In 2017, Billboard ranked The Supremes as the number-one girl group of all-time.
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"Politeness is only one half politeness Remember when ‘Diane’ Ross pushed Mary Wilson out off the way on the Motown 25 TV special in May of 1983? Good times… Here’s a mashup of interviews (spanning more than three decades) given by former Supreme Mary Wilson, in particular talking about Diana Ross. Diana Ross & the Supremes gave their final performance on January 14, 1970 at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, the 2 disc soundtrack of that performance is a tremendously entertaining recording. The Supremes continued to score top ten hits even after lead singer Diana Ross left the trio in 1970, as did Ross beginning with ‘Reach Out And Touch Somebody’s Hand' then 'Ain’t No Mountain High Enough'. Diana Ross had attained superstar status. The Supremes had 7 Top 40 singles between 1970 and '72. In 1972, the Supremes scored their last Top 20 hit single, 'Floy Joy', written and produced by the legendary Smokey Robinson. On June 12, 1977, the Supremes performed their farewell concert at the Drury Lane Theater in London and Motown disbanded the girl group. Here's my fave Supremes song, 'Bad Weather', written by Stevie Wonder. It was not a hit...
Diana Ross was reunited with Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong to perform 'Someday We'll Be Together' on the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever TV special in 1983, where she famously - and rudely - pushed Mary aside to take center stage. Famously, when Diana Ross put together a ‘reunion’ of The Supremes in 2000 she again pushed Mary away, by way of offering what Mary considered to be an insulting compensation package, reportedly $3 million to Diana’s $12 million. The 'Return To Love' so-called reunion was a tremendous disappointment and a huge failure solely because Mary wasn’t involved. The tour was canceled after playing only half of the dates on the planned itinerary. In 2014, Mary Wilson indicated she would be open to a actual reunion tour but it was not to be. She passed away in 2021.
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THE SUPREMES YOUR GO-GO HOST: Billy Ingram
When Mary Wilson came to play Greensboro in an outdoor concert, part of a festival I forget, my BF and I had been listening a lot to The Supremes AFTER Diana Ross. My fave song from that period was a 45 that didn’t chart, a song written by Stevie Wonder, Bad Weather. We got to meet Mary between her two shows here and I mentioned how much I liked Bad Weather and she said something like, “Oh I almost forgot about that song, I love it too. I think we’ll do it in the next show” and she did. We got to meet her ’Supremes’, one of which was a guy… People forget how many hits The Supremes had after Diana left… supposedly Ross was jealous that they had more hits without her during 1970-72 than she had as a solo artist. |
