Diana Ross on the Mike Douglas Show 1972 (Full Interview) 

She may not be the superstar everybody loves, but she was the superstar we needed at this time. She opened up the flood gates for female entertainers

There's no one like Diana........ Classy and talented lady and still going strong at 74 !

Mike Douglas was a class act.

She is simply mesmerizing...I can't take my eyes off her I wAs OBSESSED with her as a child (12y.o) w/this movie came out.....and ironically it introduced me to "jazz" at a very early age..so yes the power of art/cinema ...this is the quintessential Diana Ross, you real see and feel her star power , she reeks of charisma !!!!

Her speaking voice is like bells... BEAUTIFUL. She's BEAUTIFUL ❤️❤️❤️

there's such an elegance in the way she speaks. She still sounds the same but not quite like she does here

Was in grade 9 when I happened to be recovering from the flu. Turned television on and lo and behold; Miss Diana Ross was on,!! Remember like it was yesterday! Happy early 76 Diana!!! 😁😁👍

I forgot how professional Mike Douglas was. I liked when the other guests spoke and he politely brought it back to Diana... And to him. I had a sense that he was saying this is my show. You speak when I asked you to speak. 🤣🤣

the lady can sing anything. even when she speaks her voice caresses you. wat a gift God has given her.

I've been enjoying watching interviews with Diana Ross. It's lovely to see how down-to-earth she is. Great, legendary singer and performer. 🙂❤👍🌷🍀🌾🌸🌺

Best interview I ever saw on Diana Ross

I like the way Diane focuses on the subject. Smart, talented and very pretty here.

She was the first female African American superstar that was just "A Super Star" ... props to Miss Ross.

Diana’s honey silk voice is Supreme, as always

I’m sure Lady Day (where ever her soul rests) was pleased with the way Diana honored her legacy. She Diana is now the grand dame and deserves to have her life and legacy portrayed on the big screen.

Diana ross was born too be a star. Whatever "it" is, she have it in spades.

Adore Diana !!!!!! She’s a legend !!!!!!

I've been a huge admirer of the Boss Miss Ross for Years. It's a huge compliment whenever other people say the I resemble the Elegant & Eloquent Beauty🌹

Fantastic interview and singing. True songstress 💜

So pretty....Diana really blossomed as she aged. #LEGEND

This interview proves why media training still matters.

I was in tears good morning heartache. Sit down.

ICON! 😊

Diana is Amazing !.

What a beautiful person diana is she doesent age just gets better looking every time i see her one of God angels and the voice of an angel thank you diana you gave me some of the most beauitful songs with the supreames the best of motown love the way u sing anything!!!

Thank you for bringing it back.....such great memories.

This is a gem! Loved it!

Billy Eckstine, Ruth Gordon, Totie Fields and Diana Ross. Now THAT's an afternoon of great people. Show's how young Ms Ross was here if she didn't realize that Mr. B had worked with Billie Holiday. Although, he mostly worked with her rival and his protege, Sarah Vaughan. More importantly, how much at that time recent African American history was suppressed and left out of the conversation. Also shows that the last two decades of focusing on that history and bringing it out has been an extraordinarily positive thing for everybody.

What a tremendous piece of history...

Ms. Ross is pure elegance & class. side note** The host was captivated lol

Rest in paradise to Mary and Flo back together again 💜 Prayers for Cindy Birdsong 😢 🕊️

Wow - loved "Good Morning Heartache" here.

A Legend. A movie should be made on her life but not only throughout her band like in dream girls.

I always loved watching the Mike Douglas show and of course Diana Ross. Wow, this was the year of my graduating High School.

She was so attractive omg.

.Miss Diana was so real and sincere and opeaned and her talking voice is so elegant and Crisp High tone and natural . then her first Soprano was very rich in tone and she goes to a lot of ranges on " I cryed for you " I. wished she sung more like this style .because it gave her .more. of a variety of vocal dynamic s . more soulful . she is a 10 on mike Doug las .1970

Mike Douglas was such a genial host. Very nice man!

Her voice... live was fantastic, her tone even and solid which is unherd of now. When some one sings live M/C it's actually a trick reck !!!!

LOVE THIS. Such an artist

The greatest superstar there ever was.sublime

Great clip

Wow...what an amazing and rare clip. THanks so much for posting!!

This is painfully good! Thank you for posting!!

A star ⭐️

AWESOME interview. Never saw this before. Thanks for posting.

National Treasure !!!

Just Wow. Thank you so much for this unbelievably wonderful and appreciated share! 😍

I was delighted she said You’ve Changed and Good Morning Heartache were her favourites. Whilst GMH is the standout. Her performance of You’ve Changed (imo) was the closest she came to sounding like Lady Day.

i went to see this movie Lady sings the blues 8 times when it came out

The BOSS!!😍☀️

I remember this show back then. I was age 11 during 1972. This show and Merv Griffin show were on every weekday afternoon. Sometimes I watched these shows during summer.

Classy lady

Diana, Nice Voice.

Great interview!!! Thanks for posting.

GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE ❤️❤️❤️🎵🎵🎵🔥🔥🔥🎤🎤🎤

That was just a gem, yeah shame about the words/numbers on the screen but loved every single minute of that. She was stunning here!

Yes finally a fan channel! ❤️

This was after Tracee was born awwww💜💙

I so wish those letters and numbers were not in the middle. That is so messed up. It's even more too bad because the quality is great.

I would love to see that Mike Douglas show with the Supremes and the Temptations joining together for the first time circa 1966! Notice the guests on the panel as they contribute to the coversation, Diana strictly ignored them! What a lady!

OMG I recognize a certain level of vulnerability in her that I had not understood before.

most of these come from a dutch company that archived many shows so someone used the original feed but we would likely not see them at all if they didnt post so I appreciate the posts.

She was at her most beautiful here IMHO.

wow. I love the video but the tape imprint is so distracting. I know unfortunately those daily shows back then did not preserve a lot of tape. Years ago I started to collect a significant number of Ross's taped interviews and performances throughout her entire career. I'll have to go through my catalog and see if I have this. Without the imprint this tape would be quite wonderful for Ross fans and Mike Douglas fans. I'm happy to see this just the same though.

First time seeing this clip very smart and talented woman and classy I saw this movie when I first came out saw with my parents along with the Godfather I was 12 years old at the time such a beautiful woman and a great singer

I was obsessed with LADY SINGS THE BLUES when the movie came out. I do remember this very Mike Douglas afternoon interview, and when I saw Diana here, I was over the moon. As many are stating this talk is the very best of Diana Ross. Her sincerity on her press tours for LSTB is something I have always remembered. Diana wanted to inspire people, speaking with ellegance and purpose. A cut above. Indeed, Mike Douglas seems beguiled... Again, this is the Diana Ross I most remember over the "I'm Coming Out" disco queen of later years... And yes, she does seem incredibly nice and accommodating in this vulnerable interview, despite a different kind of reputation that would later follow her...

Maybe I'm an ignoramus, but I prefer Diana Ross' s versions of these old great songs to Ms. Holliday's.

Délicieuse Diana Ross.

A couple of things are interesting about her. You can tell the famous Motown “charm school”(artist and development) she took probably more seriously than any other person at the Motown. Second I saw when I was teenager in NYC in a restaurant and interestingly although people recognized her they weren’t going crazy for autographs. But what I remember most was how much she seemed to watch people around her. I thought that was very different from many stars who seem to ignore what’s happening around them. I thought that said a lot about her awareness not just in music but in life as well…

I think, every other girl of the Supremes has been more talented and prettier than Diana, but she had the guts to make it big

👋 Diane Ross Fan Club Hi there, I love Diane Ross and the Supremes, what a movie that was, I loved it, as well as Mahogany. Diane Ross has it in her to be the actress that she is. She also made the movie➡Double Platinum with Brandy, and a few more. What a wonderful beautiful women she is. 💕Where ever you are Ms.Diane Ross you have a fan for life!💕 👏🎵🎤❤🎤🎶👏 (☺😷🙋✌)

at 23:21 was back in the day when men hold a woman's hand to assist her in getting up

The QUEEN DIVA DIANA ROSS 👑 🎤 👗 👠 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Wow! I can't believe that's the legendary BILLY ECKSTINE sitting there with that big afro. I didn't recognize him @ all. He is such a phenomenal musician and SINGER. Just tremendous and I loved his duets with another icon SARAH VAUGHAN. Just spectacular.

UGH!! I'm so bothered by those letters :( is there any way that we can remove it ..?

Great performance...and right after her talented and sexy daughter Tracy was born.

It was a real shame that she didn’t get the Oscar for Lady Sings The Blues.. I believe it said in one of the books about her life that Hollywood didn’t like Berry Gordy’s behavior at the time. He acted like it was a sure thing that she would win and it cost her to lose to Liza Minnelli. Who knows if it’s true.

I think of LSTB on Broadway with me impersonated ms. Billie and sing her songs, i design her dresses, co-conduct the music. Bring on Broadway is tough, you rehearsal six or seven days in a week in six hours. Man that's a pain, I don't mind, it's Broadway! I got to lift my voice like Billie, dance and feel the depts of hatred and hunger through drug addiction That's what I ready to Keep my vision happen . Thank you.

and that is jazz.

she looks great in wigs

People were always harshly divided on her. Berry had almost gone to a Citizen Kane-like obsession with someone who was really just ok at best.

Miss Ross hadn't shaken the Billie Holiday character completely at this point. If you notices she uses a lot of mannerisms she used in the movie and even her speech pattern goes in and out.

U KNOW NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE SAYS ABOUT MISS DIANA ROSS SHE'S UNDENIABLY UNTARNISHED AND HER VOICE VOCALS ARE. STRONG SWEET SOOTHING ENCHANTING SPIRITUAL AND GRACIOUSLY SOFT . PEOPLE THAT HATE ON HER OBVIOUSLY HAVEN'T JUST SAT AND WHACHED A LIVE PERFORMANCE AS THIS OR DIANA ROSS IN CENTRAL PARK 1984 WORLDWIDE WHICH THE. FIRST DAY RAINED OUT AND SHE STAYED RISCKING HER LIFE DRENCHED WITH HUNDREDS OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT ON STAGE TO MAKE SURE TE CROWD GOT OUT SAFELY AND THEN THE NEXT DAY PAID WITH HER OWN MONEY TO FINANCE THE CONCERT THE NEXT. DAY BECAUSE THE GOVERNOR AND POWERS AT BE THEN WOULDN'T REFINANCE IT FOOT THE BILL WITH HER OWN MONEY,,,!!!!!!WHO DOES THAT !!!!MISS DIANA ROSS 🌈🌈💋💕❤️🥰 THINK ABOUT IT HATERS ICON, UNTARNISHED, PASSIONATE,, GRACIOUS, UNREFUTED SUPER ⭐ MISS DIANA ROSS DESERVES HER DIE PROPS AND RESPECT ALL THE HEARSAY GOSSIP IS JUST THAT GOSSIP AND HEARSAY DIANA ROSS IS A FENOMINON AND SOME MOR THAN ENTERTAINER OF THE CENTURY SHE'S ENTERTAINER OF THE MOLINON ..... MISS ROSS MAY OUR HEAVENLY FATHER ABOVE BLESS KEEP PROSPER HEAL AND FILL YOU AND ALL YOUR'S TODAY AND ALWAYS IN JESUS BLESSED NAME AND AMEN LOVE YA MISS ROSS 🌈🥰💗💕💕⭐⭐⭐😂💋💋❤️🌈

If you look at her, she still looked the same here as she did with the Supremes..And still look the same today..Just older.. Remember, she just had Tracey..

I feel sorry for the lady at 11:46 ....she complimented the movie, they looked her way and then started back talking to each other .... you can see her embarrassment and she makes a comment to the fact that she should not have said anything.

Diana Ross was "robbed" her Oscar Nominated Performance! There have been plenty of "First Acting Role" "Oscar Winning recipients" on their first motion picture. But, you can't compare Diana to Halle Berry. When Halle Berry won. In her "Best Actress Category" Halle Berry was the only Actress that year in that category. The everyone else had won an Oscar already! And in the 1970s there were fewer roles for African-Americans. Still today 50years later their still is! Halley won it 50years later! And no other Female African-American has won ever since! I think Halley Berry won it in 2003! Although Diana Ross won they say the second best to an "Oscar": Diana Ross won a "Golden Globe" for her first movie "Lady Sings The Blues". I love the movie & have the DVD. And watch it numerous X times!❤

Great, but please remove the words and numbers across Miss Ross face.

They stole those oscars from Diana and the entire 5 noms.

U KNOW NO MATTER

Yo ! the woman from her beginning first Mz diana Ross ❤Detroit come see about me ❤ Darl'n from Cali west coast-nai❤

the text on the screen blocking Diana is irritating

when I did my jazzladdee character on the LifeWorks video collection I had a some strange existence that I'm in between billie and Diane in one whole genre and im still labeling a somewhat rock- fused jazz musician like Hendrix and Janis all in one where center. if you look through the inner sanctum of her pain within a song teal meant the whole surface well, like billie's nightmare allied strange fruit. I played over and over and see how fthy the world is by witch hunting beyond through racism and over sizing the hypocrisy of electing the wrong demons after while. billie's life is more than a book drawn an imperfect life between prositution and drugs. her life is similar to mine I was breaking the stereotype of sexual abuse and silencing the real truth. so thank Mrs billie for showing my heart to open to the world,people really love to see Mrs holiday and jazzladdee in one force of song. it's realism on a canvas as you really want to feel the filthy perverse and gnaw as you true want to make it show and do it. so, I kinda believe in what Mrs holiday had been through hell enough, but jazzy had to put real life aggravation through mathematics and science with realistic with using street knowledge. hatred can be a hard act to show in cinematography, but we had to ad true to the film as like rock and roll and hip hop did.

She's not quite Miss Ross yet here. The diva mannerisms you come to expect from her are absent for the most part. She seems more real.

I may make a lady sings the blues on Broadway and promote my first merchandise with my perfume empressive.

It seems to me she didn't really like the other guest

Diana Ross looked nothing like Billie Holiday but did a great job portraying her. Who will play Diana in her biography and will the truth be told? It's too bad the video is obstructed.

RIP Billy Celestine and Tootsie fields. I really his son's dancing and acting skills like the biscuit eater and Tom Sawyer with Johnny Whittaker.

@Detroitlives313 Lol

Who is the woman sitting next to her?

She was thick in weight she just had Tracee.