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 ...

The Marvelettes were teenagers in 1961 when they recorded the song, which went on to become Motown's first No. 1 pop hit. By The Associated Press Wanda Young, a member of Motown’s chart-topping The ...

Young sang vocals on Marvelettes songs like "I'll Keep Holding On" and "Don't Mess With Bill." By Mitchell Peters Wanda Young, a member of the 1960s Motown group The Marvelettes, has died, Rolling ...

DETROIT (AP) — 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 ...

THE Marvelettes singer Wanda Young dies at 78, after a glittering career in Motown. The singer’s death was confirmed on Thursday by her former labelmate Claudette Robinson of The Miracles. Please ...

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 Wednesday at a ...

At “Motown the Musical,” written and authorized by Berry Gordy and now playing its final weeks in downtown Chicago, the legendary founder of Motown Records is painted as a big-hearted patriarch who ...

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 ...

Wanda Young, who found fame as the lead singer of the classic R&B group the Marvelettes, has died at the age of 78. “We are so saddened by the news of Wanda Young of the Marvelettes passing,” noted a ...

Wanda Young, co-lead singer of popular Motown group The Marvelettes, died Dec. 15. She was 78. Meta Ventress told The New York Times in a story published Saturday that her mother died Dec. 15 in ...

The Marvelettes singer Wanda Young, whose girl group helped lay the foundation for Motown Records’ monumental success during the 1960s, died earlier this month in Garden City, Michigan, according to ...