Saturday9: Baby Love, the Supremes.

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Baby Love... The Supremes..

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1) When this song was popular, the Supremes were known for their elaborate hairstyles, make up and full-length gowns. When was the last time you got dressed up?  
It's been awhile.  Except for funerals, we are a very dressed down sort of family...

2) "The girls," as they were known to the engineers and executives at Motown Records, were Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson and Diana Ross. They began singing together when they were high school classmates. Are you still in touch with any friends from your high school days?
Not anymore.  I've lost touch with them all.
 
3) Mary Wilson was born in Mississippi and her family moved a great deal before settling in Detroit, where she fatefully met Florence and Diana. Were you uprooted often when you were a child? Or did you spend your school years in the same neighborhood?
Often, here and there until I was 5, but the longest place we lived was on Mother's little farm.  We were there from the time I was 5 and we moved away the summer that I was 15.  Schools: I was in K-5, 6-8 and 9-10th grade in L.A. county schools, and we moved away at the end of 10th grade.

4) The Supremes began as a quartet called the Primettes. In addition to Mary, Flo and Diana, there was Betty McGlown. In 1960, Betty left the group to get married and was replaced by Barbara Martin. In 1962, Barbara left the group to have a baby. They quit trying to replace the fourth voice, soldiered on as a trio, and made pop history. Have you ever found yourself in a position similar to Betty's or Barbara's, where you had to make a difficult decision and choose between your personal life and your career?
Oh ya.  A LOT... The biggest blow was when PsychoDad got shot, my little sister went nutzo, and I had to quit UCLA and come home to put pieces back together.  But then later on when I had my own family, too, but much less traumatic.  But I've talked about that before.  One of my dreams was to enter the excellent Geology Dept at San Diego State, which never got past the talking to the Prof stage.  My regrets were that I couldn't earn decent money to help put all the kids though college.  I'll regret that until that day I die. 

5) Thinking of babies and "baby love," is anyone in your life expecting a baby in 2018?
No.  All the Babies are born for now... There may be more in a few years.

6) With twelve #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, The Supremes remain America's most commercially successfully recording group, and this song (along with "Stop! In the Name of Love") is one of the most popular karaoke songs. If we handed you the mic this morning and absolutely insisted you perform, what song would you choose (any song, any genre)?
"Ave Maria".  I love it.  It's one of the most beautiful songs ever written.




Maria Callas was my Idol.  I've found that I no longer know this song by heart but I also can't sing very well anymore anyway.  lol

7) Original group member Florence Ballard left the group in 1967. She died of cardiac arrest in 1976 at the age of 32. Since February is National Heart Month, it seems appropriate to ask: Is anyone in your life battling heart disease? 

FROM HERE

Me.  It's not fatal, but one of my doctor's jokingly said, "It's one of those things that only makes you wish you were dead."  We both laughed.

8) Florence Ballard's brother, Hank, wrote Chubby Checker's famous dance song, "The Twist." When did you last dance?
That would be when my niece got married, and a loooonnggg time ago.

9) Random question: Close your eyes and visualize the most beautiful place you've ever been. Now describe it to us.
It is a little river that is in Big Sur.  It's bed is rocky and shallow where it passes along the floor of the valley, and deciduous trees overhang it on both sides, and there are reeds along the verges.  When you hear the water flowing past, it makes a bubbling sound as the river falls downstream to join the Pacific Ocean a few miles away.  I called it Eden.   

Found the photo from when we were there....It's so quiet. Just you and the water and the wind.

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