Greatest Hits (Mary Wells album)

Mary Wells Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by Mary Wells
Released	April 15, 1964
Recorded	1960–1964
Genre	Soul
Label	Motown
Producer	Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, Mickey Stevenson
Mary Wells chronology
Recorded Live On Stage (1963) Mary Wells Greatest Hits (1964) Mary Wells Sings My Guy (1964)
Singles from Greatest Hits
"Your Old Standby" Released: April 24, 1963 "What's Easy for Two Is Hard for One/You Lost the Sweetest Boy" Released: August 30, 1963 "My Guy" Released: March 13, 1964

Mary Wells Greatest Hits is a greatest-hits compilation album released by Motown singer Mary Wells in 1964 on the Motown label. As the standout early star of Motown Records, Wells, thanks to producers such as Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson, rose to prominence as Motown's first crossover star for a brief period between 1961 and 1964 before she left the label that year for 20th Century Fox Records. This collection collected the best of Wells' hits with the label.

Track listing

Side one

1. "The One Who Really Loves You"
2. "You Beat Me to the Punch"
3. "Two Lovers"
4. "Your Old Standby"
5. "What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One"
6. "My Guy"

Side two

1. "Laughing Boy"
2. "What Love Has Joined Together"
3. "Oh Little Boy (What Did You Do to Me)"
4. "Old Love (Let's Try Again)"
5. "You Lost the Sweetest Boy"
6. "Bye Bye Baby"

Personnel

• Mary Wells - lead vocals
• Liz Lands - background vocals
• The Rayber Voices - background vocals
• The Love Tones - background vocals
• The Andantes - background vocals
• The Supremes - background vocals
• The Temptations - background vocals
• The Funk Brothers - instrumentation