Marvelettes - Ultimate Collection
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Artist: MarvelettesEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-02-10
Music Label: Motown
Soundtracks:
- Please, Mr. Postman
- Playboy
- So Long Baby
- Beechwood 4-5789
- Someday, Someway
- Strange I Know
- Too Strong To Be Strung Along
- Twistin' Postman
- Locking Up My Heart
- Forever
- My Daddy Knows Best
- As Long As I Know He's Mine
- He's A Good Guy (Yes He Is)
- You're My Remedy
- Too Many Fish In The Sea
- I'll Keep Holding On
- Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead
- Don't Mess With Bill
- You're The One
- My Baby Must Be A Magician
- The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
- Destination: Anywhere
- Here I Am Baby
- When You're Young And In Love
- That's How Heartaches Are Made
Free Music Notes for Ultimate Collection
Free Music Review: THIS TRUELY IS -- "THE ULTIMATE MARVELETTES" and is-- SIMPLY - THE - BEST ! ! !
Hit: 5 Stars
This "Ulitmate collection" of the Marveletts is overall the best HITS collection of them all. You get the hits nicely presented, in a pretty much complete, yet compact package. Here is an overveiw of whats here:
1. All original, re-mastered recordings, on this one disc, 25 track c.d.
2. The Marvelettes had 23 songs make the pop chart, 22 of them are here, plus 3 b-sides. The only song not here is "I'm gonna hold on as long as I can" which only went to #76 in 1969. The three b-sides are: "So long baby" > "Someday, someway" > "Too strong to be strung along".
3. The ten pages of liner notes contain several pictures, and much information about their careers, (all inside pages are done completely in black and white)
4. The track listing includes the year the song charted, and the chart position of both the Rhythm and Blues AND Pop charts. Plus listed is the album the song had originally been released on.
THE MARVELETTES - Remembered as being the defining sound of Motowns breakthrough female vocal group. Their first release "Please Mr. Postman" went to #1 in 1961, and for rest of the 60's decade they had a song on the charts every year through 1969. "Postman" was the first #1 pop hit for "Motown Records" in the days when Motown was useing a brilliant race neutralizing slogan calling itself, "The sound of young America".
Georgia Dobbins was the original lead singer when the group was calling themselves the "Casinyets" as in "can't sing yet". But her father wouldn't let her perform in night clubs so she had to leave the group. But a neighbor of Dobbins named William Garrett had given her a song he wrote, and said she could re-write it so the group could use it, if he also received some writting credit for it. That song was the classic, "Please Mr. Postman",that Motown released on their Tamla label, with Gladys Horton lead singer. Horton born in Inkster, Mich (a suburb of Detroit) in 1945, and raised by foster parents, was a co-founder of the group and helped pioneere the whole girl group concept. When Georgia Dobbins had to leave, Gladys Horton reluctantly became the lead singer. Horton stayed the lead for four years. Then Wanda Young became the lead and Gladys Horton stayed in the group another two years, then left to have her first child. Gladys Horton, Wanda Young, Katherine Anderson, Georgeanna Tillman, Juanita Cowart, and Anne Bogan were all members of the Marvelettes at some point. Even though the group disbanded in 1969, four more singles were released through 1971, though none of those four charted. Their top forty pop hits are:
1. "PLease Mr. postman" 1961.
2. "Twistin' postman" 1962
3. "Playboy" 1962.
4. "Beachwood 45789" 1962.
5. "To many fish in the sea" 1964.
6. "I'll keep holding on" 1965.
7. "Don't mess with Bill" 1966.
8. "The hunter gets captured by the game" 1967.
9. "When your young and in love" 1967.
10. "My baby must be a magician" 1967.
Motown sold the "Marvelettes" name to the controversial promoter, Larry Marshak who assinged it to an unrelated group that sang the Marvelettes songs.
Glayds Horton spent the last several decades of her life in an attempt to get the groups name back, with no success. In later years, to perform Gladys had to bill herself as "Gladys Horton of the Marvelettes". Her situation help spark a drive for legistation that would reform trademark laws as they pertain to performing groups.
Gladys Horton passed away January 26, 2011, in a nursing home in California, she was 65. Gladys was still performing until she had a stroke a year before.
THE MARVELETTES were Motowns first successful female group:
They had 21 songs on the R&B chart, all of which made the top forty, 11 of those were in the top ten.
They had 23 songs on the pop chart, 10 made the top forty, 3 made the top ten.
One song made #1 on both charts, -- their signature song, "Please Mr. Postman".
After all this, it's difficult to understand why they have not yet been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This was a pioneering group that helped open a door, and left for us a music legacy.
Doesn't it make ya smile inside when you hear -- WAIT! OH YES, WAIT A MINUTE MR. POSTMAN, sung with that testifying voice, as only Glayds Horton could.
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