The Supremes - Reflections and The Lady is a Tramp (DVD) 

Cindy Birdsong had already paid her dues. She had been singing, performing and recording for six years with Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles before stepping into the Supremes. She was a very experienced professional and was no newcomer to the business. In fact, the harmonies of Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles were far more intricate than anything the Supremes ever did. So I don't think it was such a stretch for Cindy to step into the Supremes.

She clearly had the “IT FACTOR”, it’s so obvious here!

@kurtsupreme , the no record selling Bluebells. That's why she left.

You would not have wanted to go on a stage after Patti Labelle and The Bluebelles performed.......no one did! The Bluebelles blew away all the competition on a stage! Even the mighty Supremes would not go up against The Bluebelles on a stage............. Cindy learned her craft as a Bluebelle. Forget about the fact that The Bluebelles had only minor hits..........we're talking about stagecraft.

@@kurtsupreme no it because the supremes were big and they beat the Beatles plus and Cindy was with them bluebelles were old as shit and the supremes have 18 gold records

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@stage7 , to skirt copyright?

And to add to it, during the Return to Love Tour in 2000 three additional back up singers were hired to sing with Lynda Lawrence and Sherrie Payne. In other words, it took five girls to replace Mary and Cindy.

No. According to Mary's book, the Andantes did not start singing on Supremes records until "Forever Came Today" which was two songs after "Reflections."

Thank you!

@Support4MySingers .Please. The fog horn bitch sang lead in the Supremes through much of the 1970s when they sounded atrocious.. Funny thing when you think about it. Mary has almost as much money as Cathy Dennis..

Diana Ross fans will always love Diana Ross despite what Mary Wilson says. No one was surprised or shocked by Mary's book. Mary just confirmed what most people had already assumed or heard about Miss Ross. I myself am a Diana Ross fan. I read Mary's book and does have the ring of truth but I am no less of a Diana Ross fan because of it. All girl groups experience the same type of problems and it is to be expected when one girl starts to receive most of the attention. After all, Mary doesn't say anything that is really bad about Diana in the book. It seems as though Gordy was the culprit in many cases.

Yes, these ladies may have laughed all the way to the bank, but from what I've read, what they found at the bank was far less then what they expected to find. When Diana Ross left Motown she found that she had only $100,000 coming to her after more than two decades of major hits. She was in her own words "shocked" to find that she wasn't the millionaire she assumed she was. Mary Wilson in an interview in 1966 stated that each girl received an allowance of only $150.00 a week which was in the process of being reduced at the time of the interview. (That interview is here on RU-vid) Cindy Birdsong at one point was working as a nurse's aid in a hospital to support herself and her son after the Supremes were over for her. Cindy stated that at one point she had suicidal thoughts because she didn't think she would end up in such a state. And then let's not forget Florence Ballard who died pretty much penniless and on welfare to feed her three daughters after losing her home to foreclosure. Florence Ballard's settlement after being fired from the Supremes by Motown was only $160,000 which her lawyer absconded with. If they indeed did laugh all the way to the bank they probably left the bank in tears.

Berry Gordy say the same thing about himself. Without him there would have been no Motown.