Mary Wilson - Supreme Faith (1990) | OOP Audiobook
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Long out of print audio version of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame MARY WILSON's follow-up to DREAMGIRL: MY LIFE AS A SUPREME. I do not own the rights. Sharing for historical purposes.
To my knowledge, there is no audio version of the first book, however, both books may be purchased in a combined set via Amazon or other booksellers. Mary Wilson website www.marywilson.com
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R.I.P Miss Wilson. How I wish we could have more time to give you all of your flowers! 💐
Oh my God, you look almost exactly like Mary Wilson. You could easily tell people you were her son and they would believe it.
You're sooooo right, somehow I don't feel like we gave her what she truly deserved & she was such an amazing spirit, I just pray she KNOWS how much she was truly LOVED & ADORED around the world & not just 4 being 1 of Ross' background singers in the Supremes, but for being thee "QUEEN SUPREME", for being a founding member along w/Florence Ballard & for working tirelessly to keep the Supremes alive down thru the years, especially seeing as she was singularly thee ONLY 1 left that cared enuff about their legacy to work as tirelessly as she did. 🙏🏾💙WE LOVE & MISS YOU DEARLY MARY WILSON💙🙏🏾!!!
@@storiking650 yes he looks like Mary Wilson. Crazy
@@punkanellylovejoy702 Yep, you were DEAD ON POINT, after you pointed it out, I had to do a double-take & was like, HELL YEAH, that was amazing & so perceptive of you, cuz I would've never caught that🥰👍🏿💯. (Actually, I think our photos are too damn small on here, especially for visually compromised folk like my blind ass😂! Hope ur having a wonderful start to the week & pls stay safe out there, 🙏🏿I pray our Lord KEEPS you & ur loved 1s COVERED against all covid, hurt, harm & danger, God bless🙏🏿)!!!
@@storiking650 lol thank you. Happy new year
Mary “ You will be missed so very much. Yet, You leave is with so many Memories of Your Performances, Pictures of Your Ageless Beauty ✨✨❤️Letting Us, In Your (Supremes Life) and more. A Beautiful Spirit with a Dream Come True and more. A Legend, A Star 💫 #2021
We will all be together... in the meantime, let's keep celebrating her music. What a perfomer.
Beautifully stated🙏🏾
Glad she was celebrated, and able to take control of her own destiny. She was the most naturally beautiful Supreme...Rest Well Mary Wilson!
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YES SHE WAS, ABSOLUTELY NATURALLY STUNNINGLY GORGEOUS💯!!!!
Wow. So glad to find others who agree with me. I always thought she was the prettiest, and the coolest.
A real treat hearing Mary read her own book in her lovely, smoky voice.
May her soul rest!!! Thanks Mary for all the beautiful music
I love audiobooks where the author is the narrator. Just makes it that much more interesting. Plus Mary is very good with her expressions, and words, that you can actually feel the atmosphere of that scene.
@Ron Rossmore "Big-R" hush Trampolina
@@punkanellylovejoy702 Diana is the STAR!🌹🌹💎💎💄💄🎼🎼🎤🎤🎤🎤👠👠👠👍👍👍💪💅💅❤❤💋💋😜😜
@@freddie3206 A star was she? She most certainly was. Which brings to mind a quote by the late great legend of the silver screen Bette Davis. When asked by a writer how she would compare her career to that of Joan Crawford's, Ms Davis replied: "She was a star.......... I was an actress".
Wow! I couldn't sleep, so I started listening to this at 3:00 in the morning and couldn't turn it off. Her voice was so soothing and clear. She could have made a fortune narrating. I could listen to her voice all night. R. I. P. Mary Wilson, the original Supreme.
Yeah, I listen to her when I'm trying to sleep too. 💤
Totally agree! All the best
She soothes me with her voice. I play it to help me fall asleep. It works. Rest in Heaven -♥️
Lol. That reminds me of playing Iceberg Slim audio, and the narrator putting me to sleep. Took about 3 nights to finish it. I'm trying to finish Mary's in one sitting. Her voice is beautiful.
Me too ❤
Feels so personal when the author does the read, BRAVO!!
I want to make sure you get this !!! You were always the LADY of the SUPREMES ! I want you
to remember that for the rest of your life . You are & were the LADY ! I look back now and see
how much you helped me to be and develop into a nice lady . Thank you . Peggy
I've listened to Berry' memoirs, Diane Ross and now Mary Wilson's. I guess with each one you realize that your OWN perception is your OWN reality.
This is Mary Wilson's second book. Her first one, "Dreamgirl, My Life As A Supreme" was a huge bestseller and the all time most successful music related autobiography.
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Always thought Mary Wilson's career potential was not fully realized. So happy to hear her story and how she got took control of her career and her financial situation.
My first thought was, 'whaaat? How she gonna read this whole book in 3 hours and 6 minutes??' Soon, my suspicions were confirmed - there is a lot left out from the hard copy. However, if hearing "Supreme Faith" grabbed your attention, I suggest you read the whole book. I don't want to detail the drama here because it is either too controversial or I understand it is too painful to hear Miss Wilson tell us such atrocities with her voice. My heart broke a little hearing some parts of this book, told from Mary's voice. There are some parts of this audiobook where you hear Mary almost cry a bit while she reads along. Yet, the most pertinent (and candid) details are included here., and hearing it read by Mary makes it so much more poignant. The audiobook is like a condensed three hour movie narrated by Mary Wilson, and feels like Tina Turner's "What's Love Got To Do With It" but even more dramatic.
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@@marjorieauletta2235 😳🤦🏿♀️😂
Thank you for enlightening us that this is not the completed book, because I thought it was. Yeah, it do seem that Mary had tender feelings that pulling up bad memories would hurt her. This just hurts me to even know she went through crappy stuff I know she didn't deserve. But she lived through it, to tell.
Yes Mary! Your book speaks the truth! All the other peoples books about the supremes keep buzzing crap that you actually feel as it crosses your consciousness! We love you Mary! We love the Supremes! ....
I love Mary Wilson! Thank you for posting and sharing her story here.
Great reading, love you mary, thanks for keeping flo name alive you were a true friend to her
I Love The Supremes y'all are always going to be Supreme no matter what remember that
Yes Rest well Mary Wilson Florence Ballard
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🔥💯🎼🎶🎶🎵🖤💚❤️
I enjoy the content you share on your channel, it uplifts black people on a level I haven't seen. I love Mary Wilson and the fact that she never gave up on herself and The Supremes. She was unbreakable and I am happy she is resting now.
As I read the print version I first thought it would be pointless to listen to the audio. But after just a few seconds, i know that I will return to it. Mary's range as a singer was always rather limited, but still, next to June Christy, she is my favourite female singer. Just because of the warm, haunting tone of her voice. Same goes for her speaking voice. It is so soothing.... boys, you better not get too close to her, stay in the safety zone - this lady was a true siren! Love her always!
Very good audiobook! I loved hearing Mary's voice!!!
Best Audio book ever!👍 I enjoyed from beginning to the end!, same as I enjoyed when I read hers "Dream Girls, My life as a Supreme" back in the 90s when I had the book, she is fantastic on her writing and narratives, Mary knows how to take one to the moments, places, times and situations as she describes them. Love Mary Wilson, Great Performer and Writer.
Mary Wilson did what I hope she set out to do which was to make sure The Supremes weren't pushed into the very distant background and forgotten all to gether like some groups, or singers who helped make Motown. You did that in your life time Mary. Rest In Peace.
Love me some beautiful Mary Wilson, and with all due respect; still, with *FIVE* Billboard 100 number ones *in the row,* during Beatlemania, no less, I doubt that the Supremes were *ever* in danger of being totally forgotten.
@@nycsongman9758 Well ask the average 16 - 18 year old who a Supreme is. They were popular the year I was born, I'm almost 60. Hell, ask most of them who a Beetle is. My daughter's are in their 30's, they barely remember who a Supreme or Diana Ross is. Everyone's not a music history buff.
The way I see it she did a fine job. She had a certain elegance about herself that seemed like she should have been lead, over Diana. But she was the one who held them together, almost like their big sister, esp. to Florence, and that showed me a lot, about her heart. So she served her purpose, and did a fine job.
@Ron Rossmore "Big-R" Did you enjoy Mary's best selling rock biography of all time Ms Rossmore?
@Ron Rossmore "Big-R" hmm? 😁😁😁
You know...this was a LOT of work. My hats off to her. Reading her own audiobook had to be mentally and emotionally taxing, not to mention tedious. A labor of love and a sign of her belief in her own work!
Gone to soon. Rest in peace beloved Supreme
Having wanted to read the follow up to ‘Dreamgirl’ for years I couldn’t click on this fast enough!
I had had THIS as a cassette when it came out! But in moving and losing all of my possessions, it got away from me. And I thought I may NEVER hear this AGAIN! Tonight, I DID! And I listened Non-"Stop!" (heh heh!)
THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH For posting this! IT'S 'GOLD'!
I'm so very happy to hear it from one of the members mouth that there was NO rivalry or discord in the group after Dianas leaving in the early 70s. At least in the beginning, that is. However, with Barry at the helm... you just knew that it would inevitably rear its ugly head to destroy the group finally. ( ALLEGEDLY ). R.I.P. Miss Wilson. A honored and much deserved rest indeed! Unto all... blessings and the powerful PEACE of the most high FATHER be with you and yours.
Yes it appears Barry, and possibly Diane wanted the Supremes to disappear, and to only show up when called. Mary wouldn't allow it, she was always a reminder of where they came from. I brought her first book, I have to get the last one as well.
There was rivalry before Diana Ross left the group
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Beautifully stated🙏🏾
@@judethaddeus9856 rivalry? More like backstabbing nastiness and boss-riding. Call a spade a spade Judas, It's really so simple.
Totally enjoyed this!
All of the Supremes are loved!
All are Supremes Forever!
I’m so glad to hear her narrating her own autobiography ❤️
What difference does it matter who narrates it?
@@judethaddeus9856 I love her voice. To me it feels more personal, that she is talking just to me or reading her diary to me 🥰
@@judethaddeus9856 did that answer your question Ms Judas?
@@punkanellylovejoy702 Ok 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿, just unnecessarily NASTY for NO reason, smh. People really need 2 take the stick out their 🍑 b4 logging into social media, nobody wants 2 deal w/their bat-💩-crazy, psycho/emotional illnesses & traumas!!!! Happy Holidays 🙏🏿.
@@storiking650 thank you darling. Your applause was absolutely MADDENING!
Wow I never knew Mary had recorded an audiobook for this book. I can't wait to listen. The Supremes needs a biopic mini-series it's crazy how their story hasn't been made into a series yet. Continue to RIP Mary you are missed
Mary, you along with the late Florence Ballard where the heart and soul of the Supremes and Motown. Now you and Florence are in heaven signing and laughing. You are both together again. Thank you both for making and Founding the Supremes
RIP Mary Wilson! Thank you for being us happiness.
What an awesome book. What an awesome Woman. So much class and strength. You inspired me to finish my book. Thank you fellow pisces✊
Dreams do come true.🌷
Diana thought Florence was her rival! She thought you were her rival! She thought Berry was her rival! Diana probably thought the creator of this world was her rival! ...🤣
She made her surroundings feel alive.
David Lasher And no doubt about it if Tammi Terrell had lived she would had been Diana's rival. Tammi would had shamed and sung Diana Ross under the table February 26,2021
@@sheiladavis6523 oh please. Tammi’s voice was beautiful, but it rivalled no one’s! It was silky sweet but no more powerful than Diana Ross’s.
Have a peaceful Sunday.
R.I.P. Mary. You’ll be missed.
I love the Supreme flo,Mary and Diana but shit was fcked up.pattie Labelle hated on Diana for stealing Cindy from Labelle.
David lasher and don’t forget she thought Michael was her rival too!! 🙄😏😂🤣
Great book, beautiful lady! Mary Wilson!
Her voice is so nice..sounds so classy
I agree.
Read her first autobiography. It was superb and I still have it!
How disgraceful of Motown Records, to deny the only person keeping the legacy alive to lose rights to the name. This industry is so dark and evil.
Thank u Mary, love “The Supremes!”
I really enjoyed listening to the life of Mary Wilson, thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
@@reelblack I enjoyed it too, I also the shade she threw at Diana and Barry 😂
This is AMAZING !! I CAN FEEL THIS WOMENS STRUGGLE AND HEAR HER STRENGTH IN HER VOICE!! ♥️
Can't nobody tell a better story, about yourself, but yourself. And she did it.
Wow! This was an Amazing Story! Although I am a Diana Ross Fan, I was so Impacted and inspired by Mary Wilson's story. I feel I have gotten to know her More through her story. I am going through some things in My life right now, and I related to Mary's Hurt, pains, disappointments and Betryal she had gone through in her life. Listening to her story I am so deeply inspired. I'm so glad I that i listened This story. Mary Wilson will FOREVER BE a Supreme! She will be missed❤️🥰.
Little Richard saying “Diana Ross been dressin’ like me for years; y’all know that!” takes me out every time.🤣🤣🤣
Little Richie that Old Queen NEED to quit.His drag Never came Close to the Supremes Please! THAT shit he wore? Get the f#$& outta here!
Creswell Formey
When tf did he say that?
@shonny j so are you screw you
@John Doe l Bet your Fat ass would love to squeeze in one of her old gowns Ms Piggy Jealous much 🤔
LOVE Mary's voice..she's also very sincere..beautiful soul..but all this was the past..Diana and Mary are no longer "enemies" as the media has always portrayed. In fact, Diana said long ago that she forgave Mary. I don't know why she felt Mary needed to be forgiven. She only wrote the truth and sometimes the truth stinks! I love all 3 Supreme ladies: Mary Flo Diana.
I agreed. However,life is to short. No need for any drama.
@Alain Quartermaine rubbish!! you talk out your arse. they are soul sisters. you can love someone but not necessarily like them. that's diana and mary.
they share a beautiful history and nothing you say can alter that.
as for snakes..diana ross was the snake in motown..she worked her way into gordys bed and then dismissed mary and flo.
now get your facts right and FUCK off.
@@Dion_Mustard so true.
@Spanky Applegate you've got it all wrong - it was precisely Berry & Diana's relationship which caused tension in the group. Diana started to call Berry up on the phone when things weren't "going her way"..Diana told Berry things not just about her own group but also she told the tale on other female Motown acts who she felt were trying to upstage her.
Mary has done absolutely nothing wrong and she has stated time and time and time again in interviews that it did not bother her Diana taking the lead BUT when they started being excluded from interviews and when Diana had her own dressing room that's when the tension started.
GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT before making stupid remarks about The Supremes.
Diana was a pain in the backside. She drove all the other female acts mad. She would wind up everyone INCLUDING Flo. And to say Flo was meant to be her friend, that was pretty naff of Diana to do that.
@Spanky Applegate you are so wrong it's funny. i dare say you're a ms ross worshipper (in her camp) who sees her as nothing but perfect. well you're a stupid naive fool. for a start your perfect idol is false. the woman she pretends to be on stage is not the woman off stage. give me mary over diana ross anyday.
Flo and Mary did NOT get everything Diana got. Maybe in the very beginning when there was equality within the group, but from 1965 onwards Diana Ross started to take over the show (with the help from Berry) and this is where the fury and disharmony stemmed from.
You can say what you want, but the Supremes tragic legacy is very simply all down to Diana Ross acting the Diva and Berry Gordy becoming obsessed with her. He pushed and pushed Diana when he realised her voice was getting him countless No.1 Hits. Meanwhile two other innocent singers got trampled on and they got tossed aside in the end by both Diana and Berry who were out for domination.
END OF DEBATE. Anything else you say to me is irrelevant. Go masturbate over Ms Ross.
Thank you reelback for posting this audiobook.💗
I have always Respected Mary Wilson, but after hearing this she is a real real Soul Survivor who I respect even more
RIP Mary Wilson ❤️
Pedro sounded like a real gold digger and it's so upsetting to learn he abused her emotionally and physically. You wish she would have dropped him at the first signs of it. Sent him packing. Her voice is so sad.
But, I don't think her voice is sad.
He was a gold digger and hole digger too.
@@punkanellylovejoy702 Facts. I met a fan who told me that after The Supremes performed at Madison Square Garden fans went outside and was chanting Down With Pedro!!! Down With Pedro!! Another fan told me how he came close to cursing him out after he got mad at him for speaking to Scherrie.
He definitely was a grifter. Freda Payne spoke in her book that came out last fall about how she had met him before Mary did and he had pushed up on her first - I think he was looking for an American woman he could woo and live off of, and Freda didn't fall for the bullshit. But sadly, Mary did.
@@punkanellylovejoy702 How about you. Are you a hole digger or a hole plugger?
What an AWESOME, AMAZING WOMEN. WHAT A STORY. R.I.P. QUEEN I SALUTE YOU. YOU WILL ALWAYS REIGN SUPREME!!!
♡♡♡ thanks for this beautiful upload!! This came right on time lol I just left here in Louisville ky on the road to pick my daughter up from college..4hr drive woo-hoo lol
Amazing voice. Poignant story.
Rest Easy....Queen👸🏾🌻🏵️🌸🌺💐
Rest In Peace Mary Wilson 3/6/44-2/8/2021.
I really really love Mary Wilson ! She’s my favorite !
I remember reading my mom's copy of this when it came out in the early 90s; I must have been about 13. It baffled me that she basically let an unemployed man from another country take over her entire life. In my 40s I understand it even less. Nonetheless, I admire that she pushed past the bad times. I saw her live years ago and her show really was wonderful. I am sad that she isn't alive to see all the fanfare around her music being released. But I am sure she's watching from afar.
I have read Mary's second book many times, and in fact, I refer to it often even now. It is an exceptional book for all that it teaches about handling the after-effects of super fame and success. She also gave a very clear view into the experience of managing The Supremes in the years that led to her solo debut.
But I totally agree with you about Pedro. That she turned down a marriage proposal from Flip Wilson and later went on to marry someone like Pedro was absolutely astonishing. He was of no help to her financially and was abusive even before their marriage.
I chalk it up to karma. Their marriage was destined to be, and though she wasn't happy, at least she was blessed with her children.
To be loved and chosen, that’s why she did it. She was alone and insecure at that time. He showed up just at the “right time.” She could not break away because she was wooed in the beginning, and too emotionally tied later. He dominated his way into a relationship with her. People like Pedro cannot be underestimated, they are good at manipulating.
About that man Pedro situation, I have seen it several times, in women I grew up around, who were strong, smart, and beautiful, and could have had their pick of any man, but fall in love with the worst one, and their life turn for the worse. I guess they call that blind love. But once I see their heart is set on love for that person, I leave it alone, because I don't cross the line of interfering with love. I just let them live their life. Sometimes they can work out, sometimes not. But it just use to surprise me how as a child I looked at that strong woman, as having it all, and now being treated like less. The same thing happens to some men too, blind love. But it is what it is.
But her success overshadows the bad times. Berry really did some dirt to Diana too. Had it not been for RCA, Diana would have been broke in a split second after leaving. He did it to Flo and Mary Wells. The big man, Berry, didn't do them right, either.
I love you Mary Wilson just as much as I love All The Supremes.
A HEART LIKE MINE
"BLACK FIRST" I'm just saying thank you for this evening powerful broadcast. For me only I think that this is a classic book reading thank you. Black First
I've been in her shoes with the abusive husband situation. Her story brought back so many unhappy memories. Even the guns and being awaked out of your sleep with the acquisations. I understand EXACTLY why this QUEEN stayed. Mine ended up actually shooting me. So I get it. I admire her ability to get up and keep pressing on. She met the trials of her life with Grace and dignity. R I P. QUEEN. You reign supreme forevermore. I SALUTE your life and the gift you gave us!
🌬️💨💨💨 What MOST ABUSED PEOPLE DON'T KNOW is that the "abuser" actually needs the "ABUSED" more than the ABUSED realizes.
The abuser is extremely insecure and NEEDS someone to abuse which is why they "TARGET" certain types of women.
The abuser usually has a "radar" detector for weakness and can usually "smell" a woman they can take advantage of a mile away...notice how ALL abused women have the same characteristics and they all fall for the charm for the abuser.
These types of men are VERY insecure, but they are MASTERS at charm, manipulation, and they know how to reel a woman in.
Rest in Your Power Ms. Wilson🙌🏾 Your Legacy can never be ignored and will Always Live on🙌🏾❤️
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Miss you alredy very much lady Mary,you look awesome and thanks for all great music.Rest in peace
RIP Ms Mary Wilson!! You are Truly a Legend!! 🙏🏾💕
Beautiful Mrs Mary always a Supreme in 💜💜💜
I was 15 years old. Sometime in1964 I saw the album cover " Meet The Supremes " I love you Mary.
Mary and Flo are the real supremes. The very first pieces to come together. Wish Mary wouldve ditched the supremes thing and done a duo project with Flo.
Mary Wilson went through a lot with the Supreme Singing Group, Diana and Berry, and lastly her marriage to that damn Pedro...The music industry is so ruthless...it's not nice at all....you have to become a snake and sell your soul to the devil to get a head...it's not worth it....not at all...Rip Mary Wilson, you're now a star for god and can sing along with the heavenly choir...
FACTS!👍FACTS!👍This is so 💔ing to hear from Mary Wilson.To me she was overwhelmed by way too many battles.An abusive marriage,a dirty,backstabbing,scheming, music industry,friendship betrayal.This beautiful woman had to be emotionally drained, the issues with Diane Ross added more to that..[Not too mention two C-Sections..ohh! mercy] Now finally after all that,she survived.WOW! what a life,who knew just being and wanting to be singer,a Supreme at that, Mary had to endure so much pain, sadness,unhappiness,dissapointment,fustration,disrespect.I almost cried..it's just too much.Mary You Are Missed So Very Much.I will from now on call her "Motown's Queen" RIP🙏✌💔😭
That’s why she’s gone, she planning to get back out there, it was time for her rest. I hope your Supreme faith was in the LORD, sleep on queen.
@@lorebay2593 Most celebrities like that never become interested in God or surrendering their life to Jesus Christ. And those that do don't testify about having come to know the Lord as their Saviour. But Jesus instructs those who believe in Him to testify about it. There are many scriptures where He tells His followers to own up to knowing Him, that He will own us when we're standing before God. We need the Lord to speak on our behalf when we leave this world. He is our afterlife attorney, so to speak. If you have not accepted Him as your very own personal Saviour before you leave this world, you will not go to Heaven...period. You will spend eternity in Hell, no matter who you are, or how rich and famous you were on this Earth. It's a tragic ending to a life where one managed to have everything they wanted here, only to end up in Hell!
It’s imperative to remember just how young the Supremes were & the challenging times in history that they were influencing & living through, when reading their books 📚
For example, they were all 20 years of age, on June 17, 1964, when “Where Did I Love Go” was released and went on to become their first #1 song out of 12.
- Florence Ballard [June 30, 1943-Feb 22, 1976] (32)
- Mary Wilson [Mar 6, 1944-Feb 8, 2021] (76)
- Diana Ross [Mar 26, 1944-Living] (76)
The Supremes had shared their formative years together, during segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, the JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson & the Richard Nixon presidencies, the war in Vietnam, etc Representing the African African experience in the music of Motown with class and sophistication, all while achieving & adjusting to their international fame & fortune across racial lines.
EXACTLY👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you very much, for those detailed facts.
I found it kind of chilling that Florence died in '76, Mary died at 76, and Diana is 76.
I love hearing her read this!
Mary Wilson, a survivor!!!
RIP Mary ❤️
-For ever Supreme and For ever Mary Wilson!,❤
I love her voice
Màry is still beautiful, clever, taiented also the best and i lovè her
I will never forget Michael Jackson saying, it all ends the same, broke, mental challenges and uncertainty and death in many cases.
the most beautiful, talented, woman I had the privelage of seeing in person. She has no color she is a beautiful human being.
Ms. Mary Wilson one beautiful, talented and intelligent woman. I love her!
I wishing that Mrs Mary would give me her.phone number
So do I .I have always thought that she was beautiful ever since I was young. I always thought that she could've been a model.
@Terry s i m m o n s She kissed me on the lips in front of an arena full of people! I confess , I have known her for years.
@The King's Queen Mrs. King I have met Diana. Her sister Rita's exboyfriend use to hang out with us. I did not know Florence, but one of her daughters use to call me.
@@DetroitLives313 OMG!!she did tha same thing to me and gave me an autographed picture of her that i still have. and this was right after 911.
I hope that Ms. Wilson is at peace. Ms. Wilson had an amazing life. May she rest in peace, and may her journey into heaven with the ancestors be joyous..."Someday we'll be together"!
Yes girl, Ms Wilson done snuck up the ladder to the roof on us.
@@punkanellylovejoy702 😳😳😳
@@storiking650As in a sudden departure without telling anyone she was leaving. The Supremes had a song titled up the ladder to the roof.
@@punkanellylovejoy702 Oh I'm very familiar, "Up the Ladder" is my #1 ALL-TIME FAVORITE SUPREME SONG, it just was a bit odd to use it in regards to sumthn like her sudden passing.
@@storiking650 very odd indeed. But how dare she just tip toe up the ladder without even warning us. Such is life. But not fair.
Mary Wilson was the best-looking of all the Supreme and one of the most beautiful women in America!
Mary is so beautiful, inside and out! An amazing woman.
Although you are no longer with us, you will never , ever be forgotten.
MARY WILSON YOU ARE ONE GRACIOUS WOMAN REST IN PEACE MARY WILSON
Ms. Mary Wilson kept The Supremes alive 🥰
This was. A really good book! I enjoyed buying their last two albums!
You always be a Supremes
It must have wrenched her heart out .. Poor Mary .. Once a top billing member of Motowns no 1 act....Then being publicly Dropped from the label after recording her first solo Album ...
Thank you for sharing this reading Ms. Wilson had a beautiful speaking and singing voice. Does her speaking voice remind anyone else if Toni Braxton?
I always found Mary Wilson to be so beautiful! It's nice hearing more about her through her own words.
I wish i could find that audio recourding too
Damn, her story sounds worse than the Tina Turner one. That fool Pedro was CRAZY. But I saw that coming when he just showed up out of the blue with all of his luggage. Funny how many parallels she had with Flo; in that they both got screwed by Motown and married abusive dudes who gave them bad career advice. SMH...
*How* did Mary get "screwed by Motown" ?
That was definitely a red flag.
@@nycsongman9758 she was constantly suing them for royalties off early hits and whatever group was hot at the moment and making the money it carried the whole company. They're contracts @17 years old only gave them 3% combined which is 1% for each.
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"... she was constantly suing them for royalties off early hits."
Not true; after her money (the separation-agreement cash that she'd received from Motown, in '68, and after ABC records dropped her in '70) ran out, she sued Motown *once,* for alleged financial impropriety, in which she lost, in 1971.
"... and whatever group was hot at the moment and making the money it carried the whole company."
I don't know what you mean by that.
"They're contracts @17 years old only gave them 3% combined which is 1% for each."
Yes; acts that are fresh off of the streets, with no demonstrated track-record of revenue-generating hits, get the lowest-of-the-low royalty rate; at that, earliest point in their career, the record label is assuming almost 100% of the enormous financial risk necessary to launch a brand-new act, with absolutely no assurance that the label would even *recover* its initial outlay, much less *make* any money off of the act.
And what does their *age* have to do with this ? The contract was a legal business agreement, and as such, it was up to the girls' parents/ guardians to ovesee/ safeguard the girls' financial well-being.
It's important to remember that in 1961, Berry Gordy was a struggling, small business owner; Motown was *far* from becoming *MOTOWN,* the game-changing institution; and *no one* had any idea that these three giggly schoolgirls (the "No-Hit Supremes", they were called) were going to blow up into pop culture icons. No one. In those long three years before they really hit, *who* do you think was footing *all* of the bills ?
@@nycsongman9758 listen those accusations came out of "their mouths " you acting like I made it up off the top of my head!! If you read her last book Mary states" I stopped tying Motown up in court in the latter Supremes years and made up with BG! ..Flo sued them as well, Mary Wells... I mean cmon the list goes on..Diana even when she left for RCA said she believed she had way more money than she had?! Not even 1 million by the 1980's?? I'm not doing a back n forth with you about what Mary Wilson said in her book about her life. GOODBYE
Thank you for your music and your life, Mary. The Supremes will be always in our hearts.
R I P Miss Mary Wilson I had the pleasure to meet in person you where such a lovely person
God bless her works
Flo and mary the greatest
Hearing MARY telling her Supreme Faith. is awesome. 💕.RIP.
A powerful story. I would have never guessed all of those things happened to her. But the wickedness of Berry Gordy and Motown. I have no doubt of that.
Excellent autobiography. @ 2:20 Mary was a source of empowerment and liberation from domestic abuse. Motown, ie Berry Gordy abused her too. IJS. May her spirit live and her soul RIP.
The Supremes was and is still the Cat's Meow. What the Supremes achieved is American history not Diana's solo work ...snap!
Such an interesting story, sad too. It just shows what you need to be aware of when you
join a group and a label like Motown when your young and uninformed about the business
side of the industry. Reality check but, who does that when your young & inexperienced.
As much as I luv Diane, when she was part of the Supremes they were the catalyst kick start
to her illustrious career. There are countless other Artists that have been treated this way
but, I think today's Rappers for example have got a much better hold on the business side
of the industry before signing away their rights.
RIP Flo and Mary you women really were Supreme Stars no doubt about it 🤩🤩
I think many have learned from the mistakes of people in the past. Elvis was screwed over by his manager. I think it was Eddie Van Halen talking about when they first started they had gold records and they didn't have any money. All the money they made didn't come to them and there was that fat guy that managed Backstreet Boys and that other boy band. They were able to sue to get their money. They were not getting anything either. Yep, its a business
Flo died of a broken 💔more than anything else 😓
Your channel is Gold! Please keep posting!
A survivor…. Respect!
Mary, Mary, my dearest Mary - in 1964, when the Supremes first went 'nuclear, was the year I turned 11 yrs old . My two younger sisters ( ages 9 and 5 ) first began emulating the group, practicing both your songs and dance routines . From the very first, I knew even as a child, that there was something I just detested about that broomstick with the rag mop head who never missed an opportunity to " buck out them eyes" . Every pre-teen I knew thought that somebody must have told her she was cute and she bought it !
As the years went by, we grew to love both you and the original 'Flo-Jo", while our hatred of the broomstick escalated ever higher .
This was especially true she swooped her narrow ass into the church for Flo's funeral, putting on that 'show of loss and concern .
I hope that you are not offended by this, but the pity I felt for both you and Flo, was o overwhelming; I felt that you both had been treated
reprehensible and that the broomstick with eyes seemed to be the cause of it all . I truly think if I could have got down the aisle where that bitch was squeezing the life out of Flo's twins I would have tried to pop them damned eyes out of her head !
Know this, Mary my dear: here at home you will always be both valued and revered and most importantly, you will always be loved !
What a Great book & read..Lady SUPREME Mary Wilson will reign in All Time Pop Music Royalty..
Abusive controlling men are a nightmare in relationships! Thank god most women learn and hopefully are able to sever ties with them! Bastards! ....