Mary Wheeler

Mary was 67, when she passed away Sunday July 6, 2014 in St. Petersburg, USA Mary started out as Nate McCalla's Admin Assist when he had a small office at 1650 Broadway. He was impressed when he met her at a session that she happened to be attending and she took shorthand notes of an impromtu song the producer wanted to do. Mary eventually wound up running his office, but he only allowed her time to record/tour to keep her appeased. He really did not want to let her out of the office. Mary did only a few local gigs (and one in Canada) as a solo artist. Nate was handling The Tiffanies, and when Eula McNair quit abruptly - leaving Roberta Rivers and Mary Seymour Williams, nee Young, in a lurch, Mary stepped in (and became the lead singer). She then toured extensively with The Tiffanies (her first European tour was with them - for Carson Holmes) and The Crystals. She also worked in Florida for a short time as lead singer for a group called Deja Vu for a promoter named Tony Belmont. Crystals and Marvelettes were later incarnations.