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 ...

This year Radioinfo will take you back 50 years to the songs that were released in 1974. It was a mighty fine year for music. I had prepared a different song for this edition but after seeing A Kind ...

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.

Few songs capture the innocence of young love quite like “Please Mr. Postman,” a sweet plea of young love that made chart history not once, but twice. It was no surprise that "Please Mr. Postman" ...

When a record label’s female vocal groups include the Supremes and Martha and the Vandellas, it’s easy to see why the Marvelettes are often relegated to footnote status. But the Detroit group has a ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few songs capture the innocence of young love quite like “Please Mr. Postman,” a sweet plea of young love that made chart history ...

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 ...