The Two Sides Of Mary Wells

 

I Can't No Satisfaction

The Two Sides Of Mary Wells

Arranger, Side 1 - Sonny Sanders

Arranger, Side 2 - Joe Mazzu

Conductor: Gerald Sims

Produced by Carl Davis

Recording Engineer: Bob Kidder

Cover Photo: Nick Samardge

Cover Design: Haig Adishian

ATCO 33-199

1966

From the back cover: The show business career of Mary Wells has been as spectacular as it has been successful. Her long list of best-selling reorders, staring with By, By, Baby (which she wrote and record when she was only 15) and including her most recent hit, Dear Lover, add up to the most consistent hit streak of any girl singer in recent years. Her Top Ten records encompass such smashes as I Don't Want To Take A Chance, Nobody Really Loves You, What's Easy For Two, Sweetest Boy, and two No. 1 records, My Guy and Two Lovers, both of which became hits in Europe as well as the U.S.A.

The great success Mary Wells has achieved on records has been matched by her in-person popularity.

She is one of the top attractions on the concert and night club circuit. The shows she performs in are usually guaranteed standing room only attendance. One the past few years she has been featured on innumerable TV shows including Dick Clark's W'here The Action Is," "Hullabaloo," the Loyd Thaxton Show, and many others.

Mary Wells' vocal talents first came to light when she attended Jefferson Junior High Scholl in Detroit, her home town, where she sang in the high school choir, After Graduation the went on to Northwestern High School (noted for its outstanding choir) where her singing was considered so outstanding that she baden the featured soloist with the choir during her first year there. This experience as a soloist helped Mary decide to follow a singing career. 

In her spare time Mary spent many hours writing songs. One day she took one of her songs to Tamla-Motown Records in Detroit. The record company executives like the song but didn't have any artist available to sing it. They asked Mary to recored it for them. She did; her record Bye-Bye, Baby became a hit, and the 15-year-old lass was on her way to show business history.

While Mary was still in high school she came through with another big record hit, I Don't Want To Take A Chance, which prompted her to postpone her studies and tour with the Motortown Revue. Her sparkling renditions of top favorites held to make the tour one of the most successful in rock and roll history. The tour was greeted by turn away crowds in Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and St. Louis. After the tour was over, Mary returned to school. She continued to be the hottest high school hitmaker in the country, with such best-sellers as Nobody Really Loves You, and You Beat Me To The Punch while still a Northwestern student.

After graduating from high school Mary concentrated on developing a night club act. Within a year she had become one of the nation's top club attractions. The style that had brought her fame and fortune with rock and roll material proved just as appealing why apples to ballads and favorite standards. Mary became a foveate performer with young adults as well as the teen set.

This album, "The Two Sides Of Mary Wells," displayed the versatile singer on a delightfully varied collection of songs, from tock to pop to show material and movie tunes. One side of the LP shows off the hard hitting style of Mary Wells on such rock has as Satisfaction, In The Midnight Hour and Good Lovin'; the other side features the warm side of Mars on The Shadow Of Your Smile, The Boy From Ipoanema, On A Clear Day and other tender ballads. It adds up to an exciting and delightful series of performances by the incompatible Mary Wells. – Bob Rolontz

Satisfaction

Love Makes The World Go Round

In The Midnight Hour

My World Is Empty Without You Babe

Good Lovin'

Dear Lover

Where Am I Going

Shangri-La

On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)

The Shadow Of Your Smile

The Boy From Ipanema 

Sunrise, Sunset