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Released
  
1966

Artist
  
Mary Wells

Producer
  
Carl Davis

The Two Sides of Mary Wells (1966)
  
Vintage Stock (1966)

Release date
  
1966

Label
  
Rhino Atlantic

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Genres
  
Soul music, Rhythm and blues, Pop music

Mary Wells albums
  
Servin' Up Some Soul, In and Out of Love, Recorded Live On Stage, Bye Bye Baby I Don't Wa, Two Lovers and Other Great Hits

The two sides of mary wells dear lover good lovin


The Two Sides of Mary Wells is the seventh studio album by soul singer Mary Wells, released on the Atco label in 1966. By now, Wells' career had drastically changed from just six years before when the then-teenage Wells first recorded songs for Motown. After being promised a movie deal with 20th Century Fox, Wells had left Motown for the label in 1965 only to find herself struggling to get radio airplay. Rumors were that Motown staff, particularly Berry Gordy, told radio deejays not to play Wells' music on the radio leading to a blacklisting of Wells' music. This album mixed traditional pop with more earthier and uptown soul songs. Wells released a modest hit with "Dear Lover", which hit the top ten of the R&B chart.

Contents

Side one

  1. "Satisfaction" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
  2. "Love Makes the World Go Round" (Deon Jackson)
  3. "In the Midnight Hour" (Steve Cropper, Wilson Pickett)
  4. "My World Is Empty Without You" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
  5. "Good Lovin'" (Arthur Resnick, Rudy Clark)
  6. "Dear Lover" (Carl Davis, Gerald Sims)

Side two

  1. "Where Am I Going" (Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields)
  2. "Shangri-La" (Carl Sigman, Matty Malneck, Robert Maxwell)
  3. "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)" (Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane)
  4. "The Shadow of Your Smile" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster)
  5. "The Boy from Ipanema" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel, Vinicius de Moraes)
  6. "Sunrise, Sunset" (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick)

Personnel

  • Bob Kidder - engineer
  • Sonny Sanders - arranger on Side one
  • Joe Mazzu - arranger on Side two
  • Gerald Sims - conductor
  • Songs

    1Satisfaction2:31
    2Love Makes The World Go Round2:56
    3In The Midnight Hour1:57

    References

    The Two Sides of Mary Wells Wikipedia