Mary Wells
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The Beatles, Mary Wells, Sounds Incorporated, Tommy Quickly: Apollo Theatre, Ardwick, Manchester
Live Review by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 22 October 1964
Beatles in Action ...
Mary Wells: A Beatle Number for Mary?
Interview by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 22 October 1964
WITH A Jackie Wilson album on her portable record player, Mary Wells was relaxing in her dressing room when we visited her. ...
Mary Wells: Teenage Chart-Topper With Motown Style
Retrospective by Bill Millar, The History of Rock, 1982
Mary Wells helped create the history that surrounds the Motown sound. She was their third chart-topper and the first to achieve international acclaim. But despite ...
Comment by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 28 November 1970
FOUR years ago, there were a lot of people who made a point of going into their local record shops and asking, can I hear ...
Mary Wells: a Tribute by Dave Godin
Obituary by Dave Godin, Blues & Soul, 25 August 1992
GIRL GODDESS OF R&B FANS... this title (long before political correctness had taken all the passion, fun and romance out of sexual desire), was the ...
A Great Visit To Hitsville U.S.A.
Interview by Dave Godin, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 4 September 1964
by DAVE GODIN as told to Norman Jopling ...
Mary Wells: Back On The Right Track
Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 19 June 1979
Showing every sign of being ready to get right back into the swing of things, we recently had the opportunity to rap with Ms. Mary ...
Mary Wells: Dear Lover - The Atco Sessions
Sleeve notes by David Nathan, revised, for Ichiban Soul Classics, Fall 1994
Mary Wells: The Soul Queen Who Quit Motown. Considered, for good reason, one of the top black female vocalists of the early to mid-'60s, ...
Mary Wells: Dear Lover, The Atco Sessions
Sleeve notes by David Nathan, liner notes, 1994
CONSIDERED, for good reason, one of the top black female vocalists of the early to mid-Sixties, the late Mary Wells' initial recordings for Motown Records ...
On Disc: Singles Reviewed By John E. Abbey
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 29 March 1970
RECORD OF THE FORTNIGHT ...
Mary Wells: Albany, Deptford, London
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 31 May 1984
MARY WELLS made one mistake in her career almost 20 years ago and has been paying for it ever since. Wells was Motown's first international ...
America Hits Back With Tamla Motown Attack
Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 20 March 1965
IN RETALIATION to the British craze sweeping the States, America launches its biggest-ever campaign to bring back the Yanks into the British charts in the ...
Motown: Will 'HITSVILLE U.S.A.' Hit Britain Now?
Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 13 June 1964
THEY SAY that there's not much chance for American hits here now. But nevertheless the multi-million dollar American label Tamla has scored its FIRST hit ...
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 29 November 1969
THE PERSONABLE Mr. Gaye is in top form on this album, which teams him up with Mary Wells, Kim Weston and Tammi Terrell. Marvin has ...
Mary Wells And Her Guy Still Making Hits
Profile and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 28 August 1972
IT WAS PAST five in the afternoon but Mary Wells was still fast asleep, recovering from the rigours of her whistle stop British tour and ...
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