Mary Wells - Ultimate Collection
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Artist: Mary WellsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-02-10
Music Label: Motown
Soundtracks:
- Bye Bye Baby
- I Don't Want To Take A Chance
- Strange Love
- The One Who Really Loves You
- You Beat Me To The Punch
- Old Love (Let's Try Again)
- Two Lovers
- Operator
- Laughing Boy
- Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right
- Goodbye And Good Luck
- Your Old Stand By
- What Love Has Joined Together
- You Lost The Sweetest Boy
- What's Easy For Two Is Hard For One
- My Guy
- Oh Little Boy (What Did You Do To Me)
- Once Upon A Time
- What's The Matter With You Baby
- Whisper You Love Me Boy
- I'll Be Available
- When I'm Gone
- Use Your Head
- Never, Never Leave Me
- Dear Lover
Music reviews of Ultimate Collection
Music Review: Another Important Artist Ignored By The R&R Hall of Fame
Rating: 5 Stars
A search in Music under the heading Ultimate Collection will garner you thousands of hits, and even searching in Album Title will result in quite a few, ranging from Benny Hill and George Formby to 10cc and The Who, and just about everyone in between. Even Motown uses Ultimate Collection on a number of their CDs, but the best of the lot where they are concerned is this series, each with 25 tracks and similar cover art by David Irvin, and involving Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Marvelettes, Martha (Reeves) & The Vandellas, Jr. Walker & The All Stars, and Gladys Knight & The Pips.
Mary Wells, in a span of eight years from 1961 to 1968, had 23 Billboard Pop Hot 100 hits for the Motown, 20th Century, Atco, and Jubilee labels, 17 of which also scored on the R&B charts. She also added another 4 to the R&B charts alone. Three of her hits were # 1 [one Hot 100 and three R&B], The One Who Really Loves You was the first Hot 100 Top Ten [# 8 in 1962] for Motown, and My Guy, written by Smokey Robinson, became their first Hot 100 # 1 in early 1964. Twelve of her hits singles were Top 40. Mary died tragically from throat cancer in 1992 at age 49.
Dusty Springfield, in a span of seven years from 1964 to 1970, had 18 Hot 100 hits for the Philips and Atlantic labels, and added one more 17 years later in 1987 with The Pet Shop Boys. That, in fact, was her highest charter, reaching # 2, and on her own her best was the # 4 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me from 1966. She never had a song make the R&B charts, and 11 of her hit singles made the Top 40. Dusty died tragically from breast cancer in 1999 at age 59.
These comparable career achievements and sad endings are marred by one salient fact: Dusty Springfield was inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame in 1999. Mary Wells has yet to be so honoured. What is wrong with this picture? With the precedent set by Dusty's induction, what possible justification can there be for Mary's continued exclusion?
Each volume in this series mentioned above presents the very best of these most important Motown artists, although in this one they do overlook some hits in favour of four tracks [4, 21, 22, 25] which were either failed singles or never released as such, and two that were uncharted flipsides [tracks 8 and 13]. Full details are contained in the complete discography of the contents which accompanies the four pages of liner notes written by David Ritz.
These six could have been replaced by the following: Ain't It The Truth [# 45 Hot 100 in 1964] and its flipside Stop Takin' Me For Granted [# 88 Hot 100 - Note that the R&B charts had been suspended for all of 1964]; He's A Lover [# 74 Hot 100 in 1965]; Me Without You [# 95 Hot 100 in 1965]; Can't You See (You're Losing Me) [the flip of Dear Lover and a # 94 Hot 100 on its own]; and The Doctor [# 22 R&B/# 65 Hot 100 in 1968]. But that does not detract from this wonderful volume.
As Mr Ritz says in his notes, "This music will not age ... Mary Wells will never die." Wake up and hear the music R&R Hall of Fame Foundation. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
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