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Heat Wave is the second studio album released by American Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. Released in 1963 on Motown's Gordy imprint, intended to capitalize on the success of the title track, which rose to number four on the pop singles chart and number one on the R&B singles chart. The album was produced by Holland–Dozier–Holland and William "Mickey" Stevenson. This was the last album to feature original Vandella Annette Beard. The material is composed almost entirely of cover versions of songs that were popular at the time. These range from pop tunes like "Then He Kissed Me" and "My Boyfriend's Back" to mainstream standards such as "More" and "Danke Schoen." The folk song "If I Had a Hammer" is also included as the Peter, Paul, and Mary version was big at the time. The album cover was designed by Bernie Yeszin. It was the group's first album to chart the Billboard 200 peaking at a very low number 125, spending just five weeks on the chart. It was one of the first albums by a Motown female band to chart. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_Wa...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)