FIRST TIME HEARING Diana Ross - The Boss REACTION

[@solrack64]

she is and will be THE BOSS.... love forever

[@EssentialClassic]

One of her best. Another hit from Ashford and Simpson.

[@willmoney34]

Over the years I’ve been amazed how many great songs were written by Ashford and Simpson and Brenda Russell.

[@reubenbailey8265]

Before there was a Whitney Houston and a Beyonce,, There was Diana Ross

[@ControversialTHINK]

Diana Ross is the prettiest woman Ive seen in my life (and I'm 57 y.o.)

[@JD_ATX]

This gem of a song was written by Ashford & Simpson, who also wrote "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Remember Me". By the way, would LOVE to see you do a reaction video to "Love Hangover".

[@50CCSHUN]

They actually do refer to Diana as the boss. Diana Ross, the Boss.

[@mikel3363]

*~ I know, Diana Ross was GORGEOUS!!! She seemed to transform herself into an incredible beauty and woman in the 1970s and through having her first 3 children. A definite reaction would be to Diana's "LOVE HANGOVER" (The 7 1/2-minute version!), which went to Billboard #1, and I would say one of the top disco classics. I was an adolescent then, and Diana was a massive star. Her Caesar's Palace show from 1979 (on KZbin) is Diana at her zenith and most "magical"; well worth watching. Great Reaction and Best ~*

[@reubenbailey8265]

That entire album was great

[@smittybenzo4693]

Diana Ross is still touring in 2022 at age 78 and her voice is still strong and beautiful. Don't believe me? Do your Google's!

[@Discobiscuit372]

One of her best, love this song 👍

[@ericdennis3899]

Written And Produced By The Legendary Duo Ashford & Simpson This Is Sooooo Classic Man Can't Deny It's Status 💯 The Second Single It's My House Is A Vibbbbbbbe Bro

[@anthonyyusef5897]

That album cover for "The Boss" got a lot of attention at the time. It was really the first time Diana starting wearing big hair! Which has become her trademark. She looked very natural and still glamorous and sexy.

[@rosemarywatson1231]

I don’t remember hearing this song very often. Classic disco. Classic Diana. Classic Ashford and Simpson!

[@rosemarywatson1231]

@@michaelasay8587 a few times, but not where they played a lot of Diana Ross. Lol!

[@spicyhot2552]

Wow this is a great throw back by Diana Ross

[@phoenixforce6595]

Yeah The Boss is a disco classic

[@wade565]

This probably my favorite Diana Ross song!! Lots of great fun music during this era!!!

[@frankiebowie6174]

That’s some world class scatting when she lets loose! Great transitions from head voice to chest voice and back again.

[@VizzleCizzle]

Bless you brother ❤️ Diana forever

[@rodneyplayer5785]

She got this one in right before the disco era ended. This was a big hit in the dance clubs. I know because the club was my second home back then. Ross is the boss and the epitome of glamour. She still tours today at 78 years old.

[@StatisticsJason]

I love all her music. Good melodies and such a pretty voice. This one never got overexposed so it still sounds really fresh.

[@talltulip]

This is my favorite Diana Ross song. Most people tend to go for "I'm Coming Out," but I think this one is much better. So glad you chose it. I've never heard this extended version though.

[@rodneyplayer5785]

Terri Wyatt "I'm Coming Out" Lyrics are so so. The thing I like about that song is the production. I wasn't crazy about the lyrics and so I would rather "The Boss" with good lyrics and production.

[@chrissytina6379]

This one and "upside down" are my favorites!!

[@williammaddox3339]

I agree with you that Diana Ross' vocals were mixed too low. I suspect that was to boost the dance beats. The song did get to #1 on the dance charts.

[@ingrid8994]

One of my favorite Diana Ross songs 💗

[@lucky4724]

Miss Ross da BOSS!! Nuff Said!!! #ThrowBack⬅️⬅️🎶🎼🎶🔥🔥

[@kve1247]

Bravo Ms. Ross!! Brings back so many memories 🥰👌🏽👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️‍🔥

[@kaypeaess6266]

I like the live performance of this song at Caesar's Palace, c 1980s. Audience includes MJ, Marvin et al

[@carloscolon1916]

Actually September 1979

[@wakeupstopsleeping6300]

MM alright now giving the 12' inches..lol classic 💜🖤🤎💙💚❤️

[@italoman9]

Big dance hit constantly played off her all during the hot Boston summer of 43 years ago-wow!-by the late, great DJ Sunny Joe White on local KISS-108 FM radio station. 😍👍😎

[@StatisticsJason]

That's what is disappointing about your classic hits station WROR. They play a generic playlist of national hits but none of the songs that were big locally on WXKS. Then again they are rated #1 so I guess being generic pays off.

[@winstongee4505]

You might also like Lady Sings the Blues and The Wiz. She portrays Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues and Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. Oh, Michael Jackson is the Scarecrow and Nipsey Russell is the Tin Man.

[@TooSkinnyKenny]

I have 2 rare compilation albums of Ashford and Simpson songs that are done by other artists (they also wrote this song). I love 2 songs "Bad Company" and "I'll Just Die" that they did with their back up singer Ullanda McCullough. And Sylvester turned their song "Over And Over" inside out ("You can't be somebody's lover until you're somebody's friend")

[@chainreaction5039]

Thanks for the LOVE

[@Ramonafloyd]

I'm coming out , that Nile Rodgers joint is her best stuff to me that whole album Diana

[@JAzPuRJoHnSoN]

EXPRESSES HER SOULFUL SIDE💯🤩😍🥰🌹

[@eddiet3026]

No, it's not a cover!!! 😆😆😆😆 Millennials are HILARIOUS!

[@JustJammin]

You never know that's why I said maybe or maybe not.

[@paulsalongo4927]

So many great songs from the disco era. I was in my late teens and 20s. This was the club version of The Boss. I slightly preferred the regular edit but this was good. I usually prefer the longer club versions. This is one of the few exceptions. As a sidenote, what disappointed me with this whole covid business was it took away some of the life experiences our young people should have had. It will be part of what they'll reminisce decades later. And one more thing. It's a disco song. I love disco, and for many of us, among the best times of our lives.

[@johnneils9084]

Disco dance floor hit. I am a bigger fan of I'm Coming Out myself. Nice request & reaction.

[@私に私]

Music at this time was released on vinyl records. You had 7-inch records (referred to as 45s because they were to be played at 45 rpm [rotations per minute]) which were used for singles (typically one song on the "A" side, and another song on the "B" side). The A-side is the song the record company wanted the radio DJs to play. Then you had 12-inch records that albums were pressed on. Albums were to be played back at 33rpm [rotations per minute]. During the disco era (late 1970's) singles (one song) started being pressed on the larger 12-inch records for club DJs. Often times these club records were extended in time; made longer than the album and 45 versions of the song. These longer songs allowed people to dance longer to their jams without the DJ having to restart the song everything 3 or 4 minutes. People used to like to go clubbing and dance for hours. These longer songs also gave DJs the opportunity to take a break, go to the restroom, get a drink or what have you.

[@davidfowler2720]

Yep, and back in the day they would refer to an extended mix of a song like that as the “disco version.”

[@Will-qs3ql]

Disco classic!!

[@mitchwinthrop]

one of the greatest anthems of the disco era and one of my fave diana ross records. memories of 500+ people in the club with their hands in the air to this. like, within the last 10 years too. to the right crowd this is pure joy. glad you got it suggested.

[@terribanks8633]

Sanford & Simpson. Legendary songwriters and producers. They revived her career with this album.

[@terribanks8633]

Ashford.

[@StatisticsJason]

This came out a year after the Wiz movie if I remember correctly. The movie was considered a flop so this song helped her get back on track.

[@mitchwinthrop]

you're thinking sanford and son. a different song... which is actually by quincy jackson. 😆

[@JustJammin]

lol!

[@terribanks8633]

mitchwinthrop It was an auto spell mistake. I corrected it with Ashford. I'm 62 yrs old, a musician and avid fan of Ashford & Simpson and Quincy Jones.

[@1stpageplacementNet]

The JAM!!

[@ENDTIMEsVideoLibrary]

The vocals are lower on this mix. May be because whoever mixed this wanted the focus to be more on the beat, so they slapped a bunch of Compression/ Limiting on the song to push the Bottom End up more.. Sound guy here.. sorry.. This album was produced by Ashford and Simpson. It was during the times of Studio 54 in the heart of the Disco Era so this was a big hit in the clubs and on the radio..

[@SopranoSistah]

💃🏾❤️💯💃🏾❤️💯💃🏾

[@robertasirgutz8800]

JJ, I love this song! One of her best. DJ Disco Cat just uploaded a great remix. By the way, thank you for your generous highlighting of my comments! Maybe I have something to say! R

[@JustJammin]

Thanks, I'll have to check it out!

[@stevenfranks3131]

Her vocals were crazy on this song! Often wondered if it inspired some of Michael Jackson's later riffs....

[@reubenbailey8265]

She has alot of great stuff that I think you should check out

[@russellbaxter6518]

holy smoke nice response to that picture.

[@dcaseng]

Lol, i was gonna request this a while ago, and forgot all about it. Great song.

[@Musicdoc2023]

I mess with this song. You should react to force mds are you really real

[@PotheadGoblen]

Love your show indeed always enjoy your reactions. rock on 🤘 i can dig it also check out Johnny taylor darling I love you.

[@ramonasolano4831]

Darling I love you J T also careless with our love, just one moment, panic.

[@Triggerhippie70]

This is my SONG!!!

[@italoman9]

Huge disco song played endlessly on KISS-108 FM station in Boston during the summer of 1979, then an edited “single” version followed in the fall. Memorable and fabulous record. Motown’s middle ‘70s through middle ‘80s don’t get IMO enough deserved credit for the high quality production of their dance records during that period which were in a way just a new continuation of their label’s signature hit “production,” but just evolved out of their previous “classic era” phase years earlier. ❤😎👍🪩

[@diaquitaquita8984]

THIS SOUND DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY AND THEN IT KINDA REMINDS OF IT'S RAINING MEN IN CERTAIN PARTS OF IT.

[@TooSkinnyKenny]

I agree with what you said about the vocal though, it's mixed kind of low and the instruments, especially the strings and horns are quite loud. When Ross worked with Chic and she didn't like their mix, she decided to not use their mixes and did her own.

[@kabirahnazeem9403]

It is classified as disco

[@feet0013]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@hildat8]

🎼💃🏾🎹🎶🎵💃🏾

[@WilAdams]

Yes, as you suspected the vocals on this version are LOW, and do nothing to promote Miss Ross. This song was by far her most popular song for me. Just the idea that we all think, going into a liaison that we will be able to exit it whenever we want, only to find that LOVE will step in and show us exactly who is the BOSS.

[@zenaaubrey2701]

✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️

[@streettalk4thesoul]

not a fan of mahogany, but she's very good in lady sings the blues. you should check that one out.

[@JustJammin]

Seen it as well.

[@winstongee4505]

Please react to Mahogany here..=)

[@Triggerhippie70]

It’s that video, it’s lower for sure

[@AlkalineInsides]

I highly …. Highly recommend You Were The One by Diana Ross. Like… no seriously… make a video and everything. YOU WERE THE ONE

[@theonross357]

Yiu better recognize@JustJammin..lol