Most likely TLC and The Spice Girls did not get accolades from their competitive contemporaries, especially when the peers were trying to sell their own product. But Diana Ross and The Supremes did, as shown in this paragraph from the liner notes of The Elegant Sound Of The Royalettes [[1966).

"Being girls, [The Royalettes have] been compared to other girl groups. Since the fabulous Supremes rule snugly and supremely at the top, you might think there is no room for any other. Rightly so. There is no room for a group attempting to duplicate…but there most certainly is room for a group that spells out a purely individual sound and can prove to the public that theirs is a message to be heard."

It was absolutely astonishing and refreshing to read these words back in the day, to see that a group [[or at very least, its record company) would recognize and admit in print that the group was not, and would never be, quite as good as Diana, Mary and Florence, but maybe, just maybe, the said group, with originality, discipline and luck, could become one of the top two or three groups at some point.

A year earlier, on liner notes for their album It's Gonna Take A Miracle, the aspirational girls also hailed The Supremes, Martha and The Vandellas, Marvin Gaye and other "greats" with whom they had shared a stage.

Being of quite limited means, I did not buy either album. But I did remember and respect the group because of the humility and honesty shown on the album covers.