What a day was yesterday!

First a surprise performance by Jennifer Hudson, just super, who won her Oscar for “Dreamgirls,” the sort based on story of the Supremes.

Then, cross town to the Cafe Carlyle where the real Supreme, Mary Wilson, opened a two week stint to a sold out room. And she even mentioned Jennifer Hudson.

Wilson is 75 years old, and will forever be of the original Supremes, the girl group that have the Beatles a run for their money from 1964-70. Mary had a lead singer’s voice but she relegated to being Diana Ross’s back up singer thanks to Berry Gordy’s infatuation with the latter.

It’s only been in recent years that Wilson has been able to shine on her own. Now all of her hard work, gigging around the world, singing pop and jazz and learning to be the lead, has paid off. Her opening show at the Carlyle was a resounding success.

First of all, she remains gorgeous and vital despite set backs in her personal life over the years. I’ve never known anyone who’s persevered the way Mary Wilson has. Nothing knocks her down for long. She picks right up and gets back to business.

Second, her voice has become deeper and more agile over the years. I think it took her a while to find that voice not, as she says, doing oohs and aahs, but singing the words. She’s not a drinker, but Mary’s voice sounds like a fine brandy. It’s not raspy. but textured. She is full of surprises as she takes on the American songbook old and new, from “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” to Norah Jones’s “I Don’t Know Why.” She makes Lena Horne’s “Stormy Weather” swing disarmingly.

Of course, there’s an irony when it comes to singing Supremes songs. She stopped a quarter of the way into “My World Is Empty Without You” as she forgot the first verse. The background parts are ingrained in her memory. But when she picked it up, and made a medley with “Fever,” there was a sensuousness that Diana Ross could not convey. She had the audience eating out of her hand. When she sings the “Dreamgirls” song, “I Am Changing,” you get chills as she dedicates it to the Supremes’ Florence Ballard. Mary nails it, a meta memory.

I think Mary Wilson’s run at Cafe Carlyle is going to be something people will talk about a for a long time. Her authenticity also sells the show. Here is a woman who’s been through it all and lived to sing about it. The honesty clicked with the audience in a big way. I heard a lot of the first nighter making plans to come back again next week. They will not be alone.

Miley Cyrus jettisoned her good girl Hannah Montana image several years ago when she got on her wrecking ball. Naked. Miley went through a period of Twerking that took her through a major pot phase, posing nude for Terry Richardson, and selling millions of records. The whole thing culminated in her free Dead Petz project. She was as far from being nice little girl pop singer as possible.

But then cooler heads prevailed. Miley did another 180, or a full 360, and released a country album rated PG called “Younger Now.” It was a bomb. Then, over the past Christmas holiday, she put out a new single. “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart,” with producer Mark Ronson. It was a minor hit but suggested that Miley, now married to Liam Hemsworth, was going to go MOR (Middle of the Road) for a kind of Reba career. It wasn’t a bad idea.

However: today Miley has announced a new single release for Friday called “She is Coming.” Her tongue is hanging out of her mouth, she’s released clips that signal she’s gone lascivious again including the one below that shows a peeled banana, dripping in syrup and sprinkles. Is it schizophrenia? Or commercially aware of her?

If the title of the new song is “She is Coming,” ya know, we get it. Will radio? Back in 1967, Sam & Dave’s “Hold on, I’m Coming” had to retitled “Hold On, I’m-a Coming” lest people get the wrong idea. (It was actually Isaac Hayes yelling to the band from the bathroom.)

Miley has to decide on an image for herself. Is she the new Dolly Parton or is she Sylvia Robinson singing “Pillow Talk”? Just a thought, but the former is still here 40 years later.

SHE IS COMING! Pre- Save NOW 💦 👅 🍌🍒https://t.co/1KkYDqZNsm pic.twitter.com/drwfmtSUJh

— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) May 27, 2019

For a long, long time, Sony’s Columbia Records was hit free. It was a very itchy, scratchy time. I wrote about new label prez Ron Perry at one point, wondering what the heck was going on. Sony’s Rob Stringer, who’d handpicked Perry, wasn’t so thrilled with me.

But when Perry signed Dominic Fike for $4 million, even I said it seemed like a great idea. Dominic Fike looked promising.

Well, now today, Columbia has the number 1 album with a new release from Tyler the Creator called “Igor.” They sold 172,000 copies, split pretty well between sales and streaming.

Meantime, Dominic Fike’s single, “3 Nights,” is a hit and — it’s really good. I can’t wait to hear his album.

Plus let’s not forget that Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” is the smash hit of the year, in two versions– his solo and the duet with Billy Ray Cyrus. When that Lil Nas X album comes, look out, kids! And the scandal press has really helped as Billboard wouldn’t put the blockbuster on their country chart. Then Wrangler jeans fans didn’t like a rapper promoting their product. The more everyone’s complained, Lil Nas X has just laughed and laughed all the way to the bank!

Columbia Records is back. And just in time for Bruce Springsteen’s “Western Heroes” on June 14th.