Mary, Scherrie & Susaye

Mary, Scherrie & Susaye
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1, 1976
Recorded1976
Studio
GenreSoul, disco
LabelMotown
ProducerBrian Holland, Edward Holland, Jr.
The Supremes chronology
High Energy
(1976)
Mary, Scherrie & Susaye
(1976)
Diana Ross & the Supremes: 20 Golden Greats
(1977)
Singles from Mary, Scherrie & Susaye
  1. "You're My Driving Wheel"
    Released: September 30, 1976
  2. "Let Yourself Go"
    Released: January 25, 1977
  3. "Love, I Never Knew You Could Feel So Good"
    Released: March 1977

Mary, Scherrie & Susaye is the twenty-ninth and final studio album by The Supremes, released in 1976 on the Motown label. It featured the final line-up for the Supremes, composed of original Supreme Mary Wilson and latter-day members Scherrie Payne and Susaye Greene. All three Supremes take leads on the album. The album was a mixture of disco dance tracks (Hi-NRG) and R&B ballads. Payne and Greene mostly took over the dance tracks while Wilson performed the ballads. The album was released in October 1976, nine months before the trio disbanded. This was the second reunion album between The Supremes and Brian Holland, produced on behalf of Holland-Dozier-Holland Productions.

The entire album was released for the first time on CD on May 17, 2011 on the three-disc set Let Yourself Go: The '70s Albums, Vol 2 – 1974–1977: The Final Sessions.

After making a noteworthy comeback with their previous lp, High Energy, one would have expected that this continued collaboration would have also put the trio back into the mainstream, where they had been absent from for years. Several events prevented this. First, there was turmoil amongst the three ladies over lead vocals on this new set. Second, and more important, the group's manager, also Mary Wilson's husband, had taken over control of their futures with no show business experience whatsoever. This resulted in missed opportunities and hard feelings of preferred treatment. Third, the group was turning audiences away with their slick disco set and attire, quickly performing the group's many hit records in rushed, ear-piercing medleys while concentrating on full versions of other material. Always a draw in Las Vegas, their last appearance at Caesar's Palace was cut short by audience members leaving during their show and savage critic reviews. As a final degradation, the group was jeered offstage at a packed Madison Square Garden when attempting to do this same type of show. All of these elements combined to convince Motown to basically pull the plug on the deteriorated trio. Months later in London they took their final bows.