Supreme Ever After: The Legacy of Florence Ballard- Huffington Post

[marv2]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ashley...b_9291638.html

[luke]

What a great, great tribute to the great Florence Ballard. Thanks much for posting!

[marv2]

What a great, great tribute to the great Florence Ballard. Thanks much for posting!

It was a very nice tribute! You are very welcome Luke.

[detmotownguy]

It was a very nice tribute! You are very welcome Luke.

Nice tribute, but so sad at the same time. I wish a recording of that performance would surface. Was she ever professionally diagnosed as an alcoholic?

[luke]

Apparently.. She said she was on one of Peter Benjamin's tapes and seemed accepting of it.

[detmotownguy]

In today's world, she would have access to non-destructive coping mechanisms. She was so damn fan friendly.

[marv2]

In today's world, she would have access to non-destructive coping mechanisms. She was so damn fan friendly.

She was a fan favorite!

[antceleb12]

I could be wrong, but wasn't her appearance at Magic Mountain in 1974, not 1975? [[I know, I know, semantics... )

[marv2]

I could be wrong, but wasn't her appearance at Magic Mountain in 1974, not 1975? [[I know, I know, semantics... )

It was in '74.

[luke]

Florence was getting exposed to AA when she had been hospitalized she said

[antceleb12]

Florence was getting exposed to AA when she had been hospitalized she said

Yes. There is a rather detailed account of her time in AA in either Pete's or Maxine's book that's quite riveting. Her post-Supreme years proved to me a roller coaster of highs and lows, worthy of an entire book in itself.