Chords for PATTI LABELLE on DIANA ROSS — Diva on Diva

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_ _ I just like the fact that you are so real, not only with your fans, but just as a person.
You're so real.
I mean, remember Diana Ross was here one night and we were talking about the whole eyelash thing.
Oh, Diana.
She did that to you too, didn't she?
I love you.
Oh, wait a minute.
What girlfriend said that I eat those lashes?
I'm scared of her.
Well, let me tell you, and she's a nice lady.
I think she really likes me.
I don't think she meant any harm.
No, she just knows how open you are and how_
But I wouldn't eat the lash, darling.
I'm your girlfriend.
I eat potato salad and chicken.
I don't eat lashes.
I don't _ _ _ do that.
Let me clean up something else.
Let me clean up something else.
I was on Oprah two weeks ago with Gladys Knight and Dionne Ward, my two friends in the name of love.
And I said something about prostitutes, about Lady Marmalade, the song that we played on the breakfast.
Your band, they're kicking, baby.
All right, children, keep on playing.
Anyway, I said on Oprah's show that I exploited hookers.
I didn't mean exploit.
I said the wrong word.
Just for those who were watching that day, I was nervous and I was saying the wrong words.
I didn't mean exploit.
I meant something else.
But anyway, I'm cleaning it up.
I cleaned it up.
Thank you, Lord.
And, Dionne, I don't eat lashes.
_ _ _ _ She was just joking.
I know.
She was just joking.
I eat food.
But am I lying?
Didn't you take your eyelash off again?
I take those things off and give them to the audience because if they come down on my face
and sit here, it looks like a big old black mole or something.
So you take it off and you give it to the audience.
That way they can have a part of Patty.
[D] And if you're like the boy with the stock and the eyelash, what else do I give out?
Nothing else.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] Diana Ross.
Oh, that little heifer will come in there.
And see what we're wearing.
And they would go out and find the same outfit.
I think we got them from [F] Woolworths.
I don't know where we got these stretch gold lame suits.
But before we went out, for some reason, we were going on after the Supremes, which didn't
make sense to me because they were the big stars.
But we went on after them.
And of course, we only had that one gold outfit and they had worn theirs already.
So it looked like we were copying off of them.
I wanted to pimp slap her, you know, because it was like, why would you go out in something
that you know we're going to wear?
And that's the only outfit we have.
I want to beat her [N] up.
_ _ _ _ I love your take on other ladies of music and I love the world that you live in.
So I want to play a game with you just called Diva Word Association.
And I'm going to give you a diva and you just say the first thing that pops in your mind.
It can be anything.
It can be all positive.
It doesn't have to.
You're looking at me like, oh, no, but like you just say whatever you want.
Like this is.
Oh, OK.
All right.
OK.
OK.
You ready to play? Yes.
OK, because I mean, I'm ready.
[G] OK.
Diana Ross.
She is the top.
I mean, no, no, no.
She's a legend in her own time, [N] not in her own mind.
Right.
She started it.
I mean, her and the girl group.
There's a great story in your book.
But we did our thing together.
No, I mean, when when when.
And it's just a cute story when the it was true.
The Bluebells were on the bill with the Supremes.
Diana kept checking out your dresses.
And then copying them.
And then you would go on after the Supremes.
And I look like we were copycats.
Right.
And you gave it to Diana at one point.
You sat her down.
I had to beat her up a little bit.
Right.
But we ended up being the best buddies.
It's like we were going through young girl stuff then.
You know, back in the day.
But now we're grown women and we know that she did what she had to do at that time. _
_ _ _ Was there a famous rift between you and Miss Ross?
I don't know why.
Because of that.
Because of onstage singing.
Is that a rumor or is that true?
Some of it is like we were at the Apollo together.
Okay.
So is that an urban myth or what is that?
No, let me tell you the truth.
And when we finally got back together was at the Legends Ball at your house.
At my house.
Mm hmm.
Things for years, it would be the Supremes are fabulous and they're the best.
_ And we were Patti LaBelle and the Bluebells.
And we were performing here on stage and we wore these goal of May beautiful suits.
And the Supremes came on right after us.
We had two songs.
They had about three or four with the same goal of May.
They went to Woolworths or wherever we went and bought those suckers and bought the same freaking outfit.
So it was always an in and out thing.
I would hear things that Dinah might have said about me and she probably didn't.
You know how people keep stuff going?
And I said, I'm not going to let that be until one day something really laid on my heart.
And I said, _ maybe she doesn't really like me.
And I just, we went years without seeing each other, talking on the phone or anything.
Because the reason for that was when I went to your house and Dinah was there.
For the Legends Ball.
Yes.
We sat at the Legends at the same table.
I said, in all these years, people are starting to surround us, making me think that the costumes
and all that, so be it.
The Cindy Bird song, so be it.
But I never wanted a riff with her because I love her talent.
She's one of the best out there.
And so when we exchanged phone numbers and started talking to each other after the Legends Ball.
I had no idea.
Oh, it was not cute.
I had no idea.
But I never really knew.
I would not have sat you at the same table had I known that.
I'm glad you did.
I did not know that.
Because it was Mariah, Mary J, _ and then Dinah.
And I looked up and said, oh, you look beautiful.
And she said, oh, you do too.
And we're buddies now.
Wow.
The thing is, it all ended well.
But yeah, there was a big mess about people thinking that she didn't like me and I didn't like her.
Mm-hmm.
I love her. _ _