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.

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

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 said Thursday. Motown ...

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 said on ...

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 ...