The Supremes "Come See About Me" on The Ed Sullivan Show

[@johnparker8588]

This old white boy loves these three girls ever since I first heard them in 1964 as 8th grader. We listened to them and the Beatles and that was all we needed.

[@cc74fl]

Why do you have to bring race into your statement ?

[@johnparker8588]

@@cc74fl because I wanted to

[@cc74fl]

@@johnparker8588 definitely a white liberal

[@jamescalifornia2964]

​@@johnparker8588 / We older generation are the lucky ones 😉👍

[@AlkalineInsides]

2:11 the way Diana chirps “keep on, keep on” is absolutely adorable. The Supremes were the 60’s black princesses.

[@Joygirl827]

Yes it does stand out keep on keep on

[@darrylruiz2573]

These beautiful girls revolutionized music as much as the Beatles did

[@HardCold-Alquan]

And both left when the 60's were over. I know that The Beatles were told to give it up, as the 70's were not for them.

[@jamescalifornia2964]

​@@HardCold-Alquan- The "Philly Soul" sound and Disco took over ... 🕺 🎶

[@deeg8849]

They were great but let’s be real. Supremes had a dozen tunes, none of which they wrote and they didn’t arrange, compose or play the music. Plus they weren’t even close in record sales. Again they were great, but don’t punch above tgeir weight class to try and make a point. Cause you diminish your point and yourself

[@PhilMoskowitz]

That was Motown. I hate when think vocalists and vocal groups create the music.

[@deeg8849]

@@PhilMoskowitz love the Motown funk brothers. This band sounds like the cbs orchestra

[@indefatigablefredman1234]

Happy 80th Birthday, lovely Diana Ross. You are as beautiful and elegant today as you were when I saw you on Steel Pier, in 1967.

[@lexlee1488]

Motown was no joke....the best of the best

[@monjott]

Thanks to Holland Dozier and Hollm weitnd. Superior song writers, penning hit after hit

[@sixtiesfreak4858]

I think Diana's dad was working in an auto plant when this aired and all co-workers congratulated him the next day I've read. 😎

[@PHlophe]

and he produced a very famous Doctoress in the name of Diana's own elder sister. he must have gotten all the compliments of the world.

[@johnryan2628]

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[@DavidRichardson95]

Ms. Mary Wilson has now transitioned to become an ancestor. Rest in paradise.

[@PrettyNicky50]

Riparadise ❤

[@fanorama1]

1964 was the year they hit it big!

[@emmiefaison3363]

When Florence was in the back ground it sound like the Supremes. That is when I like their singing. Those three was fantastic singers.

[@jeremynv89523]

I agree. The blend was perfect. It wasn't the same after she left.

[@Maatization]

I never saw a difference in fact when Flo left I didn't miss her at all.

[@westley5735]

this was a cultural reset. I'm so glad that this has been immortalized on the internet. so important to remember.

[@ThuxOliveira]

Diana always had "the thing". She always stands out

[@STUNNA-KALEB]

She had them facial charisma and expressions. Florence had the looks and so did Mary.

[@ThuxOliveira]

@@STUNNA-KALEB Yes! but Diana has the looks too

[@telstar4772]

@@ThuxOliveira You need your eyes testing if you think that.

[@HardCold-Alquan]

@@telstar4772 You need your attractions tested if you think that Diana was not looking good. She was just too skinny for me.

[@danachandler2744]

Diana's facial expressions are beautiful.

[@PrettyNicky50]

Came here after seein the rolling stones since a friend of mines said he had them on the show, to c Dianna an the supremes...man she really is a Boss!😂 they looked so nice back then an it was an era wit no cares in the world...❤

[@georginahawcroft8044]

Florence ballard was beautiful with a voice to match.

[@davidrosemale3573]

Totally agree with that 💯 percent, Florence Ballard is the REAL QUEEN SUPREME Forever.

[@georginahawcroft8044]

@@davidrosemale3573 what's doing with her eyes... my head in...

[@Maatization]

Give me one example of Flo's great voice. What record did she sing on that indicated she had a great voice? I'm tired of the myth of Flo's great voice because she didn't have one.

[@pauline3725]

​@@Maatization Love ain't love, Forever Faithful, Like you babe for her solo, every soprano background vocal during The Supremes (let's hear My Imagination !). And not to forget but Aint' That News and Silent night just prove it all. Sure her solo records are lacking something, such as final mixing, sure they sound like demo version than real records, but with proper mixing and no blacklisting from Gordy, things would have been different. The three girls had their own potential, Mary had the Sarah Vaughan type of voice, Diana the commercial one, and Flo would have been terrific at Stax. Not everybody is meant to lead, but come on, saying that Flo's voice wasn't great is a lie.

[@henry-bo3np]

(1) Diana Ross has the perfect popular music singing voice. (2) This live performance is fantastic.

[@jaymooney1285]

Ed is nearly as special. Truly a magically time in history. I wasn’t even there. ❤

[@TommyAstrology]

If Diana Ross was singing to me looking at me with those beautiful eyes I would literally melt away heaven sent ❤❤❤❤

[@cravendubose8179]

Me too....

[@tamara_diamonds422]

I would run away. To me. She was never attractive.

[@254fde]

As a white male i had just turned 4 yrs old before this episode aired. My entire childhood and life advantageously changed because of these 3 girls. Me as a Senior today; practically no one i knew and loved is still in this flesh. I praise god the Supremes are/were my baby boomer generation. Like mega millions I'm sure; Diana Ross has never left my heart my entire life. As typing i realize she and i both are close to reuniting with everyone we knew and loved. Diana blessed the entire world while she is here and even longer after she leaves here. Like other's; my love for the Supremes is immeasurable.

[@PrettyNicky50]

I can see why...she was grand!❤ thanks for sharing 😊

[@wolfdude7126]

Never ever with any great group, forget the songwriters and lyricists. In this case, all but a couple written by geniuses Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland.

[@laurynkelley20]

Diana’s Eye Popping routines are always in the early tv appearances. Her brother told her she had pretty eyes so that’s why she’d roll and batt them. Motown basically sent them on tv with little stage etiquette and without routines. Around 1965 that’s when they received proper etiquette training: how to eat, get out of a car, speak, smile, and sing while on stage. Maxine Powell got on to Diana about her eye rolling. Eventually after Maxine Powell stopped training them Diana would still do some eye rolling/popping in certain performances.

[@djmips]

I think it's cool. It's a bit vaudeville. It only looks odd closeup. Reads better from distance.

[@mattheww239]

@@djmips I think it was all part of the package that made them stand out.

[@henry-bo3np]

Diana Ross has stage etiquette to the sky in this performance. She has the perfect voice, the perfect delivery, just fantastic. Diana Ross is a superstar, without any doubt one of the greatest popular music peformers of the 20th Century

[@mattheww239]

@@henry-bo3np totally agree.

[@telstar4772]

Her eyes are weird at the best of times but that eye rolling is down right scary

[@SupremesVideos]

Happy Birthday, Florence ❤ You'll never be forgotten.

[@sickagain7541]

THE ULTIMATE SUPREME OF ALL TIME. THANK YOU MARY WILSON. YOU STAYED FROM THE START TILL THE END. BLESS YOU !!!.

[@fanorama1]

Ed always knew true talent. They appeared on his show 16 times. Mary Wilson said, “In the early Sixties, you never saw a lot of black people on television unless they were maids or doormen,” she added. “When we started appearing on Mr. Sullivan’s show in 1965, it was a new day for America. Black people in their elegance were now seen out front up close. Ed Sullivan brought rock & roll to white America. For the Supremes, it showed we had made it to the big time in those days. We had already begun to sell millions of records, but now we were on top of the charts. Being on The Ed Sullivan Show meant more records sales. After us, all of the Motown acts appeared.”

[@michaelmilitello7520]

Love this! She needs to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

[@henry-bo3np]

Diana Ross is in the Rock & Roll HOF.

[@Maatization]

@@henry-bo3np but not as a solo artist. That's what he's referring to.

[@emilybradley5492]

This HARMONY. Unmatched.

[@reneesemien3216]

Those dresses looked beautiful

[@PrettyNicky50]

Where do you think I can score some of the clothes?😂

[@Classyzl3wx]

Say what u want Diana was the spark that ignited that fire 🔥

[@roseyc.5846]

And, the wildfire that destroyed it, too.

[@Maatization]

@@roseyc.5846 She didn't destroy anything....her only sin was to outgrow the group...she will never be forgiven for not making herself small keeping her place in line with Flo and Mary...

[@johnf.capuziello9800]

Great voices & killer looks, even then !

[@PrettyNicky50]

Exactly 😂

[@johnparker8588]

Mary is gorgeous!

[@moetivation]

I’m a kid and when Diana Ross went out on stage she was fabulous I’ll remember you

[@DJaySplitSecond]

These girls set the way for all of the girl groups that came after!!!

[@zarrzarr9989]

She is a honey the way she sings

[@bennyadler5882]

Blondie's vocals killing it on the title refrain, phenomenal singer in her own right.

[@HardCold-Alquan]

Too bad she drowned herself in misery. I was reading Mary's book and she and other did, said, created circumstances etc. to help pull Florence out of the dumps, but she chose to stay down. She did not like Diana pulling the stunts that she pulled. Instead of hatred, envy or jealousy - she should have collected checks and planned a future course with money. Diana would have still gone solo and Florence may have lived longer. It is one of the saddest and unfortunate stories in the entertainment world, and it is weird how they and their partners The Temptations both wanted fame, got it, and it tore them up.

[@bennyadler5882]

@@HardCold-Alquan The comments were directed towards Blondie's charisma and effervescence, that is how many of us wish to remember her. Eventual life decisions are for another day that in no serve to diminish the history she and her 2 partners created forever. BTW, I missed seeing her in person during a surprise appearance in early/mid 70's, I'm told she looked well when intro'd followed by tears from her, Scherrie and Lynda stunned at how ecstatic the audience received her and never forgot her memory.

[@PrettyNicky50]

​@@HardCold-Alquangreat story...wondering where I can c this story at

[@PrettyNicky50]

​@@bennyadler5882mind boggling for sure! I'm sure the mindset of one is authentic because to each it's on...

[@bennyadler5882]

Mary Wilson’s bio, “Dreamgirls”

[@seanthomas6766]

Love the supremes, my favorite!

[@shmuli9]

Mine, BY FAR, as well.

[@lorettawalker2850]

Rest in Heavenly peace 💔🎤Mary Wilson 😥🙏🏼

[@FUNKINETIK]

I also liked them post Diana - Cindy Birdsong - Jean Tyrell - Mary Wilson. Floy Joy, Up the Ladder to the Roof, Nathan Jones, Bad Weather etc. brilliant tunes

[@FUNKINETIK]

I also liked them post Diana - Cindy Birdsong - Jean Tyrell - Mary Wilson. Floy Joy, Up the Ladder to the Roof, Nathan Jones, Bad Weather etc. all brilliant tunes

[@deepnation10009]

I'm living for Flo!

[@1ddedde]

Diana’s beautiful eyes 😍

[@slc2466]

Yes, and a great performer with personality-plus from the get-go.

[@ivangranger8494]

They shine so beautifully when she has more natural make up on, here. When they made her up with the severe eyeliner, it hid her natural beauty.

[@jamesagwe2981]

These beautiful women are total Queens

[@PrettyNicky50]

Indeed😊

[@bmullin96]

Diana, Mary & Florence were beautiful and had a great vocals and harmony.

[@barthelemyferreri9043]

The Supremes ❤😇😇😇

[@PearsonJd2]

They were all incredibly beautiful and talented. Florence without question had the strongest voice of the three and she clearly stands out here. I do get though why Diane was put out front, Diane did have the most commercial voice . I do think some consideration should have been given to shared leads with Florence and Mary or more album leads for them ,as they were supposed to be a group. As good as the Classic Five Temptations were, they did alternate leads between all of them.

[@alien8855]

It's that damn Barry Gordy's fault but if u look from a business point it was very profitable and a success. Show biz is a cutthroat industry and was especially harder at tht time in the end u have to remember Motown is not only music company but a business and Barry a businessman. Diana in the lead with Flo and Mary as a backup singer had bigger and massive appeal and sold many records that charted to top which made more $$$ for Barry so he stuck to that formula and in the end it benefited him a lot.

[@alien8855]

@@DJaySplitSecond Just cause you slept with your boss doesn't mean you would sell a lot of records n earn a lot of profits for the company. If Diana hadn't been successful as an artist and made a lot profits for Motown he would have thrown her away quicker like this guy didn't even pay her properly same like other Motown artists in there. At the end of the day just like most record executive all he cared was himself and $$$ not the artists!

[@mamadouaziza2536]

@@DJaySplitSecond Did u do your research fool? Barry recorded all of them as lead singers and he released those singles but the singles had little to no success until it was Diana's turn. Diana's lead got the group a lot of attention and the public was calling radio stations asking about the girl singing the lead.. Barry of course decided to give Diana another lead single and that record got even more buzz and broke into the top 20 on Billboard. After that it was a company decision that all leads will go to Diana Ross.. Making Diana the lead vocalist had nothing to do with her personal relationship with Barry, he and Diana were not sleeping together yet in 1964/65.

[@mamadouaziza2536]

@@DJaySplitSecond We all know that Berry and Diana got together at some point, but its a fact that all 4 members of the group were recorded as lead singers.. Diana's two lead singles in 1964 received the most buzz from radio and the public and thats when Berry decided to make Diana the official lead of the group. Also, once the girls signed with Motown, the girls became a manufactured product of Motown who molded them into what they became. It doesn't matter what you and I think because The Supremes were not our group, they belong to Motown and Motown belong to Berry.. I guess Berry was sleeping with Smokey Robinson and Martha Reeves too? Because he changed the name of their groups too so the lead singer's name would be in the forefront. Face it bruh, Flo and Mary were glorified backup singers. The Supremes were not En Vogue and they weren't marketed as such.

[@pullformore]

@@DJaySplitSecond No, Diana and Berry were not dating until later (spring of 1965, to be precise). Sure, Berry was becoming increasingly infatuated with Diana, but they were not, as yet, dating, when this performance was aired. Poor Florence. I hate what happened to her. But the line everyone takes, "Flo had all the talent, Diana only got there because she slept with Berry" is a gross oversimplification. The truth is, neither Florence nor Mary worked as hard as Diana did. They were just not as interested in the craft - in the work - as Diana was. They were not as hungry. To succeed, a performer needs that hunger, that work ethic, as well as the talent. Read Berry's book, and various interviews from HDH - it's all in there. Flo may have been talented, but she wasn't hungry, and she definitely didn't have the work ethic Diana did. Look at/listen to Flo's solo work - it speaks for itself. It was Diana's work ethic that really attracted Berry to her.

[@blessedmslady7341]

For the "Good Times" 🍾

[@WillyCLARKE-g8c]

What a sound.

[@gstudios36]

Freakin love these classic traditional women and their voices💍💍💍

[@keesh9886]

RIP MARY😭

[@jfjoubertquebec]

Be still my heart!

[@nopenope2601]

Their best song!

[@shmuli9]

I think their best song is "You Can't Hurry Love'". (It's just a good song.) But my guilty pleasure is hearing "The Happening".

[@DJaySplitSecond]

Nope Baby Love

[@shmuli9]

@@DJaySplitSecond Well, I would say "You Can't Hurry Love", but thery're ALL good, eh?

[@DJaySplitSecond]

@@shmuli9 yeah man that’s a great song but Baby Love is my fav, but these girls are pure legends that gave us great music all around

[@shmuli9]

@@DJaySplitSecond Yes, and they didn't have background dancers (well, except when they did "Millie, Rose, and Mame")

[@FUNKINETIK]

Almost 58 years later the Boss headlines Queen Elizabeth ll Diamond Jubilee and was amazing - the first album I ever bought was Diana Ross & The Supremes. Baby Love - the year I was born. P E A C E : )

[@PrettyNicky50]

Why speak about Liz Taylor then, seems like she wasn't irrelevant to Diana?

[@delsongalasinao706]

Forever Motown

[@TPOrchestra]

They were GREAT live.

[@sixtiesfreak4858]

I've always wondered if Diana's eye-popping thing was the reason they weren't on Sullivan until almost a year later in Oct 1965. Diana said they were supposed to do two songs but were off right away. I guess they proved themselves at the Copa a few months later. Ed Sullivan was there to see them.😊

[@LeimertDreamer]

I don’t think so. She eye-popped on that performance too (the one where they sang “You’re Nobody.....”) and they were welcomed back 10 more times! Perhaps the one instead of two song thing had more to do with a scheduling conflict with another act for the show. Thankfully, Maxine Powell stopped Diana from doing that bizarre eye-popping thing that was born of Diana’s brother telling her she had “beautiful eyes”.

[@motownbaby]

Honestly...I think that’s one of the many things that made then stars. Remember, if you don’t have hits nothing else even matters. The fact that Ross’s eye poppin (for good or bad) was a conversation piece, the Supremes were talked about. But it’s the HITS that make them the undisputed American group (to this day 10/2020) with #1’s. That’s a long time in the music world to hold a record. That means no group in 50 years has had the same impact. It’s mind boggling to me that people hate on Diana Ross. Really...what higher that #1???

[@ThuxOliveira]

No, Diana's eye-popping is one of the many reason that made them a famous group

[@alien8855]

@@motownbabyYh Diana ross is a legend even Michael Jackson loved and looked up to her, it's either haters or trolls who can't accept it. Her achievements with the group and as a solo and her legacy tells us everything about her long successful career which some people love to downplay but its a irrefutable fact. Nway I love her music!

[@supremes1964]

freeze frame at 0:38 scary LOL

[@dannyboi6530]

Thank you so much for sharing these fantastic Motown clips, keep it up.

[@Jasper7182009]

Classic! DR’s wide, popping eyes shtick!!

[@ceeceetracey9839]

I got chills just now like i was a young black girl watching 3 beautiful talented young black women on TV on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time in 1964 Civil Rights Era. WOW!!!

[@FrankIsAlwaysRight]

Totally live...awesome

[@realitychick8903]

This is one of the shows that Diana had to be told about-- no OWL eyeing -- Miss Lady Manners had to re-educate the girls on their stand-- smiles and eye glances.. while singing.. and just talking.. how cute is Diana -- with her big EYES singing.. too..lol

[@Maatization]

Regardless of what Diana was told it was the eye rolling that got them noticed. She had all the personailty in that video. Mary and Flo were beautiful background for Diana to shine. I loved her eye rolls it set them apart and people took notice.

[@Hezekiah-dj3bm]

Flo was all that, and that's all that needs to be said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@germasaurus]

Legendary!

[@macphail1964]

This was MUSIC!

[@mah_valentim]

lov u, 60's (i'm from the 2000's) 😘

[@pianoman551000]

Diana's top right tooth No. 14 is missing. She has a bridge replacement for no. 14 by 1966. Complete dental work by 1968. ( I work in a dental lab and the first thing I check out are performers' teeth before and after they've become celebrities.)

[@jfjoubertquebec]

14's always the first to go :(

[@pianoman551000]

@@jfjoubertquebec Yes!! My no. 14 had a fracture and had to be extracted; replaced it with an implant.

[@Lorne55]

Impressive! ... ; could you look at Dennie Doherty (Mama's Papa's) singing lead on California Dreaming. Looks like he is missing a tooth too?... (he was Canadian, so probably lost it play'n hockey... lol)...

[@jfjoubertquebec]

@@Lorne55 haaaa ahaha

[@pianoman551000]

@@Lorne55 ok....I'll get back with you.

[@george-nm9ol]

the queens

[@jamesmc1016]

I was 9 years old when they appeared here on TV. I can remember my Mom saying, "Oh they are similar to the 'Andrews sisters' of the 1940's. No comparison, however, but just and observation (LOL).

[@Jocelyn_Jade]

And they did a special with the Andrew sisters funny enough 😆

[@haydndavies6917]

Great song and video

[@cherriphelps0108]

So awesome! 💖

[@bilahn1198]

Diana's eye popping and mouth contortions are hilarious!

[@Maatization]

That's what got them noticed.

[@helouisbharat]

I knew about this song when glee covered it, thx God they did it.

[@MoppetShow]

Wow, Just Great; Thanks for showing this here Bringing back the Classics

[@robertliepe6766]

💯🎵”TRUE HISTORY"🎶🌹🌹🌹😎🇺🇸

[@TJD63]

Wow. Live. You can really hear Mary and Flo and just how much their vocals helped push this song to the top. This is before Berry pushed Diana out front.

[@Maatization]

Please the only vocal that pushed this song to the top was Diana's....Berry didn't need to push Diana anywhere the public pushed her out front cause she was the Supremes.

[@AlkalineInsides]

😍😍😍😍 please upload their Thou Swell performance too!

[@Vincent-qt5cl]

Love them

[@jacquelinefox2632]

That harmony. J. Xxxxx

[@gwynenglishnielsen8596]

The Supremes had so many great songs! I really miss them and Ed Sullivan. Oh, what I would have done to get on his show. The best!

[@PrettyNicky50]

What was the show about I'm askn becuz I'm young.. 😂

[@gwynenglishnielsen8596]

@@PrettyNicky50 Oh, wow! It was a variety show, meaning it featured a number of different kinds of acts. It was sort of like "America's Got Talent," but the talent was the Beatles, the Stones, etc., big names or names soon to become big. It was an American tradition at the time, sitting in front of the black and white tube on a Sunday night watching Ed and company. I wouldn't be a singer-songwriter today had it not been for the show. I had a Beatles fan club when I was five years old. Life was all about the music back then.

[@AchimReinhardt1]

Danke!

[@MOSHAEMUSIC]

I was just reading about this in a book.

[@ceeceetracey9839]

Diana Ross is so amped up and happy they are no longer the "no-hit" Supremes that she wants to bust through the roof. She's ready to abandon the choreography and all of Maxine Powell's etiquette lessons and let loose. Its all in her face.

[@rockandroll8227]

Wow 😮. Simply Amazing. Speechless.

[@jameshope398]

I had a crush on Florence Ballard she was beautiful

[@greatbyrondo]

"Come See About Me" is one of my favorite Supremes songs, but it sounds weird to hear the Ed Sullivan Show band play back up instead of the Funk Bros.....! Ha!

[@kyriesampson7781]

The band sounds awful here

[@GeeBee909]

That band played because they are protected by a union and have a contract with the show. No one is going to replace them. It's just like working on the shipping docks of of major port, no one is gonna come in and take their jobs, union rules

[@ghanasoul]

Back when they used one mic. B4 the diva emerged and the name change, seperate mic stands etc.

[@1talldaddy]

the best example on how the quickly dynamics of the group changed.is their first and second appearance on the Mike Douglas Show in 1965.

[@dannystrat]

Perhaps it's much easier to mix 3 separate vocals in a live setting.

[@1talldaddy]

@@dannystrat remember this is the classic line up so most of the time you are going to hear just Diana and Flo.

[@paul28fo]

@@1talldaddy You said it exactly what I was thinking-- The Mike Douglas show when Diana messed up the Start of "I Hear a Symphony". She's front and center and they're off in left field on their own little platform. It sure didn't take long for that to happen.

[@1talldaddy]

@@paul28fo and Mary and Flo's mikes were cut down the whole time.

[@pedromiguelcardososantos1913]

Diana Ross always wandeted to be the star !!

[@DetroitLives313]

They are from Detroit!

[@owethumhlongo1494]

The night that change Oprah Winfrey's life as a 10 year old girl according to her.

[@AndresManosalvas]

well, now she is a crazy illuminati puppet. Friend of Harvey Weinstein and those perverted of Hellywood.

[@j.criquette3334]

@@AndresManosalvas

[@mic6434]

@@AndresManosalvas Another hater...Oprah could give a crap about you or people like you...

[@mic6434]

I changed my life as well I was 12.

[@DetroitLives313]

@@AndresManosalvas Exactly! She is disgusting!

[@tonykelley6720]

Flo was my favorite

[@cherylrleigh1912]

The Supremes were an American girl group and a premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s. Founded as the Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, the Supremes were the most commercially successful of Motown's acts and the most successful American vocal band, with 12 number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Most of these hits were written and produced by Motown's main songwriting and production team, Holland-Dozier-Holland. It is said that their breakthrough made it possible for future African-American R&B and soul musicians to find mainstream success. Billboard ranked the Supremes as the 16th greatest Hot 100 artist of all time. Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, and Betty McGlown, the original members, were all from the Brewster-Douglass public housing project in Detroit. They formed the Primettes as the sister act to the Primes (with Paul Williams and Eddie Kendricks, who went on to form the Temptations). Barbara Martin replaced McGlown in 1960, and the group signed with Motown the following year as the Supremes. Martin left the act in early 1962, and Ross, Ballard, and Wilson continued as a trio. During the mid-1960s, the Supremes achieved mainstream success with Ross as lead singer and Holland-Dozier-Holland as its songwriting and production team. In 1967, Motown president Berry Gordy renamed the group Diana Ross & the Supremes, and replaced Ballard with Cindy Birdsong. In 1970, Ross left to pursue a solo career and was replaced by Jean Terrell, and the group reverted the name to the Supremes again. During the mid-1970s, the lineup changed with Lynda Laurence, Scherrie Payne and Susaye Greene, joining until the group, after 18 years from its foundation, disbanded in 1977. Source Wikipedia

[@DianaRossFanClub]

Can you upload their performances of the Funny Girl Medley; Greensleeves / Thou Swell or The Impossible Dream?

[@tonytucker1]

Diana Ross Fan Club yeeeessss

[@sixtiesfreak4858]

Millie, Rose, Mame medley. 😊

[@shmuli9]

Both of them are on KZbin. I remember my mother saying 'this doesn't sound like 'Thou Swell'. (It doesn't, exactly, but "The Girls" did something very nice... and they were in minidresses, too.)

[@supremes1964]

freeze frame at @0:38 scary LOL the TRUE DIANA ROSS!!! haha!

[@frankb8652]

Great performance! This was obviously live, no lip synching here although that was often the norm back in the sixties. Funny though, the house band couldn't quite match the "groove" of the original recording :)

[@MM-yn9db]

Early Sullivan was mostly live. All Beatle appearances were live, etc. Later the lip synching. Also some later Supremes Ed Sullivan were lyp synched, but that's because they were walking all around the stage, and back then they did not have wireless mics. Also the DC5 did lyp synch, they did not trust the audio techs to get the volal arrangements right. And if you listen to the early Beatles stuff on Ed, the live mix is horrible. You can barely hear Lennon sing on I Want to Hold Your Hand.

[@Jasper7182009]

I think it’s just as good…. Groove or no groove.

[@ElectricShark]

Although I think Flo was the prettiest, Mary looks really good here. Those dresses look amazing on all 3 of them!

[@PrettyNicky50]

I think Dianna is over-rated 😂

[@armando5994]

diana is so pretty

[@randiruiz1368]

'Come See About Me'

[@PrettyNicky50]

😂😂😂

[@NOV123]

They have this performance in color on here also

[@audreydoy1284]

To me they are forever the Supremes,not Diana &the Supremes. They were great, no doubt. And we all knew Diana would someday. Be a Sola artist. As time went on, Florence and Mary began to look like mere back ground singers.Please understand there's nothing wrong with background singers but I never saw Florence so and Mary that way. At times it seems that Mary and Florence weren't really in the group. Anyway, I loved the Supremes. And I give a.shout out to the Songwriters, Holland.Dozier, Holland. They along with the Supremes were Gold.

[@robertnieten7259]

Diana Ross, what a cutie !!!

[@lizanneshaw8189]

Top drawer

[@SupremesVideos]

On that day, two still unknown girls in the United States were watching for the first time The Supremes performing on The Ed Sullivan Show. The girl's names? Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg

[@realitychick8903]

The story is LEGEND... and how much it would have meant to the Supreme s to KNOW they were such ICON role models and every black girl had hope.. It would have made a big difference in what went on..

[@LeeFred78]

Orca WhineFree and Poopi Goldturd?

[@PrettyNicky50]

...am Nicki Nicole😂I was watchn from the sky...hell wasn't even thought of then but still ..😅

[@AndresManosalvas]

motown sounds are awesome, but we wanna see other kind of performance. The doors, blood sweat & tears, The band, Vanilla Fudge, The Association, The Rolling Stones, The Carpenters, Bobby Vinton, Paul Anka, Petula Clark, the young rascals with grooving, Buddy Holly, CCR, Domenico Modugno, and etc, Ed Sullivan had different kind of music.

[@TurmericJenkins]

In other words: white people. Relax dude, enjoy.

[@kevingoins9858]

Who is "we"?? Speak for yourself. Those clips have already been uploaded onto You Tube by other accounts. Use the search engine. Also, Universal Music Group now own the Ed Sullivan clips and guess what - UMG OWNS MOTOWN TOO. So you'll be seeing much more from The Sound Of Young America. Wow - white privilege much?? Geez. Clips with the Beach Boys, Righteous Brothers and two with Neil Diamond were uploaded here, FFS.

[@kevingoins9858]

@@TurmericJenkins Indeed. Notice the guy didn't say Sam Cooke, the 5th Dimension, the Friends Of Distinction, Lou Rawls, Bo Diddley, Sam & Dave, Freda Payne - all of whom were on Ed Sullivan. Shoot - not even a mention of Santana!

[@sixtiesfreak4858]

Incidentally, the Supremes appeared the most on Sullivan than any other group. I wonder if that had to do with them being America's most successful group , male or female, of the 1960s.

[@AndresManosalvas]

@@TurmericJenkins That is racist, insulting and extremely egocentric, music is variety and not represent a skin color. Respect points of view, what is wrong with music created and sang by white people or latino. We all are humans and we all deserve respect.

[@hurtlockerr8661]

I grew up in southwest Detroit. I like my Motown . Even know I wasn’t even a twinkle in my dad’s eyes when this song was on the radio. My mom had lots of Motown records so I got exposed to Motown at very early age.

[@jamesd4475]

Please post the Supremes singing the fats Waller medley