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How these girls remembered all their choreography, hit all their marks, and then remembered the words to the song and were still poised and sold the song is astounding. They were terrific!
The great icons and legends, THE SUPREMES! Knock off the Diane Ross revisionist history! With 12 number one hits, THEY were the main event, not Diane's solo career........what's wrong with you? You are watching the most successful American vocal GROUP in musical history!
I thought it was sad when Dianna was at the awards show and gave Flo and Mary very little recognition to her becoming famous. The two of them made Dianna Ross and they formed the Supremes, not Dianna Ross.
She was not fired for no reason. Bitterness for not being the Lead made her unprofessional at some point . It was the image of Motown at stake . It is sad because she was talented but was not the whole package to be the Lead
Florence made the decision to have herself put out of the Supremes. She forced his( Gordy) hand after she agreed to clean up her act and do her job. She told everybody in earshot she would not be singing under the banner Diana Ross & the Supremes. And everybody who knew her knew she meant it. That's why Cindy Birdsong was stationed across the street in Vegas that fateful day. Florence saw the marquee with Diana's name up and front and she had a meltdown. She also found Cindy's outfit mixed in the theirs.Their stylists told her this was just in case. So she kicked him out of the dressing room, put on Cindy's outfit. Threw back a couple of drinks as she herself stated and went onstage inebriated. She knew that was the only way to flush out Gordy from hiding. She knew exactly what she was doing. Gordy had no choice but you fire her. She finally admitted years later her hand in getting fired. The thing I believed her Florence the most was that he used to call Motown a family, but he let the other executives at Motown deal with her departure and they treated her like an employee that broke her contract and was subject to the harshest penalties a company can mete out. And they did. They took away her ability to promote herself under the Supremes, they denied her her royalties and legal representation, only offering her $ 135,000.00 , which wasn't measly in today's terms, but it was paltry in comparison in what she earned during her career. But the dirty little secret was that Motown treated all of its artists in the same way. Diana Ross found out years later she only had $200,000.00 of her own money that she could put her hands on after all of those years. That's why when her contact was up she left for RCA because Gordy told her to her face that she wasn't profitable performer. She was a hit and miss recording artist. Sometimes she had hits, other times she didn't. And that Motown wouldn't or couldn't match RCA's offer. Hey this was business, and she found out the hard way also.
Well, they weren't called the Swingin' Supremes for nothing! This is absolutely wonderful - the performance, HDH's songwriting and the string arrangement by Gene Page! Wasn't the backing track recorded in LA?
