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UNSUNG: The Truth: FLORENCE BALLARD

Mar 28, 2024
welcome to the random site and this would be your host Carol D Mitchell, how are you tonight ladies and gentlemen? I'm here because I want to tell the real story about Florence Ballard. I saw Florence Ballard in

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tonight, ladies and gentlemen, and unlike. normal everything has to stop, I don't know why people don't want to tell the

truth

, I mean, and I'm in that situation where you know I'm getting older, so hey, there are some stories out there that I live to see and I want them to people know the

truth

. I don't want to let Diana get away with her guilt over what happened to Florence Ballard, so I watched the show tonight and said this is my opinion, so I don't want anyone to come after me. for doing the wrong thing because I'll just call it what I did.
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I was one of the original fans of The Supremes and I'm not talking about Diana Ross and The Supremes because Diana didn't start the group I'm talking about. The Supremes and I would say that if you looked at, say, Diana Ross, she would be the first douchebag person ever. I only say this so that she doesn't rest on her laurels but rather on her back. I'm sorry. I just call it like I see it and it's about time someone spoke up because when I was watching Unsung tonight, these people were talking about Florence Ballard, you know, in ways that it would have been better to speak another language.
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You have to publish it. Stop lying and tell the truth, so we'll go over that show per se, you know, when I saw it tonight on Unsung about Florence Ballard, Florence Glenda Ballard, yes, ladies and gentlemen, the original member of The Supremes, and I just don't we tell them. the truth as I know it now when I tell you the truth as I know it I did an analysis I read books about Diana I have read many books about Diana Ross If in her own words she would tell you how good she was. If you just take the time to read and then when you take everything and put it together, there was a no-win situation for Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard in this whole atmosphere where Diana Ross was always crawling to the top, but anyway, We will be guided by the theme of the program and I will access my notes here.
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Yes, there was no singing tonight, ladies and gentlemen, and the theme was Florence Ballard. I want to do this review about Florence Ballard because The Supremes was started by Florence and four years before, The Supremes fans lived to commemorate Florence Ballard. I want to give you a more honest view, as I said, of how Diana played such an important role in Florence Ballard's downfall, whether overtly or sublimely. I don't care how it happened, she was part of Florence Ballard's downfall. Let's say it without uncertain terms, but even in the special program, unrecognized people are not afraid to tell the truth, as I reiterated before.
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I'm not afraid. from I'm not afraid of you and it's about time someone called Diana out for what Diana did because she was complicit no matter how mobile no matter how gordy berry how they tried to cover it up she was complicit in the downfall of Florence Ballard and I'm not afraid about Diana Ross sleeping with Barry Gordy and for years I said her first child was Berry Gordy's, but you could hear people talking about that, I mean, when I was a teenager, people were like, yeah, you know . What's happening? You know, is she sleeping with them or not?
But back then you didn't talk about these things, not even the rag sheets talked about the fact that Diana was sleeping with Barry Gordy because Diana was perceptive. Diana knew if she gave it to him. above meant that her name would be in the lights forever, ladies and gentlemen, yes, in fact, Anna I do not have the voice of Florence Ballard. Dianna's song. Diana wasn't even the first member of the group and Diana's songs ended up being created around what Diana Ross had and it wasn't much back then the songs were so simple, ladies and gentlemen, they were created for Diana Ross' voice.
You know, honey, honey, where did I go? You know, that's so simple, even someone like me without a reality book oh and for you, young man. People, you can just Google, honey, where did our love go, you know?, and all those things that she searched and found ways to get close to decision makers, from Smokey Robinson to Barry Gordy. Diana Ross literally slept her way into the privileged position of being. Diana Ross and The Supremes through hitmaker Berry Gordy and they thought she was better than Florence and Mary Wilson and the reason I say that is because the girls you know came from Diana's family project, well I think one of your family members won't. she worked for the post office honey and she just thought she was so short she was better than everyone else before reality TV first of all Diana thought she was in a bag of chips honey yeah she did long before it was called, that Diana created the Casting waitress Diana Ross had the attitude to make it and she was that kind of person who didn't care who she stepped on in the way, ladies and gentlemen, I tell you what , she was one of Michael Jackson's favorites, yes.
Diana Ross knew how to do her hair and makeup Diana Ross refused to eat because Diana said hey, I'm looking around, I'm looking at married, I'm looking at Florence, I see that they have big bones, they don't get fat. that I almost stayed thin so I could be at the top Diana never ate Diana stayed at a size zero I think she is still a size zero today ladies and gentlemen she never ate knowing that if the others gained weight they would be kicked out of the group and invariably Flores was beaten by her weight oh, you're big, you know you'll have to go back down to a size eight, you know, because we can't afford for you to be that big, Florence, but Florence just wanted to sing, this wasn't about the whole thing.
Backhand matcha nation is about singing to Florence Valor because she was an original member who had the voice tonight

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covered Valor's story and this is my professional review of her. The group was Mary Wilson Diana Ross Florence Ballard someone named Barbara Martin and another woman, but Mary said Florence had the voice, she had the glamor of downtown New York, she was down to earth, they said the bigger The sadder Florence became when they expelled her from the group, she fell, but behind the scenes. Diana went to hotels with Barry, honey, yes, Diana wanted to marry Barry Gordy.
Diana was doing everything she could and even before they did it, when they were working in the background on this, secretary Diana would sneak into Berry's office, you know what? you have for me you know you can hear her in that squeaky, loquacious little voice oh yeah you know I'm available to do anything and that's just what Florence had to deal with and we really need to get to the nuts and bolts of that. so people don't understand how hard it had to be for Florence to endure those vaccine imaginings, so in January 2007 Jennifer's character in Dreamgirls Eppie was supposed to be the Florence Ballard replica and yes, ladies and gentlemen, you know which is true, she was based on Florence Ballard and when Jennifer Hudson accepted her Academy Award, she thanked the real singer, honey, yeah, she threw shade, honey, she threw shade, she said yes, there was a real singer in that group and not just the cat that looked like someone had scared it, honey. was an actual singer in the group and that is Florence Ballard, she was the original member of the team, yes ladies and gentlemen, Florence Diana Mary had the style and the grace, they had number one hits more than any other girl group in the 60s, yes, The Supremes, Bert it.
They were classy, โ€‹โ€‹Diana said, will you, you and Nelson George called them the biggest pop act of that era and I just want to get into that for you because I had a friend in 1967, when I was 12, and we went to this junior. high school and that morning one morning she was hit by a car and I remember before she was hit by that car and she had talked about how The Supremes had all her records and everything and that's all we talked about, her girls were The Supremes They were like the Beyonce of that era and my friend died anyway.
They buried me with that Supremes album, but the only thing that nobody liked was that when they changed Diana's name to lead the group, they were no longer Supremes, but. Diana Ross and The Supremes and somehow they resonate more with you. I was there even as a child. I did not like. I rejected the whole fact that it was Diana Ross and The Supremes because everyone knew the fact that Florence Ballard had the voice, yes ladies and gentlemen, that's why we felt that way. Florence Ballard's image was conveyed by dream girls like Effie White, she started the group and was later cast after the group found fame.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, she was expelled from it. the group found fame Ballard had the undisputed voice with the sound of Etta James and they described her as Aretha Franklin and she had all the fold and she had that lilt in that look and ladies and gentlemen, she really was the beautiful bird. from The Supremes Florence Ballard said yes ladies and gentlemen then Peter Ben Jamison said she sang through pain she was a very good singer now the final chapter of Florence's life was a nightmare unlike Dreamgirls Florence was trying to come back Allen Bram caught Florence as the best tragedy in music ladies and gentlemen she was born in Detroit in 1943 her parents came from the south looking for a better future a relative her sister Maxine Ballard said Florence was the best singer she had ever heard, she had that voice that I could do anything I could. even Barbra Streisand Florence appeared in The Lost Supreme yes, Florence started singing at age five for relatives and just outside the window and said mainly I love Christmas songs so Florence joined the choir and Maxine, Florence and Denise practice and they say Florence smiled because she loves to sing singing was this girl's life you know you're talented and you know you want to be a dancer you know you want to be an actress well that's how Florence Ballard felt about singing this wasn't about playing games with her It wasn't about sleeping with anyone, it was about getting by with your strength, your talent, your love for the game and that's why with Diana Ross there is a disparity because Diana wasn't in it because she had a magnificent voice, I'll break it down for you.
Diana was in it because Diana saw money Diana saw fame, she didn't want to end up in the post office like one of her parents was working, she wanted to be a star and she did everything she could. could make it the total antithesis and the way totally against how Florence and Mary Wilson wanted to do it yes, the project that Brewster projects on Mary Wilson stayed in the projects with Florence Ballard and Diana said they couldn't even tell you that Diana lived in this little house, they said: Oh, Diana lived at the other end. I mean, that's supposed to be the projects good ending, but Florence met Mary Wilson at Bishop Elementary School and Mary said Florence said this Arya moment wasn't planned with her voice it wasn't just about you know. , baby, baby, baby, don't or don't mess with the songs that they did, but it was about singing ladies and gentlemen and impressing the crowd and getting the crowd up so you know they sang arias, yeah Marian.
Florence sang in our ears and in high school the teacher wanted Marian Florence to take singing seriously and opera stars B, yes, so all this Williams is the temptation, he says that singing always sweats in projects and voice that was most recognized back then was Florence Ballard yes ladies and gentlemen why was Diana on the other side trying to find out who had all the money trying to be with Smokey Robinson and stuff? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, uh-huh Florence was thinking about singing to the crowd, yes, so Maxine said they were sitting on the stairs and that's how they were discovered, a man in a red and white Cadillac drove up, he was a member of the cousins and I was scouting for talent for a group called the primates, because everyone who knows The Supremes knows that.
The initial group was elementary education, so Florence got permission from her parents to audition for the main ones and prepared something for Jenkins and Florence was asked to recruit the other girls. Now pay close attention to that, pay close attention to this from the beginning, it wasn't like that. Diana wasn't married, no she wasn't, it was Florence who set something up for Prime's Jenkins and Florence was the one who was asked to recruit the other girls for the group, so Wilson said, "Okay, you got me and I'm going to do it". Go look for Diana, I'm here for her audition.
Florence did it night is the right time, you know that song, you know the night nine and day is the right time, night and day to be, yeah, be with the one you love, you know that song, yeah, so that is. the song they made so old yes Florence had that avant-garde commercial voice, she had the glamor of Dorothy Dandridge, yes, back then she was sexy, ladies and gentlemen, but Florence had that look and Mary Wilson sent Florence she could sing, it's Well, she was like Whitney Houston. At that time, Motown had been founded by Berry Gordy Diana said that Berry knew how to exploit talent and Motown was the place where everyone wanted to be there was Smokey Robinson, you know, Marvin Gaye Stevie Wonder, everyone was there, so Mary Wells Mary Wilson knewThat I'd get the contract, but the problem with girls back then is that they didn't get a hit for years and years and years, but all that while I was Diana Ross bio, she was going to Berry Gordy's office, honey, was flirting with Berry Gordy and she was sleeping with Vari Gordy long before they became a group, she was sailing towards Berry Gordy and during that time Diana was creating in Berry's mind that if this group got together, the primus would leave him very clear to Berry that she was going to be the lead singer of the group or one day after the mission ended you would make me the lead singer of the group and McDonagh Ross knew what was going to be inevitable, there was no doubt about it, so Instead of helping Florence Mallard lose weight or stop drinking or talk about the tragedies that happened to Florence Ballard Diana Ross watches Florence Ballard's self-destruction knowing full well that she was creating a place to take over that entire group yeah, ladies and gentlemen, it's like any necessary meaning like I said before, then a tragedy happened and Florence was a real friend to someone until a tragedy happened and I think this person she befriended at the Graystone Ballroom may have raped her, but it's something she will never talk about to a friend.
I offered Florence a ride home and they raped her and it was a brutal rape. You Mary Wilson said he destroyed Florence and she never revealed her name to avoid trouble. Yeah, so, you know, something like that looked comparable to a murder. It was just a horrible situation and apparently according to TV 1 this woman never recovered from it and if you could imagine being in a group with a dominant personality like Diana Ross doing all these harmful things sleeping with Barry Gordy at all times and this is common knowledge , So do not do it. I'm not saying, oh you're making it up, no honey, it's common knowledge that Diana Ross was sleeping with Barry Gordy if this kid had kept the kid a secret until she was a grown woman.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I tell you, Diana Ross's wedding, oh, it was. a job so anyway Florence wouldn't sing for a long time after the rape incident and like I said before the girls were trying to get this deal trying to get a hit record so Betty left the group and was replaced by Barbra Martin. Mary wills Marvin was gay, the girls did backgrounds, they did secretarial work, they went out and in 1961 the primates released songs that included buttered popcorn and Maxine, her sisters from Florence and the family was really proud and happy, they just wanted to hear the songs on the radio.
The place of success talking about Florence Ballard, her sister Maxine and the family were just going to be phenomenal singers. They weren't trying to get to the top and push the other girls aside like Diana was because Diana saw the opportunity and Diana took advantage. The opportunity then Barry Gordy wanted to change the name and that's how The Supremes came about. There were two other names but no one remembers what those names were but we all know that later that name would change from The Supremes to Diana Ross and The Supremes and even little girls in Pomona California like me and my deceased friend couldn't stand this, we couldn't stand it, but the big hit was baby love in 1962 and you know, darling, darling, please don't leave me, please, you know. song but anyway by then Barbra was saying, I'm tired of this mess and it looked like Diana was going to go and do what she was doing and I don't want to be a part of that.
I want to be a normal girl with a family life, so Barbara. Martin left the group leaving Florence Diana and Mary as a trio, so Lamont Dozier and company were like, look, these girls have been hanging around for years. Berry was tired of Diana being in his grill, so he was willing to give up and get her a hit this year 1962. Or we don't have to tell your houses to go well and I'm not talking about Florence and I'm not talking about Mary, I'm talking about the one who represented all three and that would be Diana, yes ladies. and gentlemen, I tell you that in 1964 a baby was a hit for The Supremes, their life changed and says Mary Wilson, one night they weren't a hit, then they were in Europe, so Florence was 21 when they did it and her sister Maxine said.
A whole new world of performing opened up and soon the girls were singing all over the world, constantly working five consecutive hits into my arms again, yes, yes ladies and gentlemen, it was a great time in life for music. I remember. She was nine years old. old and when you heard those songs on the radio you wanted to be around this group The Supremes ladies and gentlemen you wanted every album every time a song came out you were in John's group record store buying those supreme records that they raised after a record They had a gold record after another raising millions and millions of dollars.
Diana's big eyes and sex appeal made her the leading lady and Wilson said her dreams came true, but Florence was about to break three magical years. Everything that sweet The Supremes did is over. Raymond Gibson and Florence were down to earth and Florence lit up on stage at a time when she was a comedian and made jokes on stage and Wilson said Florence laughed like Santa Claus, now the problem with what was happening now Back in the '60s, mid-'60s, it was the fact that Berry was so intrinsically involved with Diana Ross that he slept with her and took her everywhere that at this point he didn't like Florence Ballard, there was nothing that Florence could do to be happy like her.
He never liked her and the fact that she was sleeping with Diana didn't help the group as a whole. In no way did Diana have a special relationship with Barry and when Florence said people about Barbra Streisand it was a number that she always did, she always did. It received standing ovations until one night Barry wanted and from the eldest and then when Diana took the song, if Diana ever said anything once, it became hers and suddenly the other two members of the group, Florence and Mary , they started singing behind Diana at least two or three feet behind Diana and Diana stepped forward, ladies and gentlemen, yes, she did.
AHA. Florence didn't like that she and Mary were pushed back onto the stage. Why was Diana saying in front of them? Then Florence began to rebel and they started drinking. and many believed that Florence's drinking was a problem, including the rape and the compilation of everything Florence had to go through. You can really see how I was rambling in this group, ladies and gentlemen, which is why Florence started clashing with Diana and Berrien in July 1967 at the Flamingo and Las Vegas Florence was called that and I remember in Diana Ross's book aha I think who were John and Terra Bella or something like that when he wrote about it in his book he didn't bite the bullet talking about how Diana and Barry were sitting there together calling Florence.
They even had a meeting where they wanted Florence to come to the house where they could fire her and replace her with Cindy Birdsong Honey. They were dirty people, they got together and conspired against this woman's career. It was the meanest thing people could do, but Florence tried to rebuild her career anyway, but the bad luck had only just begun, ladies and gentlemen, yes, it was about to strike. Florence signed a statement, you know, because she couldn't take it anymore. so it was common knowledge that Diana was Barry's wife, yes, she had the secret baby, honey, she would go on these secret, secret trips.
Barry got his teeth done, Barry bought all her wigs, she took her clothes to Coco Cabana Honey, and Florence wasn't invited. on any of these trips and neither did Mary, so Mary said her Florence got tight and they became best friends, so when they wanted Florence to go, this man made Florence sign one of the worst music release forms known to the man. the release deal that was bad they gave her $15,000 to leave forever and she left without right she sighed they released her out of frustration and they didn't allow her to say former member of The Supremes former member of Diana Ross and The Supremes former member who fit in the ghetto and I found out that the group of you are dirty people, Barry Gordy, you and Diana Ross because of the way you treated Florence Ballard and I am here to tell the truth.
I'm not going to cover up this truth the way I swung, did I like it? the song I like the way you put the stars here and tell us about the past, but I'm going to need you to be honest about how Florence Ballard was talked about behind her back, how Cindy was taken out of birdsong before she even she was fired from the group, yes ladies and gentlemen, so Florence after this tried to launch a solo career, Florence chose the wrong people, ladies and gentlemen, yes she did. Florence tried to record an album with I Think I'm Going Crazy You Know and I Think I'm Going Crazy You Know that song, so it didn't go well for her, her recordings wouldn't be released for another 40 years, ladies and gentlemen, I couldn't use them before The Supremes, I couldn't use The Supremes connections that Florence had. three children lost his record deal he was broke while Diana was getting money from Barry and fur coats and growing and growing and growing with that group ladies and gentlemen Florence Ballard was going down now what I remember from the 70's ladies and gentlemen something you don't I'm going to listen to my son, people were going around saying why Diana Ross isn't doing anything to help Florence when Florence lost her house, honey, Jet magazine that puts dead people on the cover, you know how they do it, They came out and put Florence Ballard on the cover of Jet magazine cooking some spaghetti ladies and gentlemen welfare with her food stamps she had nothing ladies and gentlemen and do you think Diana walked up and said hello Florence?
I want to thank you for starting this group, you got my degree. jumping, you even got me a man, Florence, so I'll have to thank you, no, Diana, and back there people don't talk about it now, but everyone, behind closed doors, called Diana, darling, she was the original, Honey, yes, it was and I'm going to have to say it like it is, it was really very tragic. Tommy was gone, a man was gone, now they were taking over the house and Diana had written a check from the flat to Florence, so they say no one saw the check, no one ever.
I actually saw Diana Ross write the check, ladies and gentlemen, for Florence and now they say in South Oh. Diana wrote her a check, but she was too paranoid to accept it now that you have three kids and know you started the group. We're expecting a tip, Sonny, and if Diana had really given that check to Florence, she would have taken that check, tried to save her house instead of appearing on the cover of Jet magazine cooking spaghetti with her food stamps on the table. Don't tell me you can sell it to anyone who will listen, but you can't sell it to me, but anyway Florence didn't accept the check, so they said Maxine said she showed up at her house.
Maxine Ballard is Florence's sister. and in 1974, Florence, desperate, went to the hospital, ladies and gentlemen, because now they said she had a problem with alcohol. Peter J. Jameson, who wrote about Florence being all welfare and being on the cover of that plane in the summer of 1975, said Florence at a concert and people said wow when she was on stage, ladies and gentlemen, They were so happy to have Florence back. Florence was on her way. Florence wants a settlement with her lawyer, who left with her money. Yes, she sued and got the money. She bought another house and you.
I know that the man who left her found his way back home when she had some fluidity in her life again. He returned, but that didn't last, so on February 21, 1976, Florence Fowler died from a blood clot in the heart, a larger part of the blood clot. deep down she was only 32 years old ladies and gentlemen Florence Glenda Ballard Diana Ross came to the funeral and that was another thing everyone was looking for Diana you won't pay for the funeral Diana are you going to the funeral and he just I was left with the feeling that Diana Ross she really dropped the ball on this friendship, ladies and gentlemen, and she really didn't do the group much favor by allowing Barry to split up the group, but as we know, it worked, it worked to make Diana.
Ross, a big star, Diana Ross never apologized, there are a lot of people here who feel that Diana doesn't own Florence, an apology, but if you read the compilation of material that is out there, you will see where it started from the beginning. who was the real supreme then you know in very clear terms Diana Ross oh this woman a big apology now Mary Wilson stays in the middle she still looks good even today Mary Wilson stays in the middle and other members of the motel like Mary Wells, you know? They made bad decisions because people like Barry Gordy Gordy were dedicated to that life.
They were like insects and Kemp's honey. They didn't give a damn about your personal involvement in something. Barry Gordy did not give credit and everything to Florence Ballard for linking him to the woman who would be one of the loves of his life. Barry Gordy was the one behind that mahogany movie, he was behind all the movies ofDiana Ross, yes, she did. Lady singing the blue, he financed everything because he fell in love with Diana Ross, so it's hard to imagine that behind the scenes, turning those things into facts as they were, it's hard to believe that she didn't have something to do with the impending downfall of Florence Fowler, well, ladies and gentlemen, that's all for tonight, thanks for listening and this has I've been your host Siddhi Mitchell on the random site.
I ask you to like this video. Share this video and see you next time. Thank you. Diana Ross watches Florence Ballard's self-destruction knowing full well that she was creating a place for the taking. about that whole group, yes ladies and gentlemen, it's by any means necessary, like I said before, then a tragedy happened and Florence was really friends with someone until a tragedy happened and I think this person that she became friends with in the Graystone Ballroom may have violated. her, but it's something she will never talk about. A friend offered Florence a ride home and they raped her and it was a brutal rape.
You Mary Wilson said he destroyed Florence and she never revealed her name to avoid trouble, yeah, so, you know. something like that was seen comparable to a murder, it was just a horrible situation and apparently according to TV One this woman never recovered from it and if you could imagine being in a group with a dominant personality like Diana Ross doing all these damaging things sleeping with Barry Gordy and at all times and this is common knowledge, so don't say, oh, you're making this up, no, honey. It is common knowledge that Diana Ross was sleeping with Barry Gordy if this girl had kept the child a secret until she was a grown woman.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you Diana Ross's wedding, oh she was a job, so Florence wouldn't do it anyway. I didn't sing for a long time after the rape incident and like I said before, the girls were trying to get this deal trying to get a hit record, so Betty left the group and was replaced by Barbra Martin. Mary Wills. Marvin Gaye. The girls made the background. they did secretarial duties, they hung out, and in 1961 the primates released songs that included buttered popcorn and Maxine Fayette. Florence's sisters in the family were really proud and happy, they just wanted to hear the songs on the radio, their place of success, talking about Florence Ballard, her sister.
Maxine and the family must have been phenomenal singers, they weren't trying to get to the top and push the other girls aside like Diana was because Diana saw the opportunity and Diana took the opportunity, so Berry Gordy wanted to change the situation. . name and that's how they came up with The Supremes there were two other names but no one remembers what those names were but we all know that later that name would change from The Supremes to Diana Ross and The Supremes and even little girls in Pomona California like me and my deceased friend didn't We couldn't stand this, we couldn't stand it, but the big hit was Baby Love in 1962 and you know, honey, honey, please, you don't know the song, but anyway, by then Barbra was saying, I'm tired. of this mess and it seemed like Diana was going to go and do what she was doing and I don't want to be a part of that.
I want to be a normal girl with a family life, so the barber Martin left the group leaving Florence Diane and Mary as a trio. then Lamont Dozier and company were like, look, these girls have been hanging around for years. Berry was tired of Diane being on her grill, so he was willing to give up, get her a hit this year 1962 or we won't have to tell them where to go. Okay, and I'm not talking about Florence and I'm not talking about Mary, I'm talking about the one she represented all three of and that would be Diana Ross, yes, ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you in 1964, baby.
The baby was a fad for The Supremes, their life change and Saint Mary Wilson one night were unsuccessful, then they were in Europe so Florence was 21 when they made it and her sister Maxine said a whole new world opened up for Florence and soon the The girls were singing all over the world, constantly working five consecutive hits in my arms again, yes, yes, ladies and gentlemen, it was a great time in life for music. I remember. I was nine years old and when you heard those songs on the radio, you wanted to be around this group The Supremes, ladies and gentlemen, you wanted all the albums every time a song came out, you were at John Groove record store buying those Supreme records that were grossing , after one record, they had one gold record after another, raking in millions and millions of dollars.
Diana's big eyes and sex appeal made her a leading lady and Wilson said her dreams came true, but Florence was about to die. break three magical years, everything that sweet The Supremes did became Raymond Gibson and Florence sold out until the end. Earth and Florence lit up on stage at one point, she was comical and did a line on stage and Wilson said if Florence was laughing like Santa Claus, now the problem with what was happening now in the mid 60's The '60s was the fact that Barry was so intrinsically involved with Diana Ross that he slept with her taking her everywhere that right now on the project my Diana's family, well I think one of her family members will work for the post office, honey, and she just thought she was so short she was better than everyone else before reality TV before anything Dianna thought it was that in a bag of chips honey yeah she did it that long before from being called that Diana created the casting couch Diana Ross had it by all means necessary attitude to achieve it and she was that type of person who didn't care who she stepped on along the way ladies and gentlemen I tell you something she was one of Michael Jackson's favorites yes Diana Ross knew how to do her hair and makeup together Diana Ross refused to eat because Diana said hey I'm looking around I'm seeing Mary I'm seeing Florence I'm seeing that they have big bones they don't get any fatter than I almost know They keep them thin so she can be at the top Diana never stays decides zero I think she is still a size zero today ladies and gentlemen she never ate knowing that if the others gained weight they would be kicked out of the group and invariably Flores was beaten for her weight oh you are too much large You know you're going to have to go back down to a size eight, you know, because we can't afford for you to be that big.
Florence but Florence just wanted to sing. This wasn't about all the matcha nations backhanded, it was about singing to Florence. Ballard because he was an original member who had her voice tonight unsung covered Ballard's story and this is my professional review of her. The group was Mary Wilson Diana Ross Florence Ballard someone named Barbara Martin and another woman, but Mary said Flores had the voice, she had the downtown glamor of New York, she was down to earth, they said how much The older they got, the sadder Florence got when she was kicked out of the group, but behind the scenes Diana went to hotels with Barry, honey, yes, Diana wanted to. to marry Barry Gordy Diana was doing everything she could and even before they did it when they were working in the background as secretary Diana sneaking into Barry's office, you know what she got for me, you know, you could hear her in that squeaky talkative little voice oh yeah you know I'm available to do anything and that's just what Florence had to deal with and we have to really dig into the details so people understand how hard it had to be for Florence. to endure those vaccine imaginings, so in January 2007 Jennifer's character in Dreamgirls Effie was supposed to be the replica of Florence Ballard and yes, ladies and gentlemen, you know it's true, she was based on Florence Ballard and when Jennifer Hudson accepted her Academy Award, thanked the real Singer honey, yes she threw shade, how did she throw shade?
She had the idea that there was a real singer in that group and not just the cat that looked like someone had scared it, honey, there was a real singer in the group and that's Florence Ballard, she was. the original crew member yes ladies and gentlemen Florence Diana Mary had the style and grace they scored more number one hits than any other Gore group of the 60s yes The Supremes burn it they were stylish said Diana Williams and Nelson George called them the act biggest pop of that era and I really want to talk about that for you because I had a friend in 1967, when I was 12 years old and we went to this high school and that morning, one morning, she got hit by a car and I remember that before getting hit by that car and she had talked about The Supremes having all her records and everything and that's all we talked about, they're girls, we're The Supremes, we were like they were like Beyonce at the time and like that anyway.
My friend died, I was buried with that Supremes album, but the only thing that no one liked was that when Diana changed her name to leave the group, it was no longer the Supremes but Diana Ross and The Supremes and it just resonates with you more. . I was there even when I was a child. I did not like it. I rejected the whole fact that it was Diana Ross and The Supremes because everyone knew that Florence Ballard had the voice, yes ladies and gentlemen, that's why we felt that The way Florence Ballard's image was conveyed by dream girls like Effie White , she started the group and then picked it up after the group found fame.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, she was expelled from it. Sorry when the group found fame. Ballard had the undisputed voice with Etta James. sound and they described her as Aretha Franklin and she had all the soul and she just had that cadence in that look and ladies and gentlemen she was really the beautiful bird from The Supremes Florence Ballard was yes ladies and gentlemen so Peter Ben Jamison said she sang with pain, she was a very good singer now, the final chapter of Florence's life was a nightmare, unlike Dreamgirls, Florence was trying to make a comeback. Allen Brands calls it the greatest tragedy in music, ladies and gentlemen, she was born and welcome to chance. site and this would be her host Carol D Mitchell, how are you tonight ladies and gentlemen?
I'm here because I want to tell the real story about Florence Ballard. I saw Florence Ballard at unsung tonight, ladies and gentlemen, and unlike normal, everyone needs to do it. Stop, I don't know why people don't want to tell the truth, I mean, and I'm in that situation where you know I'm getting older, so hey, there are some stories out there that I live to see and I want people to know. I really don't want to let Diana get away with being guilty about what happened to Florence Ballard, so I watched the show tonight and I said this is my opinion, so I don't want anyone to come after me for doing something bad.
Because I'm going to call it what I did. I was one of the original fans of The Supremes and I'm not talking about Diana Ross and The Supremes because Diana didn't start the group. I'm talking about The Supremes and me. I would say if you analyzed, say Diana Ross, she would be the first asshole person ever. I'm just posting it so she doesn't rest on her laurels but rather on her back. Sorry, I'm just calling you. as I see it and it's about time someone spoke up because when I was watching unsung tonight these people were talking about Florence Ballard, you know, in ways that it would have been better if they spoke another language, you need to publish it, stop lying and Tell the truth, so we'll go over that show per se, you know, when I saw tonight on Unsung about Florence Ballard.
Florence Glenda Ballard, yes ladies and gentlemen, the original member of The Supremes and we just can't tell you the truth like I can. I know now when I tell you the truth as I know it. I did an analysis. I read books about Diana Ross. I have read many books about Diana Ross. In her own words, she would tell you how good she was if you would just take the moment to read and then when you take everything and put it together collectively, there was a no-win situation for Mary Wilson and for Florence Ballard in this whole atmosphere in which Diana Ross was always crawling to the top, but anyway, so we'll go by the theme of the show, so I'll access my notes here.
Yes, that was not sung tonight, ladies and gentlemen, and the theme was Florence Ballard. I want to do this review about Florence Ballard because The Supremes was started by Florence and four years before, The Supremes fans lived to commemorate Florence Ballard. I want to give you a more honest view, as I said, of how Diana played such an important role in the downfall of Florence Ballard, whether overtly, whether she was in the sublime, no. I care how it happened, she was part of Florence Ballard's downfall. Let's say it without uncertain terms, but even in the special program, unrecognized people are not afraid to tell the truth, as I reiterated before.
I am not afraid of the self. I'm not afraid of you and it's about time someone called Diana out so Diana dear because she was complicit no matter how mobile no matter how gordy berry how they tried to cover it up, she was complicit in the downfall of Florence Ballard and me. I'm not afraid that Diana Ross slept with Barry Gordy and here it's been four years since her first child was Berry Gordy, but you could hear people talking about that, I wantI mean, when I was a teenager, people were like, yeah, you know, what's up?
Is he sleeping with them or not? But back then you didn't talk about these things, not even the rag sheets talked about the fact that Diana was sleeping with Barry Gordy because Diana was perceptive. Diana knew that if she gave up it meant that her name would be in lights forever ladies, yes, in fact, Diana did not have the voice of Florence Ballard. Diana's son Diana wasn't even the first member of the group and Diana's songs ended up being created around what Diana Ross had and it wasn't much. Back then, the songs were so simple, ladies and gentlemen, that they were created for the voice of Diana Ross.
You know, honey, where did I go? You know, that's so simple, even someone like me without a reality and for you young people, you can just Google, baby, where did it go? our love, you know, and all those things that she sought out and found ways to get close to the decision makers, from Smokey Robinson to Barry Gordy. Diana Ross literally worked her way into the privileged position of being Diana Ross and The Supremes through hitmaker Berry Gordy. and she thought she was better than Florence and Mary Wilson and the reason I say that is because the girls you know say hello to Tom.
He didn't like Florence Ballard. There was nothing Florence could do to make Mary like her. He never liked it and the fact. That he was sleeping with Diana didn't help the group as a whole in any way. Diana had a special relationship with Mary and when Florence called Barbra Streisand people it was a number she always did, she always got standing ovations until one night Barry wanted to. had Diana sing it and then when Diana took the song, if Diana ever said anything, it became hers and suddenly the other two members of the group, Florence and Mary, started singing behind Diana, at least two or three feet behind Diana. and Diana jumped to the front ladies and gentlemen, yes she diduh-huh, Florence didn't like that she and Mary were pushed back on stage why Diana said in front of them then Clara started to rebel and they started drinking and many believed that the drink of Florence was a problem, including raping and collecting everything Florence had. to pass you could really see how she was rambling in this group ladies and gentlemen then Florence started clashing with Dianna and barian in July 1967 at the Flamingo in Las Vegas Florence was called back and I remember that in Diana Ross's book uh -huh by I think it was John and Tara downstairs or something when he wrote about it in his book, he didn't bite the bullet talking about how Diana and Barry were sitting there together called Florence, in fact they even had a meeting where They loved Florence. come to the house where they could fire her and replace her with Cindy, honey, birdsong, they were some dirty people who got together and plotted against this woman's career and it was the meanest thing people could do, but Florence tried anyway rebuild his career. but the bad luck had just begun, ladies and gentlemen, yes, she was about to fall.
Florence found a release, you know, because she couldn't take it anymore by then, it was common knowledge that Diana was Barry's wife, yes, she had the secret baby, honey, her. would go on these secret trips Barry got his teeth thanks Barry bought him all the wigs, took the clothes to Cocoa Cabana Honey and Florence wasn't invited on any of these trips and she wasn't married either, so Mary said that she and Florence They were together. and they became best friends, so when they wanted Florence to leave, this man made Flora sign one of the worst forms of music release known to Florence.
I had the launch deal which was bad, she got $15,000 to leave forever and left without rights. she signed the release out of frustration and was not allowed to say former member of The Supremes, former member of Diana Ross and The Supremes, former member who settled in the ghetto and discovered that the group you are dirty people, Berry Gordy, you and Diana. Ross for the way you treated Florence Ballard and I'm here to tell the truth I'm not going to cover up this truth the way I'm song Did I like the song? I like the way you put the stars here and let us know about the past, but I just want them to be honest about how Florence Ballard was talked about behind her back, how Cindy was kicked out of birdsong even before she was fired from the group, yes, ladies and gentlemen, so Florence, after this, tried to launch a solo career but Florence chose the wrong people, ladies and gentlemen, yes, she did.
Florence tried to record an album with I Think I'm Going Crazy You Know That and I Think I'm Going Crazy Do You Know That Song? she didn't do well her recordings wouldn't be released for 40 years ladies and gentlemen she couldn't formally use The Supremes she couldn't use The Supremes connections Florence had three children she lost her record deal she was out of money while Diana was getting money from Barry and fur coats and growing and growing and growing with that group, ladies and gentlemen, Florence Ballard was going down now, which I remember from the '70s, ladies and gentlemen, something you're not going to hear from people , people were going around saying why Isn't Diana Ross doing anything to help Florence when Florence lost her house, honey?
Jet Magazine, they put dead people on the cover, you know how they do it, they went out and put Florence Ballard on the cover of Jet Magazine cooking some spaghetti, ladies and gentlemen. on her welfare with her food stamps she had nothing ladies and gentlemen and do you think Diana came and said hello Florence? I want to thank you for starting this group, you made my career jump, you even got me a man, Florencia, so I'm going to I need to thank you, no, Diana, and there people don't talk about it now, but everyone, behind closed doors, They called Diana, honey, she was the original, honey, yes she was and I'll have to call it what it is.
It was really very tragic Tommy was gone and the man was gone now they were taking over the house and I'm Detroit in 1943 his parents came from the south looking for a better future a relative his sister Maxine Bowser said Florence was the best singer she ever I had never heard. she had this voice that could do anything, so she could even play barbra streisand Florence appeared in The Lost Supreme yes, Florence started singing at five years old for relatives and right outside the window and she said mainly I love Christmas songs, so that Florence joined the group. choir and Maxine and Florence and good practice and they said that Florida smiled because she loves to see that singing was this girl's life.
You know you have talent and you know you want to be a dancer. You know you want to be an actor. Well, this. It's the way Florence Ballard felt when she sang, it wasn't about the games with her, it wasn't about sleeping with anyone, it was about making do with your strength, your talent, your love of the game and that's why with Diana Ross there was a disparity there because Diana wasn't in this because she had a magnificent voice. I'll break it down for you. Diana was in it because Diana saw money. Diana saw fame. I didn't want to end up in the post office like one of hers. her parents were working, she wanted to be a star and did everything she could to do it, the complete and total antithesis of how Florence and Mary Wilson wanted to do it, yes, the project that Brewster projects on Mary Wilson was left in the projects with Florence Ballard and Diana said they couldn't even tell you that Diana lived in this little house, they said, Oh, Diana lived at the other end.
I mean, that's supposed to be the good ending of the projects, but Florence met Mary Wilson at Bishop Elementary School. school and Mary said Florence said that this Arya moment wasn't playing with her voice, it wasn't just about you know, honey, honey, don't or don't mess with the songs they made, but it was about singing ladies and gentlemen and impress a crowd and raising a crowd so you know they sang arias yes, Marian Florence we were seeing in our ears and in high school the teacher wanted Marian Florence to get serious with singing and opera stars B yes, so this whole temptation Williams says that singing always swept through the projects and the guy who was most famous back then was Florence Ballard, yes ladies and gentlemen, why was Diana on the other end trying to figure out who I had all the money trying to get Smokey Robinson and stuff, yeah ladies and gentlemen, huh.
Florence was thinking about singing to the crowd, yeah, so Maxine said they were sitting on the stairs and that's how they found out a man arrived in a red and white Cadillac, he was a member of the cousins โ€‹โ€‹and he was scouting talent for a group called the primates because everyone who knows the Supremes knows that the initial group was the main ones, so Florence got her parents' permission to audition for the main ones and prepared something for Jenkins and Florence was asked to recruit the other girls , now pay attention. Pay attention to that, pay close attention to this from the beginning, it was not Diana, she was not married, no, it was not Florence who prepared something for Prime's Jenkins and Florence was the one who was asked to recruit the other girls for the group , so Wilson said, "Okay, you've got me and I'll go get Diana" and for her audition Florence did "Night's the right time," you know that song, you know the night line and day's the right time suitable, night and day to be, yes, be with him.
I love you, you know that song, yes, that's the song you made. The old timers say that if Florence had that avant-garde commercial voice, she had the glamor of Dorothy Dandridge, yes she was sexy back then, ladies and gentlemen, but Florence had that look and Mary. Wilson sent Florence because she said she was fine, she was like Whitney Houston at the time, which is why Berry Gordy had founded Motown. Diana said Berry knew how to exploit talent and Motown was the place everyone wanted to be. There was Smokey Robinson, do you know Marvin Gaye? Stevie Wonder, they were all there, so Mary Wells, Mary Wilson, I knew they were going to get the contract, but the problem with the girls back then is that they didn't get a hit for years and years and years, but all that while I was reading the Diana biography more, she was going to Berry Gordy's office, honey, flirting with Berry Gordy and was sleeping with vari Gordy long before they became a group, she would join Berry Gordy and during that time Diana was creating in Berry's mind that if this group got together, the primus Ella made it very clear to Barry that she was either going to be the lead singer of the group or one day after I was done bothering you, you would make me the lead singer of the group. group and McDonough Ross knew the inevitable that would happen there.
There was no doubt about it so instead of helping Florence Ballard lose weight or stop drinking or talk about the tragedies that happened to Florence Ballard

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