The Marvelettes
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Wanda Young
Mentioned In
- Wanda Young
- Portrait Of The Artist As A Consumer - NME (September 17, 1983)
- My Top Ten - BBC Radio One (1984)
- Headful Of Heroes - NME (September 16, 1989)
- Boxers Tour 1995 Pre-show Tracks
- Outside/Southpaw Grammar Tour 1995 Pre-show Tracks
- WANDA YOUNG, RIP - Morrissey Central (December 27, 2021)
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The Marvelettes were an American girl group in the Motown roster, active primarily in the 1960's. They are most notable for their 1961 smash hit "Please Mr. Postman" which set the precedent for later Motown girl groups and helped pave the way for Motown's later success. The group disbanded in 1970.
Line-Up Chronology Wanda Young Rogers (1961-1970) Katherine Anderson (1961-1970) Georgia Dobbins (1961) Wyanetta Cowart (1961-1963) Georgeanna Tillman (1961-1965) Gladys Horton (1961-1967) Anne Bogan (1967-1970)
In 1962 Supreme Florence Ballard temporarily toured with The Marvelettes to fill in for Wanda Young who was pregnant at the time.
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- https://www.discogs.com/artist/86097-The-Marvelettes
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marvelettes
- http://marvellousmotown.com/motown-artists/the-marvelettes
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1862740/
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The Marvelettes were an American girl group formed in 1960 in Inkster, Michigan, consisting of schoolmates Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson, Georgeanna Tillman, Juanita Cowart (now Cowart Motley), and Georgia Dobbins, who was replaced by Wanda Rogers prior to the group signing their first record deal. Achieving popularity in the early to mid-1960s, they were the first successful act of Motown Records after the Miracles and its first significantly successful female group after the release of the 1961 number-one single, "Please Mr. Postman", one of the first number-one singles recorded by an all-female vocal group and the first by a Motown recording act. They struggled with problems of poor promotion from Motown, health issues and substance abuse with Cowart the first to leave in 1963, followed by Georgeanna Tillman in 1965, and Gladys Horton in 1967. Nevertheless, they managed a comeback in 1966 with "Don't Mess with Bill". In 1969, the group ceased performing and disbanded the next year, following the release of The Return of the Marvelettes featuring only Young (under her married name, Wanda Rogers). That year, both Rogers and Katherine Anderson left the music business.