Originally Posted by
sup_fan
much of mary's chronology in her first book was simply listing the dates when tracks INTENDED for the supremes were first recorded. in general, the songs were "assigned" to a group even at an early stage so that in the future, they could be billed for that time. If HDH had arranged for studio time to record the backing track to 10 songs with the band/orchestra, they'd need to know, of the 10 songs, which were initially going to go to the sups, the elgins, the tops, etc, etc.
So in her research for that first book, much of the recording date info is based off of these session logs. NOT based off of when she, cindy, diana and/or flo were in a studio laying down their vocals. hence we have a lots of songs that were intended for the sups but never received sup vocals. it was certainly an admirable first step and mapping out all of the recording data. but in the subsequent years, there has been a lot of revision to this information
Mary also never says she and cindy were on EVERY duet recording. what she says comes in the section of her book where she comments on Living In Shame and how she declined to sing on it because she found it melodramatic and lacking a message. She then goes on to say that from this point forward, she and Cindy would only sing on the SINGLES they recorded with the tempts.
she never said she and cindy recorded every duet
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