ALBUM: Anthology (`1975)
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The Marvelettes were the first all female group at Motown to obtain a No. 1 record.
‘You gotta waitaminute waytaminute Wait Mr. Postmasman.”
They were pioneering but now seemingly lost in history.
I am going to do something, however small, to correct that. First off publishing this blog post.
And in this blog I’m going to name the names of the Marvelettes. Least I can do for such an amazing talent.
Here they are from: Wikipedia: They consisted of schoolmates Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson (now Schaffner), Georgeanna Tillman (later Gordon), Juanita Cowart (now Cowart Motley), and Georgia Dobbins, who was replaced by Wanda Young (now Rogers) prior to the group signing their first deal. They were the first major successful act of Motown Records after the Miracles and its first significantly successful girl group after the release of the 1961 number-one single, “Please Mr. Postman“, one of the first number-one singles recorded by an all-female vocal group and the first by a Motown recording act .
These early ‘girl-group’ and boy groups were super smooth at Motown.