169. The Marvelettes: “All The Love I’ve Got”
It’s not awful, but it’s highly nondescript. Helpfully, though, this record marks a sort of staging post for the Marvelettes: the end of a digressionary, dead-end period. 3
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168. The Marvelettes: “Playboy”
If the stellar, never-to-be-recaptured magic of their début single had been something of a quirk, a statistical oddity if not an outright fluke, then in many ways the Marvelettes’ story really begins right here. (6)
143. The Marvelettes: “I Want A Guy”
No, on the whole, it’s good. It is. It’s just not pants-wettingly good, and so it suffers by comparison to the original, which I love. Which is more my problem than the Marvelettes’, I know, but there we are. (6)
142. The Marvelettes: “Twistin’ Postman”
Ultimately, it’s not terrible, but the Marvelettes had come down from a whole different level to get here.
101. The Marvelettes: “So Long Baby”
Not a patch on the A-side, and Wanda’s incredibly high pitched falsetto vocals are actually painful to listen to in places.
100. The Marvelettes: “Please Mr Postman”
This is just about as good as any pop record that had ever been made up to that point, and while it would still be years before Motown approached anywhere near this level of quality on every release, it’s still an essential inclusion in any Motown best-of shortlist. In a word: marvellous. (10)
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