Something most people don't know about Mary is that she was deaf in one ear........and still sounded amazing, when most singers today sound like shit even with auto tune
Mary Ester Wells was a poor girl who came from a section of Detroit's " Black Bottom" is what they called it. She ran up to Berry Gordy after a Sock Hop. Typical teenager of the time pony tale and bobbi socks with wide bottom scurt. She performed " Bye Bye Baby." She had written it and asked him to present it to Jackie Wilson. After she had gotten halfway thru the song he knew he had found his first female star!!!
Black Bottom was not a negative term . It referred to the soil of that area of Detroit when it was farmland. The neighborhood was called Paradise Valley also because of all the successful black businesses located there. Why say poor ? I have not seen any Vanderbilts or Rockefellers make it in the entertainment field. My family has been in Detroit area since 1919.
@@tedcarter8074 i think Black Bottom and Paradise Valley were 2 different neighbourhoods next to each other, paradise valley may have been a wealthy place, but Black Bottom wasnt.
Majestic magnificent Mary Wells performance show the soulful Diva one of the greatest ever, gone too soon Mary deserved better that she got back and clearly "Never, Never Leave Me" should have been a blockbuster #1 Hit
Since Mary was no longer with Motown (This song was on 20th Century fox records) She had no one at the company to promote her. Plus there was so much bad-blood between her and Berry Gordy, he probably did what he could to stifle her success with any other label. He was a real piece of Sh###.
Mary's first three singles for 20th Century had a eerily similar fate: starting out very strong jumping up the charts, but all mysteriously fizzling out around #55 or so. Many people say Gordy was responsible for that.
IT WAS MILD HIT IT HIT 35 I REMEMBER IT ON RADIO PLAYED IN MASS IN THE CAR RADIO. I WAS 3 CAUSE MY SISTER WAS BIG FAN OF SONG MY GUY. SO NEVER NEVER LEAVE ME STUCK IN MY HEAD AFTER. I REMEMBER HOW PREATY IT SOUND ON RADIO.
Just by viewing this performance one can clearly see how big a star Mary was and how much bigger that star should have ascended. This is such a poignant example of show business and what happens to those who had SUCCESS written all over them as Mary Well did.
That classy walk she does at 2:14 🥰 Never see that with today's singers... Being a kid in the '60s, I get very nostalgic when I hear great songs like this!😌
She sought of resembles Gladys. Both of them are very attractive women This woman had a shape that is just mesmerizing. The way she walks. The way she smiles and that voice which is so provocative. That feminine appeal which is so beguiling. That is just not in so many women of today. Makes one want to go back in time and meet this fascinating woman.No wonder they call her The Queen of early Motown.
@@monthervil When the way a song is sung, especially a love song How it is delivered, vocally. It has a Lofty, Atop-The-Clouds, Soaring feel. Makes Time stand still. Time itself, Stops. Only The Moment present exists.
Enchanting performance! Motown had so many talented artist back then. But after watching this video, how could we call her anything except the undisputed heavyweight champion of the label?
@@jstasur Radio didn't play Mary for some weird reason she appeared to be blackballed yet her output was superb to the end, any decline was not artistic, her artistry remained at a high level...
@@MrSoulSimon you are correct, Mary's post-Motown output superb, had radio played the incredible releases Mary would have been bigger than ever...strange how radio wouldn't play her, even "In & Out Of Love" years later looked like a huge comeback but again no Top 40 airplay...very sad and it finished her
She was played on Australian Radio. "Use Your Head" "Ain't it the Truth" "Dear Lover" and "The Doctor" all charted out here. All her albums for MGM, ATCO etc. were released and I bought every one of them. I never tire of playing them.
Anytime you can take most of a singer's songs and sing every word of their songs you love their songs and style # 1 female singer in your eyes Phyllis Hyman another and a few others but Mary first young Misse days
She looks Fabulous.. She just left Motown.. It's a shame she clashed with Berry Gordy and took bad advice and broke the Motown contract. Few people are aware of her physical handicaps she overcame and still sang beautifully.. When she was two years old she had meningitis, which left her deaf in one ear and partially blind.. I hope there is a special place in heaven for her, she had many obstacles… Smokey Robinson was writing songs especially suited for her that Berry Gordy took and gave to Diana Ross ( who he was sleeping with)..
Richard Beman Sorry Richard...you have got the wrong impression. Smokey was writing songs for her as the biggest artist the label had at the time (1962-64) until she decided to leave Motown, on the advice of her then husband/manager. It was only then that Motown and Berry took an interest in the Supremes. No way BG took songs from Mary and gave to the Sups.
mikeatturnpike Oh yes, Mary was aware of the fact the Supremes were being allocated better songs and less focus was being placed on Mary Wells… After all Berry Gordy was the father of Diana Ross's first child..Too late to have that one aborted..
Richard Beman Richard, what has Berry's child with Diana got to do with Mary Wells? She had left Motown before the Sups had their first major hit...and they worked with HDH not Smokey. And the child came many years after Mary left. Don't know how old you are, but those are the facts from the 60s.
I am in my 60's and my late father was a Detroit native familiar with the affair that started early in Diana's career with Berry Gordy.The "time frame was early" and yes, the child that was not aborted did come later. This "evolvement" interfered with Mary Wells career...
Richard Beman That's right, Holland-Dozier-Holland put the Supremes on the map with "Where did our love go" not Smokey who wrote Mary Wells biggest hits.
Una voz unica angelical y sin sucerosa hasta el momento. Adoro escucharte desde mis 13 años actualmente tengo 32 pero seguro estoy que en mis ultimos dias de vida te seguire escuchando. Sigue descansando en paz. Saludos desde monterrey mexico
Should have been a much bigger hit than it was. Thanks Motown execs for calling the djs and telling them not to play her records. You killed what could have been a beautiful career....again!
Elegant,polished pop song. Sad it didn't get any air play.I loved her seductive sweet voice. Motown had a lot of power back then and they groomed Mary into super stardom, so maybe some resentment for her leaving which is natural they fought against her success but we'll never really know. I do know if she would have stayed at Motown she would have had continued success. A great producer and a great voice together popping hit after hit is so rare.
+Anthony Barbary The insane thing is that they (Motown) warned everyone on the label about other labels trying to coax them into leaving Motown. Everybody obeyed the warning except Mary, tragically. I wish she would have stayed at that label too. And I never heard her voice on the classic Motown sound either which makes it even more painful. >.
Yes she did sabotage her career with Motown. Just look at this beautiful woman and voice. Motown was ready to take her to the highest but since she up and left the company the throne was open and Ms Diana Ross took it and the rest is history. Mary Wells is still by far the first Lady of Motown and I loved all her early stuff with the company. As a kid Mary Wells records and name rung loud in my neighborhood.
She needed money.berry gordy used mary wells money she earned for recording berry used that money she earned to make the supremes album. I would be pisses to using my money singing my heart out for the no hit hand clapping supremes
Despite poor video quality its very clear Mary did indeed have an exceptionally good and very nice voice. She was Motown's first female superstar. Subsequent record producers obviously failed completely in further cultivation of this exceptional talent - unlike Motown they didnt care.
In 1965 Dee Dee Warwick sang background vocals for Mary Wells. "Well, I had done demos for Tamla, which was Motown in New York. So, they were well-aware of me. And it just didn't work for me. You know, their sound, their rhythms, they were different from ours that we used on the East Coast. What was your first meeting with Berry Gordy like? Oh, very different; very, very different. As a matter of fact, I had met Berry when he was first writing, like I said, on Tamla Records, which I used to work a lot in the Brill Building in New York. And Tamla was right downstairs from where I used to work, upstairs with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. And I met him there at Tamla, and he wanted to sign me. And I went to lunch with him and with the manager I had, and they offered me five hundred dollars a week for the rest of my life. I said, "I have to go to the ladies' room." And I left, I went home (laughter). I mean I'm making like $250,000, $200,000 a year doing background. And he's going to offer me $500 a week? I didn't know what he was talking about. So, I left. So that stayed right there. - You had the opportunity to work with some of the Motown artists. Who were they? Well, I worked with, well, I worked with The Supremes and Martha and the Vandellas."
Comparable to what Dionne Warwick was doing with Bachrach and David, but in Mary's case her record label did have the connections and savvy to promote her work adequately. Her disastrous decision to leave Motown based on promises of a film career proved tragic. Berry Gordy Jr. did everything under the sun to get her to stay but she would not listen. She left behind her numerous fabulous tracks which went right on to the Supremes. Had she stayed at Motown she would have continued to enjoy hit after hit. Please note that Berry Gordy and Motown did absolutely nothing to harm her or her career after she left. In fact, Motown put together a collection of rare and unreleased recordings in response to fans dying to hear more of what she had done at Motown.
+2tonsolid No, she left because her husband and advisers gave her terrible advice to accept a contract from 20th Century records which would include a film career. She was young and inexperienced and did not realize that new label could not give her the material, production, promotion on consistent touring Motown did and that the film offer was just a common-on. Her career fell totally apart and never came together again. Berry and Smokey tried everything under the sun to get her to stay. When she left her best unreleased songs were rerecorded with the Supremes. Tragic.
And Mary Wells I love her that right 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘
The women back in the 60's had so much style and class.
Grand & dramatic soulful performance, nobody quite like Legendary Mary Wells and this is a live take
What a God-given voice. She was just incredible!
Glorious Mary Wells vocal is incredible, great clip of a legendary lady who could really sing and was gone too soon...awesome
she had class unlike no one other
Love me some Mary Wells. What a voice, what class and grace. R.I.P
Vocal even better than the record with some nice touches. Lovely voice.
My God what a voice! What a talent! What a song! Heavens got another singer for all to hear in heaven the late great Mrs Mary Wells!!
Her voice gives me chills up and down my arms! So amazing!
Something most people don't know about Mary is that she was deaf in one ear........and still sounded amazing, when most singers today sound like shit even with auto tune
Motown's best female artist. Dignified and soulful.
Mary Ester Wells was a poor girl who came from a section of Detroit's " Black Bottom" is what they called it. She ran up to Berry Gordy after a Sock Hop. Typical teenager of the time pony tale and bobbi socks with wide bottom scurt. She performed " Bye Bye Baby." She had written it and asked him to present it to Jackie Wilson. After she had gotten halfway thru the song he knew he had found his first female star!!!
Great story thanks for sharing ❤️
ANYONE HAVE MARY SINGING BYE BYE BABY THAT THEY CAN SHARE .
Black Bottom was not a negative term . It referred to the soil of that area of Detroit when it was farmland. The neighborhood was called Paradise Valley also because of all the successful black businesses located there. Why say poor ? I have not seen any Vanderbilts or Rockefellers make it in the entertainment field. My family has been in Detroit area since 1919.
@@tedcarter8074 Well expressed Ted.
@@tedcarter8074 i think Black Bottom and Paradise Valley were 2 different neighbourhoods next to each other, paradise valley may have been a wealthy place, but Black Bottom wasnt.
Shame she's not in the Hall of Fame of music.
For sure
Majestic magnificent Mary Wells performance show the soulful Diva one of the greatest ever, gone too soon Mary deserved better that she got back and clearly "Never, Never Leave Me" should have been a blockbuster #1 Hit
Mary is wearing the hell out of that dress!As only she can! She just has this mystique about her that is just so breathtaking!That walk!
Mary wells Had A Bueatiful Voice
Never Be Anyone like Her Period....
wow, vocal performance at it's finest best. Her vocal artistry is so exquisite.
Great song. I love how she sang it. How could this not have been a hit?
I loved this song to
Since Mary was no longer with Motown (This song was on 20th Century fox records) She had no one at the company to promote her. Plus there was so much bad-blood between her and Berry Gordy, he probably did what he could to stifle her success with any other label. He was a real piece of Sh###.
Mary's first three singles for 20th Century had a eerily similar fate: starting out very strong jumping up the charts, but all mysteriously fizzling out around #55 or so. Many people say Gordy was responsible for that.
Berry Gordy saw to it that Mary Wells was blacklisted for the rest of her life. Sick bastard.
IT WAS MILD HIT IT HIT 35 I REMEMBER IT ON RADIO PLAYED IN MASS IN THE CAR RADIO. I WAS 3 CAUSE MY SISTER WAS BIG FAN OF SONG MY GUY. SO NEVER NEVER LEAVE ME STUCK IN MY HEAD AFTER. I REMEMBER HOW PREATY IT SOUND ON RADIO.
I love her so damn much!
This came from a Century Fox 20th album. Great music. Great talent.
Love you sister Mary and all of your hits, R.I.P.
Not only her MOTOWN recordings were great. This track for 20th century records is fantastic as were her ATCO and Jubilee recordings..RIP MARY
Just by viewing this performance one can clearly see how big a star Mary was and how much bigger that star should have ascended. This is such a poignant example of show business and what happens to those who had SUCCESS written all over them as Mary Well did.
Lyrics of a lover's heart, longing for the one they love. Never never leave me.
Beautiful and talented and didn't take any mess from anyone . Never saw her looking better.
wow wow wow simply stunning & beautiful :)
Thankyou...class of her own.
One of my lifetime favorites!!! Early to mid 60s rocked. Soul filled!!!
She was wearing that dress ❤ and the walk Go Ms. Mary RIP Beautiful❤
This is right up there with “Anyone Who A Heart” Miss Wells is truly unsung and should have had a career with the like of Dionne, Gladys and Patti.
That classy walk she does at 2:14 🥰 Never see that with today's singers...
Being a kid in the '60s, I get very nostalgic when I hear great songs like this!😌
Her eyes, She's so expressive while singing this. Glamorous!!
My Guy has been my favorite song of all time since I was a kid. Sang it in a Motown show for 5 years!
R.I. P. Mary💚
She sought of resembles Gladys. Both of them are very attractive women This woman had a shape that is just mesmerizing. The way she walks. The way she smiles and that voice which is so provocative. That feminine appeal which is so beguiling. That is just not in so many women of today. Makes one want to go back in time and meet this fascinating woman.No wonder they call her The Queen of early Motown.
Just simply beautiful
🎼🎤👗👠👠these were the GREATEST COMMENTS ever❗🎥 MARY no doubt the💣💣💣💣💣💣💯💋
Love you Mary Wells till I die and beyond. My Queen love you always and for ever. Beautiful Woman
Absolute talent, poise, glamour and beauty.
So so beautiful !
She was superb
Work that diaphram, Mary!! Love the dress and her voice is incredible!!
She had a regal, elegant sound.
She was the early 1st who started that female "time stops" Love song sound.
Sunny Island what do you mean by this?
@@monthervil
When the way a song is sung,
especially a love song
How it is delivered, vocally.
It has a Lofty, Atop-The-Clouds, Soaring feel.
Makes Time stand still.
Time itself, Stops.
Only The Moment present exists.
Great performance by one that MOTOWN still refuses to acknowledge better than Diana
Far better than nasaly Diana
Barry and Diana had their thing going on, thus their daughter. Flo was much the better singer too.
Tenkyuo evert h ing for yuo
CLASSIC MARY ! I LOVE THIS SONG. I HAD THIS IN MY COLLECTION !
Love it!!!
She's so beautiful ! Wow
ANISTAZI metal 94609 Indeed!!!
Enchanting performance! Motown had so many talented artist back then. But after watching this video, how could we call her anything except the undisputed heavyweight champion of the label?
Timothy Hughes
She'd left Motown by this time and career was declining rapidly.
Maybe, but her post-Motown output is earthier and gutsier than the "Pop-soul" of Motown. Her Jubilee sessions are superb.
@@jstasur Radio didn't play Mary for some weird reason she appeared to be blackballed yet her output was superb to the end, any decline was not artistic, her artistry remained at a high level...
@@MrSoulSimon you are correct, Mary's post-Motown output superb, had radio played the incredible releases Mary would have been bigger than ever...strange how radio wouldn't play her, even "In & Out Of Love" years later looked like a huge comeback but again no Top 40 airplay...very sad and it finished her
She was played on Australian Radio. "Use Your Head" "Ain't it the Truth" "Dear Lover" and "The Doctor" all charted out here. All her albums for MGM, ATCO etc. were released and I bought every one of them. I never tire of playing them.
Anytime you can take most of a singer's songs and sing every word of their songs you love their songs and style # 1 female singer in your eyes Phyllis Hyman another and a few others but Mary first young Misse days
THE GREAT MARY WELLS RIP
Nice
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She looks Fabulous.. She just left Motown.. It's a shame she clashed with Berry Gordy and took bad advice and broke the Motown contract. Few people are aware of her physical handicaps she overcame and still sang beautifully.. When she was two years old she had meningitis, which left her deaf in one ear and partially blind.. I hope there is a special place in heaven for her, she had many obstacles… Smokey Robinson was writing songs especially suited for her that Berry Gordy took and gave to Diana Ross ( who he was sleeping with)..
Richard Beman
Sorry Richard...you have got the wrong impression. Smokey was writing songs for her as the biggest artist the label had at the time (1962-64) until she decided to leave Motown, on the advice of her then husband/manager. It was only then that Motown and Berry took an interest in the Supremes. No way BG took songs from Mary and gave to the Sups.
mikeatturnpike Oh yes, Mary was aware of the fact the Supremes were being allocated better songs and less focus was being placed on Mary Wells… After all Berry Gordy was the father of Diana Ross's first child..Too late to have that one aborted..
Richard Beman Richard, what has Berry's child with Diana got to do with Mary Wells? She had left Motown before the Sups had their first major hit...and they worked with HDH not Smokey. And the child came many years after Mary left. Don't know how old you are, but those are the facts from the 60s.
I am in my 60's and my late father was a Detroit native familiar with the affair that started early in Diana's career with Berry Gordy.The "time frame was early" and yes, the child that was not aborted did come later.
This "evolvement" interfered with Mary Wells career...
Richard Beman That's right, Holland-Dozier-Holland put the Supremes on the map with "Where did our love go" not Smokey who wrote Mary Wells biggest hits.
SHE WAS A WONDERFUL WOMEM. A GREAT SINGER.
Beautiful voice Mary wells..
She has such a fresh powerful sound after all these years. Your one of the best Motown presented to the listening world❤❤❤
Una voz unica angelical y sin sucerosa hasta el momento.
Adoro escucharte desde mis 13 años actualmente tengo 32 pero seguro estoy que en mis ultimos dias de vida te seguire escuchando.
Sigue descansando en paz.
Saludos desde monterrey mexico
Love Mary Wells, great performance.
First time I hear this song. I will have to play one more time.
She could croon or belt it out as good as any of them. And, sooo beautiful.
Always was & always will be my favorite singer. She was so Smooth. Loved her songs❤. Takes me back to such a happy time
Should have been a much bigger hit than it was. Thanks Motown execs for calling the djs and telling them not to play her records. You killed what could have been a beautiful career....again!
omg! this is the queen of motown love it!!!
SoulGuy25 Sorry she had already left Motown by the time this song came out AND the Supremes were the Queens of Motown! This has to be 1965 early 1966.
Mary for sure Queen Of Motown and beyond...
She sure is!!!
Stunning!!!
Elegant,polished pop song. Sad it didn't get any air play.I loved her seductive sweet voice. Motown had a lot of power back then and they groomed Mary into super stardom, so maybe some resentment for her leaving which is natural they fought against her success but we'll never really know. I do know if she would have stayed at Motown she would have had continued success. A great producer and a great voice together popping hit after hit is so rare.
+Anthony Barbary The insane thing is that they (Motown) warned everyone on the label about other labels trying to coax them into leaving Motown. Everybody obeyed the warning except Mary, tragically. I wish she would have stayed at that label too. And I never heard her voice on the classic Motown sound either which makes it even more painful. >.
Yeah, she sabotaged herself.
Yes she did sabotage her career with Motown. Just look at this beautiful woman and voice. Motown was ready to take her to the highest but since she up and left the company the throne was open and Ms Diana Ross took it and the rest is history. Mary Wells is still by far the first Lady of Motown and I loved all her early stuff with the company. As a kid Mary Wells records and name rung loud in my neighborhood.
It was reported on Murray the K's radio show in New York that she had told him that the door was open for her to leave.
She needed money.berry gordy used mary wells money she earned for recording berry used that money she earned to make the supremes album. I would be pisses to using my money singing my heart out for the no hit hand clapping supremes
Back in the day, i loved me some Mary Wells! And still do!😅😊😂❤❤
Unsung brought me here 2022 ❤️
I never heard but I like it sounds good
Despite poor video quality its very clear Mary did indeed have an exceptionally good and very nice voice. She was Motown's first female superstar. Subsequent record producers obviously failed completely in further cultivation of this exceptional talent - unlike Motown they didnt care.
A perfect song for her silky style!
Sounds so much like the Warwick-Bacharach-David sound.
This is a masterpiece
Mary was so sosososososos underrated
Love this!!!
Who's Still listening🎧🎶 in 2021? This Guy 👦👈👈👈👈! My First Lady 👩 of Motown! Who else?
The grand star Miss Mary Wells.
In 1965 Dee Dee Warwick sang background vocals for Mary Wells.
"Well, I had done demos for Tamla, which was Motown in New York. So, they were well-aware of me. And it just didn't work for me. You know, their sound, their rhythms, they were different from ours that we used on the East Coast.
What was your first meeting with Berry Gordy like?
Oh, very different; very, very different. As a matter of fact, I had met Berry when he was first writing, like I said, on Tamla Records, which I used to work a lot in the Brill Building in New York. And Tamla was right downstairs from where I used to work, upstairs with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. And I met him there at Tamla, and he wanted to sign me. And I went to lunch with him and with the manager I had, and they offered me five hundred dollars a week for the rest of my life. I said, "I have to go to the ladies' room." And I left, I went home (laughter). I mean I'm making like $250,000, $200,000 a year doing background. And he's going to offer me $500 a week? I didn't know what he was talking about. So, I left. So that stayed right there.
- You had the opportunity to work with some of the Motown artists. Who were they?
Well, I worked with, well, I worked with The Supremes and Martha and the Vandellas."
She was so gifted
great rare vid!
Comparable to what Dionne Warwick was doing with Bachrach and David, but in Mary's case her record label did have the connections and savvy to promote her work adequately. Her disastrous decision to leave Motown based on promises of a film career proved tragic. Berry Gordy Jr. did everything under the sun to get her to stay but she would not listen. She left behind her numerous fabulous tracks which went right on to the Supremes. Had she stayed at Motown she would have continued to enjoy hit after hit. Please note that Berry Gordy and Motown did absolutely nothing to harm her or her career after she left. In fact, Motown put together a collection of rare and unreleased recordings in response to fans dying to hear more of what she had done at Motown.
+2tonsolid No, she left because her husband and advisers gave her terrible advice to accept a contract from 20th Century records which would include a film career. She was young and inexperienced and did not realize that new label could not give her the material, production, promotion on consistent touring Motown did and that the film offer was just a common-on. Her career fell totally apart and never came together again. Berry and Smokey tried everything under the sun to get her to stay. When she left her best unreleased songs were rerecorded with the Supremes. Tragic.
Wayne Brasler I understand she also started to get Bigheaded.
It had to do with MONEY, She was Motown's #1 artist at the time
Absolutely is twas about money. Wayne is right .
Brenda Holloway got most of Mary's recordings.
The Supremes only did Whisper You Love Me Boy and Honey Boy.
Great Song By The Great Mary Wells! God Bless You Always My Dear Friends! Jesus Loves You My Dear Friends! John 3:16
And Mary Wells I love her that right 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘
A true late talent still not in the hall of fame.
Wow that lady had gift from god! She had a great voice!
Ray Carter
She won't say "Never, Never, Leave Me", ( But We Get the Message). Good song.
A production similar to the Royalettes'...
Mary looking and sounding great!
She was so talented
beautiful song
Love this version along with Geraldine hunts version both beautiful ❤
Buenas noches espero que le este gustando todas canciones fue increible esos compositores y los interpretes Hey Hey Hey
Class is the word.A great kid gone too soon.
Totally!!!!
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I miss her
She was the greatest
That song is really real💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💞💞🌟💞🌟🌟🌟🌟
Great song
I still DJ this one I am 67
Ilove her style
Nobody can't never ever take your place
Nobody's cant never ever take her place
What a Woman ❤
Sounds like some early Gamble and Huff work