The SupremesThe Supremes: Reflections - The Definitive Performances 1964-1969

A truly fascinating musical-visual documentary and time capsule! Beautiful performances and very sweet. Absolutely lovely. It is so much FUN to see young people having fun expressing themselves in the prime of their lives, and these artists had so much to offer and say. Timeless.Some of the clips are presented in staggered fashion, not perfectly chronological and need further restoration unfortunately, but are still very enjoyable. Some of them can be viewed with acappella lead & background vocals only which is interesting. The 20 page booklet is a great bonus, very informative.This is a very important document for Motown sound, The Supremes and music culture. A JOYFUL experience from beginning to end, not to be missed!

I've been a fan of The Supremes for as long asI can remember listening to music. I'm in my early 40's, so unfortunately I wasn't born when their first hit dropped. So even though I got to listen to all their major and minor hits growing up thanks mostly to oldie radio stations, it finally occurred to me that I've never really seen much real video on them, much less any live performances. Not only did I like their music, but I always thought they'd be great performers, plus I always thought all 3 of them were quite easy to look at.Luckily, I seemed to have looked at the right time. There appears to be only a few such complete dvd's with them like this one.I must say I was taken in with them from the first live performance on it of Where Did Our Love Go taken from the Steve Allen Show in Sept. 1964. It had a nice spirit to it, if not a slight ackwardness that would be expected given in was clearly early in their career. It sounded great too though. Man did I love Florence Ballard's smile! I also loved the two separate performances on what looks to be a tv show called "Shivaree" of Baby Love & Stop In The Name Of Love. They appeared to be the only black people on a set full of young white kids happily clapping and dancing to their music. A pretty big feet probably given the times in 1965. They lip-synch while standing and dancing next to each other on a platform surrounded by the kids, some slightly above them. I also liked the other performance of Stop In The Name Of Love from Its What's Happening, Baby in 65. It's pretty much an early music video that has white and black kids dancing together, although not really with each other. A sign of the progressive times I hope. Coolest part was watching Diana sing directly to two of the white male teens sitting in front of them. Some have talked about Diana messing up the beginning of I Hear A Symphony while on the Mike Douglas Show in Nov. of 65. I've been to many concerts, and have seen singers forget entire lines to songs, so I didn't think it was that bad, plus I thought she recovered well even though it appeared to throw her off initially. The promotional short video of You Keep Me Hanging On was fun to watch because they looked to be having fun. Cracked me up when Mary busted the bubble from Flo's gum. Lastly my favorite performance was You Can't Hurry Love from The Ed Sullivan Show in Sept. of 66. I just like the way it was shot and put together. Starts out with a shot of Diana, with Diana coolly working her way over to Mary & Flo. Just thought it was very cool, especially given this was way before music videos became an everyday staple. What I loved most was the energy and spirit of it though. I've heard stories that Berry Gorgy frowned on them performing like that sometimes, well he must have been really mad at this one if true. Diana really got into it, and Mary and Flo were shaking more than what their mothers gave them.Yeah I thoroughly enjoyed this all-around. Some of it, especially the beginning are shot in black and white, but it progresses as it goes. The quality, while not great in spots, was actually pretty good given how long ago it was shot. The sound quality was surprising good in spots. I can't recommend this more for anyone wanting to go back down memory lane, or who want to know what all the hype was about. Growing up I've seen these three women (later with Cindy Birdsong who's here also by Dec. of 67) copied and imitated in many ways by many acts, but I now have visual proof that none did it better.

The footage is all old and mostly black and white. Some of the songs are repeated. I was glad to have something to watch with the Supremes anyway. Some of the videos are funny because the people are to unmoved and unsmiling. It's as if the people in the audience were told that Elvis was performing but when they got there it was this black Motown group and they were hating it!. I literally laughed at the audience. Probably worth buying just for that. There is also a video where the girls drive onto the beach with a 65 Mustang, which was a throwback to that era. I'd say if you can get this DVD cheap then go for it, as long as you dont expect modern picture and sound.

I bought this because I started wanting to get into The Temptations and finally these DVD makers are fianlly packing music DVD's to almost full capacity. I also bough it for the sound choices, acapella being one of them.The makers advertised the quality as "impeccable." They must have been talking about the sound which included CD quality stereo tracks. Not revolutionary, but decent. The video itself does not appear to be remastered and it it was, then it was done by peple who did not know what they were doing. It is not bad, but it is by no means DVD quality. I know for a fact that video in the 60's was S-VHS quality on a prefessional level. This is close to DVD quality. Why do you think that you see some clips from the early to mid 60's and it is crystal clear?The color video should have been cleaner, but it was not. Also the film clips should have been looking better than the video, but they must have been 3rd generation prints. It is easy to redo the music, but to get top quality video would have been the plus. I like what they did what the audio, but they should have gone all out with the video as well.The only other problem is that there are a lot better performances out there by them and to me you should put them all on disc. I personally would have gone after anything in color first, film second and black and white video last, unless one is the only footage. The sad part is that color video/TV was out during ALL of the 60's, but not adopted by all due to cost. I am sure that if they had to do it over again, they would have put it in color.It is ok to buy, but that video playing website has more to choose from, but the quality is not there.

very good dvds with the supremes in vintage shows

Great music and great classic footage

Great collection of gems some of which I hadn't seen before and some not seen for long time and hard to find. For those who like or love Motown this is quite essential

Brilliant footage of The Supremes all those years sgo. A must have.

excellent