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Formed just before the 1960s, the Supremes were the most commercially-successful Motown band ever. Here are 10 of their best songs.

Lamont Dozier, part of arguably the most successful songwriting team in pop music history at Motown Records and beyond, has died. He was 81.

Martha Reeves got her final letter from Mary Wilson two weeks ago. She didn’t realize that’s what it would be. But Reeves now cherishes the note from her “dear angel friend” and fellow Motown star, who was home in Las Vegas, eager to get through the pandemic and back onto the road. Someday, they’d be together, Wilson vowed to Reeves, sharing stages again, just as they’d done for decades. Reeves and others in Motown’s tight-knit family were reeling Tuesday at news of Wilson’s unexpected death Monday evening in Henderson, Nevada, outside Las Vegas. The Clark County Coroner o...

Mary Wilson, Co-Founder of the Supremes, Dies at 76 Chris Morris, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Vocalist Mary Wilson, who co-founded the Supremes as a 15-year-old in a Detroit housing project and stayed with the fabled, hitmaking Motown Records trio until its dissolution in 1977,  died on Monday night at her home in Las Vegas. She was 76. Wilson’s longtime publicist, Jay Schwartz, reported that she died suddenly. The circumstances of her death were not immediately revealed. Funeral services will be private because of COVID, he said, but there will be a public memorial later this year. ...

THE SUPREMES: (Singing) My world is empty without you, babe. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of the Supreme voices who made this song, "My World," has died. Mary Wilson was a founding member of the Supremes, and she stayed with the group even after Diana Ross had left. NPR's Lauren Onkey, senior director of NPR Music, knew Mary Wilson and worked with her, and she is on the line with us now. Good morning, Lauren. LAUREN ONKEY, BYLINE: Good morning, Rachel. MARTIN: You actually interviewed Mary Wilson, I understand, when you worked in the public education program at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Tell ...