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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

In 1961, five 17-year-old girls from Inkster, Michigan, using the name The Marvels, auditioned for Motown Records’ Berry Gordy, Jr. and Smokey Robinson but were sent home with the request to come back ...

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 ...