Florence Ballard | Interview (1975) [Signing Settlements]

The founding member of The Supremes, Florence Ballard talks about signing the settlement(s) that allowed her to leave Motown and also names her lawyer.

This is only a few minutes of 8 hours of interviews of Florence Ballard by author Peter Benjaminson who has written a new book on Flo released in 2008 entitled "The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard" which is heavily based on the interviews he recorded with her in 1975 only a few months before her untimely passing.

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[babybluemsuic426]

i;d hate to spam but spread the word about movie join the face book group called Blondie: the florence ballard story

[MeetTheSupremes]

@babybluemsuic426 Post it as much as you like on my videos :D It's fine! I want the movie to be promoted too!

[DetroitLives313]

@solovoyager Look don't fuck with me. I am not looking to debate. Diana Ross was a mother fucker and everyone around Detroit knew that about the bitch. She fucked everything moving to get what she got. So no more messages from you ok? They'll just be deleted unopened.

[DetroitLives313]

@solovoyager That's not true. She was fucked over by Berry Gordy and Diana Ross.

[aprince4u]

@DetroitLives313 Diana Ross' oldest daughter was fathered by Barry Gordy. Florence Ballard is who got screwed by Gordy. Ross drank heavily and no doubt had plenty to drink about.

[terrybigteekemp]

@racer83racing the work slowdown began around the beginning of June 1967. Their complaint was they wanted the publishing rights to their songs and creative control over their careers. They practically wanted to run Motown. Their contracts were lucrative for the times. It was coincidence that the slowdown and Flo's demise happened at the same time. When H-D-H left, The Supremes only put out 2 #1 hits in the 2 1/2 years prior to Diana's departure, with them it was 10 in 3 years.

[MissAblue676792]

Florence Ballard is gangsta! Love her! R.I.P. Florence!

[racer83racing]

I have this theory that holland dozier holland (the songwriters for the supremes) quit motown over this "flo" thing.....they saw all this going on and they must have thought "we are getting screwed by motown too"; when they quit in 67 thats when motown got it back in spades; LOL

[ramona2400]

In her own words Flo Ballard is telling here own story - it seems to be just the same story Tony Turner told twenty something years prior to this interview being discovered and released. It now appreas that TONY TURNER'S ALl That Glittered My Life With The Supremes , was on tarfet and way before it's time. While Turner's account differs from Diana Ross's and Mary WIlson's it is the same as Flo Ballard's. This young lady was robbed by Motown, and we now all know it!!!!!

[pissedoff7771]

i found out something that would make you all fall out your chair.i was just skimming the net one day.so i asked the question to wikipedia who was the most sucessful female group of all time.they said the spice girls i fell out on the floor.they are going by record sales.i dont believe that shit! thats what i get for asking

[terrybigteekemp]

I swear, all of you people need to chill the freak out and enjoy the music that was left us. Sheesh!!!

[asl126]

@SpazChat I only worship JESUS CHRIST, and the only thing that ''hurts'' right now is the time I am wasting by conversing back and forth with you

[SpazChat]

@asl126 , Yeah, the truth hurts doesnt it? None of you delusional Mary or Flo worshipers can accept the truth.

[asl126]

@SpazChat wow ''spaz chat'', is that ALL that comes out of your one-sided mouth, VENOM?!?!? It seems like that's all you SPEW when somebody has an opinion different from your own, now you slander DEAD PEOPLE. CONGRATS to you! You've now established a LOWER opinion of yourself for all to see