I'm 100 percent positive Mary Wilson received no offers for a solo deal, aside from what Motown offered her, for the first few years after leaving the Supremes. The thing is that only the biggest acts received unsolicited offers, aside from newly discovered acts where someone in the power section happens to run across the talent. Mary didn't get offers because Mary didn't go after it. She spent the first year or so of her solo career fighting Motown. She took the deal Motown offered and was locked into that until 1980. In that time it is highly doubtful she ever knocked on anyone's label door asking for an audition or a meeting.

She mentions shopping her demos around in the 80s, but doesn't go into the details. The one fish who seemed to bite was that Bogart dude and then he died. She did demos in the late 80s for Atlantic but nothing came of that and no one seems to know why, although it might be as simple as Atlantic hearing the demos and being disinterested.

Mary was never in a position to sit at home and wait on the phone to ring with offers of record contracts. Artists all over the industry were hustling, banging on doors, trying to get opportunities. There isn't much evidence that Mary had this same mentality. Perhaps if she had, she may have found herself a label, even a small one, that was willing to get behind her talent.

She also didn't do herself any favors by hiring inept management. The success of Dreamgirl should have netted Mary a deal somewhere, if only on the strength of publicity, and a good manager would have secured that.