The lost Supreme : the life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard / Peter Benjaminson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benjaminson, Peter, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women singers--United States--Biography.

Women singers.

Supremes (Musical group).

Ballard, Florence, 1943-1976.

Ballard, Florence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history?the Supremes?told her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo shed light on all areas of her life, including the surprising identity of the man by whom she was raped prior to her entering the music business, the details of her love-hate relationship with Motown Records czar Berry Gordy, her drinking problem and pleas for help, a never-ending desire to be the Supremes' lead singer, and her attempts to get her life back on t

Contents:

Front Cover; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface: Flo and Me; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Founder and Soul Sister; 1 Detroit Is Where It's At; 2 Generosity and Betrayal; 3 Always a Bridesmaid; 4 Roughing It; 5 "Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom, Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom, Ba-by, Ba-by"; 6 In Pursuit of False Gods; 7 Supremes at the Summit; 8 Room at the Top; 9 Struggle Among the Stars; 10 The Corner of Hollywood and Woodward; 11 Trouble at the Top; 12 After the Fall; 13 "I Now Pronounce You"; 14 Dashed Hopes; 15 Fleeced Again; 16 Bleak House; 17 Friend or Foe?; 18 Paranoid, Isolated, and Homeless

19 Three into Two Won't Go20 Down, Down, Down and Out; 21 Inside the Mental Ward; 22 To Err Is Human; 23 The Lost Supreme; 24 Flo Sums It Up; 25 Where's the Rest of Me?; Afterword: The Dreamgirls Resurrections; Appendix 1: Florence Ballard, Primettes, and Supremes Discography; Appendix 2: Excerpts from Florence Ballard's Legal Case Against Motown Records et al.; Sources; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-203), discogrpahy (p. 181-184), and index.

ISBN:

1-56976-301-1

OCLC:

436156388