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 ...

“Although they’re the hottest female rock’n’roll quartet in the nation with their Please Mr. Postman record, The Marvelettes can only work at weekends,” babbled Jet magazine in early December 1961.

All right, all right, Mr. Postman really missed the 2013 holiday season, launching its Kickstarter campaign on Christmas Day. But hey, hopefully this means that the Insert Coin: New Challengers ...

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.

Gladys Horton, lead singer of Motown girl group The Marvelettes whose hits included Please Mr Postman, has died aged 66. Horton died on Wednesday in a nursing home north of Los Angeles where she had ...

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 ...