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	Florence Glenda Ballard (1943 - 1976) - Find A Grave Memorial
		Florence Glenda Ballard was the eighth of thirteen children born in Rosetta, Mississippi.
		Ballard was legally barred from capitalizing on her glorious past with the Supremes, and while her former group went on, her solo releases flopped.
		Ironically, Florence Ballard's contribution to the success of the Supremes has now been recognized and her fate has been described as a telling verdict on the way in which Motown handled its more uncompromising artists.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4041 (424 words)

	A Tribute to the Queen
		Florence's family was very close and loving, her mother didn't want her kids associating with a lot of the kids in the neighborhood, so they stayed home a lot and singed showtunes while Florence's mother played the piano.
		Florence was dedicated to her group until a tragedy happened in her life that would change her personality and the way she viewed life and the way she conducted herself, she had got raped by a neighborhood friend she thought she could trust.
		Florence Ballard signed a recording contract with ABC Records, but she was not yet released from her Motown deal and the resulting legal problems were just the beginning of similar difficulties that would plague her solo career.
	www.angelfire.com /biz6/motownNsoul4Ever/FlorenceBallard (1317 words)

	Florence Ballard Fan Club
		The Florence Ballard Fan Club was founded in 1986 by Alan White as a living memorial to Florence Ballard.
		This purpose is achieved by focusing on Florence Ballard's life in a manner that brings honor and recognition to her.
		The fan club's approach to Florence is in stark contrast to the media accounts of her life.
	www.florenceballardfanclub.com (458 words)

	Florence Ballard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ballard, nicknamed "Blondie" because of her auburn hair and light complexion, was the founder and original lead singer of The Primettes, an all-girl singing group spin-off of The Primes (later known as The Temptations).
		Ballard married Thomas Chapman, a former chauffeur for Motown, in 1968, and signed with ABC Records in 1968, two weeks after negotiating her relase from Motown on February 22, 1968.
		Eventually separating from Chapman, Ballard's house was foreclosed upon, and she found herself back in the Detroit public housing projects on welfare, with three daughters to feed.
	florence-ballard.iqnaut.net (558 words)

	Biography of Florence Ballard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Florence Ballard (June 30, 1943 - February 22, 1976), an American singer from Detroit, Michigan, was an original singer in the Primettes, and then became a founder and the lead singer in the Supremes before Diana Ross took the lead.
		Ballard had a voice resembling that of Billie Holliday; however, it was Ross's voice that stormed the Supremes into the charts, and the group ended up achieving nine number one hits.
		On February 22, 1976, Florence Ballard died of a coronary thrombosis (blood clot in one of her coronary arteries).
	biography-3.qardinalinfo.com /b/Ballard_Florence.html (163 words)

	Amazon.ca: Supreme: Music: Florence Ballard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Florence Ballard was a Supreme and was as good a member as Mary Wilson and Diana Ross were.
		Many people including Mary Wilson will insist that Florence Ballard was a better singer than Diana Ross and judging by all the songs I have heard of Florence that is not the case, she was yes a good singer, but not better I am going to say she was just one of the bunch.
		Florence Ballard was truly the best singer The Supremes ever had but the choice of material offered her could'nt have been more questionable.
	www.amazon.ca /Supreme-Florence-Ballard/dp/B00005ARS8 (1171 words)

	Diana Ross and the Supremes
		FLORENCE BALLARD, MARY WILSON, DIANA ROSS: On stage the three girls were identically dressed, their hairdo's matched perfectly, and they performed a fitting subtle choreography.
		Florence had the style and capacity to be a solo singer.
		Stuck between the ambitious characters of Florence and Diana, Mary was the stable and consoling element.
	afgen.com /supremes.html (1604 words)

	Florence Ballard
		Florence Ballard was the original singer in the Primettes[?] and then became the lead singer in the Supremes before Diana Ross took the lead.
		Ballard had a voice resembling that of Aretha Franklin, however, it was Ross' voice that stormed the Supremes into the charts, and the group ended up acheiving nine number one hits.
		Diana Ross certainly appealed to a white audience, but there is speculation as to whether her voice was 'accepted' by the fl community at the time.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fl/Florence_Ballard.html (101 words)

	The Supremes
		Though the personnel changed frequently over the years, the Supremes began as Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson[?], old friends who had met in a public housing project in Detroit, Michigan.
		Despite many singles with Diana Ross or Florence Ballard on lead vocals, the Supremes didn't have any hits until "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" (1963), a minor hit.
		Florence Ballard was replaced in 1967 by Cindy Birdsong[?] (Patty Labelle & the BlueBelles[?]); she eventually sunk into poverty, dying on welfare in 1976.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/su/Supremes.html (282 words)

	Motown Articles
		Florence Ballard, one of the three original members of the Supremes, will not get a cent in her $8.7 million suit against Motown Record Corp. and her former singing partners, a Wayne County circuit judge ruled Thursday.
		Miss Ballard also asked in her suit that the Supremes be forbidden to use their famous name.
		Miss Ballard's suit charged that in late 1967 Gordy and Miss Ross "secretly, subversively and maliciously plotted and planned" to oust Miss Ballard from the trio.
	tracy_prinze.tripod.com /atributetomotown/id24.html (530 words)

	The Supremes
		Their manager, Milton Jenkins was dating the sister of 15 year old Florence Ballard, who, because of her clear and powerful voice, was picked to head the new group.
		Florence Ballard was coping by turning to alcohol and became involved in several blow-ups with Gordy and Diana Ross.
		Ballard claimed that she was the one who had originally brought the group together when they all lived in Detroit's Brewster Housing Project and that she chose the name that made them famous.
	www.classicbands.com /supremes.html (3946 words)

	The Supremes -- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
		Diana Ross and Florence Ballard were both born in Detroit, while Mary Wilson was born in Mississippi and Cindy Birdsong was from New Jersey.
		Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson first formed as a quartet named the Primettes after being recruited by Paul Williams as a sister act to his locally popular Detroit group the Primes (later known as the Temptations).
		Florence Ballard left the group in 1967 and Diana Ross left in 1969.
	www.michiganhistorymagazine.com /extra/rockroll/supremes.html (235 words)

	Florence Ballard Fan Club
		Born in Detroit on 30 June 1943, Florence was the eighth of Jesse and Lurlee Ballard's thirteen children.
		Florence liked the idea and immediately asked her friend, Mary Wilson, to be a member of the group.
		Florence, Diana, and Mary were close friends who lived out their girlhoods together and loved each other as sisters.
	www.florenceballardfanclub.com /biography.htm (1866 words)

	Florence Ballard - TV.com
		Florence "Flo" Ballard was born in Rosetta, Mississippi but grew up in Detroit in the Brewster-Douglas public housing project for minorities, where Diana Ross and Mary Wilson also grew up.
		At the time of her death, Florence was on the verge of a successful comeback.
		Florence was the strongest vocalist out of all three of The Supremes.
	www.tv.com /person/86769/summary.html (238 words)

	Florence Ballard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While it is not entirely clear if this was a condition of her original Motown contract (signed when she was a minor, a condition Stevie Wonder would effectively exploit to break the legal shackles of the label) or was introduced as part of the settlement process is unclear.
		Ballard continued her efforts at a solo career.
		By 1971, Ballard unsuccessfully sued Motown for additional royalty payments she believed were due her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Florence_Ballard (1721 words)

	Diana Ross & The Supremes Music Videos Showcase!
		Founding members Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross and Betty McGlown, all from the Brewster-Douglass public housing project in Detroit,[2] were the sister act to The Primes (later known as The Temptations).
		Florence Ballard's release from Motown was made final on February 29, 1968, with Ballard receiving a one-time payment of $139,804.94 in royalties and earnings.
		Ballard eventually sank into poverty and died on February 22, 1976 at the age of thirty-two.
	www.squidoo.com /thesupremesvideoshowcase (4746 words)

	What's That Sound? • W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
		In 1959 Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson, who were both fifteen, met at a talent show in Detroit and began singing together.
		Ballard, Wilson, and Ross could all sing lead, but Ballard's voice was considered the strongest, so she typically assumed that role.
		Ballard and Wilson, though, turned out to be perfect background singers; Ballard's strong voice gave the backing vocals a presence that was lacking in most other girl groups.
	www.wwnorton.com /college/music/rockhistory/reverb/ch06_02.htm (443 words)

	Farewells: Florence Ballard
		When Diana Ross finally departed entirely from the group in 1969 to follow her solo career, Florence was to contact Mary Wilson in a half hearted attempt to re-launchh the Supremes.
		Mary flew Florence out to Los Angeles later that year, where she was introduced at a Supremes concert to a standing ovation.
		The fun was short lived however, Florence succumbing to a cardiac arrest on February 22, 1976 at the age of 32.
	www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au /farewells_florence_ballard.htm (419 words)

	OBITUARY: Hank Ballard Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		John Henry Kendricks (Hank Ballard) was born in Detroit in 1927, although he never knew his full name until the US Army requested a sight of his birth certificate, and 1936 is his year of birth in all the books.
		Ballard developed a very entertaining show band and his influence on James Brown and the Famous Flames, who also recorded for King Records, has been acknowledged by Brown himself.
		Ballard first of all wrote and recorded "Is Your Love for Real" and then changed it to an exhortation to dance - "C'mon baby, let's do the twist, C'mon baby, it goes like this" - and those simple lyrics changed popular culture.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030304/ai_n12679339 (857 words)

	Florence Ballard - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Florence Glenda Ballard was born June 30, 1943, in Rosetta, MS, but before the age of ten, her family moved to Detroit to take advantage of Detroit's booming job market.
		The Primes' manager, Milton Jenkins, encouraged Ballard to form a sister group to the Primes, so she recruited Mary Wilson, Betty McGlown (soon to be replaced with Barbara Martin), and Diane Earle (better known as Diana Ross).
		Ballard's lawsuit finally settled; however, the lawyer took the moneys, forcing her to file a suit against him.
	www.artistdirect.com /lks/artist/bio/0,,400422,00.html (572 words)

	Florence Ballard
		Florence continued developing her vocal skills through the choir and music classes provided by her school, and by her early teens her abilities had become well-established throughout the neighborhood of the Brewster Housing Project where her family resided.
		This period of triumph for The Supremes became one of personal torment for Ballard, as she was forced to watch helplessly while the group she had founded was gradually taken away from her.
		After The Supremes, Ballard severed her relationship from Motown, and was eventually forced to sue the label in order to get any of the royalties owed her from her six years of work.
	www.nndb.com /people/828/000092552 (802 words)

	Oscar-nominated film renews interest in real-life "Dreamgirl," the late Florence Ballard - International Herald Tribune
		Florence was the ninth of 15 children of Jesse and Lurlee Ballard.
		Florence was approached one day sitting on the steps of her home in a Detroit housing project by Milton Jenkins, the manager of a pre-Temptations outfit called the Primes.
		Ballard's ensuing years saw her give birth to twins Nicole and Michelle in 1968 and daughter Lisa in 1972.
	www.iht.com /articles/ap/2007/02/20/arts/NA-A-E-MOV-US-Oscars-Dreamgirls-The-Real-Effie.php (937 words)

	Supremes Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ballard, Ross and Wilson continue as a trio.
		Ballard begins a pattern of drinking, weight-gain and erratic behavior that will eventually lead to her missing concert and promotional appearances.
		Ballard is depicted in all the album art despite having been fired the previous month.
	www.albanyinstitute.org /exhibits/supremes.timeline.htm (1951 words)

	The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard
		The rest of Ballard's life was consumed by legal battles with Motown—notorious for shortchanging its talent--and various lawyers she hired to represent her.
		She was scared for the rest of her life.") The mother of three young daughters, Ballard died in 1976—the official cause of death was coronary artery thrombosis—at the absurdly young age of 32.
		And while that doesn't negate the fact that Ballard was supremely unlucky in life, it does suggest that, at least in death, she won't be forgotten.
	www.aarpmagazine.org /books/lost_supreme_review (822 words)

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