The most awkward Supremes performance

[soulballad]

Maybe a little more practice would have helped and maybe some pantsuits instead of the short, short dresses. This just did not work! You can tell that they were NOT feeling it at all


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9omXjcT3MpY

[smark21]

Those dresses require a funkier, hipper song than a corny Funny Girl song.

[Glenpwood]

I disagree, this is far from their poorest moment and it has a playful fun to the choreography. Maybe it's because I've never watched Funny Girl as a film or play and can divorce myself from anything Streisand did with it. The main thing I notice here is that Mary seems to be really feeling it and giving it that something extra that pulls focus to her in the way people say Diana always did. From Wilson's opening horn blowing to working those legs, those pelvic thrusts, and swaying that body to her perfect ok hand gesture at the end she makes it look like she is the "greatest star" of that Funny Girl number. But perhaps I am delirious from Memorial Day heat.....;)

I do recommend watching it again and focusing on Mary and you will see what I mean....

[supremester]

I watched it again and still think it's dull. Mary rarely smiles and is lipping Ross' words as she watches her moves in the monitor. It's just like GIT in that when they taped performances in studios with no audience, sometimes it's hard to get it up to performance level.

[Motown Queen]

The song is eh... But the girls look fab and it's cool to see The Supremes dance. It's rare to see that.

[Jimi LaLumia]

Miss Ross is FABULOUS in this, as always!

[soulballad]

This is all kinds of a hot mess IMO. The Supremes were known for being smooth and harmonic and this performance is neither. Nobody seems to be really into it. I'm thinking it might have been something just thrown together quickly. Again with some work and different costumes it might have been better but let's face it this is not the best song on the FG album to perform.

[marybrewster]

I think this would up up there as the most "awkward"; goes to show what pros Diana, Mary and Flo were!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T9SEY8eLyk

[marybrewster]

Or this one.....a full orchestra.....that isn't playing.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3MGrBkL8Hc

[marybrewster]

Maybe a little more practice would have helped and maybe some pantsuits instead of the short, short dresses. This just did not work! You can tell that they were NOT feeling it at all


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9omXjcT3MpY

A couple of things I noticed about this that I hadn't before.....

While Mary and Cindy's dresses are the same color [[purple? blue?) and Diana is green, all three dresses are different. That seems pretty rare for a Supremes performance.

Also: weren't the "No Matter What Sign You Are" pantsuits in blue and green also [[Mary and Cindy in blue; Diana in green?) Do you suppose these were designed by the same person?

[smark21]

What show was this from? I think JML performed Bad Weather on the same program a few years later as it had a Vaudeville type staging. Were these dresses ever used in their live act? And was Coronet Man ever part of their show?

[reese]

What show was this from? I think JML performed Bad Weather on the same program a few years later as it had a Vaudeville type staging. Were these dresses ever used in their live act? And was Coronet Man ever part of their show?

It's from a Bob Hope special. Later in the show, Diana and Bob performed a medley of songs, the same medley that Jean, Mary, and Lynda performed with him on a special a few years later.