The Supremes "Up The Ladder To The Roof" My Extended Version!

I bought my first turntable in 1968 and all the Vinyl LPs I bought back then were Motown stuff. The Four Tops (whom I still consider to be the greatest male Soul/RnB group ever and Levi Stubbs the greatest male singer in the genre) and the Supremes. In those days Diana Ross led the Supremes but she left in 1970 and was replaced by Miss Jean Terrell. At that stage the line up was Jean, Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong. For short they were known as the JMC Supremes. I consider Jean to be the best lead ever. She had a beautiful Soprano voice, a great stage personality and she had very good relationships with the people she sang with. She encouraged a rotating lead within a song or from one song to another. This allowed the multi facet voice of the late Mary Wilson to shine in all its glory for example. In the header picture here you see Cindy, Jean and Mary from left to right. The still photos on this clip are great too. I especially like the one at 3.25. Great outfits. Perhaps Cindy's pin stripe suit (centre) is a hint to her future role as an ordained minister in a church? Unfortunately Motown did not promote The Supremes nearly as strongly as they had done in the Diana Ross days. Jean only stayed with them officially for three years. She did come back and reunite with a number of other line ups like the one in the clip after this.