“ Where Did Our Love Go?” topped the US pop charts and started a career which made the trio three of the most famous faces of the 1960s. They became known as “The No-Hit Supremes” by other artists whose careers at Motown soared until for their 9 th single for the label songwriters/producers Holland, Dozier and Holland wanted to try them on a song already rejected by The Marvelettes. Betty had been replaced by Barbara Martin who also left in 1962 leaving the girls as a trio. Mary, together with Flo Ballard, Betty McGlown and Diane Ross became The Primettes in 1959 and spent the next five years attempting to realise their dream of musical stardom building up a local reputation and hanging around the local studios of Motown Records until label boss, Berry Gordy, relented and signed them up as The Supremes. Mary Wilson was one of four girls from The Brewster Projects in Detroit who formed a sister group to male R&B combo The Primes (the nucleus of the Temptations). (It now only seems to be in print in an omnibus 2000 edition together with its follow-up “Supreme Faith, also highly recommended, available from Cooper Square Press.) It is one of the great showbusiness memoirs. I think I’ve read it twice before but not for the last 30 years so it was time to revisit my now orangey-paged paperback edition.
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