Never saw this pic before.

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I very easily read it as:

THE SUPREMES MARY WILSON

WITH

KAREN AND THE RAG

To Brad's point, publicizing the backing singers was a horrible, horrible move. It's clear that she was trying to do two things at once: be a solo artist and give the impression that the group was still a thing. It came back to bite her in the butt. If I'm not mistaken, I seem to recall an advert for a show she did in the 90s that had her photographed with two female backing vocalists. I think I put it in a scrapbook.

I wonder how much financial damage they actually caused - how much bookings were affected.

You would think the FLOS took many more bookings than the SOS.