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WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance
I really appreciate you sharing this here. This is absolutely wonderful and I couldn't stop smiling the entire time. One thing that crossed my mind was when the camera pulled back and you see the audience was made up, seemingly, mostly of women. The types who, back then, would have been housewives, grandmothers, Women's Club, PTA, suburban types. I've always thought how those audiences reacted to the Supremes' appearances on these daytime shows. Did they come away thinking, "I really LIKED that group!" Maybe they had only a passing awareness of the girls because their kids liked their music. But now, seeing them performing their pop hits AND standards, maybe they found themselves surprisingly captivated by these "kids."
For me, I put it in perspective by my reaction to hearing Lady Gaga singing standards with Tony Bennett on her Thanksgiving television special. I honestly thought that was such a laughable idea. I wasn't into Lady Gaga at all until I watched that show for what I thought would be laughs. In the end, I was blown away and went out and bought the CD that was released shortly afterwards. If I had been a middle-aged parent back in the 60s, I probably would have had a similar transformation watching the Supremes on a show like Mike Douglas.
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