She then left the group for personal reasons and Wanda Young replaced her.
Georgia rewrote the song completely overnight, keeping only the title. Gladys and the others liked the title but, when Garrett performed it for them, it turned out to be a blues song – not exactly what they were looking for as a female vocal group. The group were looking through William Garrett’s portfolio of songs at Georgeanna Tillman’s place when they came across a song entitled Please Mr Postman. Georgia told Bateman that she had a friend who knew a composer and would find a suitable song and come back. Bateman was suitably impressed but wanted to hear a more original song. Robert Bateman and Brian Holland took the audition and the girls sang covers of The Shirelles’ I Met Him On A Sunday and The Chantels’ Maybe, among others. Singing Come To Me, written by Georgia Dobbins, the girls came fourth.Īccording to legend, however, one of their teachers, a Mrs Sharpley, persuaded the organisers to allow The Marvels to go to Motown as well. The first three prizes on offer were auditions for Berry Gordy’s new Motown record label. It was as The Marvels that they entered a talent show at Inkster High School in 1961. Originally called The Casinyets (from Can’t Sing Yets, because they didn’t think they could), they subsequently changed their name to The Marvels.
She later formed a group with Georgia Dobbins, Katherine Anderson, Georgeanna Tillman and Wyanetta (Juanita) Cowart. Not bad for a group with such humble beginnings.įounding member Gladys Horton was an orphan who spent time in various foster homes but sang regularly in her church choir in Inkster, Michigan. Not so.Īcts including The Beatles and The Carpenters covered their material, while it was The Marvelettes – not The Miracles or The Supremes – who provided Motown with its first No 1 single in America. Please remember it can take some time for Paypal or your card issuer to process and post the refund.With only one minor hit in the UK, 1967’s When You’re Young & In Love, which reached No 13 in the charts, and a somewhat chequered history in the US, the casual observer might be forgiven for thinking that The Marvelettes were a minor footnote in the histoty of the mighty Motown label. If approved, you’ll be automatically refunded on your original payment method. We will notify you once we’ve received and inspected your return, and let you know if the refund was approved or not. If your order has not arrived after 28 days we will discuss a replacement, credit or refund with you and arrange this without further delay. It is rare in our experience that items go missing entirely, but occasionally they are delayed by a few days. This will vary depending on your destination but typically Royal Mail requires that 28 days be allowed for delivery. Unless UK next day delivery is chosen, we will ask you to wait a reasonable amount of time for your parcel to arrive. We may only refund return postage, when approved, for the use of standard mail services. To be eligible for a return, your item must be in the same condition that you received it in its original packaging We cannot take responsibility for damage to insufficiently repackaged items, or items that have poorly used before being returned. The return address is included on the delivery label. You must take reasonable care to ensure that an item is repackaged so that it arrives back in the same condition it was despatched.
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