Supremes, Bing Crosby & José Feliciano -- 'Hit Songs Medley'

Enjoy (IN COLOR!) Diana Ross and the Supremes, Bing Crosby and Jose Feliciano singing 'Hit Songs Medley.' This historic performance, which aired October 23, 1968, on the NBC network, is from one of Bing's many television-variety-show specials.

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• Diana
• Ross
• Supremes
• Bing
• Crosby
• José
• Feliciano

[ustkaewa]

JOSE its here STAR!!!

[Guitarrass]

Great Video! Jose and Bing are great and great friends, there's another video in Youtube where they doin a duet in "Mama Don't Allow" and there's incredible

[shmuli9]

@wonderboyjoy I saw it at the Museum of TV in New York. It was a hoot! I used to have a lot of their TV performances on video, and apparently there are a couple of DVDs out there of some of their performances.

[wonderboyjoy]

@youyong28 it was difficult for berry to keep the harmonies tight when florence didn't bother to turn up for sessions, turned up late or was drunk! he was trying to run a business. get real.

[wonderboyjoy]

@crut5 you are correct. history speaks for itself. too many people trying to rewrite musical history. diana stood out right from the start. mary should daily thank the heavens for diana turning up to join that group.

[wonderboyjoy]

@shmuli9 that was posted on here for a while a few years back...it was great. wish the supremes had a dvd collection of all their tv performances.

[shmuli9]

I remember them doing "Do Not Be True to Me My Darling" in kind of western outfits and lots of hip swivelling.

[crut5]

youyong28Florence took that "best voice" to ABC Records and went NOWHERE, okay?! And that lead voice potential of Mary's ? Be for real, damn!! Diana eventually went to RCA and continued to make hits--sans Berry Gordy and Motown!! I say again, you " Florence Ballard had the best voice" and "Mary should have been given the chance to sing some leads" folk are rediculous as well as blind, deaf and ignorant.Florances voice was ordinary, Mary's was nothing, Diana's is extraordinary!!!!!!!

[youyong28]

@crut5 Show business is the most cutthroat business of all. Diana had the drive and personality to thrust the Supremes (and herself) forward. All three could have had thriving solo careers. Florence had the best voice and was witty and fun but wasn't allowed to promote herself within the group. Berry should have kept the harmonies strong and allowed each woman to sing lead on albums and in performances, but he had a vision of making Diana the next Lena Horne. He created bad feelings.

[torresongs2]

@MartianSanta At the beginning the announcer says, "Hit Songs Medley". All of the songs in this medley were hits in 1968. It just so happens that many of them were by the Beatles.

[jtma91]

Bing wanted to throw Jose's guitar too! LOL :D

[MartianSanta]

why all the Beatles songs?

[aleccix]

estas flacas no son de la caro band?

[crut5]

Hey, thanks, Wonderbb!!

[wonderboyjoy]

@crut5 i agree. the story is a myth that suits the underdog by making people feel sorry for them. if mary and florence were as great as all these diana haters say, they also would have been megastars. oh that's right berry ruled the world and he just had to tell people to stop liking mary and florence and they would. the myth is ridiculous. florence was florence's downfall....no-one else.

[Lampshade51]

I think it was Mel Brooks who called Bing Crosby "music's first hip white guy". Probably true. His earliest recordings (1920s) show a guy who could "soul up" a melody and scat as good as anybody. Even many years later, in the 60s and 70s he was always talking about how great the Beatles were, and was always trying his hand at new stuff. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not. His duet with Bowie was classic. "Hey Jude" was not. But the guy never turned uncool. Hip to the end.

[quissini]

thats entertainment in her full ligt. you cant see this today

[crut5]

God!!! I get so damn tired of dumb people blaming everyone for Florence Ballard's downfall except the one who was/is really the blame---FLORENCE BALLARD!! She was an idiot who made a supremely idiotic move and she paid supremely for it!!! IT WAS NOBODY"S FAULT BUT HER OWN!!!!! Mary knows the truth, but she is so jealous of Diana Ross' talent and astronomical success that she has helped perpetuate the lies. If your "talent" is mediocre as Flo's and Mary's were don't blame Diana or Berry!

[6547811]

wow,great video man,jose is here with the best,thank you for this clip,feliciano is one of the greatest artist of all time!!

[judge1101]

what is the name of the song starting at 2:21 and ending at 2:35?

[SinclairisCool]

Haha! Sorry for my comment guys, I wrote it on my iPhone :L

[SinclairisCool]

@eugenehitler09 hi there! I agree with your comment. All three girls wanted fame and fortune. I wouldn't say flo gave up. She never gave on the supremes, she just gave up fighting berry and Diana. She wanted to be in a group not a lead and 2 back ups, but as history's has told, this was not to be. Terribly terribly sad. All this happened In a time when psychiatrists weren't really taken seriously so she couldn't talk to anyone about the problems she was having. Such a Shane really because for a

[TWTR4EVER]

@eugenehilter09 Diane not only wanted to be the star, she manipulated and backstabbed her way to it!

Do not belittle Florence Ballard, from 1959 to 1964 The Supremes were a FEMALE TRIO, shering leads & the spotlight, after Diane started her adulterer affair with Berry Gordy (Motown boss) they turned the group into a LEAD & BACKUP SINGER that was the final blow to Florence, she rebel and they kicked her out, she didn't leave!

Diane & Berry indirectly caused Florence demise & early death!

[babyluvchild]

Look at ole Bing Crosby hanging with Diana Ross & Sups and Jose Feliciano I don't why it works but it does. Hot Damn!!!

[proverbs1824]

@jeffdon4 Yes. Long after Flo left. Cindy Birdsong (far left) replaced her in July of 1967.

[proverbs1824]

@Doleafol Amen!