supremes back singers would have been lead singers today. This is a great song not play as much, it captures the late 60s and 70s RB sounds, with a Psychedelic soul
This is one song that makes me want to cry anytime I hear it. The emotion and feeling in it. It's so beautiful. The accompaniment provided by the other two (don't know their names😭😂, just learning one of them was called Mary from the comments...guessing she's the bigger of the two singers and defs the prettiest) just makes the song 100x better!
Mary is the one with the long hair. The other Supreme is Florence. She passed years ago.
Listen to the song!
Love their outfit, looks like pajamas so simple, so chic
Such outstanding talent all around. A great song message too!
Beautiful song with a sobering message.
I Love Diana Ross.
This always reminds me of the Lana Turner movie “Imitation of Life” 😢
Great song, great performance. Love the drum roll at the beginning.
This applies to current moment as I speak!! Very strong lyrics.
They are beautiful. 😍
Love this song, really a classic
@2:17 when the three of them close in Mary Wilson's expressions always made me smile and understand why she was labeled the sexy one
I especially love Mary from 1:42 to 1:54 when she (with Cindy) dances slowly from upstage forward to the camera with that sexy look and swirl of hers.
"The Funk Brothers" were the Motown studio musicians who played on these songs.
No !! 😂😂😂
Much of the time; by this point Ross would often be flown to LA by herself if they were touring to record with anonymous session singers. Their records became more and more hasty and artificial, especially after Holland-Dozier-Holland left Motown in 1967.
Actually, I'm pretty certain the Funk Brothers were still the musicians in this track along with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Motown had not yet moved to LA and by that drum arrangement and sound and tamorine that was no doubt the Funk Brothers. Motown didn't leave Detroit til the early 70's.
Took this off the song info.
Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers
Oh Cindy, cindy, wow so fine❤️❤️😍
Incredible lyrics, and incredible delivery by Diana Ross.
Loved story songs...One of the best story songs like Elpaso, love child, taxi, cats in the cradle...
Wow, this version is so chill rocking !!!
My favourite Supremes song.
My God this song is so sad.
Nice strings.
I was twelve when this song came out. I had the 45 recording and this was the flip side of the number one hit 'love child'. I listened and loved this song even more than Love Child!
Hell i'm a dirty white boy, this song brings me to tears every time damn!
There's a "Version I" of this single by them on a "Rarities" album collection of theirs, with different Diana lead vocals and song production. On it, the backgrounds really do sound much more like partly being fellow Supremes Cindy Birdsong and Mary Wilson because the vocals resemble them singing it live with Diana (available also here on UA-cam) that same year on the "Hollywood Palace" TV variety program. Even that 1st version has additional backgrounds support you can make out by others, probably such as Motown's studio session vocalists The Andantes who appeared on many late-1960s Supremes recordings; but it would be interesting to find out if Mary and Cindy were actually included in that rarer 1st version of this single which switched them out for The Andantes on the actual 2nd version single release being lip-synched to here in this "Sullivan" show performance.
Damn, you sure know your music! So cool to learn all this. I'm a huge Motown fan but I have always focused more on the musicians and arrangements.
My favorite female artists are the Marvelletts!
Love this song
Always reminded me of the movie Imitation of Life.
"I'm Livin' in Shame" is a 1969 song released for Diana Ross & the Supremes on the Motown label. The sequel to the Supremes' number-one hit "Love Child". Inspired by the plot of Douglas Sirk's 1959 film Imitation of Life, The song explores the quest of the 'love child' to shun both her impoverished childhood and her mother, and pass herself off to her friends and new husband as the daughter of a rich family. The woman's mother ends up dying without ever seeing her daughter as an adult, or ever meeting her two-year-old grandson, to the child's regret and chagrin.
I had this record., but I didn't cry. One of my friends did, though.
I cry all the time thinking how I miss my mom. I want her back in my life. Can't wait to see her again.
Eyes of the beholder
Love this song. Thanks for posting.
Probably the most interesting story song they ever recorded. The riveting urgent guitar orchestration and background vocals all compliment Diana’s vocals to create this moment in time.
Or was the most interesting story "Love Child"?
Followup to LOVE CHILD and again no other Supreme except MS ROSS sings on the track
My favorite song of theirs
❤ wow ❤ that is so amazing it could help so many people❤
I'm surprised that Vanilla Fudge never recorded a cover of this Supremes hit.
Ha Ha Ha !!!
How it was then and continues today
Back in the days on the Ed Sullivan Show we were happy to see the Supremes they were so beautiful they made us feel beautiful. In my neighborhood and circle of friends the skinny big eyed one was the favorite. I have never seen drag where the performers wanted to imitate Mary, Flo or Cindy.
I'd take that as a compliment!
Something millennials will never understand what we had
I’d give anything to be able to see Diana Ross and supremes live! Amazing talent
You had segregation and presidential assassinations and great music
@@lucasm4299 The person assassinated us still DEAD; many have been assassinated since (?) and Lincoln was assassinated in 1865! Segregation hasn't ended, matter of fact, is your answer supposed to be a millenial's answer? It makes no sense, no matter how old you are!
@Lucas M: Error: I meant: The person assassinated is still DEAD...
@Lucas M: Just say whether you like the song or not; because social upheaval continues with each generation. Maybe that commenter shouldn't have compared music then with now; it made you give, unfortunately, the wrong answer.
From the Supremes to this. What kind of ego does it take😮
Kind of cool wearing jammies on TV.
Definitely and without a doubt their best song by far. I absolutely love this song. Not their biggest hit but their most popular for sure.
The song is so corny that it is actually quite entertaining to watch the three Supremes try to make something out of this mess. I mean how could you not laugh when listening to a song about your mama dying while making homemade jam? Homemade jam? Come on now.
@@jackjules7552 because that's what many mommas did?
i forgot about this song, Mary Wilson was a star.
I'm Living In Shame · Diana Ross & The Supremes
Mom was cooking bread,
she wore a dirty raggedy scarf around her head.
Always had her stockings low,
rolled to her feet, she just didn't know.
She wore a sloppy dress,
No matter how she tried, she always looked a mess.
Out of the pot she ate, never used a fork or a dinner plate.
I was always so afraid for my uptown friends to see her,
Afraid one day when I was grown that I would be her.
In a college town, away from home, a new identity I found.
Said I was born elite, with maids and servants at my feet.
I must have been insane,
I lied and said my mom died on a weekend trip to Spain.
She never got out of the house, never even boarded a train.
I married a guy, was livin' high,
I didn't want him to know her,
She had a grandson, two years old,
That I never even showed her.
I'm Livin' In Shame, Momma, I miss you.
I know you are not to blame, Momma, I miss you.
Came the telegram,
mom passed away while making homemade jam.
Before she died, she cried to see me by her side.
She always did her best, Ah! cookin', cleanin',
always in the same old dress.
Workin' hard down on her knees,
always try'n to please.
Momma! Momma! Can you hear me, Momma!
Momma! Momma! Can you hear me, Momma!
I'm Livin' In Shame, Momma, I miss you.
I know you've done your best
, Mama, I miss you
Won't you forgive me mama
For all the wrong I've done
I know you've done your best
Oh I know you've done the very best you could
Mama I thought you understood
Working hard, down on your knees
Thank
These lyrics are incredible, so many dimensional and risqué at the times.
Dedicated to my nana rowlands ❤❤❤❤
At last I know the correct lyrics. Ever since 1969 I thought she sang, "I would have thought she ain't never used a fork or a dinner plate."
11 months later Diana would be saying goodbye.
I wondered WHY so Many Close-ups . . . . . it was already in the works when they changed their Name to Diana Ross and The Supremes . . .
@@beautifulportland9592 Berry changed their name less than two years ago simply because he was grooming Diana as the star, and the others faded to the back. Same with Smokey and the Miracles as well as Martha and the Vandellas. David Ruffin _tried_ to rename The Temptations as _David Ruffin and the Temptations_ at the height of the group's success. But Otis wasn't having it AT ALL.
@@DavidRichardson95 Thanks, Smokey and Martha, only used their first names . . . . sounds like Diana had More sway over Berry Gordy than, we are made to believe . . . . So Glad Michael Jackson held off and put The Jackson Five and Family First before becoming the Worlds biggest SuperStar . . . .
Beautiful Portland
Actually, the Miracles became Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.
Martha and the Vandellas became Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.
Just take a look at their releases from 1967 on and you will see the name changes.
I wonder why so many people put Diana down for the Supremes’ name change but no one says a thing about the other groups?
@@RP-oe3uq Notice no kne responded to your comment...lol...because what you said is true...people just talk a whole lot of what they don't know about...always putting Diana down for this and that...The Supremes were a powerful group of singers...all of them were talented and beautiful.
This song and "Love Child" were songs that deviated from the norm for the Supremes, since they always sung love songs - I recently found out that this song, "Love Child" and even "Someday We'll Be Together" didn't have Mary and Cindy singing on the recording -- it was The Andantes singing on the record, backing Diana up - this was done under the name "Diana Ross & The Supremes"
Wonder why? Still excellent nevertheless!
Merry Clayton, Julia and Maxine Waters backed Diana on "Someday We'll Be Together" (not the Andantes) and was never meant to be a Supremes song, but was recorded as Diana's debut solo single. The Andantes did back Wanda Young on the Marvelettes version though.
♥
Great song it’s sad how we lie just to live a life that didn’t chose you there is a reason why
"Always in that same ole dress" You can tell she was the fashion police, judge and executioner
Lol
About :48 you can clearly hear Louvain Demps' lovely voice together with the Andantes.
Then why didn't Motown release the song as Diana Ross and the Andantes rather than Diana Ross and the Supremes? Another instance when the public is being deliberately lied to about the product they are buying into. Isn't deceptive marketing a crime?
The brand were “The Supremes” led by Ross. Deceptive marketing?, way out statute of limitations and not an issue to anyone as all got paid and yes, that includes lovely Ms’s Louvain Demps, Jackie Hicks and late Marlene Tate Barrows.
It's a shame for the time shift. Premiere is 2 o'clock in the morning ⌛
It was a nice gig for Mary and Cindy who didn't have to sing a single note.