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36. "Aside from the very nice acapella snatched from a Supremes"
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DVD Universal Music put out a few years ago...

What they mean by "what we thought was 'Diana Ross & the Supremes' was really 'Diana Ross & the Andantes'" is that, as opposed to actually using Mary and Cindy to sing the backups on the singled recorded after Ross was given top billing in June 1967, the backups are by the Motown in-house session singers The Andantes.

The Andantes (Google them) sung on thousands and thousands of Motown records, singing backup for Marvin Gaye ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine"), The Four Tops (all of their major hits), and so on. Motown had already been using them to mask the fact that the Marvelettes couldn't harmonize, and now that Gordy wanted to take Ross solo, he was desperate to (a) come up with a hit single for Ross and (b) make sure those pesky Supremes weren't on it.

Mary and Cindy still appear on some of the album tracks, and on everything the group did on their Temptations duet recordings (such as "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"). But the Supremes' own singles:

Forever Came Today
Some Things You'll Never Get Used To
Love Child
The Composer
I'm Livin' in Shame
No Matter What Sign You Are
Someday We'll Be Together (with backups actually by the Waters sisters, not the Andantes)

are essentially Diana Ross studio recordings. And that list actually comprises all of their singles released in 1968 and 1969.

When she finally went solo in 1970 ("Someday We'll Be Together" was supposed to be her solo debut, but given that title they couldn't help but use it as a Diana Ross & the Supremes swan song), there was no need to change personnel. Business as usual.

  

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how much of what folks say about diana ross is true? [View all] , Joe Corn Mo, Sun Feb-10-13 07:46 PM
 
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What's the Motown 25 story?
Feb 10th 2013
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she ran roughshot over mary wilson
Feb 10th 2013
3
this:
Feb 11th 2013
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      Looks like Mary was trying to upstage Diana
Feb 11th 2013
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           or Mary was acting like 1/3 of the Supremes
Feb 11th 2013
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           i liked the way you phrased that.
Feb 11th 2013
9
           i bet Mary would agree too.
Feb 11th 2013
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           ^
Feb 11th 2013
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           Nicely put.
Feb 12th 2013
25
           This is what Mary (and Cindy, she was in on it too) intended.
Feb 14th 2013
32
           Maaaan and there's no video of this????
Feb 11th 2013
15
                Google it.
Feb 11th 2013
17
                Saw it and yeah, they must have edited the hell out of it because I
Feb 11th 2013
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                Yeah, locked deep - DEEP - within the de Passe Jones Ent. vaults
Feb 14th 2013
31
she was tough and held her own
Feb 10th 2013
2
B. Touch? The nigga in GD hating the holy out of The Wiz? epiphany.
Feb 11th 2013
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I'm not hating on The Wiz. It's not a good film.
Feb 14th 2013
33
i believe much of it.
Feb 11th 2013
8
There was very little "someone else" when it came to Diana.
Feb 14th 2013
34
I remember hearing on one tour, they instructed all stage hands
Feb 11th 2013
11
I heard the same eye thing with Lauren Hill....
Feb 11th 2013
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i've heard it for all major celebrities.
Feb 11th 2013
14
      SHIT.....I just remembered, even this celebrity who worked at E! with
Feb 11th 2013
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           it's bullshit.
Feb 11th 2013
18
           no!!!!!!! not olivia munn
Feb 12th 2013
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                Why's that so hard to believe?
Feb 12th 2013
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                its not, but i like her doe
Feb 13th 2013
26
                She kind of looks like she can be a bitch though
Feb 12th 2013
24
Gordy and his then-new Creative Assistant, Suzanne de Passe
Feb 14th 2013
30
Call Her Miss Ross
Feb 11th 2013
19
that was foul.
Feb 12th 2013
22
Monique? @ 28 sec mark
Feb 14th 2013
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RE: Call Her Miss Ross
Feb 14th 2013
35
Can someone explain what this video means?
Feb 14th 2013
28
*pulls up to po(a)st in a Cadillac*
Feb 14th 2013
29
you rock.
Feb 15th 2013
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