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Mary Wells

After Mary Wells Dared to Leave Motown, Did She Fall Off the Face of the Earth?
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After Mary Wells Dared to Leave Motown, Did She Fall Off the Face of the Earth?

By
Mark Reynolds
/ 3 January 2013

Motown’s Berry Gordy was devastated when Mary Wells, “The Girl Who Beat the Beatles”, left the label.

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/ 7 June 2009
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