Wanda Young, a member of Motown's chart-topping The Marvelettes, has died in suburban Detroit at 78. In 1961, the group's “Please Mr. Postman” became Motown's first No. 1 pop hit.
DETROIT — Wanda Young, a member of Motown’s chart-topping The Marvelettes, has died in suburban Detroit. She was 78.in a story published Saturday that her mother died Dec. 15 in Garden City, Michigan, of complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Young and other members of the Marvelettes were teenagers when they recorded “Please Mr. Postman” for Berry Gordy Jr.’s Motown Records in 1961. The song became Motown’s first No. 1 pop hit. The all-female group was signed by Motown to its Tamla label earlier that year and included Georgeanna Tillman, Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson and Juanita Cowart,The teens were students at Inkster High School outside Detroit, and along with Georgia Dobbins, a graduate, were members of a singing group called The Casinyets. Young replaced Dobbins when Gordy signed the group.Songs like “Twistin’ Postman,” “Playboy” and “Too Many Fish In The Sea” followed “Please Mr. Postman.
“She didn’t wake up every day thinking of the Marvelettes, but she never lost that glamour,” Ventress added.After The Marvelettes disbanded in the early 1970s, Young recorded under another label.In addition to Ventress, Young is survived by children Robert Rogers III and Bobbae Rogers; seven grandchildren; a great-grandson; four sisters and four brothers.
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