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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wanda Young, one of the original Marvelettes on Motown’s Tamla label in the 1960s and later the group’s lead singer, has died. She was 78 and passed on Dec. 15 in Garden City, Michigan from ...
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 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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