The Supremes on Luncheon Date - Interview '66 

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Florence is drop dead Gorgeous, Strong-willed and Confident.

Florence had such a deep mature womanly voice. And I like the response she gave to that shady interviewer about her weight.

Was doing some research and found this video. So glad that Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard actually got a chance to speak, and it wasn't just Diana Ross with her "I, me".

Florence was always on point! Born ready! ....

Florence Ballard was gorgeous and the Best

Florence is absolutely beautiful

Florence handled that awkward question brilliantly! "I think i eat more than she." Ha!

Strange how they all imply that Mary and Florence are somehow overweight, when they each just seem regularly healthy! I can image those kind of comments eventually impacting their self esteem.

Flo was just years ahead of these girls cause they were very young at that time but Flo was truly the star she had it all beauty brains one hell of a body the voice and the strength of a bull I was only 8 when she died but as I grew up I really cherish sista like her Tammi Terrell and others who didn't get there flowers while alive

Florence was a sweetheart. Loved her so much

Thanks for posting this!! ALL THREE LADIES ARE SPEAKING!! Yes, how nice to hear both Mary & Florence!! 😀😀😀 and not as much Ms. Ross. #keepsake

Rest In Heaven Ms. Florence Ballard & and now Lady Mary Wilson,, Rock n Roll, R&B, Motown, Pop Music Royalty.. Long Live The Supremes..

Flo had a beautiful soul grace was upon her. Rip sweet heart

Florence Ballard is so beautiful and fine.

R.I.P Mary Wilson

He done made me mad. Florence is my favorite

All 3 young ladies are just adorable and beautiful. The interviewer is stuck in the stone ages.

David Ruffin & Florence Ballard Are Very Old Souls. 💯

notice how Diane uses "I" vs. "we"

It’s so amazing to me to watch these types of interviews/videos in this era! I can just close my eyes and see everything in color😍😍😍

I was just watching again this clip from June 21st , 1966 when the Supremes were doing concerts in Toronto,Ontario, Canada. The interviewer was Elwood Glover.I have always been disturbed how Florence Ballard's weight was joked about. As a Canadian and Elwood Glover being the same I'm disgusted and ashamed.The trauma Florence went through at 17 years of age which went untreated or acknowledged changed Florence.Back then so often young women a...nd espesically in the music business suffered emotional,physical/sexual/financial abuse.They were just teenagers wanting to be stars, not having any idea what that world was like.They had no supports,resources or such so often either played the game or if left the label were outcast.With the trauma many of these great female R@B/Motown/Soul singers suffered no wonder they turned to drugs/alcohol, suffered depression/anxiety/trauma which went untreated.Along with this physical/domestic abuse never addressed.We look at the abuse Tammi Terrell suffered from James Brown/David Ruffin for example.Really never acknowledged and often singers stating they seen,witnessed the abuse.Like our great Florence Ballard her trauma was never treated,they did not have Concurrent Disorder Treatment programs for Substance/Mental Health nor addressed her trauma she suffered. The women of the era paid the price and it is not a reflection of them but a reality how the male dominated industry mistreated their women who made countless money,fortune and fame for record labels.So when I see posts slighting Florence I take offence as a man do we not have any decency backbone to support what happened to great singers like Flo,Tammi,Tina and others. In this interview Florence to me shows Class 101 ,class is being humble despite rude comments as commented about her weight.Flo was a classy women,talented,strong and that is why we still talk about her and miss her. In a comment about her daughters and ex-husband I read.If I remember the daughters were like 8/8/5 when their mother died.So we look at big picture Florence Ballard was a survivor,a star,a mother,a singer and we still love her today.My only wish is Florence's family,daughters, etc be well,happy and know their mother is not forgotten,we still love her,listen to her music and will keep her legacy alive. God Bless , Jay

When you look at this interview it's certainly has a feeling of watching a Destiny Child interview. Diana looks nervous at what mistakes the other girls will say, everyone is so tense, Mary Wilson looking like Kelly Rowland being in the middle.

thank you for posting this!

It's so cool seeing them so young and shy. This was way before my time. So seeing this time capsule is amazing. They're now older than my mom but my dad is in his seventies now. So Diane is in her late seventies now. The late Mary and Florence will be the same age. They didn't know how much they were going to change the world. The guy that's hosting probably didn't have any idea that they were gonna be legendary.

A one way Interview with Diana Ross

It is very telling how many commenters have left comments about Florence Ballard. It is all starting to come out now what Berry Gordy and Diana Ross did to Florence Ballard. I don't hate Diana Ross but what she did to Florence Ballard was wrong and it's just funny how thanks to the internet it's all coming out now. Florence Ballard was so quiet and seemed to be more in the background but people still loved her. I read that Berry Gordy wanted Florence Ballard, sexually, and she flat out rejected him and after that he basically set about slowly sabotaging her. I also read that Diana Ross was jealous of Florence Ballard because apparently she was wolf whistled at a lot and received the most "male" attention out of all of The Supremes and Diana Ross was jealous of this apparently. Diana Ross knew she was Berry Gordy's second choice after Florence Ballard, she was sloppy seconds, and that made her jealous of Florence Ballard too. Then when Diana Ross got together with Berry Gordy they started conspiring to oust Florence Ballard from *her own* group, and eventually they did. Motown ripped Florence Ballard and a lot of other artists off with unpaid royalties aswell. For a woman who was a member of the best selling Motown group in history to die in near poverty is just fucked up. Florence Ballard should've died in a beautiful house with money. Berry Gordy was a scumbag. Martha Reeves had to take him to court for royalties owed to her aswell.

Never understood why Florence was considered "fat"??? In all the pics I seen of her, she's skinny and proportionate to her size. I guess the preference back then was anorexic... Which Diana was.

This interviewer was a total jerk!! Not only did he insult Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard once about their weight, he insulted Florence Ballard twice. What a real ‘class act’ he was!

Starting at 4:10 in this video, that was a bad choice of words for Glover to say. Especially when Florence was being, basically harassed by Barry Gordy and others because they viewed her as overweight. As soon as he said it here, she immediately looked a little taken back from it. Then, starting at 4:30, geez! Real nice guy right there. 🤨

You can see the jealousy all over Diana’s face towards Florence.

The part where Diana said that they have to pay for their hotel and all the other expenses, we always forget that. Of course, they made lots of money but most of it goes towards the expenses and the label. It's a lot that goes on behind the scenes. Limos and the dresses, the whole glam cost so much money. I think what ever is left over, they get to keep. Im getting destiny child vibes from them. Seeing destiny child in their interview, they had their same mannerism.

I've never seen this intv b4 I wish there were more like this showing who the #SUPREMES were & where they were from and just how young they were starting out 🎶🎵🎼 👀✔️

Makes me wonder what Diana thinks of Toronto now. 😎

diana look like a whole ET . ET phone home 😂

I was about 5 miles from this Hotel in Toronto...Don Mills...I was two...I remember there music....soundtrack growing up

Notice when Diana Ross does not speak, she will not look at Mary and Flo and when she talks, it is always I and not we when the idiotic interviewer addresses Diana with a question!

look like they put Dianna close to the interview like she is the public speaker for the group.

Even in 1966 Toronto was changing its skyline.😁

They still had some of that strong hood in them.

I wish somebody would remaster this in color

It’s weird how they themselves couldn’t even define “The Motown Sound”

Flo so beautiful

Hey Flo💗💗💗💗

Damn why Diane won’t let them answer some of the questions. Can they get a word in ??

8:20, I bet Ms. Ross would regret that.

Florence is angel in heaven with jesus christ and Heavily his father

What’s with the critical remarks about the interviewer? If you don’t remember the times because you didn’t live them, I certainly remember the times and this man is a gentleman. He was quite respectful to each of them and he drew in Florence and Mary to speak and have their say. And I bet his daughter was thrilled to have a personal picture of the Supremes.

Notice how Diana takes over the conversation about MONEY sweet talking about how they get prestige and don't need the cash ..Mary starts mouthing off in an albeit humorous way but behind her cutting edge jibes is real contempt about how they're getting screwed CA$H wise by the 4 way split as she says going Gordy's pocket! ...And Florence gets real squirmy and at 8:39 she looks over her shoulder as if a hitman is about to take a shot at them to shut them up about the Motown cash they're screwing them out of. ROTFLMAO! Ross keeps smoothing it all over like peanut butter but the other 2 or like 'don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining!"

the pretties were not allowed to speak, per Gordy's orders

I love Florence's speaking voice. It's so firm and direct. It has that serious, old-school tone that you don't hear any more from young women. Florence reminds you that your no-nonsense great-aunt was once young.

A close up photo of The Supremes. Definitely rare. I want that photo !!! Does anybody have it?

Oh Florence,...and Mary! Eat yo heart out😩

Flo

Wow... 100 a week. That must had of been considered a lot of money at that time. I think when Diane went solo, she became rich. Things were cheap in those days.

1966

Who was the guy doing this Great Interview 🤔?

This is destiny's child.

Cuba Libre 6:31...Florence Ballard...she was real

Lester Pearson days

Do you notice how Florence jokes right back about the comments that she's big and overeats? She had common sense and took it all for the harmless joke that it was. Today's youngsters? My Lord, they'd be screaming and protesting about fat shaming. Grow up America! This new generation is heading backwards, not forward.

Where is that picture???

Constsntly being compared to one another had to be hard on their relationship. How tiring and abusive that was. 😢👎🏾

I love Florence and Mary . Diane beehive hairdo👀 I’m sorry I am still not a fan of Diana she laid up with many men including Barry . Push Florence and Mary back . Now look Diana old and alone still no Barry . RIH Florence and Mary . The interviewer was an idiot 😏 Thank you for sharing

Morse. Go white call a. Song

So, the waiter just brings DIANE a drink?? Foreshadowing.

Oh people, grow up and quit whining! It was a different era, women were judged on their figures back then, but in a joking, good natured way, it was no big deal, nobody screaming about fat shaming, etc. Florence handled it in very mature, sensible manner. Nowadays? There'd be screaming, cursing and lawsuits flying. We can learn something from these older days, when folks had more common sense.

Diana's wig is tragic

Folks, calm down and stop over analyzing this clip. 😆

Aretha sounded just like these ladies in a 60s interview, I wonder if it was a Detroit thing.

This guy is the worst interviewer ever.

Diana's wig is all kinds of ridiculous.

Diana lied the temptations were the top group. Gtfoh with that "we're the top group." When my girl dropped, the supremes status dropped too