Diana Ross - If A Girl Isn't Pretty Lyrics






If a girl isn't pretty, really pretty
Like a Miss Atlantic City.

If a girl isn't pretty like a Miss Atlantic City
All she gets in life is pity and a pat
Any nose with deviation
Is a crime against the nation
Throw her into jail or maybe drown the cat.

She must shine in every detail
Like a ring you buy in retail
With a mounting that can knock the public flat
If a girl isn't pretty like a Miss Atlantic City
There's just nothing more to say: that's that
(That's that).

If a girl isn't pretty like a Miss Atlantic City
She should dump the stage and try another route
Any guy that spends a quarter
For a seat just feels he ought-a
See a figure that his wife can't substitute.

Men with faces that can cause ya
To have a temporary nausea
Will demand a raving beauty and nothing less
When a girl's incidentals
Are no bigger than two lentils
Well, to me that doesn't spell success.

(No, no, no, no, no, no
If a girl isn't pretty, if a girl isn't pretty).

If a girl ain't perfection
She can take a pop election
Every girl must be a dazzler and a beaut'
Never mind the girl's equipment
If it ain't the right assortment
Even though she loves her mother
And she's nice to her brother
If her hair ain't too bright curly
Better go to China, girlie
Or to hell on a fast express.

If a girl isn't pretty like a Miss Atlantic City
That oblivion is hard, a drag.





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  1. S.... T....

    This is the Strongest Vocal along with Be A Lion from the Wiz l Ever heard Diana go for the Highest notes!

  2. m.... c....

    This is a great song by the supremes

  3. b.... ....

    I want to give it another thumbs up!

  4. P.... W....

    Wonderful!  Thank you :-)  I haven't heard it since I lent it to a friend, 30 years ago, and never had it returned.....   It suddenly came to mind tonight.  

  5. b.... m....

    MISS ROSS YOU ARE SANGING YOUR BUTT OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO DIVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  6. j.... l....

    Wow Miss Ross was really belting it out!

  7. t.... ....

    i second that emotion...

  8. b.... ....

    This is my favorite of the Supremes' albums. It's a shame it wasn't more appreciated. I think it's fantastic.

  9. t.... ....

    i agree with everything you said...

  10. d.... ....

    There's no better example than this album, among the Supremes roster, how divorced popularity and quality can get. It was one of their lowest charting albums ever, yet Ross never sounded more alive on vinyl. Mary and Cindy are clearly having fun too, and Ross throws herself fearlessly into Funny Girl's lyrics like she's long-lived them. Ross was only 24 in 1968, and already she's an astonishingly convincing actress.

    d.... ....

    Concerning "low-charting": I read somewhere else on YouTube that a certain singer who performed in and recorded the Broadway version of this was not happy with the release of this album. A case of sabotage of this album, perhaps? We are talking the sixties, after all...

  11. t.... ....

    they have been re-releasing all of THE SUPREMES albums in the last few years and i hope this one will get some attention...

  12. S.... F....

    How come this has never came out on a CD would love to find it on CD

  13. l.... ....

    I always thought this was recorded for The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart album

  14. A.... M....

    can u upload "Don't Rain On My Parade" from this album?
    thaks!

  15. t.... ....

    i agree with your assessment of this album. Diana's vocals are outstanding, the background vocals and arrangements are first class and the orchestration top notch!! it remains the only album never formally released on CD format.

  16. f.... D....

    This "Funny Girl" album by Diana Ross and The Supremes is one of the most underrated albums of all time. Miss Ross is simply outstanding in her singing and performing. Listening to Diana on this album was simply an extension of her singing and acting of standards on dozens of TV variety shows. Many thanks for posting this great rendition of "If a Girl Isn't Pretty". This album belongs in every Diana Ross/Supremes collection.