“Although they’re the hottest female rock’n’roll quartet in the nation with their Please Mr. Postman record, The Marvelettes can only work at weekends,” babbled Jet magazine in early December 1961.

A lot begins here. Motown Records should’ve scored its first #1 months earlier, with the Miracles’ pop masterpiece “Shop Around,” but Lawrence Welk and his accordion got in the way. But the Motown pop ...

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: August 21st, 1961, 55 years ago today ... a musical date worth writing home about. For that was the day the Motown label released “Please Mr. Postman.

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LOS ANGELES: Gladys Horton, lead singer of Motown girl group, the Marvelettes whose hits included “Please Mr Postman” — the Detroit label’s first No. 1 — has died at the age of 66, her son Vaughn ...

The Marvelettes were teenagers in 1961 when they recorded the song, which went on to become Motown's first No. 1 pop hit. By The Associated Press Wanda Young, a member of Motown’s chart-topping The ...

Gladys Horton and Georgia Dobbins, from Inkster, Michigan, couldn’t sing – or so they thought. Along with three classmates, they called themselves The Casinyets (“can’t sing yet”), and took their ...

When a record label’s female vocal groups include the Supremes and Martha and the Vandellas, it’s easy to see why the Marvelettes are often relegated to footnote status. But the Detroit group has a ...

Gladys Horton, lead singer of Motown girl group The Marvelettes whose hits included Please Mr Postman, has died aged 66. Horton died on Wednesday in a nursing home north of Los Angeles where she had ...

Katherine Anderson-Schaffner, a founding member of The Marvelettes, has died at age 79. A cause of death is unknown. The tragic news was confirmed by her daughter, Keisha Schaffner, on Wednesday (Sept ...

A lot begins here. Motown Records should’ve scored its first #1 months earlier, with the Miracles’ pop masterpiece “Shop Around,” but Lawrence Welk and his accordion got in the way. But the Motown pop ...