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Fact #100387

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Short story:

During a Dick Clark Caravan Of Stars tour, The Crystals, Gene Pitney, The Shirelles, The Supremes, Brian Hyland, The Dixie Cups, Major Lance, The Rip Chords and others play in The Spring Fling at Jorgenson Auditorium, Connecticut, USA.

Full article:

Diana Ross [The Supremes] : It was funny. Mrs Edwards had to practically twist Dick Clark's arm to get him to take us on his tour, Dick Clark's Cavalcade of Stars.

Gene Pitney was starring, people like that. We were the 'and others'. I guess that was 1964. We started out opening the show 'cause no-one knew us. But Where Did Our Love Go broke while we were out there and, by the time we got back, we were closing the show.

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