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During their brief tenure as the Primettes, the group did not have a designated lead singer and sometimes sang in unison.

While signed to local Lupine Records, Diana Ross and Mary Wilson sang lead on the group's only 45 on that label, " Tears of Sorrow "/" Pretty Baby " though Ballard added a soprano whoop at the beginning of the latter track.

Ballard and Ross co-wrote " Tears of Sorrow ".

Onstage, mainly Ballard, Ross and Wilson switched lead roles.

After a couple years performing at sock hops and jubilees, the group signed with the Motown label as The Supremes, a name chosen by Ballard, on January 15, 1961.