Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970: #206: ” Reach Out And Touch [Somebody’s Hand}”- Diana Ross. April 25, 1970.

• Single: “Reach Out And Touch {Somebody’s Hand}”- Diana Ross
• Record Company- Motown
• Genre: Soul
• Written by Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson
• Time: 2:59
• B-side:”Dark Side Of The World”
• Album- Diana Ross
• Grade: A
• Peaked at #20 9 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100.

Diana Ross’s first single release after leaving The Supremes and it was a disappointment as far as its failure on the charts- they expected higher than #20. Diana Ernestine Ross was born in 1944 in Detroit. As the leader of The Supremes who had a dozen #1 hits she became a big star- and would go on to have six more #1 hits on her own- 1970′ “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”, ‘1973 “Touch Me In The Morning”, 1975″ Theme From Mahogony”,1976-“Love Hangover”, 1980 “Upside Down” and finally a duet with Lionel Train Richie “Endless Love” in 1981.