The lost Supreme: the life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard

Preface: Flo and Me

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Founder and Soul Sister

1. Detroit Is Where It's At

2. Generosity and Betrayal

3. Always a Bridesmaid

4. Roughing It

5. "Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom, Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom, Ba-by, Ba-by"

6. In Pursuit of False Gods

7. Supremes at the Summit

8. Room at the Top

9. Struggle Among the Stars

10. The Corner of Hollywood and Woodward

11. Trouble at the Top

12. After the Fall

13. "I Now Pronounce You"

14. Dashed Hopes

15. Fleeced Again

16. Bleak House

17. Friend or Foe?

18. Paranoid, Isolated, and Homeless

19. Three into Two Won't Go

20. Down, Down, Down and Out

21. Inside the Mental Ward

22. To Err Is Human

23. The Lost Supreme

24. Flo Sums It Up

25. Where's the Rest of Me?

Afterword: The Dreamgirls Resurrections

Appendix 1. Florence Ballard, Primettes, and Supremes Discography

Appendix 2. Excerpts from Florence Ballard's Legal Case Against Motown Records et al.

Sources

Index