Mary Wells - post My Guy at motown

[robb_k]

Does anyone know who provided the backing vocals on Mary’s 20th Century output? Thanks.

Mary's earliest 20th Century Fox recordings were produced by Robert Bateman and Andere Williams in Detroit [[I believe recorded at United Sound), as well as some of the tracks [[and her vocals) recorded in New York. In Detroit, The Andantes were probably NOT used, despite most of the musicians being Motown musicians [[Funk Brothers + other part-time Motowners). I would guess the might have used the popular Detroit backups used by Golden World and Solid Hitbound producers [[Winston Sisters, Pat and Diane Lewis, Joyce Vincent). In New York, the producers likely used The most prolific NY backups like Cissy Houston, Margie Hendrix, The Cookies, The Warwick Sisters.

[mowest]

Mary's earliest 20th Century Fox recordings were produced by Robert Bateman and Andere Williams in Detroit [[I believe recorded at United Sound), as well as some of the tracks [[and her vocals) recorded in New York. In Detroit, The Andantes were probably NOT used, despite most of the musicians being Motown musicians [[Funk Brothers + other part-time Motowners). I would guess the might have used the popular Detroit backups used by Golden World and Solid Hitbound producers [[Winston Sisters, Pat and Diane Lewis, Joyce Vincent). In New York, the producers likely used The most prolific NY backups like Cissy Houston, Margie Hendrix, The Cookies, The Warwick Sisters.

Thank you, robb_k.