Mary Wells - Early Years: Complete Motown Releases 1960-62Mary Wells occupies a unique niche in pop music in that she was the first female artist on any of Motown's labels to have a hit record, and she remained as the vanguard in that regard until leaving the label in 1964, her hits during those years helping to define the Motown sound and style. Starting out as a budding songwriter and singer in Detroit, when she was 17 years old, she approached label founder Berry Gordy Jr. With a song she had written for

and bass-baritone David Neal have worked closely with Paterson

Australasia and the USA

maverick young musicians still strapping on guitars and heading out for a twangy trip on the reverb-ed highway of instrumental rock to play classics such as 'Walk Don't Run'

loneliness

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who originally recorded under his given name of Eddie Jones

and a couple standalone singles

This great-value 78-track 4-CD set comprises just about every recording which she released during the formative years of her career and which established her reputation

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Jamaican vocalist Ready Meahdy and French R&B queen K-Reen

this CD compiles all 18 tracks from the two versions and adds an additional seven cuts from the Crown vaults for a total of 25 blasts of early Rock/Blues/R&B

who was an important personality in the musical life of the late nineteenth century