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    The Supremes rose from poverty to become one of the most popular female groups of the 1960s, scoring 12 #1 hits between 1964-1969. They were crafted into stars by Motown's songwriters and producers. Lead singer Diana Ross became a global star through her work with the Supremes and later solo career. The group went through lineup changes over the years before finally disbanding in 1977. Their story was later turned into the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, which was made into a film, telling a loosely fictionalized version of the Supremes' experience.

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    The Supremes rose from poverty to become one of the most popular female groups of the 1960s, scoring 12 #1 hits between 1964-1969. They were crafted into stars by Motown's songwriters and producers. Lead singer Diana Ross became a global star through her work with the Supremes and later solo career. The group went through lineup changes over the years before finally disbanding in 1977. Their story was later turned into the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, which was made into a film, telling a loosely fictionalized version of the Supremes' experience.

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    The Supremes rose from poverty to become one of the most popular female groups of the 1960s, scoring 12 #1 hits between 1964-1969. They were crafted into stars by Motown's songwriters and producers. Lead singer Diana Ross became a global star through her work with the Supremes and later solo career. The group went through lineup changes over the years before finally disbanding in 1977. Their story was later turned into the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, which was made into a film, telling a loosely fictionalized version of the Supremes' experience.

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    Dream girls

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    The Supremes!

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    The supremes came from a very poor family to a very well-know and most
    popular female artist group of the sixties. Their best songs came tailormade for them by Motowns peerless in-house writing and production
    team.In June 1965, they set a record for the most consecutive Number One
    hits by an American group when Back in My Arms Again rose to the top of
    the Billboard singles chart. The Supremes were Americas best and sweet
    hearts creating a stylish charm and soulfulness that both blacks and whites
    were beginning to listen to their music, when racial divides were going on.
    Berry Gordy saw the potential in them at the beginning when they first
    performed their first song and a talent show.Diana Ross, Florence Ballard
    and Mary Wilson - first came together in a quartet, the Primettes. Paul
    Williams as a sister act to his locally popular Detroit group, the Primes
    (later known asthe temptations. After persistently showing up at Motowns

    Hitsville headquarters after school, the Supremes were signed to the label
    in January 1961. The group was slow to find its place where it could stand
    and several years of flop singles before finally clicking with When the Love
    light Starts Shining Through His Eyes (#23) in late 1963.After that, it was
    off to the races for the Supremes, who amassed a dozen Number One hits
    between 1964-1969. In addition to the other singles, the Supremes other
    chart-toppers were I Hear a Symphony, You Cant Hurry Love, You
    Keep Me Hangin On, Love Is Here and Now Youre gone, The
    Happening, Love Child and Someday Well Be Together. The Supremes
    successfully made the transition from desperate one-nighters on Motowns
    bus caravans to the upscale world of nightclubs like the Copacabana,
    where the group performed a much better routine in the summer of
    1965.The group had officially changed its name to Diana Ross and the
    Supremes, an acknowledgment of lead singer Rosss rising star. That same
    year, Florence Ballard left the group and was replaced by Cindy Birdsong.
    The late Sixties saw the Supremes recording material with a very good eye
    like the song Love Child. Ross left the Supremes to set out for a
    successful career as a solo recording artist and movie star, making her
    mark in films likeThe Wiz,Lady Sings the BluesandMahogany. Her final
    appearance with the group occurred at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas on
    January 14, 1970. She was replaced by Jean Terrell, and the Supremes hit
    making streak continued with such songs as Up the Ladder to the Roof
    and Stoned Love.Mary Wilson who kept the name and the music live.
    Later members included Scherrie Payne (who replaced Jean Terrell) and
    Susaye Greene and Lynda Laurence (who took Cindy Birdsongs place).
    The group was falling apart. The Supremes gave their final performance at
    Londons Drury Lane on June 12, 1977, at which point Wilson disbanded
    the group and retired the name. Ballard died of cardiac arrest in 1976, after
    having fallen on hard times. In the early Eighties, the Supremes rags-toriches life story was turned into a successful Broadway musical,Dream
    girls. This is very different from the story from the Dream girls movie. The
    Dream girls did come out of a poor family just like the supremes did, but
    they didnt not go through the stuff the supremes went through. Jennifer
    Hudson who played Florence Ballard did not get on drugs and stuff she
    dropped out the group, because of her personal reasons. She got jealous
    of Beyonce Knowles who played Diana Ross. The third singer did not keep
    the music going after the group fell apart she was a follower behind
    Beyonce. !

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