The Sunday Morning “Nobody-Asked-Me-To, But-Here-I-Go-Anyway Concert Review” – Mary Wilson of The Supremes...

(or, "Why I Will Never be A Professional Concert Reviewer…")

Editor's Note: Once again, this really should have been a "Saturday Morning" concert review, as we saw Ms. Wilson Friday night, but that cursed anorexic, chain-smoking chicken rules the roost here on Saturday mornings…

Ugh…

At any rate, we did indeed get to see another living legend Friday night, Mary Wilson – The Original "Dream Girl", one of the original Supremes, back in the day - with Diana Ross, and Florence Ballard.

Funny how it goes. Just across the street from last night’s show, we saw a live production of Dream Girls. Then we saw the movie when it rolled through town. It all comes full circle by seeing Ms. Wilson peform live.

Two words: Wow!

What a show! At a glowing 63 years old, this lady still hits every note, and a few more you weren’t even expecting!!

From cool cover tunes from artists like Joe Cocker, The Rolling Stones, Robert Palmer and more - not to mention just about ALL of The Supremes hits – “Love Child” “You Can’t Hurry Love” “Baby Love” “Stop In The Name Of Love” and on and on…she rocked the joint. Mrs. That Dan Guy even hit the dance floor, and not literally! You can't sit still for that stuff!!

Sure, you could argue that Diana Ross was the dominant voice of most of those songs. Well, we’ve seen Diana Ross live too…and Ms. Wilson is more than capable of doing the songs justice. She was there, for Pete's sake!!

On a side note, and to carry on this Dream Girls string - one of her back-up singers looked like Eddie Murphy, who played a James Brown-styled character in the movie version. Well, I thought it was interesting, anyway...

A great night out!!

Chow for now!