Just like all of us, you can’t just do whatever you want, whatever is easiest and cheapest - you create legal obligations by your behaviour at times and when you sign documents calling people Supremes
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Just like all of us, you can’t just do whatever you want, whatever is easiest and cheapest - you create legal obligations by your behaviour at times and when you sign documents calling people Supremes
Mary paid real expensive legal fees and Ragland also got money along with the right to bill herself a Supreme all because of shady billing which Mary should and could have stopped.
could it be that something as simple as the ' at the end of the wording Supremes' makes all the difference? grammatically, doesn't it indicate "belonging to"? Scherrie was the English major...lets ask her! even if the word "of" appears [[MW "of" the Supremes) she is still not being billed as the Supremes...at one point wasn't there a clause saying her own name had to be 50% larger in type/print than the groups when she was allowed to use the name?...the first appearance I saw was NYC Parks dept. outdoor show and the poster giving the dates for the entire summers list of events read The Supremes [[and underneath it...slightly smaller text) with or featuring Mary Wilson.
Generally rather than being rigidly legalistic, a court will look at the intent behind something-and it’s fairly clear Mary needed some Supremes
I fixed the photo. Use this from now on.
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I don't know if I remember seeing that photo of Barbara before. Is it from a year book?
Where is Shantel? :[[
Was Chip Lightman’s Marys manager??
Kaaren lies even about her tenure as a Mary Wilson background singer. You see, she and Karen Jackson were hired by Mary in late 1977. They toured the U.K. and Europe in 1978. Not long after that Kaaren left to go back to school, while Karen Jackson continued on with Mary for 9 years. In late 1986, Kaaren Ragland rejoined Mary's band and stayed off and on until 1989 when she left to form SOS. She really wasn't with Mary all that long. Pedro was managing up until early 1981. Chip did not come along until 1987. I can't remember the guy that was manager between 1981-87. Richard Duryea became her manager in the 90s. Now he was a great and professional guy. Her long time publicist Jay Schwartz was with her for many years.
I do kinda feel sorry for Kaaren in that she feels she has to lie and embellish the truth, either to get work or because she actually wishes she were a Supreme. :[[ I have no problem with her performing Supremes songs in a Supremes tribute act.