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I'm 100 percent positive Mary Wilson received no offers for a solo deal, aside from what Motown offered her, for the first few years after leaving the Supremes. The thing is that only the biggest...

I'm sure a comment like that would hurt, but it should be understood that this is the nature of the business. I'm sure Diana heard or read worse than that, but she would use it to fuel herself. Mary...

OMG, yes, about Charlene. Anybody at Motown that thought Charlene was a bigger bet than Mary had to be deaf and dumb.

In 1980 Motown was not in the best of financial situations. Seems like it...

She was definitely naive. She was also desperate. And she was afraid. Motown had Mary by the ovaries. They had the power, she had none. I imagine that had to suck. But she really should have looked...

I agree. Was Mary really asking for too much? Wasn't there a compromise to be made on the name, perhaps sharing it 50/50? Seems like quite a few Motowners were really loyal to Motown. Interesting...

It is an interesting thought: what if Mary had refused to drop her lawsuit? Would she have won? It's a shame that she was fighting such a big machine. Financially they had the upper hand.

With...

Isn't the only person on record suggesting that Mary had a drug habit, Tall Tales? I believe she wrote in her second book that she did some partaking, but I can't recall anyone in the "know" who has...

Picked this one up the other day.

The Hardest Deal of All: the Battle Over School Integration In Mississippi, 1870-1980 by Charles C. Bolton.

I'm on the second page of the Introduction and...

I thought I read this too, but it's also a documentary, so maybe I only saw the doc. Sans you're killing the reading game. I used to read a ton of books. The internet has zapped a lot of my attention...

Sans I think I read this, but can't remember. Saw the movie.

Is this where some guy went nuts and killed a woman and children? Or am I mixing up my architects?

Diana did what Diana was supposed to do. Can't fault her for the work she put in. But you're right, with the big guy in her corner [[and eventually in her bed...or was it his bed?) she knew the sky...

As I suspected. It's always a red flag when someone tries to prevent family from accessing their loved one. But it is a comfort to know that it appears things are being righted for Cindy. Her son is...

Is that your endorsement of him maybe taking over as lead when Jean left?:p

I don't think it would've mattered to BG if Flo and Mary were as "dedicated" [[and I use that term for lack of a better one) as Diana. He zeroed in on Diana at a certain point because she had that...

I don't even think it's that deep. I'm sure, like most of us when someone we know passes away, Diana looked back over her relationship with Florence and then Mary in totality, the good and the bad. I...

I have no issues with there being multiple possible explanations for any one thing and was unaware that I put out the vibe that my opinions are factual and outrank anyone else's. I'll have to be more...

On the R&B chart? Not Soft Cell. Lol

More good advice.

I would add, though, that when choosing family, do so only if they can be trusted. There are some ruthless demons out there who would rob and discard a relative faster than some...

We have no idea why Aretha did what she did, so "playing games" is a conclusion without evidence. And the fact that she was suffering from cancer, under a lot of mental anguish on top of the meds and...

All good advice. The issue is that when people are concerned about their next meal, keeping a roof over their heads, electric bills, tuition, etc, the last thing on a lot of people's minds are "What...

The former- It lists the 25 most popular R&B songs, calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban radio stations, digital download sales and streaming data.

The latter- Top-downloaded R&B and...

Mary was so vivacious. She oozed life of the party. Here we are three years later and it still doesn't seem real. Whenever I watch an old Supremes performance, it seems so weird to think that the...

As far as Aretha goes, she had a will. Why she stuffed it in the couch cushions, only the Queen knows. But she made her wishes known regarding her properties and her music via the will, which a court...

A lot of people are too busy trying to live to worry about dying. Cindy apparently wasn't a wealthy woman, although she may have been comfortable. She had a ministry, which likely took up a lot of...