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  • I can't find any reference to The Supremes ever making a recording without Diana Ross. I wonder if Barry Gordy, who was close to Diana Ross, would have allowed the Supremes to record on their own. The previous sentence has no basis in fact, it's just my speculative comment. "The Ed Sullivan Show", that hosted many popular singing groups of the day, had The "New" Supremes as guests on the show. On February 15, 1970 The "New" Supremes performed - "Up the Ladder to the Roof" & show tunes (Supremes Cindy Birdsong, Jean Terrel & Mary Wilson - without Diana Ross) There is no explaination as to why Diana Ross was absent.
  • They most certainly did, although they never had the chart sucess that they had when Ross was with the group. Ross departed the group in 1969 to launch a solo career and she was replaced by Jean Terrell. The Supremes had some hits after Ross left, including "Stoned Love," "Natan Jones," and a duet with the Four Tops, "River Deep-Mountain High."
  • Yes they did!!! Mary Wilson recorded "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" And Florence Ballard recorded "People" . These recordings were released on "There's A Place For Us" which was shelved and then just released by Hipp-O-Select in 2005. Limited release only. I have my copy.
  • The Supremes sure did have successful records after Diana Ross left and she was replaced by Jean Terrell, boxer Ernie Terrell's sister, in 1970. In those years, Motown played down The "new" Supremes' survival without Diana and played up their being expendable to Diana's success. But in 1970 alone, they hit the Top Forty four times: "Everybody's Got the Right to Love," "River Deep-Mountain High" (with The Four Tops, Top 20), "Stoned Love," and "Up the Ladder to the Roof" (the last two Top Ten, and the latter record the follow-up to their previous '69 single "Someday We'll Be Together"). "Roof" debuted in February 1970 a few months before and higher than Diana's own first solo record, "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)." In the early '70s, The Supremes had two more Top 20 records: "Nathan Jones" then "Floy Joy." They hit the disco charts a few more times, including with "He's My Man," "High Energy" and "I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do the Walking." (This last record also made Top 40 on the Billboard Pop chart, the final Supremes' record to do so.) Besides Jean Terrell, new Supremes alumnae in the 1970s included Lynda Laurence, Scherrie Payne, and Susaye Green. In 1977, original member Mary Wilson who had been a member from the beginning decided to take the solo plunge. Her "farewell" concert with then-partners Payne and Green in London in June turned out to be the final official Supremes appearance, though, when Scherrie and Susaye ended up not finding a Mary replacement as publicized, and then Motown officially decided to finally disband the group that autumn. Thanks to reissues of much of their '70s material in CD format starting in the 1990s, now pop music aficionados are more fully aware that The Supremes didn't end with Diana's leaving in 1970 -- if anything, Mary Wilson was the cement that held together the soul of The Supremes from beginning to end, through thick and thin -- and with each new incarnation and record, The Supremes' output through the '70s actually became better produced and characterized by increasingly evident talent! Supreme forever... :)
  • yes and I remember 2 songs at least they had hits with: Up The Ladder To The Roof (and) Stoned Love
  • Diana Ross left the Supremes in 1970 and yes The Supremes made a couple songs without her. The one that comes to mind is "Up The Ladder To The Roof". I have this record. Cant think of another but I know there was one or two more.
  • Yes they did

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