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  Jimmy Mack (luke) 1-Arriviste Username: luke Post Number: 8 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.198.48.201 |
I listened to 70s anthology today and realized I dont know for sure who is doing lead on Your Whats Missing In My Life--I had always assumed only Scherrie--then I thought I heard Mary in a higher key--now maybe its both--help! Knocked out by Sha La La Bandit--lost hit--love Cindy on her lead. | ||
alphanguy (alphanguy) 1-Arriviste Username: alphanguy Post Number: 5 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 65.148.31.10 |
It's Scherrie and Mary both sharing the lead. Mary sings.. "I thought my life was happy.. I thought that I was fulfilled"... then Scherrie sings.. "Then You enriched my life.. a whole new world was revealed"... then Mary again... "I never really lived unitl you showed me how.. you changed my whole life, my heart knows it now". | ||
Jimmy Mack (luke) 1-Arriviste Username: luke Post Number: 10 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 152.163.252.166 |
thanks alpha-I never thought Id confuse the two but Mary really moved up her key for that one!do u agree? | ||
John Barry Sheffield (jaybs) 1-Arriviste Username: jaybs Post Number: 6 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 195.92.168.165 |
But surely there was only ever one true lead voice of the 70's Supremes, though not knocking the others in any way or form That being Jean Terrell - a real talent, why her A&M career was not much bigger I will never know. I am looking forward to her Jazz Album she has recorded which is due soon and of course Jean's DVD. John (Message edited by jaybs on April 11, 2004) | ||
Boynextdoor (boynextdoor) 1-Arriviste Username: boynextdoor Post Number: 3 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 4.165.87.234 |
I didn't know Jean recorded a jazz CD? How does one buy Jean's DVD? | ||
Jimmy Mack (luke) 2-Debutant Username: luke Post Number: 11 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 152.163.252.166 |
John I agree with u --I think Jean was the best singer EVER at Motown(ok Gladys and David are close too)--tho her voice on PBS recently was very shaky--do her current performances vary? | ||
John Barry Sheffield (jaybs) 1-Arriviste Username: jaybs Post Number: 8 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 195.92.168.165 |
I understand the DVD is completed and that the Jazz Album is being mixed - from recent photo's Jean looks so well. The PBS I was told she was cut off the TV broadcast as she was ill, but it was going to be left on the video? Jean has always kncoked me out, her voclas and her looks! She also took such a nice page in the LIVE WITH LEVI programme - a True Lady! John | ||
Jimmy Mack (luke) 2-Debutant Username: luke Post Number: 13 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 152.163.252.166 |
Yes--I saw about a minute of it and her complete perfromance is also available on the net. She didnt seem to have much range and Freddi Poole and other backup were very loud and semi-took over from what I heard/saw. She did look wonderful. | ||
stone love (stone_love) 1-Arriviste Username: stone_love Post Number: 2 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.30.124.189 |
I WANNA SAY SHERRIE PAYNE WAS AND STILL IS THE BEST LEAD OF THE 70s SUPREMES.SHE SINGS STONED LOVE LIKE IT'S HER OWN.SHERRIE SINGS THE 60s SUPREMES MY WORLD IS EMPTY WITHOUT YOU LIKE H-D-H WRITTEN IT FOR HER.ALSO MARY WILSON IS NOT PLAYING AROUND.MARY WILSON OF THE 70s SUPREMES WAS NOT THE SAME MARY WILSON OF THE 60s SUPREMES.SUSAYE GREENE WAS ALSO ONE OF THE BEST LEADS SINGER OF THE 70s SUPREMES.BUT LYNDA LAURENCE WHEN I SAW HER LIVE.(WHAT A TALANT)WHAT A VOICE.WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY THE 70s SUPREMES WAS THE BEST. | ||
Shawn1 (shawn1b) 3-Pundit Username: shawn1b Post Number: 35 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 65.26.97.112 |
I have never thought of Scherrie Payne as being the best Lead of the Supremes (70").I much preferre Mary's leads are her and Scherri's duets than a whole song with Scherrie on lead I will say I loved her voice on show tunes and she did a fabulous job My World Is Empty,although I think she should never EVER sing Stoned Love .Jean is a fabulous singer and I hope to hear from her soon ! | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 4-Laureate Username: ladymystique Post Number: 112 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.33.227.184 |
This may sound like a stupid question, but are Scherrie and Freda related? | ||
Greg C. (greg_c) 1-Arriviste Username: greg_c Post Number: 5 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 165.247.38.22 |
Freda and Scherrie Payne are real life blood sisters. | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 4-Laureate Username: ladymystique Post Number: 124 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.33.227.184 |
Greg...thanks! I figured that, but didn't want to jump to conclusions! Two beautiful voices! Wow! | ||
tsaneladi (tsaneladi) 2-Debutant Username: tsaneladi Post Number: 29 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.32.91.222 |
Jean was (is?) a great singer, and for my money so was Mary Wells. IMHO | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 4-Laureate Username: ladymystique Post Number: 129 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.33.227.184 |
All of the Supremes IMHO had great and unique voices that blended beautifully. | ||
Morgan (leeway) 1-Arriviste Username: leeway Post Number: 8 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 64.12.116.138 |
I am a bit mystified by all the Supreme related topics on this board. As a lifelong Detroiter, I can't recall anyone owning a Supremes album, or record- with the exception of "Someday We'll Be Together"- everyone seemed to like that one and maybe one or two other records (and the latter line I'm just throwing that one in for the hell of it) I honestly don't remember anyone really "loving" the Supremes. I was a kid who really enjoyed looking at albums and reading liner notes, so when I would get to an aunt's/cousin/friend of the family/my friends- anyone house who had albums, I made a beeline straight to them. I really don't remember anyone owning a Supremes album. Everyone had a few if not ALL the Temptations and Marvin Gaye albums, Four Tops, Smokey, No Supremes. A lady I worked with(who was in her early 50's), she and I were discussing the Supremes and she said the same thing. Did the black folks of Detroit, really not embrace the Supremes (like we did the Tempts and Marvin)? as the rest of the country/world did? Or was this just something happening in my neighborhood/s? I must say that although I wasn't even born when the Supremes had their first hit, (I wasn't born when the Four Tops/Tempts/Smokey had their first hits) as a kid growing up in D-town, the Motown sound was just "there", you could not escape it. So you became quite familiar with the songs at a very early age. For the record, I really didn't care for the Supremes as a kid, I like them now. (Forgive me if something like this has already been discussed, I am a newbie here) | ||
Jimmy Mack (luke) 3-Pundit Username: luke Post Number: 58 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.198.48.201 |
Is Barbra Martin on Let Me Go The Right Way? | ||
Juicefree20 (juicefree20) 4-Laureate Username: juicefree20 Post Number: 161 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.46.184.162 |
Morgan,welcome aboard. My friend, I hear you. You are fortunate that you are in this new forum saying that. In the old forum, you would have been besieged by several Supremes fans & Diana/Mary fans. You would have been challenged to flying wigs at 20 paces. It's refreshing to read your words. I did like The Supremes, though I was very young when they were in their glory years. I wonder how many people felt as you did. Juice | ||
roddee (rod_rick) 1-Arriviste Username: rod_rick Post Number: 1 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 152.163.252.166 |
Are there any Cindy Birdsong leads that we don't know about. What about Lynda lawrence leads? It's been said that Stevie Wonder wanted her to do the lead to "Bad Weather". Does that lead exist? | ||
Reese (reese) 2-Debutant Username: reese Post Number: 11 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 12.15.169.205 |
I don't think Cindy ever had any complete leads. She had short lead parts in REACH OUT AND TOUCH and BABY, YOU'VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES. Both can be found on THE MAGNIFICENT 7 duet album with the 4 Tops. She also had a section in THE SHA LA BANDIT on THE SUPREMES 70s ANTHOLOGY. | ||
Shawn1 (shawn1b) 3-Pundit Username: shawn1b Post Number: 45 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 65.26.97.112 |
Cindy also has a lead part on All I Want as done by SMC on Sonny and Cher show .Shawn ps Cindy did record a great single called Dancing Room which I really liked ! | ||
SDF (handsome) 2-Debutant Username: handsome Post Number: 13 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 170.118.158.14 |
Hi! Cindy also can be her on her short part of the song, "Up the ladder to the roof". Lynda Lawrence to my knowledge filled in/sang lead for Jean when she was ill for a concert. Mary called Cindy back. I understand Lynda did a great job, though I've never heard her solo voice before. Hey Reese! Handsome | ||
Jimmy Mack (luke) 3-Pundit Username: luke Post Number: 61 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.198.48.201 |
And Cindy sings "Touch-talk to me talk to me touch"on Touch towards the end of the record. | ||
roddee (rod_rick) 1-Arriviste Username: rod_rick Post Number: 2 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 205.188.116.138 |
Thanks for your input. I believe I have all of the songs mention. I guess what I should have said was there any songs in the vaults with Cindy & Lynda on lead vocals | ||
Edgar (edgar) 2-Debutant Username: edgar Post Number: 16 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 200.46.13.213 |
Yes, Roddee. At least, Cindy Birdsong recorded two leads for the "High Energy" album: "Till the Boat Sails Away" and "You Keep Me Moving On" but they were not released, in part because Pedro Ferrer replaced her with Susaye Greene before the album was out, although she sings background in all of the songs. There are copies of these and other Birdsong solos sold on Ebay from time to time, but the sound quality is not good in most of the songs and reportedly the two from "High Energy" were not finished, those are not final mixes. According to Harry Weinger there are more leads by Cindy in the Motown vaults. If you are interested in solo works by each member of the Supremes, send me an e-mail (est@sinfo.net) and I can make you a copy of a CD-r I made for myself called "Life After The Supremes" as a gift. It includes: 1. Like You Babe / Florence Ballard 2. Green River / Mary Wilson 3. And If You See Him / Diana Ross 4. Storybook Romance / Scherrie Payne 5. In the Night / Susaye Greene 6. Don't Stop Reaching for the Top / Jean Terrell 7. Save Me / Mary Wilson 8. Dancing Room / Cindy Birdsong 9. Pure Energy / Scherrie Payne 10. I'm Not Taking a Chance / Lynda Laurence 11. Rising Cost of Love / Jean Terrell 12. Turn Around / Mary Wilson 13. Forever Faithful / Florence Ballard 14. Bewitched (By Your Love) / Susaye Greene 15. I Will Survive / Diana Ross (Message edited by edgar on April 23, 2004) (Message edited by edgar on April 23, 2004) | ||
DRIVINGWHEEL (drivingwheel) 1-Arriviste Username: drivingwheel Post Number: 6 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 69.144.179.189 |
Terrific Tunes!, Edgar. Motown needs to do this! |
