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 ...

Singer Katherine Anderson Schaffner was one of the teen voices behind Motown's first No. 1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman." A co-founder of Motown group the Marvelettes, Schaffner died Tuesday night just ...

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 ...

Young sang lead vocals on the chart-topping Motown hit "Please Mr. Postman" Wanda Young, the legendary singer from the Marvelettes, has died at 78. Young died on Dec. 15 from complications of chronic ...

Wanda Young, a singer with Motown's The Marvelettes who scored big with songs such as "Please Mr. Postman" and "Don't Mess With Bill," has died. She was 78. Young, an Inkster native, joined the ...

"The kids of today should defend themselves against the '70s." That was Eddie Vedder, singing on Mike Watt's 1995 song "Against The '70s." The problem, as Watt and Vedder saw it, was that the '90s ...