After leaving the Supremes, Birdsong worked as a nurse at UCLA Medical Center under her married name of Cindy Hewlett, and then went to work for Suzanne de Passe at Motown Records.

All three Supremes were unhappy with Motown's seeming lack of interest in promoting this line-up of the group, a line-up that recorded no hit singles, the closest being " Bad Weather ", a Stevie Wonder tune that failed on the charts at a time when everything else he was releasing went gold.

Otis and Josephine divorced in 1964, and Williams went on to date Florence Ballard of The Supremes, and was for a time engaged to R & B singer Patti LaBelle.

Ross, having just left The Supremes after a decade of serving as that group's lead singer, went through a difficult situation trying to piece a solo album together.

Formed in imitative style of the Motown girl group The Supremes, the group members had gradually honed their talents with White for two years previously until they signed contracts with Uni Records.

* November 17 – Diana Ross & the Supremes replace The Beatles ' hugely-successful " Hey Jude " at number-one in the U. S. with " Love Child "; this would be the last of five turnovers at number-one between the two most successful music acts in America during the 1960s.

According to Wilson, Ballard's voice was so loud that she was made to stand up to seventeen feet away from her microphone during recording sessions, while the other two Supremes stood directly in front of their microphones.

Although hits were less frequent during this time period, Diana Ross and the Supremes enjoyed their two biggest-selling hits in 1968 (" Love Child ") and 1969 (" Someday We'll Be Together "), respectively.

It took nearly two years for Motown to produce new recording contracts for the Supremes, during which time the group concentrated on live performances, and Wilson married Dominican businessman Pedro Ferrer.

With Greene, the Supremes recorded two disco-flavored albums with some success, including the release of their final top forty hit " I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do the Walking " which also ranked number 1 on the dance charts.

Reports as to why vary between the two singers, but Ross decided to do the tour with two singers who had joined The Supremes after Ross had left the group, Lynda Laurence and Scherrie Payne.

", which she recorded as a member of the group Glass House and was featured on their second album, Payne has had club hits, such as " I'm Not In Love " ( featuring sister Freda Payne and former Supreme Mary Wilson on backing vocals ) in 1982, followed two years later by " One Night Only ", a song from Act II of the play and movie " Dreamgirls ", which, interestingly, is a show based loosely on the history of the Supremes and the advancing of the Motown sound into the Disco era.

" She had two other major club hits soon after: a dance remake of The Supremes ' " Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart ," and – in a lead vocal guest spot for the Cage – " Do What You Wanna Do.

The Hollies last hit the US Top 40 with a remake of The Supremes ' " Stop in the Name of Love ", which reached No. 29 in 1983, taken from the album What Goes Around .... A live album featuring the Clarke-Hicks-Elliott-Nash re-grouping, Reunion, was recorded at Kings Island Amusement Park in Ohio, during a USA tour that followed that same year, finally being issued first in 1997 as " Archive Alive ", then retitled " Reunion " ( with two extra tracks ) in 2004.

It topped the UK Chart for two weeks in August 1974 ( the first time this been done by an all-female group so since The Supremes in 1964 ), and became the 4th best selling single of the year.

Patti LaBelle has noted that a rivalry between the two groups developed after the Supremes were seen in the same store LaBelle and her band members were, shopping for clothes for performances.

For her first two and a half years as a Supreme, listeners did not hear Birdsong's voice on most of The Supremes ' newest singles.

During that period, Birdsong contributed to two albums: The Supremes ( 1975 ) and High Energy ( 1976 ).

Greene was a member of The Supremes from early 1976 to summer of 1977 ( replacing Cindy Birdsong ), and performed on their last two albums, High Energy and Mary, Scherrie & Susaye.

In 1979, two years after The Supremes disbanded, Greene recorded a duet album with fellow former Supreme Scherrie Payne entitled Partners under the name " Scherrie & Susaye.

Despite their early successes, the group were eclipsed in popularity by groups like The Supremes, with whom they shared an intense rivalry and struggled with issues of dismal promotion from Motown, illnesses and mental breakdowns, with Cowart the first to leave in 1963, followed by Georgeanna Tillman two years later and Gladys Horton two years after that.

She is best known for being a part of two Motown acts: Stevie Wonder's backup group The Third Generation, and one of the post-Diana Ross continuation groups of The Supremes.

She did sing lead in concert on two occasions, her debut with the Supremes in May 1972, at Hawaii's H. I. C Arena, and later at the Copacabana in New York.

In January 2000, the two books were released together as Dreamgirl & Supreme Faith: My Life as a Supreme, and included an afterword which covered Wilson's life during the 1990s, including her unsuccessful legal battle for the Supremes trademark and the tragic death of her youngest son.

Las Supremas de Móstoles ( or The Supremes of Móstoles, in English ) is a Spanish pop band made up of three sisters, Susi, Vicky and Luisi ( two of them are twins ).

That song was an album cut from a joint LP released by Motown Records in 1968 on the two superstar groups, titled Diana Ross & the Supremes Join The Temptations.

" Over the five years they performed on the program, the Supremes performed 15 of their hit singles, and numerous Broadway showtunes and other non-Motown songs.

In later years, The Shirelles declined in popularity due to pressure from the British Invasion and the heavy competition from other girl groups, including The Chiffons, The Dixie Cups, The Ronettes, The Supremes, and The Crystals.

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.

In 1967, after three years of phenomenal success, Motown chief Berry Gordy changed the name of the group to Diana Ross & the Supremes and at Mary and Diana's request replaced Florence Ballard with Cindy Birdsong.

Wilson initiated a court case against Kaaren Ragland, who served as a back-up singer for Wilson for several years, to prevent Ragland from calling a group she formed " The Sounds of the Supremes ," but the court found in Ragland's favor .".

In recent years, Wilson has made headlines for proposing a bill to ban impostor groups from performing under the names of 1950s and 1960s rock groups, including Motown groups such as The Marvelettes and The Supremes.

In 1964, " Where Did Our Love Go " became the first of ten # 1 pop hits which H-D-H would write and produce for the Supremes over the next three years or so.

The show aired on June 28, 1965 and featured performances by many of the popular artists of the day like Jan & Dean, Mary Wells, the Dave Clark Five, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles, The Drifters, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, The Ronettes, The Righteous Brothers and Little Anthony & the Imperials That show also introduced the first music video-style programming, pre-dating MTV by 15 years.

In her later years also, her usually conservative dark gowns were replaced by colorful sequined creations worthy of the The Supremes.

Birdsong said that the remaining Bluebelles were angry with her for not telling them about joining the Supremes and refused to talk to her for years.

Susaye Greene ( born September 13, 1949 ), is an American singer, best known for being the last official member to join Motown girl group The Supremes, remaining in the group during its final years of existence from 1976 to 1977.

In 1985, eight years after the Supremes officially broke up in 1977, Scherrie Payne, the third and final Supremes lead singer, was signed to SuperStar International Records, an Los Angeles based record company.

With Survivor, Destiny's Child became the first US female group to have a number one album on the UK charts since Diana Ross and the Supremes hit the position 24 years ago with a greatest hits package.

In July 1965 the Supremes made their debut there, resulting in Motown Records booking the Temptations, Martha and the Vandellas, and Marvin Gaye performing at the Copa in the next few years.

The Sly & the Family Stone sound became the dominating sound in African-American pop music for the next three years, and many established artists, such as The Temptations and their producer Norman Whitfield, Diana Ross & the Supremes, The Impressions, The Four Tops, The 5th Dimension, and War began turning out Family Stone-esque material.

Stevenson was head of the A & R department at Motown during the company's " glory " years of the mid-1960s when artists such as The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Four Tops, and Martha & the Vandellas came to the fore.