“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.

Long before the Mavelletes, the Beatles or the Carpenters sang “Please Mr. Postman”, those three words played silently in the minds of lovers almost daily as they eagerly awaited a letter from their ...

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 ...

This year Radioinfo will take you back 50 years to the songs that were released in 1974. It was a mighty fine year for music. I had prepared a different song for this edition but after seeing A Kind ...

Georgia Dobbins, co-writer of Motown's first No. 1 hit "Please Mr. Postman" as part of The Marvelettes, died on Sept. 18 from cardiac arrest. She was 78. Dobbins' daughter Kimberly Ann Watts confirmed ...

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 ...

THE Marvelettes singer Wanda Young dies at 78, after a glittering career in Motown. The singer's death was confirmed on Thursday by her former labelmate Claudette Robinson of The Miracles. No cause of ...

"It's Here! It's on Capitol!! and It's ALL Beatles!!!" read an April 10, 1964 ad in Billboard that heralded the arrival of their sophomore studio effort, simply titled The Beatles' Second Album. As ...

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.