7” 45 Mary Wells You Beat Me To The Punch 1962 W/ Picture Sleeve N Mint Vinyl
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***** PLEASE NOTE THE PICTURES OF THE ARTISTS ARE NOT PART OF THE AUCTION WIN! ***** THIS AUCTION IS FOR THE RECORD AND PICTURE SLEEVE ONLY!!!
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Mary Wells
You Beat Me To The Punch / Old Love (Let's Try It Again)
Label: Motown – M-1032
Format:
Vinyle, 7", 45 RPM
Pays: US
Sortie: 17 July 1962
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Rhythm & Blues, Soul
Tracklist
A You Beat Me To The Punch
Backing Vocals – The Love-Tones
Producer – Smokey*
Written-By – R. White*, W. Robinson 2:46
B Old Love (Let's Try It Again)
Backing Vocals – The Love-Tones
Producer – Brian Holland
Written-By – Holland, Dozier, Gorman 2:45
Notes
Jobete (BMI) is the publisher for both sides.
On the matrix runout: Matrix number is etched, Nashville Matrix is stamped, and the initials ARP are stamped in a fancy script.
CONDITION:
The record looks unplayed. The sleeve has little shelf wear. (See pics).
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Shipped with USPS media mail.
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It comes with a new plastic sleeve and a brand new mailing box.
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BACKSTORY: By the fall of ’62, Motown Records was making progress. The three-year-old company had earned four Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100; “You Beat Me To The Punch” was to be the fifth. Moreover, it was the teenager’s second such success, and Motown’s first Number One on the R&B charts.
“It hadn’t taken Mary long to become a star,” wrote Berry Gordy in his autobiography, To Be Loved. “On stage, her attitude commanded attention. She wore long, glamorous gowns and stylish, trendy wigs – from black bouffants to blond ponytails. It looked like Mary would be that big female star I had always wanted.”
The songs and production chops of Smokey Robinson made it happen. “Mary had become my pet project,” he recalled in his memoir, Inside My Life. “I liked writing for her voice. Liked experimenting with her sound. In fact, I took my love for Harry Belafonte’s calypso and gave an island flavour bongo to ‘The One Who Really Loves You.’ It hit big.”
The same happened with “You Beat Me To The Punch,” which grabbed attention as one of three fast-rising Motown releases on the Billboard pop charts during the third week of September 1962. (The others: “Beechwood 4-5789” by the Marvelettes, “Do You Love Me” by the Contours.)
“You Beat Me To The Punch” was recorded at Hitsville U.S.A. in February that year, and released in July. Vocal accompaniment was credited to the Love-Tones, who comprised Carl Jones, Joe Marls and Stanford Bracely. Smokey followed it with another major hit, “Two Lovers,” which became Mary’s third consecutive smash on the pop charts. She was that big female star Mr. Gordy had always wanted.
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Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s. Along with the Supremes, the Miracles, the Temptations, and the Four Tops, Wells was said to have been part of the charge in black music onto radio stations and record shelves of mainstream America, “bridging the color lines in music at the time.”
With a string of hit singles composed mainly by Smokey Robinson, including “The One Who Really Loves You”“, "Two Lovers” (1962), the Grammy-nominated “You Beat Me to the Punch” (1962) and her signature hit, “My Guy” (1964), she became recognized as "The Queen of Motown" until her departure from the company in 1964, at the height of her popularity. She was one of Motown’s first singing superstars.
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***** PLEASE NOTE THE PICTURES OF THE ARTISTS ARE NOT PART OF THE AUCTION WIN! THIS AUCTION IS FOR THE RECORD AND PICTURE SLEEVE ONLY!!!**************************************************************************************
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