Performance
The Marvelettes
United States • 1960-01-01 – 1972-01-01
The Marvelettes is credited on 15 releases across 8 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1962–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
15
Pressings credited
8
Albums
7
Decades active
142
In collections
Biography
The Marvelettes were an American girl group formed in Inkster, Michigan in 1960, consisting of schoolmates Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson, Georgeanna Tillman, Juanita Cowart (now Cowart Motley), and Georgia Dobbins, who was replaced by Wanda Young prior to the group signing their first record deal. Achieving popularity in the early to mid-1960s, they were the first successful act of Motown Records after the Miracles and its first significantly successful female 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. The group struggled with problems of poor promotion from Motown, health issues and substance abuse, with Cowart the first to leave in 1963, followed by Tillman in 1965, and Horton in 1967. Nevertheless, they managed a comeback in 1966 with "Don't Mess with Bill". In 1969, the group ceased performing and disbanded the next year, following the release of The Return of the Marvelettes featuring only Young (under her married name, Wanda Rogers). That year, both Rogers and Katherine Anderson retired from the music business.
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Credited work
15 releases · 8 albums · active 1962–2024
- Performance · 16
Studios: Basscamp · Lobo Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- John Cena
- The Motorcity All-Stars
- The Beatles
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