The Supremes "Come See About Me" on The Ed Sullivan Show 

Ed is nearly as special. Truly a magically time in history. I wasn’t even there. ❤

Motown was no joke....the best of the best

2:11 the way Diana chirps “keep on, keep on” is absolutely adorable. The Supremes were the 60’s black princesses.

This old white boy loves these three girls ever since I first heard them in 1964 as 8th grader. We listened to them and the Beatles and that was all we needed.

this was a cultural reset. I'm so glad that this has been immortalized on the internet. so important to remember.

These beautiful girls revolutionized music as much as the Beatles did

Diana's facial expressions are beautiful.

THE ULTIMATE SUPREME OF ALL TIME. THANK YOU MARY WILSON. YOU STAYED FROM THE START TILL THE END. BLESS YOU !!!.

If Diana Ross was singing to me looking at me with those beautiful eyes I would literally melt away heaven sent ❤❤❤❤

I think Diana's dad was working in an auto plant when this aired and all co-workers congratulated him the next day I've read. 😎

1964 was the year they hit it big!

Diana’s Eye Popping routines are always in the early tv appearances. Her brother told her she had pretty eyes so that’s why she’d roll and batt them. Motown basically sent them on tv with little stage etiquette and without routines. Around 1965 that’s when they received proper etiquette training: how to eat, get out of a car, speak, smile, and sing while on stage. Maxine Powell got on to Diana about her eye rolling. Eventually after Maxine Powell stopped training them Diana would still do some eye rolling/popping in certain performances.

Came here after seein the rolling stones since a friend of mines said he had them on the show, to c Dianna an the supremes...man she really is a Boss!😂 they looked so nice back then an it was an era wit no cares in the world...❤

Happy 80th Birthday, lovely Diana Ross. You are as beautiful and elegant today as you were when I saw you on Steel Pier, in 1967.

These girls set the way for all of the girl groups that came after!!!

Say what u want Diana was the spark that ignited that fire 🔥

I’m a kid and when Diana Ross went out on stage she was fabulous I’ll remember you

When Florence was in the back ground it sound like the Supremes. That is when I like their singing. Those three was fantastic singers.

What a sound.

I also liked them post Diana - Cindy Birdsong - Jean Tyrell - Mary Wilson. Floy Joy, Up the Ladder to the Roof, Nathan Jones, Bad Weather etc. all brilliant tunes

She is a honey the way she sings

Freakin love these classic traditional women and their voices💍💍💍

Happy Birthday, Florence ❤ You'll never be forgotten.

Ms. Mary Wilson has now transitioned to become an ancestor. Rest in paradise.

The Supremes ❤😇😇😇

Diana, Mary & Florence were beautiful and had a great vocals and harmony.

Never ever with any great group, forget the songwriters and lyricists. In this case, all but a couple written by geniuses Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland.

This HARMONY. Unmatched.

Great voices & killer looks, even then !

I'm living for Flo!

Those dresses looked beautiful

These beautiful women are total Queens

Florence ballard was beautiful with a voice to match.

Blondie's vocals killing it on the title refrain, phenomenal singer in her own right.

(1) Diana Ross has the perfect popular music voice. (2) This live performance is fantastic

Love the supremes, my favorite!

RIP MARY😭

For the "Good Times" 🍾

Diana always had "the thing". She always stands out

Be still my heart!

Thank you so much for sharing these fantastic Motown clips, keep it up.

As a white male i had just turned 4 yrs old before this episode aired. My entire childhood and life advantageously changed because of these 3 girls. Me as a Senior today; practically no one i knew and loved is still in this flesh. I praise god the Supremes are/were my baby boomer generation. Like mega millions I'm sure; Diana Ross has never left my heart my entire life. As typing i realize she and i both are close to reuniting with everyone we knew and loved. Diana blessed the entire world while she is here and even longer after she leaves here. Like other's; my love for the Supremes is immeasurable.

I've always wondered if Diana's eye-popping thing was the reason they weren't on Sullivan until almost a year later in Oct 1965. Diana said they were supposed to do two songs but were off right away. I guess they proved themselves at the Copa a few months later. Ed Sullivan was there to see them.😊

Forever Motown

Mary is gorgeous!

Totally live...awesome

Almost 58 years later the Boss headlines Queen Elizabeth ll Diamond Jubilee and was amazing - the first album I ever bought was Diana Ross & The Supremes. Baby Love - the year I was born. P E A C E : )

This was MUSIC!

This is one of the shows that Diana had to be told about-- no OWL eyeing -- Miss Lady Manners had to re-educate the girls on their stand-- smiles and eye glances.. while singing.. and just talking.. how cute is Diana -- with her big EYES singing.. too..lol

So awesome! 💖

Classic! DR’s wide, popping eyes shtick!!

Great song and video

Diana’s beautiful eyes 😍

Their best song!

They were all incredibly beautiful and talented. Florence without question had the strongest voice of the three and she clearly stands out here. I do get though why Diane was put out front, Diane did have the most commercial voice . I do think some consideration should have been given to shared leads with Florence and Mary or more album leads for them ,as they were supposed to be a group. As good as the Classic Five Temptations were, they did alternate leads between all of them.

I was 9 years old when they appeared here on TV. I can remember my Mom saying, "Oh they are similar to the 'Andrews sisters' of the 1940's. No comparison, however, but just and observation (LOL).

the queens

😍😍😍😍 please upload their Thou Swell performance too!

Wow 😮. Simply Amazing. Speechless.

Wow, Just Great; Thanks for showing this here Bringing back the Classics

lov u, 60's (i'm from the 2000's) 😘

💯🎵”TRUE HISTORY"🎶🌹🌹🌹😎🇺🇸

I got chills just now like i was a young black girl watching 3 beautiful talented young black women on TV on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time in 1964 Civil Rights Era. WOW!!!

They were GREAT live.

"Come See About Me" is one of my favorite Supremes songs, but it sounds weird to hear the Ed Sullivan Show band play back up instead of the Funk Bros.....! Ha!

The Supremes had so many great songs! I really miss them and Ed Sullivan. Oh, what I would have done to get on his show. The best!

Diana Ross is so amped up and happy they are no longer the "no-hit" Supremes that she wants to bust through the roof. She's ready to abandon the choreography and all of Maxine Powell's etiquette lessons and let loose. Its all in her face.

I had a crush on Florence Ballard she was beautiful

I knew about this song when glee covered it, thx God they did it.

They are from Detroit!

Danke!

Love them

That harmony. J. Xxxxx

Flo was all that, and that's all that needs to be said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The night that change Oprah Winfrey's life as a 10 year old girl according to her.

Diana Ross always wandeted to be the star !!

Diana's top right tooth No. 14 is missing. She has a bridge replacement for no. 14 by 1966. Complete dental work by 1968. ( I work in a dental lab and the first thing I check out are performers' teeth before and after they've become celebrities.)

Great performance! This was obviously live, no lip synching here although that was often the norm back in the sixties. Funny though, the house band couldn't quite match the "groove" of the original recording :)

Can you upload their performances of the Funny Girl Medley; Greensleeves / Thou Swell or The Impossible Dream?

Flo was my favorite

'Come See About Me'

I was just reading about this in a book.

Back when they used one mic. B4 the diva emerged and the name change, seperate mic stands etc.

They have this performance in color on here also

Although I think Flo was the prettiest, Mary looks really good here. Those dresses look amazing on all 3 of them!

diana is so pretty

Diana's eye popping and mouth contortions are hilarious!

To me they are forever the Supremes,not Diana &the Supremes. They were great, no doubt. And we all knew Diana would someday. Be a Sola artist. As time went on, Florence and Mary began to look like mere back ground singers.Please understand there's nothing wrong with background singers but I never saw Florence so and Mary that way. At times it seems that Mary and Florence weren't really in the group. Anyway, I loved the Supremes. And I give a.shout out to the Songwriters, Holland.Dozier, Holland. They along with the Supremes were Gold.

Diana Ross, what a cutie !!!

Top drawer

Diane popping her eyes, before she got corrected by Motown's Ms. Powell (etiquette instructor) who told her to quit doing that, telling Diane to stop making faces at the audience.

Please post the Supremes singing the fats Waller medley

That hair.

Can you please post the Forever Came Today performance?

The Supremes were an American girl group and a premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s. Founded as the Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, the Supremes were the most commercially successful of Motown's acts and the most successful American vocal band, with 12 number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Most of these hits were written and produced by Motown's main songwriting and production team, Holland-Dozier-Holland. It is said that their breakthrough made it possible for future African-American R&B and soul musicians to find mainstream success. Billboard ranked the Supremes as the 16th greatest Hot 100 artist of all time. Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, and Betty McGlown, the original members, were all from the Brewster-Douglass public housing project in Detroit. They formed the Primettes as the sister act to the Primes (with Paul Williams and Eddie Kendricks, who went on to form the Temptations). Barbara Martin replaced McGlown in 1960, and the group signed with Motown the following year as the Supremes. Martin left the act in early 1962, and Ross, Ballard, and Wilson continued as a trio. During the mid-1960s, the Supremes achieved mainstream success with Ross as lead singer and Holland-Dozier-Holland as its songwriting and production team. In 1967, Motown president Berry Gordy renamed the group Diana Ross & the Supremes, and replaced Ballard with Cindy Birdsong. In 1970, Ross left to pursue a solo career and was replaced by Jean Terrell, and the group reverted the name to the Supremes again. During the mid-1970s, the lineup changed with Lynda Laurence, Scherrie Payne and Susaye Greene, joining until the group, after 18 years from its foundation, disbanded in 1977. Source Wikipedia

Does The Carpenters appeared also in this show? I hope they were.... 💕

freeze frame at @0:38 scary LOL the TRUE DIANA ROSS!!! haha!

On that day, two still unknown girls in the United States were watching for the first time The Supremes performing on The Ed Sullivan Show. The girl's names? Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg

I grew up in southwest Detroit. I like my Motown . Even know I wasn’t even a twinkle in my dad’s eyes when this song was on the radio. My mom had lots of Motown records so I got exposed to Motown at very early age.

This is before Diane Ross fixed that missing tooth on the upper right hand side.