{"id":44607,"date":"2021-02-15T00:23:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=44607"},"modified":"2021-02-15T00:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:23:26","slug":"billy-salutes-supremes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/02\/15\/billy-salutes-supremes\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Salutes Supremes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite pop artists have been all-female groups from different eras \u2013 <strong><em>The Supremes<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>The Pointer Sisters<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>The Go-Go\u2019s <\/em><\/strong>and <strong><em>The Bangles<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; <em>The Supremes <\/em>hold a special place in my heart.&nbsp; While I have met every living <em>Supreme<\/em>, <strong>Mary Wilson <\/strong>made the biggest impression on me \u2013 mostly for her accomplishments in the face of huge obstacles.&nbsp; When I got the call that she had passed away at what I consider the young age of 76, a little part of me died.&nbsp; While it seemed unlikely that we\u2019d ever see <strong>Diana<\/strong>, <strong>Mary <\/strong>and <strong>Cindy <\/strong>reunite onstage, I always held out hope that someday they\u2019d be together.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZxbWsBMgJgY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be celebrating <strong>Mary Wilson <\/strong>on Tuesday\u2019s episode of <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong> with some amazing guests \u2013 close friends, colleagues, producers, and biographers will come together to pay tribute to Mary and <em>The Supremes<\/em>\u2019 legacy.&nbsp; On Thursday, <strong>Eric Roberts <\/strong>will look back on his remarkable career.&nbsp; And let me take a moment to toot my own horn \u2013 while I still can!&nbsp; Last week, we returned for season two, and I was curious how many people would tune in after a six-week hiatus.&nbsp; As of this writing, over four thousand of you watched me interview the magnificent <strong>Melissa Manchester<\/strong>.&nbsp; Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BillyMastersTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>YouTube<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BillyMastersTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>Billy Masters TV<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, or just go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\/TV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com\/TV<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite pop artists have been all-female groups from different eras \u2013 The Supremes, The Pointer Sisters, The Go-Go\u2019s and The Bangles.&nbsp; The Supremes hold a special place in my heart.&nbsp; While I have met every living Supreme, Mary Wilson made the biggest impression on me \u2013 mostly for her accomplishments in the face of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44608,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44607\/revisions\/44608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}