Another VHS transfer:
Pam Grier as Foxy Brown "got her black belt in barstools" in 1974 and two years later, Mary Wilson, Scherrie Payne and Susaye Greene does choreography with one. Promoting their final LP from 1976 with zero help from Motown - and with enough campaigning from us fans, finally got it released/reissued on CD for the first time in 2011 (in a boxed set, but we got it, regardless!).
By this point, it was no longer a group with one lead singer/two backup singers. All three shared leads pretty much equally, and even the new girl, Susaye, got a full lead on "Come Into My Life". No top 40 hits on this one, but have been told pretty much every single cut received some clubplay all the way up to 1979ish (and beyond, with DJ Larry Levan spinning the single "Let Yourself Go" until his death - prolly so high in the DJ booth at Paradise Garage that he was unaware The Supremes had even disbanded in 1977!).
The first song The Supremes perform here ("You Are The Heart Of Me") was the last cut used on the 2000 Diana Ross & The Supremes boxed set, ending that 4-disc collection on a good note and a lead vocal by one of the founders of the group, who kept the group alive in the 70's.
No Diana Ross, no backing from Motown, and they still managed.
Pam Grier as Foxy Brown "got her black belt in barstools" in 1974 and two years later, Mary Wilson, Scherrie Payne and Susaye Greene does choreography with one. Promoting their final LP from 1976 with zero help from Motown - and with enough campaigning from us fans, finally got it released/reissued on CD for the first time in 2011 (in a boxed set, but we got it, regardless!).
By this point, it was no longer a group with one lead singer/two backup singers. All three shared leads pretty much equally, and even the new girl, Susaye, got a full lead on "Come Into My Life". No top 40 hits on this one, but have been told pretty much every single cut received some clubplay all the way up to 1979ish (and beyond, with DJ Larry Levan spinning the single "Let Yourself Go" until his death - prolly so high in the DJ booth at Paradise Garage that he was unaware The Supremes had even disbanded in 1977!).
The first song The Supremes perform here ("You Are The Heart Of Me") was the last cut used on the 2000 Diana Ross & The Supremes boxed set, ending that 4-disc collection on a good note and a lead vocal by one of the founders of the group, who kept the group alive in the 70's.
No Diana Ross, no backing from Motown, and they still managed.
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