The Lost Supreme

Written by Peter Benjaminson, based on more than seven hours of interviews with Florence Ballard. Published by Chicago Review Press/Lawrence Hill Books. NOW IN PAPERBACK!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
Preface:  Flo and Me    
 
Acknowledgments    
 
Introduction: Founder and Soul Sister
 
1.  Detroit is Where It's At
 
2.  Generosity and Betrayal
 
3.  Always a Bridesmaid
 
4.  Roughing It
 
5.  "Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom, Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom, Ba-by, Ba-by"
 
6.  In Pursuit of False Gods
 
7.  Supremes at the Summit
 
8.  Room at the Top
 
9.  Struggle Among the Stars
 
10.  The Corner of Hollywood and Woodward
 
11.  Trouble at the Top
 
12.  After the Fall
 
13.  "I Now Pronounce You"
 
14.  Dashed Hopes
 
15.  Fleeced Again
 
16.  Bleak House
 
17.  Friend or Foe?
 
18.  Paranoid, Isolated, and Homeless
 
19.  Three into Two Won't Go
 
20.  Down, Down, Down and Out
 
21.  Inside the Mental Ward
 
22. To Err is Human
 
23.  The Lost Supreme
 
24.  Flo Sums It Up
 
25.  Where's the Rest of Me?
 
Afterword:  The Dreamgirls Resurrections
 
Appendix 1:  Florence Ballard, Primettes, and Supremes Discography
 
Appendix 2:  Excerpts from Florence Ballard's Legal Case Against Motown Records et al.
 
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Index