1972
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January-February
Diana Ross is nominated for best Rhythm & Blues Female vocal performance with “I Love You Call Me” for the 14th Annual Grammy Awards. She loses to Aretha Franklin (“Bridge Over Troubled Water”) and Motown is awarded no Grammy for the second consecutive year. Diana Ross did not attend the ceremony held on March 14, 1972.
February 18
Last day of shooting for the movie “Lady Sings The Blues”.
March 2-22
Engagement at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV., postponed to June 15-28. 
April 3-22
Engagement at the Empire Room at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.  In the set list: debut of a medley of tunes from TV’s “Sesame Street” and “Jesus Christ Superstar”, “I Don’t Know How To Love Him” (from “Jesus Christ Superstar”), a Billie Holiday medley, “My Man”, “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”, and as encore : a medley of hits of Supremes songs.
April 26-May 6
The engagement at the Grove in LA. is cancelled or rescheduled. This engagement is actually ensured by Dick Haymes with Les Brown and his Band of Renown.
Engagement at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV.
(with the Shipstads & Johnson ‘Ice Follies’ as opening act).  

This is Diana's first engagement in Las Vegas in more than a year. 

In the set list: Reach Out And Touch (Somebody’s Hand), Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, Supremes medley, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Magnificent Sanctuary Band, songs from Jesus Christ Superstar.
June 15-28
July 5
Diana Ross attends the opening night of the Supremes-Temptations engagement at the Grove in Los Angeles. 
July 11-16
The engagement slated at the Circle Star in San Carlos, CA, is cancelled due to Diana Ross’s pregnancy, and supposedly postponed until next season (according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 12, 1972 issue , but no engagement can be found in the newspapers in 1973, and the only next engagement there found in newspapers was in May 1980. 
July 22
Lead vocals on “Why Play Games”. 
July 24
Lead vocals on “I Don’t Care Where The Money Is”.
Diana Ross, circa August - October. The photo on the right is from the same photo session used for the cover of the album "Touch Me In the Morning" (released in 1973).
September 7-20
An engagement at the Harrah’s Reno, NV, is advertised only in non-local newspapers (the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, the Santa Cruz Sentinel). Diana Ross was then actually approximately a bit more than a month apart from delivery and this engagement was most probably cancelled or postponed.
Diana Ross, eight month pregnant with little Rhonda during an interview about her first movie role as Billie Holiday in "Lady Sings the Blues" - circa September.
September
Rumors of a duet album with Marvin Gaye produced by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson. They will finally produce only two songs, “Just Say, Just Say” & “I’ve Come To Love You So Much” (the latter would remain unreleased until 2001), the rest of the duet album being produced by Hal Davis and released at the end of 1973.
One of the rare recording session Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye did together
(because Marvin was smoking grass while Diana was pregnant).
Left to right: Valerie Simpson, Nickolas Ashford, Diana Ross, Shelley Berger, Marvin Gaye.
September 16
Sterling Ball (charity event) held at Berry Gordy’s mansion in Detroit.
Diana Ross and Billie Dee Williams are honorary co-chairmen of the ball. Marvin Gaye gives a performance.
Berry Gordy Jr., Diana Ross, Berry's father (Berry Gordy II), Esther Gordy, Billy Dee Williams at the Sterling Ball.
On the left: Carol Channing offering Diana Ross a necklace ; on the right: the Mother's Love vocal group entertaining  the assistance (seated: Diana Ross, Berry Gordy Jr,Vickie Lowe (a Loucye Gordy Wakefield scholarship winner).
September 17
The Sterling Ball is followed the next day by a celebrity brunch at Detroit’s Pontchartrain Hotel and a sneak preview of “Lady Sings The Blues” is shown at a Detroit theater attended by Diana ross and Billie Dee Williams.
October 12
TV show “The Dick Cavett Show”. 
October 17
Premiere of Lady Sings The Blues in New York at Loew’s State One theater. Diana Ross, too close to giving birth to Tracee, couldn’t attend the premiere.  
Erroneously on October12 in J. Randy Taraborrelli “Call Her Miss Ross” p.285, and on October 18 in Billboard (October 21& 28, 1972 issues).
October 29
Birth of Diana Ross’s second daughter Tracee Joy at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.
November (-)
Original soundtrack of “Lady Sings The Blues” released (# 1 on the pop charts for two weeks). 
November 10
TV show “The Tonight Show”.
November (-)
Photo session at her Berverly Hills home.
Photo session at Diana'sBeverly Hills home (with 15-month-old Rhonda (top left).
November 18
6th Annual NAACP Image Awards at the Palladium in Hollywood. Diana Ross is awarded for best actress for her role in “Lady Sings The Blues” and the movie for best picture. 
Among the celebrities attending : Coretta Scott King, Berry Gordy, Redd Foxx, Cicely Tyson, Yaphet Kotto, Billie Dee Williams, Tom Bradley.
December 4
Diana Ross attends the dinner given for the William J. German Human Relations Awards (given to Frank Yablans, president of Paramount Pictures, by the American Jewish Committee) at the Americana Hotel in New York City.
December 8
TV show “The Today Show”.
December 10
The Hollywood Women's Press Club bestows its 32nd annual Golden Apple Awards Luncheon at the Crystal Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Diana Ross, Liza Minnelli, Peter Falk and Richard Thomas are the winners of Golden Apple awards: Diana Ross & Richard Thomas are named “newcomers of the year”, Liza Minnelli and Peter Falk “stars of the year”. 
December 18
Single “Good morning Heartaches” released (#34 on pop charts).
Diana Ross
Photo session for the magazine Life
(December 1972 issue).