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Thank you for correcting me. I dont know why id ever think that you'd exagerate anything. Please forgive me. You should contact her agents dear and tell they theyve got to update the information.Quote:
Originally Posted by marv2
Have a safe and blessed weekend.
Roberta
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Originally Posted by Roberta75
I don't even think those guys are Mary's agent's anymore. Those are ads that are probably at least 10 years old by now. I am sure you noticed those old publicity shots used on their website. One is even from 1999 showing Mary with Iris Parker and Karen Newman. She hasn't performed with those ladies since the late 90's and Karen's case since 2003.
Well according to Marys website shes still with MPI. Given your close relationship with mary i still think you should contact them and ask them to correct the Dreamgirl 250,000 sales. I know your always real concerned about truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by marv2
http://mpitalentagency.com/artist/ma...-the-supremes/
http://www.marywilson.com/#!contact/c24vq
I wasn't talking about MPI. Didn't you even look at the links you posted here? I clearly described what can be seen on Delafont.com's webpage or didn't you even take the time to look in your rush at a feeble attempt to discredit me. I know what am talking about. You sure are strange. LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by Roberta75
I included the MPI Talent agency link in my initial email and they also quote the 250000 book sales and there currently Marys booking agent. Im in no way trying to discredit you and Im not strange .Quote:
Originally Posted by marv2
anyway. You know best so Im going to leave it at that.
yours, with every good wish.
Roberta
The microphone switch can also be seen in the clips Diana used from this performance for her 1977 tv special. So it is more likely that this is the way it originally aired in 1969.Quote:
Originally Posted by milven
Dreamgirl only peaked at #6 on the New York Times Hardcovers Bestsellers list, spending seven weeks in the Top 15...
8,10,7,6, 13, 15 - out
Not to dismiss the accomplishments of the book but the theory it sold millions in Hardcover & paperback is overstating its performance. The top selling book of 1987 in hardback or paperback sold 1.3 Million [[Stephen King's "Tommyknockers"). The biggest selling nonfiction book only moved 760,000 [[Spycatcher by Peter Wright) and Dreamgirl didn't make the end of the year's Top 10 best sellers for 1987 in paperback. Ironically, the biggest selling paperback of 1987 was from another Motown affiliated act - Bill Cosby.
Also, a paperback book can ship 1.5 million copies but that doesn't mean they all sold. Bookstores/Supermarkets/Drug Stores that carry paperbacks, like magazines, only have to return the cover of the book for credit then dump water on the rest of the book and throw it out! Dreamgirl did extremely well but this theory that goes around that it was a multi million selling number one doesn't really seem to be accurate. It may have topped the paperback chart but books in general in 1986-87 weren't moving those big sums. Plus, if Mary only made a million off the book as if often quoted in the press she must have signed a book deal as bad as the Primettes first with Hitsville so something isn't quite right, who would cut a deal to make less than a buck a book?
Ok, now we can go back to the backgrounds of Someday We'll Be Together......
Does every book that was ever published TOP the New York Times Best Seller List? Is this just another accomplishment akin to making #26 on a dance club AirPlay chart?
Mary Wilson is not a best selling artist outside of the Supremes. She had no hits.
What she is is a background singer and survivor that did a remarkable job of carving a career out of her supremes days and her affiliation with Diana Ross and Motown. She did much better than other background singers out of the Miracles, Pips, Vandellas etc.
And as we've seen over the tears and years, the producers didn't even use her as a background singer on dozens of songs and on some of the biggest hits.
Actually, if you listen to the melody of hits without watching the performance you may hear Flo on one of those famous hits and I don't think Flo was behind the curtain. This leads me to believe in my opinion and my well trained ears that this performance was pre-recorded. That being said I am sure Diana had a mic that was open and Mary and Cindy may be heard on a couple of notes here and there. The two performances with the different mics leads one to believe that something went wrong on one of the performances for them to mesh the two together.
It's possible that the problem could have been with one of the videotapes, either the rehearsal or broadcast tape, and not necessarily the audio portion of either, nor something wrong with the performances.Quote:
Originally Posted by captainjames
Ok Jobeterob you are obsessed with saying negative things about Mary Wilson,it's almost funny,you and some others,won't stop at the chance to say something negative about her,you can always get a clown or 2,to go alone with you,Trust me,Mary Wilson is a Winner.Time To Move On lmao