we've talked about a LOT of topics here. many of them repeatedly lol

but i can't say that I remember discussing "what if Cindy Birdsong declined the offer from motown to join DRATS?"

in early 67 motown was definitely looking to replace Flo but all of the stories pretty quickly just talk about Cindy stepping in. Prior to that winter, Maxine had subbed for Flo but had said she was not interested in the role full time. Barbara Randolph had been a consideration, briefly in 66. But Diana really didn't go for that one

so who else would have been a candidate? Do you think Tammi Terrell might have been a possibility? Syreeta was doing some secretary work around motown then. Or what about Carolyn Crawford or Brenda Holloway?