“At age twenty-one, a mere five years after Motown had plucked her from obscurity, Wells had come to consider herself hard-done by the company that had lifted her from poverty to the top of the music world. Considering that her first song for Motown was a hit, and that in four years she had risen from number 41 to number 1 on the pop charts, it’s not surprising she felt this way. Mary saw herself not only as the Girl Who Beat the Beatles, but the Woman Who Made Motown a Success” (Peter Benjaminson, Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown’s First Superstar, 2012).
Mary Wells “My Guy”
Mary Wells “You Beat Me to the Punch”
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