Reflections with Diana Ross and the Supremes
December 4, 2008 by EditMotown50
Filed under Motown 50 Disc 2, Supremes
“Reflections” was the first record released under the new title of the group. Berry Gordy had decided that for marketing purposes, Diana Ross should be ‘elevated’ and the group renamed “Diana Ross and the Supremes”. It made number two in the US in 1967. It was also one of the last recordings made whilst Florence Ballard was a member of the group. She had been on e of the founding members of the Supremes and it is said that part of the reason that she descended into depression and alcoholism is the decision by Gordy to lift Diana Ross.
Sadly, Florence Ballard died less than 10 years later at the tender age of 32.
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I think the early Supremes music is still the best. I know that Diana Ross went on to be a really big star, but for pure nostalgia – the sixties stuff is head and shoulders above the following decade from the Motown stable.