LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gladys Horton, who co-founded the 1960s Motown group The Marvelettes and sang on hits including "Please Mr. Postman," has died in Los Angeles at age 66. Her son, Vaughn Thornton, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gladys Horton, who co-founded the 1960s Motown group The Marvelettes and sang on hits including "Please Mr. Postman," has died in Los Angeles. She was 66. Her son, Vaughn Thornton, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Katherine Anderson-Schaffner, a founding member of The Marvelettes, has died at age 79. A cause of death is unknown. The tragic news was confirmed by her daughter, Keisha Schaffner, on Wednesday (Sept ...

LOS ANGELES — Gladys Horton, a co-founder of the Marvelettes who helped put fledgling Motown Records on the musical map with its first No. 1 hit “Please Mr. Postman,” has died at age 66. Horton died ...

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Gladys Horton gave Motown Records its first No. 1 hit, as the lead voice of the Marvelettes on the 1961 classic “Please Mr. Postman.” She spent the last several decades of her life in a frustrating ...

The band were signed to Berry Gordy's Tamla label and had a US number one single with Please Mr Postman in 1961, released when Horton was just 15. Her son, Vaughn Thornton, said she died on Wednesday ...

Gladys Horton, co-founder of the Motown Records vocal group the Marvelettes, died Jan. 26 in Sherman Oaks, Calif. She was 66. Horton died in a nursing home where she was convalescing from a stroke, ...