Originally Posted by
jobeterob
I believe all the Court relied on was that she was in the group for a while and the group was called some version of Supremes, Mary Wilson's Supremes, Mary Wilson and the Supremes and she was held out to the public as a Supreme - so she was entitled to call herself a Supreme. It's much like all the guys that have gone through the Temptations with just Otis Williams - they seem to call themselves Temptations.
And I've heard this story before - that in the 80's and 90's, Motown didn't mind a bunch of Supremes groups around because it sold REAL Supremes CDs. And of course now, there are next to no sales.
For people generally, the Supremes disappeared from public view around 1976 or 1977 at the latest; and if you know anything, you find it a bit odd that some person who was a Supreme in a time period after that [[when the Supremes had pretty much disappeared from public view) and who nobody really knows, can be a Supreme.
Maybe she can sing reasonably; I haven't listened in years. And maybe she sounds more like the Supremes sound than Mary - it wouldn't be hard.
But she had nothing REAL to do with them. She just participated for a short time in an effort to patch things up and wind things down and move on.
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