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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The 2004 weepie comes to Broadway with songs by Ingrid Michaelson and a $5 box of tissues. By Jesse Green Romantic musicals are as personal as romance ...

Singer with the Marvelettes, whose single Please Mr Postman was Motown Records’ first No 1 The Marvelettes were never as successful or as famous as the Supremes, their Motown Records stablemates, but ...

The latest entry in the popular battle series took place in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 7. 22 hours ago Born on January 6, 1944 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Katherine Elaine Anderson first began her ...

Singer Katherine Anderson Schaffner, who helped Motown Records achieve its first No. 1 pop hit with her group the Marvelettes, died Tuesday night at Corewell Health Dearborn. She was 79. Schaffner, ...

Los Angeles - Gladys Horton, lead singer of Motown girl group the Marvelettes whose hits included Please Mr. Postman - the Detroit label's first no 1 - has died at the age of 66, her son said on ...

Gladys Horton and Georgia Dobbins, from Inkster, Michigan, couldn’t sing – or so they thought. Along with three classmates, they called themselves The Casinyets (“can’t sing yet”), and took their ...

Wanda Young, a member of Motown’s chart-topping The Marvelettes, has died in suburban Detroit. She was 78. Meta Ventress told The New York Times in a story published Dec. 25 that her mother died Dec.

Wanda Young, the legendary singer from the Marvelettes, has died at 78. Young died on Dec. 15 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, her daughter Meta Ventress told The New York ...

Young sang lead vocals on the chart-topping Motown hit "Please Mr. Postman" Wanda Young, the legendary singer from the Marvelettes, has died at 78. Young died on Dec. 15 from complications of chronic ...

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