![]() She was one of Motown's first singing superstars. With a string of hit singles composed mainly by Smokey Robinson, including 'The One Who Really Loves You', 'Two Lovers' (1962), the Grammy-nominated 'You Beat Me to the Punch' (1962) and her signature hit, 'My Guy' (1964), she became recognized as 'The Queen of Motown' until her departure from the company in 1964, at the height of her popularity. Along with the Supremes, the Miracles, the Temptations, and the Four Tops, Wells was said to have been part of the charge in black music onto radio stations and record shelves of mainstream America, 'bridging the color lines in music at the time.' Mary Esther Wells (– July 26, 1992) was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s. The Miracles - You've Really Got A Hold On Me (2:59) 06. Barret Strong - Money (That's What I Want) (2:40) 02. Title: Motown Greatest Hits Released: 2019 Style: Soul, Funk, R&B RAR Size: 1.25 Gb Tracklist: CD 1 01. ![]() ![]() Her only album for Atco, The Two Sides of Mary Wells, was cut in 1966 and does indeed feature two sides of Mary Wells. Mary Wells will forever be known as a Motown artist, but after she left the label in 1964 she cut some very good singles for 20th Century and Atco. She came to the attention of Berry Gordy as a 17-year-old, hawking a song she'd written for Jackie Wilson that song, 'Bye Bye Baby,' became her first Motown hit in 1961. Overall, it is just not an LP of just one hit with hasty filler, nor is it a noisy dance album, it’s simply a nicely sequenced collection of well-crafted, well sung early Motown recordings.Mary Wells - Looking Back 1961-1964 Time and legions of other soul superstars have obscured the fact that for a brief moment, Mary Wells was Motown's biggest star. Mary’s vocal interplay with the Andantes makes this one of Motown’s first full listenable LP’s circa 1964. Side Two sees Mary in a MOR type setting with updated versions of “now” standards, “I Only Have Eyes For You”, “At Last”, “You Do Something To Me”, and notably “My Baby Just Cares For Me”. ![]() The closing track of Side One “He Holds His Own” is the version cut before the Supremes a year later, but Mary continues to captivate listeners with her husky smooth vocals backed by The Four Tops AND Supremes. Either one would have been the perfect follow-up single to “My Guy”. Mary Esther Wells ( July 26, 1992) was an American singer who defined the early sound of Motown Records in the early. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. The first two tracks of Side One “He’s The One I Love” and “Whisper You Love Me Boy” are among the finest tracks Mary cut at Motown. Listen free to Mary Wells Mary Wells Greatest Hits (I Feel For You, IM A Lady and more). Originally released as “My Guy” was topping the charts, this LP could have gone much further up the charts (peaking at #111 although her “Greatest Hits” LP out simultaneously hit #18) if Mary did not decide to leave Motown. ![]()
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