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Diana Ross (1976)

Where the lyrics of Diana Ross take you, and where it was really made.

Two of the album's tracks were number one hits, and the Mahogany theme had already come out as a single a year before the album.

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Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To): number one hit, released as a single in 1975 from the Mahogany soundtrack
Love Hangover: disco anthem and number one hit
Official lead single I Thought It Took A Little Time was on its way to becoming a hit when its chart life was cut short by Love Hangover, which was rushed to release alongside a competing version by The 5th Dimension
I Thought It Took A Little Time became a Top 5 Adult Contemporary single despite a shortened run on the Billboard Hot 100
Final single One Love in My Lifetime, disco-flavoured, became a Top 10 US R&B hit
The album includes covers of Smile, the Charlie Chaplin standard, and Ain't Nothin' But A Maybe
Ain't Nothin' But A Maybe had previously been recorded by its writers Ashford & Simpson and Rufus & Chaka Khan

1	Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To?)	3:22
2	I Thought It Took a Little Time (But Today I Fell in Love)	3:19
3	Love Hangover	7:49
4	Kiss Me Now	2:42
5	You're Good My Child	3:35
6	One Love in My Lifetime	3:37
7	Ain't Nothin' But a Maybe	3:35
8	After You	4:06
9	Smile	2:55

Diana Ross was born March 26, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan, and was the lead singer of the Supremes.
The Supremes joined Motown in 1961 under the name chosen by Florence Ballard, after the group first formed as the Primettes.
The Supremes became Motown's most successful act in the 1960s and one of the best-selling girl groups of all time.

The Supremes' members included Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, and later Cindy Birdsong.
Ross left the Supremes in 1970 and began a solo career.

The Supremes remain the best-charting female group in history, with 12 number-one pop singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
Ross's solo career produced six Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, including "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Endless Love".
Ross starred in Lady Sings the Blues (1972), earning Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations, and later starred in Mahogany and The Wiz.
Ross has sold over 100 million records worldwide as a solo artist.
Ross was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 as a member of the Supremes and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.

Later artists covered the album's songs: Roberta Flack recorded After You on her 1977 album Blue Lights In The Basement
Stacy Lattisaw covered I Thought It Took a Little Time on her 1985 album I'm Not The Same Girl
Joss Stone covered One Love in My Lifetime on her 2012 album The Soul Sessions Vol. 2
Theme from Mahogany and Love Hangover have been covered by many artists, including Mariah Carey, Shirley Bassey, Johnny Mathis, Jody Watley, Jennifer Lopez and Tina Arena
Motown/Universal re-released the album in a 2012 Expanded Edition with shelved tracks and alternative versions

Billboard 200 and R&B Albums chart: top five
Certified gold by the BPI
Grammy Award nomination for Love Hangover (Best R&B Performance, Female Artist)
Academy Award nomination for Best Song for Theme from Mahogany
Ross performed Theme from Mahogany live via satellite from Amsterdam, where it was still dark in the early morning hours

Ross performed many tracks from the album on her Tony Award-winning An Evening with Diana Ross Broadway show, tour, television special and album
Victor Skrebneski's album photograph was later chosen by the Italian Fan Club association as 'The Most Beautiful Album Art'
Russ Terrana was credited as mixing engineer, with mixing and mastering done at Motown/Hitsville U.S.A. Recording Studios
The 2012 Expanded Edition added covers of songs by Elton John and Sly and the Family Stone that had been shelved
Ross's solo album came out a few weeks before the Grammy and Academy Award nominations were announced in the same period