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.

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. Even though Dobbins spent a short time with ...

The knockout girl group song “Please Mr. Postman,” by the Marvelettes was released on August 21, 1961. Later in the year it went on to become the first Motown single to hit #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 ...

Ken Lay. Dennis Kozlowski. Franklin Raines. Rick Wagoner. Cliff Clavin. Like other massive enterprises that cooked their books, failed to understand customers’ changing habits, or compensated their ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gladys Horton, who co-founded the 1960s Motown group The Marvelettes and sang on hits including "Please Mr. Postman," has died in Los Angeles. She was 66. Her son, Vaughn Thornton, ...

Gladys Horton, a founding member of the pioneering Motown girl group the Marvelettes, who sang lead on their 1961 classic “Please Mr. Postman,” died January 26th in Sherman Oaks, California, from ...

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 ...

Wanda Young, one of the original Marvelettes on Motown’s Tamla label in the 1960s and later the group’s lead singer, has died. She was 78 and passed on Dec. 15 in Garden City, Michigan from ...

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 ...