The Primettes recorded briefly for Lu Pine Records, with many observers of their early shows agreed that Ballard was the strongest vocalist in the line-up.
The fact that the act had now been renamed Diana Ross and the Supremes only served to illustrate an unhappy situation. Ballard signed a solo deal with ABC in , the year that she married.
She mounted something of a comeback in , with her first live show in five years at a Detroit benefit. Her sudden passing, from a coronary thrombosis, caused an outpouring of grief among those around her, if far too little reaction from the wider world. Ross spoke with considerable candor in the immediate aftermath of her passing to Sounds. Listen to the best of the Supremes on Apple Music and Spotify. I always hoped that Flo knew how valuable she was to the Supremes.
She had a huge heart, and was loved around the world. RIP Flo you are dearly missed. She could really sing. Rest In Peace Song Bird. Ballard was her own worst enemy and her own best friend. By the time Gordy renamed the act Diana Ross and The Supremes in , Ballard had begun to retaliate by skipping scheduled public appearances and studio sessions.
Her last performance with the legendary trio came in Las Vegas in June , with Gordy bringing in vocalist Cindy Birdsong as a replacement. By August of the same year, the Detroit Free Press reported that she was taking a leave of absence from The Supremes to recover from "exhaustion. Ballard married a Motown chauffeur named Thomas Chapman in February and quickly hired him as her new manager after her departure from the label. Ballard's album for ABC was shelved, sending her musical career into a downward spiral.
Ballard also faced financial troubles after hiring an alleged embezzler as her business attorney; she later sued him for money owed after discovering he had been skimming off the top of her earnings. To add insult to injury, there were stipulations in Ballard's new contract with ABC that forbade Ballard from mentioning her earlier membership in The Supremes for promotional use or marketing any of her albums.
She had a third child, Lisa, in Troubles in her personal life continued, however, as Thomas left Ballard later that year, causing her home to go into foreclosure.
Ballard's financial woes worsened because she refused to return to the stage. With three young girls at home and no income, she eventually had to file for welfare. Ballard's string of bad luck began to turn in when her former attorney's office settled an insurance dispute with her. The settlement allowed her to purchase a small home for herself and her three children. Ballard also reconciled with her estranged husband. Fueled by a resurgence of energy, she began performing again with the female rock group The Deadly Nightshade.
Following her return to the world of music, Ballard was booked for several television and magazine interviews and began exploring ways to revive her career. Just when Ballard's life finally seemed to be on an upward swing, tragedy struck. On February 21, , she was checked into Detroit's Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital. She died the next day of a blood clot on one of her coronary arteries according to examiners.
She was only 32 years old. Questions have arisen about the cause of Ballard's death over the years, with her sister Maxine Ballard Jenkins alleging that there was foul play. They helped define the very sound of the 60s, but like fellow icons the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel, they came apart in the first year of the 70s.
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