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 ...

The Shirelles. The Marvelettes. The Shangri-Las. Half a century and more has passed since they flooded the airwaves in the 1950s and ’60s, but the voices of the “girl groups” are still with us. As ...

Singer Katherine Anderson Schaffner was one of the teen voices behind Motown's first No. 1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman." A co-founder of Motown group the Marvelettes, Schaffner died Tuesday night just ...

Born on January 6, 1944 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Katherine Elaine Anderson first began her career as a background singer for friends Gladys Horton and Georgia Dobbins for the 1961 Inkster High School ...

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, ...

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.

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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Young and her Marvelettes groupmates were just teenagers when they recorded Motown’s first radio No. 1 pop hit, “Please Mr. Postman.” The 1961 release helped put Berry Gordy Jr.’s Motown Records on ...

Motown has lost another legend. Wanda Young, one of the founding members of the 1960s group The Marvelettes, died two weeks before Christmas. Young and the group are responsible for helping make the ...

DETROIT - 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 Saturday that her mother ...