Diana Ross is The Boss 1979 TV commercial

A 1979 television ad for the Diana Ross album "The Boss"

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• 1970s
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• Diana
• Ross
• the
• boss
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• 1979
• Chicago
• Dearborn
• record
• television

[SmoothCinnamonX]

@SuperstarX Diana was called "The Boss" BEFORE Springsteen was. Learn it.

[level242]

Thumbs up if you are old enough to remember when albums were advertised on American tv

[OldMotownFan]

Cool post

[Bochanable]

SperstarX: since they sing entirely different genres, there is just as much validity calling Diana, The Boss in pop/R&B/dance circles and Bruce in rock circles. There are a lot of non rock lovers that don't know Springsteen is also called The boss......just as there are a lot of rocks that don't know Diana is also called The Boss.

[Bochanable]

"The Boss" actually sold 1.2 million albums and was certified platinum!

[GloveGirl]

Great upload! It's ironic that Diana would later have an album entitled "Workin Overtime"

[EddieAlda]

Diana Ross was THE BOSS long before Bruce

[TheReturnOfStephan1]

Whoa!

I didn't even know they did this back then!

Thanks for posting.:)

[ronaldrkmartinmartin]

Loooove It!

[italoman9]

@SmoothCinnamonX Hi Smooth, wow, I stand corrected then, and I apologize.. :-o Actually, that would make sense because Motown and/or disco station DJs really, really pushed and moved that record all through high summer and into the fall of 1979. It had a great intro on it. Plus Motown was very good at taking their long-playing disco singles and editing them down to the then-still-standard "3-minute" single to upload onto commercial stations once a song showed cross-over potential. :)

[SmoothCinnamonX]

@italoman9 "The Boss" did hit Top 20 on the Hot 100, #19. :) Also #12 on Black Singles, and the LP hit #1 Dance/Disco for 2 weeks (as you pointed out), also the LP hit #14 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Gold...but Motown insiders claim it sold over 850,000.