Oops, another compliment! It means you are in good stead Supremester.
Fortunately, there is confirmation that Marv2 is nothing but a rabid fan; one who poor Mary tries to distance herself from.
Go read about Josephine Baker!
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Oops, another compliment! It means you are in good stead Supremester.
Fortunately, there is confirmation that Marv2 is nothing but a rabid fan; one who poor Mary tries to distance herself from.
Go read about Josephine Baker!
Mary cc's me on all correspondence. Even dental appointments are run past me.
Mary has AGENTS. Agents. A G E N T S. Agents are people who make a living by booking whoever they can, wherever they can. They find gigs and present them to performers who say yes, or nix the offer. The same agents a lot of other performers do. I once booked Lesley Gore, but was offered Mary Wilson as a better deal [[logistics, $$ etc) Some agents even charge 30k for a performer and tell them they are getting 15k and keep the difference. All work on a percentage of the deal.
I missed you in NYC, hopefully we can hang when I'm back in June.
It's so silly. Mary doesn't NEED a manager. She's not gonna pay 25k or more to some dude to tell her to sing Baby Love. A manager guides, plans and strategizes a career path and, if it is warranted [[$$$) goes to the gigs to "handle" things. Mary has no such dude. There's nothing wrong with that. Marv rants so quickly in defense of Mary he doesn't even realize she's not being attacked. Most stars of her caliber don't have real management because they are professional enough to know who their audience is and what they want and managers want a guarantee plus percentage. Add the percentage the agent gets, and there's not always a lot left. These Doc Severeson gigs, hypothetically can gross 40 k. Out of that you need to pay Doc, the band, venue, tech group, house group and the support act. You do the math any way you want. How much is Mary getting and of that, the agent that got her the gig takes his - no way is she gonna give a manager another piece - there's no reason to. Many/most agents are bottom feeding grunts. Some, I'm sure are angels. They have no loyalty but to their bank account. I was offered Mary when I called to book Lesley Gore not because this total stranger wants to do me a favor, but because somehow there was more $$$ for him. I know now why, but at the time, I didn't know how shady these dudes can be. That's why it's illegal for the same entity to be both your agent and manager like Motown was. If Mary had a manager, her CD would have been out in 2001 and she would have done RTL because he would have made money off of them. It's too bad Lynda wasn't in the group sooner - those mega performance fees DMF/DMC were charging and seeing none of would have gone differently. I want all Supremes to be happy, worry free and live the lives they want [[as long as Miss Ross approves in writing, of course.) Can you imagine doing all those gigs and never asking to see a deposit slip??????????????
Where do YOU think Mary gets her gigs from - The Tooth Fairy?
I hate it when a performer who has spent all of her life entertaining audiences for as long as Mary has not get paid enough. When I read about how the money's divided, it makes me understand the struggles an artist goes through and it's no surprise that some singers these days do other things to earn extra income because they get ripped off. Anyway I hope for Mary's sake, everything works out and people can buy her album and enjoy the music. That's all anyone asks for, really.
I agree 10000000000% I have my differences with Mary for sure - but, that does not cloud my objectivity. None of The Supremes got their share. They didn't. While it's true that all record companies did these practices, none of these record companies had THE SUPREMES. None of them generated a fraction of the income DR&TS did - and for them each to get 100k in 1970 is criminal. I've said this before and I'll keep on saying it, Mary should not have to work or even be concerned with money. DR&TS played here twice in 1967. Tickets were an outrageous and record high $4,5,6. Seating 13,500 x $5.00 = $67,500. That's one gig. They worked most nights. Where da money??????? With shrewd, independent counsel, DMF/C would have netted 50 times that 100k.
Absolutely! What's also sad is the fact Mary or any of the ladies have to pay to use a photo of the group from one of their photo sessions in the 60's/70's from a place like the Michael Ochs archives. The group paid for those photo sessions. Mary, Diana, Cindy, Jean, etc. should have free access to use any photo from any of the photo sessions the group paid for.
I didn't know that, but that's the deal that was struck. I'm sure no one asked DMC if they minded flying Chris Clark around and picking up the tab for her suites while she provided an outlet for their manager who took 25% off the top, then ITM, then Shelly, THEN expenses, then zero accountability for the least important disbursement: talent.
I just read on Facebook that someone is remixing a new single of Mary. I believe the song title is "It's Time to Move On".
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I hope posting this picture doesn't violate SDF rules. It was posted and shared on Facebook; if it needs to be removed, I respectfully apologize.
And can we ignore the fact that this gentelman posted that Mary had 12 #1's in a year? LOL.
"Keep On Movin" aka "Time To Move On" was a limited edition 12" vinyl single that Mary released in 2000. Leee John [[of Imagination) was one of the producers. It is listed on her wiki discography. So not new and unrelated to the long overdue album. Still it will be nice to have a remix.
I'd love a full album. I bought "Life's Been Good To Me" on iTunes when it came out and jammed all afternoon to it while I was in Macy*s!
She does look stunning. I always thought she was the prettiest of the original Supremes. That one girl who wasn't in the group long, Linda was very pretty too. I think Diana Ross was cute when she was young, in sort of goofy sort of way. But got more beautiful as she aged.
Too bad they no longer have flip sides--Time to Move on and Don't Get Mad, Get Even would pair up well on a release.
Mary was and is GORGEOUS as were Flo and Cindy...frankly all of the Supremes were knock outs IMHO. I never had many "curves" and was quite a beanpole/stick until my late 20s so I did tend to gravitate towards Diana. Diana also had this can't-put-my-finger-on-it way about her back then. I hadn't seen any Twiggy looking black women on television as we were used to [[in my house at least) Ella, Billie, Etta, Dinah, Sarah, Ruth Brown. It was Diana's frame, Tina's legs and the pure elegance of Diahann Carroll that provided a different "look" for me!!!