The most successful black performers of the 1960s, The Supremes, for a time rivaled even the Beatles in terms of red-hot commercial appeal, reeling off five number one singles in a row at one point. The Supremes were not an overnight success story, although it might have seemed that way when they began topping the charts with sure-fire regularity. The trio that would become famous as the Supremes -- Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard.