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unusual facts about Supremes



Baseball superstition

Others include routines such as eating only chicken before a game like Wade Boggs, Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander eating three crunchy taco supremes (no tomato), a cheesy gordita crunch and a Mexican pizza (no tomato) before every start from Taco Bell.

Cream of the Crop

Cream of the Crop is a 1969 album recorded by Diana Ross & the Supremes for the Motown label, the final regular Supremes studio album to feature lead singer Diana Ross.

Cream of the crop

Cream of the Crop, the 1969 album recorded by Diana Ross & the Supremes

Former Ladies of the Supremes

Though they weren't actually Supremes members, singers Sundray Tucker, Freddi Poole and Joyce Vincent have also sung with the group, with Vincent in the group's current lineup.

The follow-up single was a re-make of the classic Supremes hit "Stoned Love" (MOTC 56) which saw Scherrie and Jean splitting lead vocal duties between one another.

I Had to Fall in Love

I Had to Fall in Love was the only solo album released by former Supremes lead singer Jean Terrell, released in 1978 on the A&M label.

I'm Gonna Make You Love Me

Indeed the Ross/Supremes & Temptations version was never to be performed live (the Temptations did perform "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" on The Ed Sullivan Show, Diana Ross and The Supremes performed the song which was recorded during their farewell performance in Las Vegas in 1970 and Diana Ross performed the song on The Hollywood Palace duetting with Stevie Wonder).

John Mariano

A gifted improviser, sketch player and voice-over artist, his impression of Robert De Niro in a sketch entitled "De Niro Sings the Supremes" at The Groundlings, led to him playing a pigeon named Bobby in the cartoon series Animaniacs, who is based on a character played by De Niro in Goodfellas.

Let Yourself Go: The '70s Albums, Vol 2 – 1974–1977: The Final Sessions

This album shares similarities with the Supremes first album, Meet The Supremes, in that they both feature all three Supremes on lead vocals and did not make the Billboard Charts.

Margie Joseph

Her second album, Phase II, in 1972, also featured a Supremes' cover, "My World Is Empty Without You," but failed to achieve the same success.

New Ways but Love Stays

The original design used a photograph which depicted the three Supremes in Afros and black turtlenecks, giving them a Black power look.

On Broadway

On Broadway, 1969 soundtrack album from the television special G.I.T. on Broadway by Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations

Someday We'll Be Together

"Someday We'll Be Together" was the final number at Diana Ross & the Supremes' farewell concert on January 14, 1970 at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.

Tears of Sorrow

The Supremes would later rerecord the song at Motown, but this version would go unreleased until the 2008 compilation album Let The Music Play: Supreme Rarities 1960-1969.

The one million masterpiece

Celebrity contributors include Peaches Geldof, electric violinist Linzi Stoppard, playwright Tom Stoppard, doctor and health commentator Miriam Stoppard, Frankie Goes to Hollywood frontman and artist Holly Johnson, cult comedy icon Karl Pilkington, businessman and socialite Sebastien Sainsbury and Supremes band member Susaye Greene.

The Supremes discography

Songs recorded for the album, including "When You Wish upon a Star", "I've Got No Strings" and "Whistle While You Work", have appeared on several Supremes compilation albums.

11 Promises Kept, a 1971 set by the "New Supremes" produced by Clay McMurray, Bobby Taylor, Ashford & Simpson, and others.

The Supremes Sing Country, Western and Pop

The Supremes Sing Country, Western & Pop is an album recorded by The Supremes, issued by Motown in February 1965 (see 1965 in music).

One of the songs on the album is "My Heart Can't Take It No More", which the Supremes had recorded in 1962 and released in 1963 as a single.

The Supremes Sing Holland–Dozier–Holland

The Supremes Sing Holland–Dozier–Holland (issued internationally as The Supremes Sing Motown) is a 1967 album by The Supremes for Motown.

We'll Be Together

"Someday We'll Be Together", a 1961 R&B/soul song, notably covered by Diana Ross & the Supremes in 1969

Your Heart Belongs to Me

It wouldn't be until 1976 with the release of "I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do the Walking" that a Supremes single would feature four Supremes.


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