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 ...

Wanda Young, co-lead singer of popular Motown group The Marvelettes, died Dec. 15. She was 78. Meta Ventress told The New York Times in a story published Saturday that her mother died Dec. 15 in ...

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.

On January 25, 1975, the duo’s remake of a song about a young girl waiting for a letter from her " boyfriend so far away" topped the charts. "Please Mr. Postman" became Karen and Richard Carpenter's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier in Tennessee and 24 other people have been charged in connection with the sale of heroin and other drugs. Media reports say Memphis police and ...

"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 ...

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