The Supremes - How Do You Keep The Music Playing
This was supposed to have been our fifth single on The Supremes for Motorcity, and was to also have been the title track of our album with them. This song has been cut by everybody from Barbara Streisand to Shirley Bassey to Tony Bennett to Johnny Mathis to James Ingram to Gladys Knight. But nobody did it like my girls. 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. 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 song that stole the show on all their live performances and we all agreed to cut it as a single. I'm very proud to have found this footage from 1989 while the girls were on tour in England. It's just a shame we didn't also have footage of their amazing 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.