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This is a full discography of albums and singles released by Motown singer Mary Wells during a 30-year career that spanned a repertoire of doo-wop, R&B, pop, soul, disco and dance. Throughout her career, she released a total of sixteen albums and twenty-seven singles that charted between 1960 and 1982.
Mary Wells Greatest Hits is a greatest-hits compilation album released by Motown singer Mary Wells in 1964 on the Motown label. As the standout early star of Motown Records, Wells, thanks to producers such as Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson, rose to prominence as Motown's first crossover star for a brief period between 1961 and 1964 before she left the label that year for 20th Century Fox Records.
"Fannie Mae" is a 1959 song, written and performed by the American blues and R&B singer, Buster Brown. [1] The track made it into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, and to number one on the US Billboard R&B chart in April 1960. [2] AllMusic's Vladimir Bogdanov called the song "one of the most undiluted blues records to ever make the Top 40." [3]
"Operator" is a Motown song recorded by vocalists Mary Wells and Brenda Holloway. The Wells version was the b-side to her top ten hit, " Two Lovers " [ 1 ] while Holloway's version was issued as a single in 1965.
Bye Bye Baby I Don't Want to Take a Chance is the debut album by Motown recording artist Mary Wells, released on Motown in 1961.The album didn't chart but yielded two hit singles for the teenaged Wells including "Bye Bye Baby", issued in late 1960 (which she had originally written as a demo for Jackie Wilson), and "I Don't Want to Take a Chance", a song written for her by Berry Gordy and ...
Released in September 1960, the song became an R&B hit reaching number eight on the Billboard R&B singles chart and crossed over to pop stations where it peaked at number forty-five. [2] It was significant as the first single released under one of the Motown subsidiaries nationally after the label's first singles were released through ...
Paul Evans (born March 5, 1938) [1] is an American rock and roll singer and songwriter, who was most prominent in the 1950s and 1960s.As a performer, he had hits with the songs "Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat" (his biggest hit, recorded with The Curls), reaching No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959), "Midnight Special" and "Happy-Go-Lucky Me".
Theme from A Summer Place" by Percy Faith was the number one song of 1960. Bobby Rydell had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. Brenda Lee had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. Connie Francis had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. The Everly Brothers had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 ...