Mary Wells (album) explained

Mary Wells
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Mary Wells
Cover:	Mary Wells (album).jpeg
Released:	1965
Recorded:	1964–1965
Genre:	Soul, R&B
Label:	20th Century Fox
Producer:	Andre Williams; Robert Bateman on "Ain't It the Truth"
Prev Title:	Mary Wells Sings My Guy
Prev Year:	1964
Next Title:	Love Songs to the Beatles
Next Year:	1966

Mary Wells is the self-titled sixth studio album released by Mary Wells. The album was her first album with 20th Century Fox, a year after she left her old label, Motown, the label that she had produced its first hits with. While this album was boosted by the top 40 success of the Motown-esque "Use Your Head", the album received little notice and its following singles including the top 50 hit, "Ain't It the Truth?" and "Stop Taking Me for Granted", which peaked at a dismal number 88 pop, performed poorer for an artist who a year ago had scored her first No. 1 hit with "My Guy". This and Love Songs to the Beatles were the only albums she released with 20th Century Fox.

Riley Hampton was the uncredited arranger, with Norman Schwartz responsible for cover design.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Why Don't You Let Yourself Go" (Rudy Clark)
2. "Everlovin' Boy" (Rudy Clark)
3. "He's a Lover" (Lee Porter, Ronald Miller)
4. "Stop Takin' Me For Granted" (Jennie Lee Lambert, Mickey Gentile)
5. "Use Your Head" (Barrett Strong, Chuck Barksdale, Richard Parker)
6. "We're Just Two of a Kind" (Van McCoy)

Side two

1. "My Mind's Made Up" (J. J. Jackson, Sidney Barnes)
2. "Never, Never Leave Me" (Jennie Lee Lambert, Mickey Gentile)
3. "Ain't It the Truth" (Lou Courtney a/k/a L. R. Peques)
4. "He's Good Enough for Me" (Bob Goodman)
5. "How Can I Forget Him" (Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Lou Courtney a/k/a L. R. Peques, Richard Gottehrer)
6. "I'm Learning"