Featured Book: Diana Ross by J. Randy Taraborrelli
Copy at Case Memorial Library
Mr. Taraborrelli writes in "Discography and Other Notes": "Stolen Moments Live — The Lady Sings … Jazz and Blues – 4/93 — R&B #73 and Jazz LP chart #10 (also available on DVD) This concert was recorded live in New York for a pay-per-view television special. With it, Diana was back with conductor/arranger Gil Askey for an evening of jazz standards. Most of the material performed here was from Lady Sings the Blues" (p. 519).
And in Part Four, "Solo Star": "Finally, with a 100-page shooting script and 168 different scenes, principal photography for Lady Sings the Blues began on 3 December 1971. Motown's Suzanne dePasse and Chris Clark had written a movie that was not really true and not really false … just a great Diana Ross vehicle. The film was very loosely based on Billie Holiday's autobiography, which she wrote with William Dufty. It told the story of how Holiday… eventually became the toast of the town with a triumphant engagement at Carnegie Hall. Along the way, she … suffers the anguish of an attack by Ku Klux Klan members while on the road …" (pp. 255-256).
Mr. Taraborrelli writes in "Discography and Other Notes": "Stolen Moments Live — The Lady Sings … Jazz and Blues – 4/93 — R&B #73 and Jazz LP chart #10 (also available on DVD) This concert was recorded live in New York for a pay-per-view television special. With it, Diana was back with conductor/arranger Gil Askey for an evening of jazz standards. Most of the material performed here was from Lady Sings the Blues" (p. 519).
And in Part Four, "Solo Star": "Finally, with a 100-page shooting script and 168 different scenes, principal photography for Lady Sings the Blues began on 3 December 1971. Motown's Suzanne dePasse and Chris Clark had written a movie that was not really true and not really false … just a great Diana Ross vehicle. The film was very loosely based on Billie Holiday's autobiography, which she wrote with William Dufty. It told the story of how Holiday… eventually became the toast of the town with a triumphant engagement at Carnegie Hall. Along the way, she … suffers the anguish of an attack by Ku Klux Klan members while on the road …" (pp. 255-256).
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