The Supremes - I Want To Be Loved

Here is Jean Terrell, Scherrie Payne, and Lynda Laurence. Together they were the jewels in the crown of Motorcity. Fellow Supremes fan Rick Gianatos co-produced all their material for Motorcity with me. We had several tours of England for them, one as the headline act of a six act Motorcity Revue, one with Joe Stubbs as their warm-up act and a couple of others. They did lots of TV appearances and radio interviews, and even got a legal claim registered with the Patents Office for them to appear as The Supremes, not the Former Ladies Of The Supremes as they had been appearing up till then. Which was actually ratified once Diana Ross went out on tour with Scherrie and Lynda, as Diana Ross And The Supremes, setting a legal precedent. For me, once Jean left, it was never the same, but that was after their Motorcity days were over. We were indeed all set to record an album, and I paid them their agreed advances, and Rick the budget, to make the agreed album. What happened then is the main reason that Motorcity ended once and for all as a Motown Reunion project, and is still painful to me to this day, although it wasn't really the girls' fault. Some things are better left unsaid.... Anyway, this was a demo that Rick Gianatos found and persuaded me to cut on the girls. I'm very proud to have found this footage and I took back to England with me in 1990 while the girls were on tour. It's just a shame we didn't have footage of their far better, vastly superior, fourth single for Motorcity, "Hit And Miss", which I co-wrote with Scherrie. But it's still nice to see this one again. It stands out as a glorious reunion back to where they should be in the hearts and minds of their legions of fans everywhere.