Mary Wells - Bye Bye Baby (Live, 1963) [HD video]

[txtootsie]

Mary Wells was certainly the heart and soul of Motown!

[washboardblues]

Is that Jameson conducting?

[kirko1954]

She wrote this song with Jackie Wilson in mind. (Can't you hear it?) She then took it to Berry Gordy who had co-written several of Jackie's hits. After she sang it for him, Gordy said that he was starting his own record label and wanted her to record it herself. The rest is history.

[iluvrachellef]

WOOOOOOOOOOW THE TEMPTS BEFORE THEY HAD A HIT....I LIVE FOR THIS KINDA STUFF YESYESYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bigghairybollocks]

This is pure Soul. Something that is missing from all the modern "pretty" voices out there

[strandwolf]

Easily, hands down, the apex of that which is YouTube.

[MissWhisper2Me]

I had NO IDEA that Miss Wells was so talented. I'm astonished by this clip...raw and sexy. The Tempts are smokin' too!!

[oceanbound222]

not a pretty voice, it sounds harsh and ugly

[PrinceOfSoulMusic]

@oceanbound222 you must be tone deaf.

[strandwolf]

@PrinceOfSoulMusic It would certainly seem that ocean has a hidebound concept of beauty.

[mello60ful]

@oceanbound222 Don;t let your lack of any talent make you so harsh on classic talent