By Robb_K (66.81.197.192) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 09:22 pm:

My Guy
Honey Boy
You Lost The Sweetest Boy
The One Who Really Loves You
What Love Has Joined Together

By LadyMystique (216.37.228.72) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 10:31 pm:

1. Bye Bye Baby
2. My Guy
3. You Beat Me to the Punch
4. The One Who Really Love You
5. What's the Matter With You, Baby (w/Marvin Gaye)

By Ron Murphy (68.42.90.140) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 10:40 pm:

1. Bye Bye Baby
2. You Beat Me To The Puch
3. The One Who Really Loves You
4. You Lost The Sweetest Boy
5. Please Forgive Me

By boynextdoor (67.24.157.209) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 11:20 pm:

1. Two Lovers
2. My Guy
3. Dear Lover
4. You Beat Me To The Punch (This Time)
5. What Love Has Joined Together

By boynextdoor (67.24.157.209) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 11:22 pm:

I forgot to add I LOVE her "Love Songs To The Beatles Album". Not many do....wish I had that one on CD.

By kevin quinn (141.151.92.165) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 11:49 pm:

Top 5 Mary Wells:

-You Beat Me To The Punch
-Two Lovers
-The One Who Really Loves You
-What's Easy For Two Is So Hard For One
-Old Love

By Dinelle (67.35.238.230) on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 11:53 pm:

My Guy
You Beat Me To The Punch
Two Lovers
The One Who Really Loves You
What's The Matter With You Baby?-with Marvin Gaye

By Soul Sister (65.43.144.46) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 12:03 am:

1. Two Lovers
2. Dear Lover
3. Don't Mess With Bill
4. The One Who Really loves You
5. My Guy
6. You Beat Me To The Punch

* All duets with Marvin!
S.S.

By boynextdoor (67.24.157.209) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 12:08 am:

Did Mary do "Don't Mess With Bill?" I thought that was a Marvelettes tune.

By Soul Sister (65.43.144.46) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 01:33 am:

boynextdoor;
Maybe my mind fools me but I thought they both recorded it because of a story that Bill Upchurch (bassist for the Supremes in Gil Askeys orchestra) once told me that involved him & Mary. (?) That was along time ago so I could be mistaken.
S.S.

By Tony Russi (68.210.10.250) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 09:52 am:

No, Mary Wells never recorded "Don't Mess with Bill". 1)Two Lovers 2)Bye, Bye Baby 3)You Lost The Sweetest Boy 4)You Beat Me To The Punch 5)My Guy

By Don (68.75.176.129) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 10:17 am:

1. Laughing Boy
2. Bye, Bye Baby
3. The One Who Really Loves You
4. What Love Has Joined Us Together
5. My Guy

P.S.
I love everyone's favorite selections as well, you all have good taste of choices.

Don

By TRI-PHI (68.5.143.49) on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 11:05 pm:

OLD LOVE
HONEY BOY
WHISPER YOU LOVE ME BOY
DEPEND ON ME
I WANT YOU AROUND (WITH SMOKEY)
STRANGE LOVE

By SPOOKEY (198.81.26.103) on Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 01:43 am:

1. PROVE IT
2. EVERYBODY NEEDS LOVE
3. HE'S THE ONE I LOVE
4. DOES HE LOVE ME
5. MY HEART IS LIKE A CLOCK

By john dixon (152.163.253.70) on Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 03:29 pm:

1. Whisper You Love Me Boy
2. You've lost the Sweetest Boy
3. You Beat Me to the Punch
4. Operator
5. The One Who Really Loves You

P.S. I really love "Use Your Head" and "Dear Lover" and they would have made my Top 5 if the thread title hadn't specified her Motown material.

By Everlovin Boy (169.139.180.100) on Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 04:11 pm:

1)Your Old Standby
2)How? When My Heart Belongs To You (on My Guy lp)
3)Two Lovers
4)My Guy
5)Stop Right Here (from Two Lovers lp)--written
by Miss Wells and Melvin Franklin of the Temps

By Tony Russi (68.210.10.153) on Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 04:49 pm:

Hey Everlovin Boy, when I told Mary how much I liked Stop Right Here she laughed and said she thought that was one of the worse things she ever did...I love it & Benny is wild on those drums.

By Randy Russi (169.139.180.100) on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 10:46 am:

Thank you, Tony!
I LOVE that cut off the TWO LOVERS album. Mary
really wails (Wells!!!) on it, and, yes, Papa
Zita is wild on the drums. That track rocks!!!
By the way, I chose my name from one of Mary's
post-Motown recordings. Somehow calling myself
"Laughing Boy" just didn't seem to fit.

By lennytone (66.241.87.19) on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 09:10 pm:

Your Old Standby
Laughing Boy
The One Who Really Loves You
My Guy
I Don't Want To Take A Chance

By nycmotowner (64.12.117.14) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 02:35 am:

Well, Well, Well-Weeeeellllll......

1. Whisper You Love Me Boy (great song, great Andantes harmonies!!).

The rest in no ranking order;

What's Easy For 2.....
You Lost The Sweetest Boy
When I'm Gone
Bye Bye Baby

(Throw in 10 out of 12 of the "Mary Wells Sings My Guy" cuts!!!!!!)

Tony

By STONEWALL (68.237.59.78) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 04:13 pm:

"Mary of WELLS" Favourite Songs:

01) "MY GUY" (really, what else?)

02) "Never, Never Leave Me"

03) "You Lost The Sweetest Boy" {back-up: D.R.S.}

04) "Use Your Head"

05) "What's Easy For Two Is So Hard For One"

06) "Dear Lover"

07) "Two Lovers"

08) "Everlovin' Boy"

09) "Old Love (Let's Try Again)"

10) "My World Is Empty Without U Babe"

favorite duet:

11) "What's The Matter With You, Baby {w/ MPG}

By TRI-PHI (68.5.143.49) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 05:57 pm:

I THINK THE TOPIC OF THE ROOM WAS MARY'S MOTOWN STUFF, BUT SINCE SOME PEOPLE ARE LISTING NON MOTOWN STUFF HERE WE GO

1.DEAR LOVER
2.THE DOCTOR
3.LOVE SHOOTING BANDIT
4.THESE ARMS
5.HE'S A LOVER
6.HE'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME
7.KEEPING MY MIND ON LOVE
8.YOU SET MY SOUL ON FIRE
9.WOMAN IN LOVE
10. TWO LOVERS HISTORY

By STONEWALL (68.237.93.170) on Saturday, April 10, 2004 - 01:46 am:

Tri-Phi, firstly -- and everyone else, too:

U are correct, this file was supposed to be for the WELLS portfolio at Motown. I noticed the same thing U did of a mixed bag so if U look at my choices above, I alternated my favorite MARY songs between Motown and non-Motown. Of course, many, many of Mary's post-Motown records would have been Top Ten hits if, in this case anyway, Bad Boy Berry & Co. didn't threaten virtually all of the radio stations with withholding of Motown product (D.R.S., Tempts, M.R.V., Tops, S.M.R., et al.) if they played MARY.

Most all of her songs post-Motown had that great, sexy, soulful sound to them in the inimitable MARY style. All of those songs were hits in the clubs and bars and most people -- no one on these boards -- knew that she left Motown.

In my comprehensive M.W. selections from her 4 record companies in the 1960s (whew!), I overlooked my actual all-time #1 MARY WELLS creation: "Gigolo" -- from the 1980s. I am so happy that I got to see her perform it many times, too!

By mike s (195.93.34.12) on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 08:16 am:

Anyone (Randy? Spookey?) know the story behind Strange Love. It bombed as a single, I think the only Motown release which didnt chart at all. I don't think it was pulled early either....It wasnt that great but I would have thought it would have sold enough to creep onto the chart as she was hot at the time