Diana Ross & The Supremes "Medley: I'm The Greatest Star..." on The Ed Sullivan Show
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- Diana Ross & The Supremes perform a medley of "I'm The Greatest Star, Funny Girl, Don't Rain On My Parade and People" on The Ed Sullivan Show on September 29, 1968. Subscribe now to never miss an update: ume.lnk.to/EdSullivanSubscribe
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Nobody does it like DIANA ROSS.
52 years ago this month. A spectacular performance
OMG! We can enjoy it in high quality, at last!
I know!!!! Finally!!!!!
FOR REAL!!!
The three of them could sing anything - and often did.
That brings back so many memories
the cut, the undergarmen, and the fabric make an excellent look for all the girls
If this video doesn't show how much Diana was ready for a solo career, I don't know what would. 24 years old, wow. Talk about the "it" factor.
Ego
She's perfect.
Were the Supremes' fans dying for her to have a solo career? This number would have been far less interesting and entertaining if it was just her.
@@jackjules7552 you are correct with that observation. The truth is that the fans weren’t “dying” for Diana to leave but there was so much talk about it happening eventually that we kind of expected it. Even without Flo there, the group was still selling out shows.
Diana is magnificent on this. Mary and Cindy did great too.
Mary and Cindy...my, my my!
Love your comment 😄❤❤❤❤💗💗💗💗💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
The legend and icon Diana Ross. Amazing.
Can't NOBODY work a DOUBLE BOA like ONLY Miss Ross could! Whew!!!!
The Supremes was a favorite of Ed Sullivan they were on the show about 15 times
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But Ed never invited Miss Ross on the show when she went "solo." He did invite the new Supremes without Miss Ross.
@@jackjules7552 He like the supremes
@@jackjules7552 Wow!!!
The best thing I’ve ever seen
Why THE HELL hasn't MATTEL made a set of "Barbie loves Diana Ross & The Supremes" wearing these very gowns????
And Diana proved she really was a natural Camille a few years later in "Lady Sings the Blues."
When Diana segues from “Funny Girl” to “Don’t Rain on my Parade” and she whirls around into 3 perfectly choreographed spins and then she stomps her foot right before jumping into the song she is telling us and showing us that she is ready to go out on her own and an important aspect to the Ross mystique was born.
Her acting at the beginning of the medley was spot-on.
We finally get to enjoy this Supreme performance in excellent quality!
Cathy K,
I’m saying that the segment of the medley when Diana spins 3 times, then stomps her foot and then starts singing is perfectly choreographed. She is point-on, graceful and elegant all while showing her determination, independence and strength which is the theme of “Don’ Rain on my Parade”. These characteristics of a strong woman became steadfast elements of Diana’s persona as a performer. It was the perfect segue and choreography for “Parade’s” intro as the song deals with these themes of being a powerful woman.
No body can sing People like Flo Ballard heard her sing it live Cindy an Mary are Beautilful Women
@@RP-oe3uq ...you SAID it, Kid!! ...ha-HAAA!! >soRIGHTtoo
RBS,
I’m glad you get my comment. When I first saw this medley on tv way back in 1968 those few seconds of Diana stepping away from the group and dancing, spinning and stomping made such an impression on me. That supremely choreographed moment said it all - she was on her way to solo stardom and I couldn’t wait!
@@RP-oe3uq ...'cause we were THERE, Kid, we KNOW! ...In late-1968 (52 YEARS AGO!), this was unprecedented to see BLACK GIRLS accepted by mainstream TV audiences (read:WHITE), doing standards, Pop, R&B, 'conscious' songs, and showing VERSATILITY that can be 'marketable' for success - Diana was a RAW talent, and THIS perfomance showed HER versatility....
...you are SPOT-ON, about the 'step & twirl' reply, because she showed, TRUE TALENT, and THIS was HER 'moment'....YES, 'backing' Mary & Cindy behind her, calls for it, within this performance,it's called, 'I'M the Greatest Star"! ...AND, she's doing this on LIVE TV! ...let's just appreciate this, being restored, and watch "The Star", shall we!?? ...ha-HAAA!!
....Mary has now left us...The "Greatest Star"..in the backround, has NOW become front and CENTER, as the ULTIMATE Supreme....RIP, Beautiful One (...with one of her best 'Supremes' looks), ...TOUCH....
That intro got me smiling like an idiot, such class and sweetness
The reminds me of “Dreamgirls.”
Diana Ross ++++++
This is what Berry Gordy was talking about. Diana was a star not just an r&b singer. Those are commonplace, STARS are not born everyday.
MORE SUPREMES!!! MORE MORE MORE MORE
THE SULLIVAN SHOW IS ON THE decades CHANEL,. BUT THEY IOFTEN CUT OUT THE INBETWEEN BANTER AND SHORTN THE SONGS SUCH AS FATS WALLER PRODUCTIION.
One Of My Favorite Groups
The Supremes
I Love You Girls So Much ♥️🌹♥️🌹♥️🌹♥️🌹♥️🌹♥️🌹♥️
Mary, you are with Flo, now! You will be missed. Good bye Mary! Mary Wilson (March 6, 1944 - Feb 8, 2021)
The LP is excellent.
Peacefull778, You’re right. All the Supremes wanted this particular formation of the group to come to an end. I remember how I couldn’t wait for Diana to leave. You’re also right that the 70s Supremes had a new energy and this helped them rack up some wonderful hits through 1976 or so. Radio DJ’s would play up competitions between the group and Diana when their songs would hit the airwaves around the same time. Fun days.
People.. He he..griping about too many Supremes vids on this channel. Why not? They were the most successful American group of the 1960's!!! 😎
There could never be too many Supremes videos!
@@donnieconner7278 AMEN BROTHER, AMEN!!!!!! There really COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE "too many" Supremes videos? NO!!!! KEEP THEM COMING!!!!!!
Actually, with 12 number 1 hits, they still hold the record as the most successful American vocal group of ALL time, not just the 60's..........male OR female!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Ronald McFondle The Andrews Sisters did NOT have 12 number one records..........no even close!!!!!!!!!!!
There could easily be more. Consider yourself fortunate that someone actually recorded these amazing, commanding, soulful etc,etc,etc performances for us to enjoy some 40-50 yrs later. I am still in awe of some of these live performances.
Classic..Diana & Mary can do any kind of music.. Diana Mary & Cindy,, Beautiful..
Great Gowns.....wish Mary had them in her collection.
They were probably destroyed in the Mexican fire along with a number of others.
Great performance!
Diana Ross & The Supremes good good good!!!!
So Amazing!!
obsessed with how Ms. Ross sings people 5:50
Marvelous. Simply marvelous.
Wow! That was fantastic!!!
Impressively Splendid !!!!!!
I'm here for 👑 CONNIE FRANCIS and Diana Ross and The Supremes 🌟 please upload more Connie =) We wanna see her Winchester Cathedral performance =) ❤ R.i.p Ed Sullivan.... Thanks for the music! Keep rockin and rolling in Heaven
WOW!!!! very rare, thanks for sharing. LOVE THE QUALITY! Keep the Supremes videos coming.
Black elegance. We are kings and queens.
The baby face 😭
Is it a promo of Sing And Perform “Funny Girl” EXPANDED EDITION?😆 Can’t wait!
Diana knocks it out of the ballpark! Mary and Cindy too. Cindy and Mary's expressions in the beginning are freaking hilarious and on cue. A true reflection of where they were as a group. Just sick of Diana's ego. Diana is amazing here but also so full of it. I imagine as Diana is breathing her last breaths (hopefully decades from now) she'll be singing I'm the Greatest Star as she makes her exit from this earth.
Boy, have you got that right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And if she did not have that drive and ego Mary would have disappeared long ago...as Florence did from 67 until her death. Jeez, give the woman a break.
Y'all love to shit on Diana because she had the drive and willpower to go beyond the Supremes. If it weren't for Diana the group would have fallen apart way before. Just pack it up.
Well, it might fit thematically, but if she's thinking about her own music, (and I suspect if she's lucid at that time she'll be thinking about her family) I'd imagine she'd be thinking about one of the songs she's been singing regularly for many years like Ain't No Mountain High Enough.
I love it I can't wait to see full performance I wish all show did this now post oldies on UA-cam
😍😍😳 NICE!
I never knew they sang all of the standards that are showcased here now on YT. I know they opened for a Judy Garland concert in Texas sometime in the mid-Sixties and this always puzzled me, but now I see the connection.
....this was to promote "The Supremes Sing 'Funny Girl'" (..STILL never issued on CD!), but, it CLEARLY was meant to promote MISS ROSS!! ...AND, featuring a young black girl doing show-tunes like this THEN, paved the way for more black female Broadway stars to get 'Pop Star' recognition, like Audra McDonald, Leslie Uggams, Diahann Carroll, Melba Moore, Diana Sands...Miss Ross...breaking BARRIERS, 'cause she's the GREATEST....STAR!!! ..ha-HAA!!
Ethel Waters, Juanita Hall, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Diana Sands and others had achieved success in the theater and on Broadway long before Diana became a star.
mysky yes!!!
It is finally being released on CD this month. Check Amazon
@@design17 ...Oh, belieeeeve me, I know; I meant that black female 'Pop' stars can cross over to Broadway and keep both audiences....Jennifer Holliday, Toni Braxton, Jennifer Hudson, et al, can swing back n' forth from the genres & not be pigeonholed, BECAUSE of Diana...she IS 'The Greatest Star', y'know.... ; )
@@mas1256 ....WHAAAAATT!??? >offtoamazon
パレードに雨を降らさないでを聴けたのが嬉しい！Japanが初期の頃、カバーしてたのです♪
Take notes, Beanie. There will be a quiz afterwards....
I loved this!!!
I soooooo wish this could've continued with Jean. But Ed Sullivan was the only venture that facilitated these types of performance. And The Supremes started out so IN POINT with Jean. They would've Exploded in grand style which would've made Jean happy. I LOVE THE SUPREMES!
MsDR is Absolutely Gorgeous
Very nice!
Is it just me or I like it when they act like this in this way I just wish flo was on here and that mary and flo should have had at least four leads 🥰🥰😪
6:20 Ross clearly knew what she was doing. Cindy Birdsong recounted it in an interview. She stated that what appeared to be Diana looking up to the heavens was actually her looking up at the television monitor mounted to the ceiling to be sure she was covering her and Mary's faces. This wasn't a diva move, it was typical Ross narcissism.
🙏🏿❤️💐
Smokey Robinson to Berry Gordy Jr. : She, (Diana Ross,), may not have the strongest voice, BUT man when she catches on, WATCH OUT!! Guess what? Diana Ross DID catch on!! It was at that moment, he took a chance and signed "The Girls," to Motown!! Smart move B.G.!! They truly reigned as THE SUPREMES! 💅💅💅
Her voice didn't need strength it had a unique tone and the could sing anything...she was Broadway ready
AMAZING TO THINK THE SUPREMES WERE MID 20s HERE..... OVER 50YRS AGO ..PS STRIESAND WAS AMUSED WHY MISS ROSS WANTED TO SING HER SONGS......
Flo use to perform the song people she was Awesome!! Barry took the song give it to his lover Daina Flo was never to sing it Any more
Diana goad give to you much live
This would have been sooo much better if 1, it was DMF and 2, if each of them sang a part of the medley and feature all three. Gordy should have had the vision to see the money he could have made featuring all three Supremes. Ah but I digress. Past is the past.
This format was intentional, Diana was supposed to go solo the following year. This performance was promoted for Ross as a solo performer and the Supremes as a contemporary group. It's easy to look at this performance and see it as Diana and Barry forcing their hands, but it was more a strategic marketing ploy than anything else.
Sad not to see Florence Ballard perform the medley. Cindy Birdsong had replaced Flo the year before this Supremes' performance on Ed Sullivan.
Mary Wilson looks like a brown skinned Marilyn Monroe here!!!
PEOPLE will always belong to FLORENCE!!!
I wonder if she had still been in the group would they have had her version on the album or perform it on TV?I know Diana did perform it when Flo had a sore throat, but the fans knew she usually sang it.
+Hoopz Neal it has been said that Diana was about to take the song but Idk I feel that they wouldn't perform People on TV with Florence on lead, even if it was part of a medley.
Florence is the lead on ain't that good news and they would put out a medley of Sam Cooke songs on big gigs like Roostertail '66, but they wouldn't include this tune.
I wish Flo would got a chance to sing lead on TV, we only can see her doing one verse of Eight Days a Week on Shindig! in 65
LOVED FLO
Cindy was adorable but not a patch on Blondie Flo! She had a power-house voice like Etta James and so much personality. Diana Ross took over. Once she got her claws into Berry Gordy there was no chance for Flo or Mary to have any lead vocals.
+Live Life same here, I'll always defend her earthy self, her big voice and even bigger heart and soul. She reminds me a little of Etta James and Billie Holiday, very heavy voice and large range. Still, even though Gordy and Motown considered her voice enough commercial, I think she could’ve had been a success in her own right. She needed tools and time happened to be one of them. I wish she had that chance.
I love how at the end, she steps in front and blocks their faces with her arms and hands. On the one hand, it seems cruel and petty, on the other, such a diva, queen bee move. Aretha did the same to Michael McDonald on their duet at some awards show.
Been a motown
fan since I started listening to music even though at the time when I'm 5 years old I'm basically just listening to what grown folks are listening to Berry Gordy Was obsessed with Crossing over AKA mass appeal It's kind of what Eddie Le vert said about his son Gerald le vert he wanted a pop hit so badd I like when a black groups cross over organically Not when they pander to white people
Well said bro
I wanna see The Broadway Medley next that I have heard about. Does anyone know if that was during Flo's tenure of Cindy's?
Cindy's
@@tillmandavid9448 Oh really, thanks do you know the songs they performed in the medley
I think you mean their “GIT On Broadway” TV special with The Tempts a year later in ‘69 on NBC? Or maybe the Irving Berlin medley clip from a show earlier in ‘68 here on Sullivan-would love to see that posted fully remastered here soon! 👍
Florence incredible
This is the infamous performance where, either accidentally or intentionally, she covers Mary and Cindy’s faces at the end by hyperextending her arms…
With all due respect that wouldn’t have changed anything. Diana ruled this performance.
More like the Diana Ross show! (RIP Florence Ballard) :(
Ok they signed on to Dianna Ross and the Supremes... don't see the issue
Judy Garland had nothing on these ladies. For all the fame the Supremes achieved, they show here that they were still in a way underrated. They weren't just a pop girlie group.
Huh?
You mean Barbra Streisand? And for the record, Judy Garland’s voice is LIFE. One of the top vocalist of all time.
@@schoolgyrl6 Right-o
People needing people?!??? That's the biggest lie yet. As I sing like Fanny Brice. The parade never stop even when it's raining.
what is this,the Dianna Ross channel? :-)
It's actually the Supremes channel😁
@Linda Hines Preach nothing but the truth
I see early in the performance Diana delivers a couple of body blows to Mary. Then right at the end Diana blocks Mary and Cindy's faces.
Yea, I didn’t like how she did that at the end:/
But you ignore the way Mary pushed Diana's arm so hard in the beginning that it made Diana move? Lol
If there was any tension in this group you never seen it on TV . They were real professionals. By this time Mary and Cindy were ready to see Ross go, and bring in new energy into the group
And did new engery come
The 70's Supremes were great with Jean Terrell and the other 7 ladies to follow Good music and they became a solid Soulful group .
@@AlkalineInsides Looked like she was grabbing Diana's breast, probably to make her jump. Also Mary borrows the patented Ross brush the hair out of the eye move to draw attention to herself and away from Ross. Later, Ross coughs in Mary's face. Good thing there was no COVID back then.
@@TheReturnOfStephan1 Not so much as she's told; she's bent backward looking up to the ceiling. Must have been a monitory up there because she then adjusts her arms to cover their faces. Cindy mentioned this in an interview years back of Diana doing this and this must be the performance.
No one beats Streisand
In your opinion.
Barbra Streisand?
Call me old fashioned but I feel uncomfortable watching non-Florence Ballard Supremes videos.
Poor Flo
Just gotta adjust bro. Happened so long ago.-- but your hair is beautiful by the way. Love.
It was never the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Ronald McFondle Yes, Flo had the pipes!
The Man MANN it is
The nit-pickyness in me is low key mad that Mary wasn’t as close to Diana as Cindy was during that zoom out part at 5:46! It kinda messed up the effect of them still being right next to her after she was seen departing from them in the last scene (5:01). But that’s just the Supremes fan in me. I LOVE them and notice every little intricacy of their performances. I am so sad I never got the opportunity to meet Mary before she passed. 😢
This is nice in retrospect. But put yourself in a teenager’s position with Vietnam on your mind… I don’t think this is what most of America’s youth really wanted to listen to, hence the commercial failure of the album (as well as most other DRATS efforts of this time). Maybe someone’s gay uncle or great grandmother would have loved it. Anyone else? A definite pass.
They had 12 number 1 hits and still are the most successful girl group in American history
I loved it...and was a teenager at the time so...so much for your analysis
@@hunty9159 The most successful American group male or female in history...that 12 # ones record has never been broken by any American group
What I got from this performance ,which I didn't even know existed, is that Dianna Ross must have auditioned for the role in funny girl but did not get the role because she was black in a climate that had just started to except us. In my opinion this performance was the Supremes way of saying, Dianna could have done this role and in my opinion she did an excellent job of proving her point! Performers like Baps and Selene Dion are great singers but the black community has never been a thought in their projected fan base. I was born in1968 at the turning point of this idiotic Donald Trump like mentality. With that said, we won just as we always do in the end.......
No.
Diana would have never auditioned for Funny Girl on Broadway as she never had the chops to do 6-8 shows a week. Babs did, and had already done it in I Can Get if For Your Wholesale. After she killed Funny Girl. on Broadway, the movie was made specifically to showcase her in the part.
Diana (and Barry) were determined to position Miss Ross as a Black version of Miss Streisand and this project was intended to put her at that level and to establish an African American singer with the same prestige and respect Streisand was getting.
PS.. this entire cd has just been re-released.
check it out.
As I commented earlier, this is perfect example of where the group was at this point. Diana full of herself and Mary and Cindy were having to put up with her attitude. The expressions of Mary and Cindy are priceless. And despite what Berry and Diana thought of them, after this week we know now that the world loved Mary Wilson. When the New York Times lavishes praise on someone in a lengthy obit you know that person was someone on note. On top of that, the 3 major networks devoted several minutes to Mary's death on their morning and evening newscasts. So rare. Some other major Oscar winners as of late barely got 30 seconds. Pretty much every major newspaper and tv station around the world reported on her death. I'm sure Diana was shocked to know that not just Supremes fans but everyone loved Mary, Flo, and Cindy equally!
@@JCNDCIII so how did mary's post death album sell? Rocketed to the top I believe and has stayed there ever since.
Over here most reports of Mary's passing showed diana singing.
@@wonderboyjoy Kind of hard for a dead woman to promote an album. Right? So I think it is doing just fine for her best fans. I love it. How many of Diana's solo albums reached #1 in the US? ZERO. Most didn't break the top 100. It's all about the material. Had The Ross-led Supremes not had the HDH songs there would not be a "Diana!" Some of the crap Diana has put out is unlistenable IMO. And her albums reflect that. But she is still one of my fav singers. However, I cringe when she sings "I, I will survive." She needs to give that one and a few others in her concert set list a rest. "Thank You" will be for her most devoted fans. I hope it has a break out hit because I want her to top the charts again but it's doubtful.
For as good as Diana was, why was she so insecure about her singing partners is mystifying to me.
Because when the Supremes Flo an Mary had it going on Flo could really sing Beautiful fine Talented thats why Daina wanted flo out Daina was not the Best Lady Singer at Motown it Flo an Tammy Terrell had live Martha Reeves had all the Hits When Barry an Daina stared their affair all the Att went to Daina
@@thatgirlteateagang9193 She wasn't the best, but she wasn't the worst. Flo was ok, she is overrated.
@@paulsmith2279 if you kept in touch, you'd see that she won't answer that among alot of other questions.
i don't get why they put Diana in that wig for this performance? That's the Love Child wig, and it's awful. it's weird.
Don't say that too loud! Diana will call Berry and Tell on you, lol!
😂
Because this was performed the same episode when they first performed Love Child maybe she just didn't feel like changing the wig
I thought that was a Vandella wig that Miss Ross snatched from wardrobe.
Love the Supremes, but Diana should not have taken on Barbara Streisand tunes.
She did a bloody great job.
Isn't there a story out there that Barbara Streisand didn't like the fact that Diana Ross sang her songs?
Well, 10 days after the release of the movie, the supremes sings medley from funny girl. Maybe it was some sort of a promotional idea from the movie studio?
Klopt...her songs...her show..her musical...but Diana is not al legend like Barbra
@@eoostrof9864 She very much is. Barbra is no doubt one of the greatest voices to ever live, but Diana's cultural and social impact goes above any other during her time.