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Supremes Interview - The Supremes
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Supremes Interview The Supremes

Supremes Interview - The Supremes
Booker Bradshaw: From Hitsville USA, the home of the world-famous Detroit sound, we invite you to meet Motown Records’ golden girls, the undisputed queens of popular music, the Supremes! Diane Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson

Well tell me, Diana, how did it all begin?

Diana Ross: Oh! Mmmm. Boy. Long time now?
We started singing when we were about 13. We got together in the neighborhood, because we all lived in the same neighborhood, and we went to the same church, and Mary and Florence went to the same school. But a group put us together, really, the group now the Temptations, but after we came to Motown we changed our name to a better name, you know, something that meant something

Bradshaw: And that was the Supremes?

Diana: That was the Supremes

Bradshaw: Well, how did you pick that name?

DIANA: Well, I didn’t really pick the name, because, uh, Florence did most of the picking of the names. But, uh, I didn’t like the name Supremes at first, and she’ll tell you how she got that name

Bradshaw: Florence did? Well, how about it?

Florence Ballard: I was given, um, a little teeny piece of paper, with ten names on it, and I picked Supremes because it was different, and, um, I liked it, and at that time we needed it because we had a record coming out the next day

Bradshaw: I see! Well I think everyone’s familiar with the Supremes now. You girls must have traveled, I guess, hundreds of thousands of miles all over the world entertaining fans. Um, Florence, what’s your most unusual experience when on tour?

FLO: Um

Mary Wilson: You remember the one in Germany?!
Diana: She doesn’t have to think long on that, because we know two that were really great
Mary: You remember the one in Germany?!
Flo: Yes, I remember the one in Germany, Mary. We was singing with a pre-recorded tape, and, uh, we was just dancing and singing, and the tape broke!
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