The Marvelettes were true originals — Motown Record’s first act with a No. 1 record, “Please Mister Postman” in 1961. The quintet followed with five more hits the next year and 15 more in ...

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 ...

Wanda LaFaye Rogers, famously known as Wanda Young, co-lead singer of Motown group The Marvelettes, has died at age 78. No other details on her death have been publicly shared. Her passing was ...

Martha and the Vandellas and the Marvelettes had just as important ... This was a remarkable achievement. Over 60 years later, Motown's music is still beloved and listened to by individuals ...

By Richard Sandomir Wanda Young, one of the lead singers of the Marvelettes, the girl group whose 1961 song “Please Mr. Postman,” recorded when they were teenagers, was Motown’s first No. 1 ...

Sister songstresses Chloe and Halle Bailey delivered a show-stopping performance at the Motown 60: A Grammy Celebration event in 2019 by taking the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman" to new heights.

Young sang lead vocals on the chart-topping Motown hit "Please Mr. Postman" Wanda Young, the legendary singer from the Marvelettes ... with the group in the '60s when she replaced Georgia Dobbins ...

Gladys Horton, a founding member of the Marvelettes, one of Motown's first girl groups, died Wednesday night in a nursing home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. According to a statement from her son ...

Young and her Marvelettes groupmates were just teenagers when they recorded Motown’s first radio No. 1 pop hit, “Please Mr. Postman.” The 1961 release helped put Berry Gordy Jr.’s Motown ...

A new installation along the Detroit riverfront celebrates the Motown tours that helped put homegrown artists on the map and broke barriers amid the ‘60s fight for civil rights. “Motortown ...