Wilson’s music career began in 1959 when she joined the girl-group The Primettes with singers Diana Ross and Florence Ballard, who hailed from the same Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects in Detroit as ...
Wilson, who died Feb. 8, began singing with Diana Ross and Florence Ballard in 1959. As the Supremes, they helped define Motown sound with a string of hits in the 1960s. Originally broadcast in 1986.
In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Motown didn't ...