Tuesday, June 09, 2020

WIKIAPEDIA gets it wrong again

We call it CRAPAPEDIA for a reason.  See if you can spot the error below in the list of Diana Ross compilation albums:

Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[1]
US
R&B
[1]
AUS
[2]
CAN
[3]
NLD
[4]
UK
[5]
Greatest Hits
  • Released: 1972
  • Label: Motown
34
Diana Ross' Greatest Hits[A]
  • Released: July 12, 1976
  • Label: Motown
13 10 47 6 2
20 Golden Greats
  • Released: October 1979
  • Label: Motown
2
To Love Again
  • Released: February 17, 1981
  • Label: Motown
32 16 39 26
All the Great Hits
  • Released: October 1981
  • Label: Motown
37 14 24 21
Collection
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Motown
27
Diana's Duets
  • Released: January 29, 1982
  • Label: Motown
43
Love Songs
  • Released: November 1, 1982
  • Label: K-tel
86 5
Anthology
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Motown
63 44
Portrait 8
Love Songs
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Telstar
10
Dance Songs
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Telstar
24
Love Songs
(with Michael Jackson)
  • Released: September 1, 1987
  • Label: Telstar
12
The Diana Ross Story
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: K-tel
40
Motown's Greatest Hits
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Motown
20
Forever Diana: Musical Memoirs
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Motown
88
One Woman: The Ultimate Collection
  • Released: October 1, 1993
  • Label: EMI
55 1
Diana Extended: The Remixes
  • Released: April 12, 1994
  • Label: Motown
68 58
Voice of Love
Gift of Love (in Asian markets)
  • Released: November 29, 1996
  • Label: EMI
42
Greatest Hits: The RCA Years
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: RCA
40 Golden Motown Greats
  • Released: October 19, 1998
  • Label: Motown
35
Love & Life: The Very Best of Diana Ross
  • Released: January 15, 2001
  • Label: EMI
100 28
Diana Ross & the Supremes: The No. 1's
  • Released: October 21, 2003
  • Label: Motown
72 63 18 15
Soul Legends 86
The Definitive Collection
  • Released: August 29, 2006
  • Label: Hip-O
Playlist Your Way
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Motown
100
Complete Collection
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: USM
5
The Greatest
  • Released: November 7, 2011
  • Label: Universal
97 24
Icon
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: Motown
72
Upside Down: The Collection
  • Released: November 6, 2012
  • Label: Spectrum
Playlist: The Very Best of Diana Ross
  • Released: May 21, 2013
  • Label: RCA
Diana Ross Sings Songs from The Wiz
  • Released: November 27, 2015
  • Label: Universal
36
Diamond Diana: The Legacy Collection
  • Released: November 17, 2017
  • Label: Motown
30 18
Supertonic: Mixes
  • Released: May 29, 2020
  • Label: Motown




Did you catch it?


Here's a clue.

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DIANA ROSS SINGS SONGS FROM THE WIZ -- reviewed here by Kat -- is not a compilation album.  It does not gather recordings from various albums and put them all on one album.

This is a studio album that Diana recorded at the end of the 70s with the intent of it being released at the start of 1979.

From the MOTOWN press release:

Diana Ross Sings Songs from The Wiz was originally scheduled for release on Motown Records in January 1979, after the film version of the hit Broadway musical premiered in October, 1978. After filming, Ross had entered the studio in Los Angeles at the request of Motown, which commissioned producer/arranger Lee Holdridge to record her singing cover versions of the songs from The Wiz, assuming all the roles, delivering what we now can hear as a tour-de-force performance.  Recreating not only her part as the naive Dorothy on the smash "Ease on Down the Road," which she performed as a duet with a young Michael Jackson in the film, the signature "Is This What Feeling Gets?" and the Luther Vandross-penned show-stopper, "A Brand New Day (Everybody Rejoice)," Ross also took on the goofy Scarecrow ("You Can't Win"), the yearning Tin Man ("Slide Some Oil To Me"), the tough, but tender-hearted Lion ("[I'm a Mean] Old Lion"), the endearing mother figure Aunt Em ("The Feeling We Once Had"), the eccentric Wiz ("So You Wanted To Meet the Wizard"), the Evil Witch ("Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News") and the heroic Good Witch ("Believe In Yourself").
"We literally ran into the studio in a great hurry to do this," recalls Holdridge, who had previously worked with Ross handling orchestrations and arrangements for the feature film Mahogany, and co-produced the album with Suzanne dePasse and Ross. "We knew all the keys and stuff like that, so we tried to emulate what some of the film tracks were like. Diana was excited about it."
It had been a long-standing dream for Diana Ross to play Dorothy, and singing all the songs for this album was a tribute to her versatility as a vocalist. Her emotion can be felt on two ballads that didn't make the movie's final cut, including "Wonder Wonder Why," written for the original stage show, but deleted before opening, and Ashford & Simpson's "Is This What Feeling Gets?," with music from Quincy Jones, which was recorded for and included in the film soundtrack, but deleted from the movie itself. Until the belated release of Diana Ross Sings Songs from The Wiz, the only track that had been available was "Home," as part of her 2001 Motown Anthology compilation.  That song remained a staple of Miss Ross' stage show for years, along with, for a short while, a truncated performance of the album in which she played all the parts, just as she does on this long-unavailable release.
Ross's solo take on the project was intended to complement the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of The Wiz, which was produced by Quincy Jones and Ashford & Simpson. The soundtrack was a commercial success reaching gold status in the US and spawning the top 40 single, "Ease On Down The Road" featuring Diana Ross and a 20-year-old Michael Jackson.


As explained above, this is a studio album.  Diana went into the studio and recorded each track with the intent of this being MOTOWN's WIZ album.

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CRAPAPEDIA.  There's a reason so many of us don't trust it -- it can't even get the basics right.