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Mary Wells Songs

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Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 - July 26, 1992) was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s. 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." 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. She was one of Motown's first singing superstars.

Below is a list of Mary Wells songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Motown 1056
chart position: RandB #1 (7 weeks), US #1, UK #5
weeksinr&bchart: 20
written by: William Robinson
album: Mary Wells Sings My Guy
comments: [Motown Sound]
Mary Wells My Guy
1964 Motown
2 record label: Motown 1035
chart position: RandB #1 (4 weeks), US #7
weeksinr&bchart: 14
written by: William Robinson
album: Two Lovers and Other Great Hits
comments: [Motown Sound]
Mary Wells Two Lovers
1962 Motown
3 record label: Motown 1057
chart position: RandB #2 (1 week), US #17
weeksinr&bchart: 15
written by: Clarence Paul & William Stevenson
album: Together
comments: [Motown Sound]
Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells What's The Matter With You Baby
1964 Motown
4 record label: Motown 1057
chart position: RandB #3, US #19, UK #50
written by: Clarence Paul, Dave Hamilton & William Stevenson
album: Together
comments: [Motown Sound]
Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells Once Upon A Time
1964 Motown
5 record label: Motown 1003
chart position: RandB #8, US #45
weeksinr&bchart: 15
written by: Mary Wells
album: Bye, Bye Baby
comments: [Motown Sound]
Mary Wells Bye Bye Baby
1961 Motown
6 record label: Motown 1024
chart position: RandB #2, US #8
written by: William Robinson
album: The One Who Really Loves You
comments: [Motown Sound]
Mary Wells The One Who Really Loves You
1962 Motown
7 record label: Motown 1032
chart position: RandB #1, US #9
written by: William Robinson and Ronnie White
album: The One Who Really Loves You
comments: [Motown Sound]
Mary Wells You Beat Me To The Punch
1962 Motown
8 record label: Motown 1048
chart position: RandB #10, US #29
weeksinr&bchart: 9
written by: William Robinson
album: Mary Wells' Greatest Hits
comments: [Motown Sound]
Mary Wells What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One
1963 Motown
9 record label: Motown 1011
chart position: RandB #9, US #33
weeksinr&bchart: 8
written by: Wm. Stevens, and B. Gordy Jr.
album: Bye, Bye Baby, I Don't Want to Take a Chance
comments: [Motown Sound]
Mary Wells I Don't Want to Take a Chance
1961 Motown
10 record label: Tamla 1042
chart position: RandB #8, US #40
weeksinr&bchart: 7
written by: William Robinson
album: Mary Wells' Greatest Hits
comments: [Motown Sound]
Mary Wells Your Old Stand By
1963 Tamla
11 record label: 20th Century 555
chart position: RandB #13, US #34
written by: Barrett Strong, Wade Flemons & Charles Barksdale
album: Mary Wells
comments: [northern soul]
Mary Wells Use Your Head
1965 20th Century
12 record label: Atco 6392
chart position: RandB #6, US #51
written by: Gerald Sims & Carl Davis
album: The Two Sides Of Mary Wells
Mary Wells Dear Lover
1966 Atco
13 record label: Tamla Motown 820 (UK)
chart position: UK #14
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Motown Chartbusters Vol. 7
comments: [Motown Sound] (re-release)
Mary Wells My Guy
1972 Tamla Motown
14 record label: Motown 1039
chart position: RandB #6, US #15
written by: Smokey Robinson (as William
album: Two Lovers and Other Great Hits
comments: [Motown Sound]
Mary Wells Laughing Boy
1963 Motown
15 record label: 20th Century 544
chart position: RandB #6, US #45
written by: Louis R. Pegues
album: Mary Wells
Mary Wells Ain't It The Truth
1964 20th Century
16 record label: Motown 1048
chart position: RandB #10, US #22
written by: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland Jr.
album: Mary Wells' Greatest Hits
comments: [Motown Sound]
Mary Wells You Lost The Sweetest Boy
1963 Motown
17 record label: Epic 02664
chart position: RandB #69, US dance #13
written by: Fonce Mizell and Larry Mizell
album: In and out of Love
Mary Wells Gigolo
1982 Epic
18 record label: Stateside 415
chart position: RandB #15, US #54
written by: Mickey Gentile and Jenny Lee Lambert
album: Mary Wells
Mary Wells Never, Never Leave Me
1965 Stateside
19 record label: Jubilee 5621
chart position: RandB #22, US #65
written by: Mary Wells (as Mary Wells Womack) and Cecil Womack
album: Servin' Up Some Soul
Mary Wells The Doctor
1968 Jubilee
20 record label: 20th Century 590
chart position: Cashbox R&B #39, US #74
written by: Ronald Miller [Ronald Alonzo Miller] (as Ron Miller) and Lee Porter
album: Mary Wells
Mary Wells He's a Lover
1965 20th Century
21 record label: 20th Century 544
chart position: US #88
written by: Mickey Gentile and Jennie Lee Lambert
album: Mary Wells
Mary Wells Stop Taking Me For Granted
1964 20th Century
22 record label: 20th Century 606
chart position: US #95
written by: Sidney Barnes (as Sid Barnes) and J.J. Jackson (as J. J. Jackson)
Mary Wells Me Without You
1965 20th Century
23 record label: Atco 6392
chart position: US #94
written by: Barrett Strong and Nolan Strong
Mary Wells Can't You See (You're Losing Me)
1966 Atco
24 record label: Motown 1039
chart position: US #100
written by: Smokey Robinson and Berry Gordy
album: The One Who Really Loves You
comments: [Motown Sound]
Mary Wells Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right
1963 Motown
25 record label: Atco 6423
chart position: US #99
written by: Barrett Strong
Mary Wells Such a Sweet Thing
1966 Atco
26 record label: Stateside 415
chart position: US #107
written by: Rudy Clark
Mary Wells Why Don't You Let Yourself Go
1965 Stateside
27 record label: Jubilee 5684
chart position: RandB #35, US #115
written by: Mary Wells (as Mary Wells Womack) and Cecil Womack
Mary Wells Dig The Way I Feel
1970 Jubilee
28 record label: 20th Century Fox 590
chart position: Cashbox RandB #37
written by: C. Smith, R. Minor
comments: [northern soul]
Mary Wells I'm Learnin'
1965 20th Century Fox
29 record label: Jubilee 5718
chart position: RandB #38
written by: Mary Wells (as Mary Wells Womack) and Cecil Womack
Mary Wells Never Give a Man the World
1969 Jubilee
30 record label: Atco 6469
chart position: US #122
written by: Cecil Womack and Mary Wells
Mary Wells (Hey You) Set My Soul on Fire
1967 Atco
31 record label: Motown 1016
chart position: Cashbox RandB #43
written by: William Stevenson
album: The One Who Really Loves You
Mary Wells Strange Love
1961 Motown
32 record label: Jubilee 5639
chart position: Cashbox RandB #47
written by: Cecil Womack, Mary Womack
album: Servin' Up Some Soul
Mary Wells Don't Look Back
1968 Jubilee
33 record label: Reprise 1308
chart position: RandB #95
written by: Phillip Mitchell and Clayton Ivey
Mary Wells If You Can't Give Her Love (Give Her Up)
1974 Reprise
-- record label: Reprise 1308
written by: Vince Melamed
Mary Wells Cancel My Subscription
1974 Reprise
-- record label: Motown
album: Together
comments: [Motown Sound] [album cut]
Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells 'Deed I Do
1964 Motown




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