Mary Wells - Two Lovers My Guy

Love it when we’re treated to rare Live footage of the musical greats of the past….Mary had such smooth, beautiful vocals.

Being born in ‘68, I wasn’t aware of her original release until the early 80’s(1982) because I actually heard a cover of “My Guy” first done by the awesome, Sister Sledge. Then, it actually dawned on me that I heard this “My Guy”-tune somewhere before. After borrowing some books on Motown history, etc…(when we ACTUALLY had to go into a real library to research answers??)…I put two and two together and realized it was Mary Wells’ original that I had heard as a little kid from the radio and my Mom playing her 45rpm record of this very song.

AND!…it was just a couple more years into the future from that moment in ‘82…that I figured out just WHY “My Guy” had such a familiar flow I thoroughly enjoyed, and would enjoy for a lifetime….because it was written by a HUGE favorite musical artist I loved since I was around 4 or 5….the GREAT, Smokey Robinson!
It was just the year prior, in ‘81…that I had bought the 45 of Smokey’s,”Being With You”, a tiny white Teddy Bear and drafted up a school boy crush Valentines Day letter for one of the prettiest girls in my 8th grade class at Ilima Intermediate here in Hawai'i???
?. Being the shy, introvert loser I was…(and, kinda still am???????and, yet, ALWAYS the Hopeless Romantic)…I had, eventually, chickened out and left the teddy bear tucked into her school desk where it stuck out a little bit, along with the 45 record and the note.

The note, being nervous and just BURSTING with full blown anxious energy, had been rolled into a tight 4-5 inch….”thing”, that NOW….embarrassingly, resembled an amazing replica of one of Cheech and Chong’s signature spliff’s from one of their iconic film masterpieces we’ve all come to know, and love???

I did not know the Beatles loved her and Ness whoever found it is absolutely wonderful it’s live

The end of this song always fascinated me -- the way Mary Wells sings the repeated lyrics. "What is she saying?" I'd want to hear it again just to figure it out.