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 ...

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 ...

The five-piece originally performed the cover on ITV special The Carpenters Tribute, but have recorded a studio version for the new movie. 'Please Mr Postman' was first released by The Marvelettes as ...

“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.

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 ...

Gladys Horton, the leader of Motown’s The Marvelettes who gave the label its first No. 1 hit with “Please Mr. Postman,” died Jan. 26 in a Sherman Oaks, Calif., nursing home from complications of a ...

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 ...

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.