MARY WELLS | VINTAGE BLACK GLAMOURSinger Mary Wells (colorized edition). Original photo by James Kri
MARY WELLS | VINTAGE BLACK GLAMOURSinger Mary Wells (colorized edition). Original photo by James Kriegsmann, New York, 1965.The first Motown female artist to have a Top 40 pop single,Mary Wells helped to define the emerging sound of music label in the early 1960′s. Her trademark single, My Guy (Youtube), reached number 1 on the Cashbox R&B chart for seven weeks in 1964 and became the number 1 R&B single of the year. The song successfully crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100, where it eventually replaced Louis Armstrong’s “Hello, Dolly!” at number 1, remaining there for two weeks. The song became Wells’s second million-selling single. Black History Album, The Way We Were [Website | Tumblr | Pinterest | Facebook | Twitter ] -- source link
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