The Last Dance!
thank you Mary Wilson for carrying on Donna Summer's legacy and not just by doing the sillier BAD GIRLS or HOT STUFF tunes.
No, not good. Better than that ditch-concert attempt last summer but completely beyond her abilities.
Set aside the fact that this is a song I hate no matter who is singing it [[I faithfully skip it on Touch Me In the Morning...I can't recall the last time I let the song play through), I watched this vid waiting for the moment when Mary completely messes it up...moment never came. She doesn't do anything wildly innovative with it, but she basically gives it the same treatment everyone else I've heard give it. Song choice aside, I don't hear anything wrong with Mary's rendition.
Mary does a great job on both songs and the crowds reception shows it! Thanks Marv!
Seemed like some of her talk singing with lots of back up
It’s no My Man but it’s okay
For me "Imagine" is a song that really suits Marys voice. She performs the song with sensitivity and warmth. . For a woman of 75 her voice sounds rich and full.
"Last Dance" is not one of my faves no matter who is singing it.
I love how the audience sings that high note , " you ooo. ooo ...." LOL!
They both have nice interpretations of Imagine.
I think Imagine suits Mary's voice very well and is perfect for her. Mary always says we need more love in our World to heal our World and a song about bringing people together fits well with that message. I enjoyed watching her sing it here.
Here's one story:
Donna Summer’s Illness Surprised Friend The Supremes Member Mary Wilson
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...062212234.html
Well, she calls Diana her friend too. They may have been at one time, but friends drift apart. Perhaps the entertainment industry has a different definition of friendship.
"I didn't know she was ill," Wilson told Yahoo! Music. "In the entertainment business, we all kinda talk, you know. Never heard that she had been ill”
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Mary Wilson remembers hanging out with Summer over the years. "It was maybe in the '80s that I spent a lot of time with her, here in L.A.”
To be fair to Mary, the headline seems to be the work of the author and not that of Mary Wilson. She does not give the impression that she and Donna were besties who spoke often and thus was kept out of the loop regarding Donna's illness. Seems like they had a friendship that a lot of people have. You meet someone, y'all vibe, have great times together for a period of time and then at some point kind of go separate ways, but can often pick back up where they left off when the opportunity presents itself. Nothing fake here. Mary Wilson was always the most outgoing of the original Supremes and always had a lot of friends, and apparently still has a lot of friends. But by her own admission it had been a few years since she and Donna had hung out, so of course Donna's death and illness might have come as a surprise, as it would to anyone who may not have known and hadn't been around for quite some time.
Y'all be giving Mary grief about the simplest of things. Geez.
Speaking of Mary’s friends, there was an article on Tom Jones yesterday saying at one stage he had sex with 250 groupies a year plus the affairs
I got a confession to make: I never liked the Supremes' Beatles covers...
Yes Mary and George were good friends. George sold Mary a Mercedes stretch limo that was originally owned by John Lennon. The car itself became a big news story when the garage in England where Mary had it stored sold it without her permission!
I loved the song "It Don't Come Easy". I didn't know George Harrison wrote it. We should all have friends like him.
Hmmm She is in front of a stretch Mercedes here. But in all the stories that I read, mostly gossip, I always read that it was that it was a Rolls Royce
Just did some research and it seems that I read about the Rolls Royce in a Tony Turner interview or book. He is not the best source if you are looking for a reliable source, but I always did think it was a Rolls Royce that was bought by Mary from George and sold without her knowing. But the picture of her in front of a Mercedes probably proves me wrong. And as for me, I should have my head examined for making so much of such a trivial matter
Tony Turner Interview
Q - A real eye-opener in your book is the story about Mary Wilson and her appearance on Robin Leach's Lifestyles of The Rich And Famous. She moved her belongings to a freind's mansion for the show, because in reality she lived in a two bedroom bungalow with her family. What's Mary's financial condition these days?
A - That was really my doing. Mary called me one day at my home in Long Island and she said very excited, "Oh, I'm going to be interviewed for The Rich and Famous, which actually turned out to be one of his other shows that didn't last that long, called Romance of The Rich and Famous. I said "that's fabulous." They sometimes interviewed people on location or in a hotel suite. I said "Mary, where are they going to interview you?" She said, "At home." I went like, completely crazy, I said "you cannot have the Rich and Famous interview you in that little bungalow." She was like, "Oh, you don't think so?" I said, "I don't think so. You're going to have to get a suite at The Beverly Hill Hotel or something and tell them your house is being renovated. You can't have them come to that little thousand square feet place, out in the valley." Oh, my God, that place is horrible. She said, "Oh, I didn't think of that" I said, "Well that's what you have me for, dear." I said "what about asking Mrs. Avery?" [[Dr. Avery was Mary's gynecologist) "You're good friends with her." She has this huge house up in Las Felices that originally had been built for George Raft. "Why don't you just ask her if you can use that house." So that is where the idea came from. We moved all her memorabilia such as oil paintings of herself, all of the Gold Records and we hung them up in the living room of that house. We took Mary's old Rolls Royce and put that in the driveway of this really big English Tudor that's on like over an acre of land. A quite imposing house it is. Once again it was my own training from Motown that at all costs you keep up the stars image, no matter what.
Q - Financially speaking, she was....
A - Broke. The nice beautiful Rolls Royce couldn't go over 30 miles per hour. The inside was a wreck. She finally spent about 30 grand to have the car re-conditioned which I thought was a bad move. About a year later, she sold it like for 20 grand, so she lost money on it. But, she had been badly ripped off. Long gone was the huge mansion in Hancock Park and the home up in Hollywood Hills. She was living in Studio City, on Eureka Drive in a small, little bungalow, right off of a main thoroughfare with one bathroom, 2 little bedrooms. There was about eight people living there. She had seen hard times. She was still working, but not making what she used to.
Last edited by milven; 05-21-2019 at 10:21 AM.
Well, that is an old interview, and Mary has gotten out her financial mess by promoting the Supremes' legacy and performing with the Supremes' name in her billing. At this point, she must be financially okay, although in some interviews she has admitted that she has to work, but still enjoys it.
I doubt that she has to work, but does enjoy a certain standard of living and works to maintain that standard.
Last edited by milven; 05-21-2019 at 10:56 AM.
That interview was from the 80’s and Ms. Turner is a bit of a drama queen.
Tony is a liar who can't be trusted. I don't believe his Mary broke story. The fact that so much of his first book is exaggerated stories that already appeared in other books, only he adds himself as one of the cast, is enough to side eye him [[although the book is a must read for entertainment purposes only). But when he did an interview talking about how Flo was a drug addict, that sealed the deal for me. Supposedly devoted to "Miss Flo" but would tell that kind of lie for sensationalism on her, especially when a certain segment of fandom already looks for ways to tarnish her memory and character...unacceptable. I'm surprised Tony Tall Tales isn't a member of this forum...or is he?
For whatever reason, your post prompted me to go check the trash heap of a website that tried to take down this forum a few years ago. Now its all Russian propaganda and anti-gay bots spewing crap.
It is interesting to see where IP addresses take you.
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