Frankie Gaye And Mary Wells - Once Upon A Time

This was the one time I teamed up Mary Wells with Marvin Gaye's brother Frankie, to recreate Marvin and Mary's hit, "Once Upon A Time", and watching this now, it's so hard to believe they both passed away. When we all first went to Los Angeles, in April 1989, to have a second public reunion there of all the California based former Motown artists, immediately following the one we'd just done in Detroit, Frankie came along. So I had the brilliant idea of teaming him up with Mary Wells for them to re-do "Once Upon A Time". Frankie seemed such an obvious and necessary addition to Motorcity. At the end of this video, I have included an amazing out-take where Mary forgets who Frankie was and calls him Marvin, because she said they could have been twins, both in appearance and vocally, and she should have known, if anyone did.