63 years ago on 8/19/1961

[woodward]

Motown released what ultimately became their first #1 hit.

Please Mr. Postman.


Fabulous. Listen to it today to bring back memories.

[Graham Jarvis]

The Marvelettes "Please Mr Postman" they also issued with a "Picture Sleeve" and had two Tamla 54046 versions, one 2.20 mix H818 & 2.30 Mix H909.
[The H909 is a harder one to find, there is one on Ebay you have to look which one]

The Marvelettes was the first Motown's of the new 45's "Two Discs" instead of the "Lines 45's" [the other below the "Buttered Popcorn"Supremes Tamla 54045 Jul-61 Aug-1961]

Check out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Please_Mr._Postman

[motony]

still sounds as great today as it did the first time I heard it on the radio in Miami in 1961.

[heikki]

Hi!

Freddie Gorman: "Brian Holland and I had started to write songs together. I used to write songs at home and bring them down to Motown, where we had a piano, give them to Brian and he would do the music. When the girls, the Marvelettes, came to Motown from winning a talent contest, they were looking for songs. They had sent them out to get songs, and when they came back they had a lot of them by this gentleman William Garrett, and they showed them to Brian and Robert Bateman. So one particular day, when I went by there, Brian said 'we have this song called Postman, we need help with the lyrics.' They asked me to get involved, because I was a postman, so I did. For what I understand the song was William Garrett's idea. I don't know, how much of it was a song, when he brought it. So all of us never sat down and wrote together, only Brian and I did."

Best regards
Heikki

[Graham Jarvis]

Heikki, well done for this record "Please Mr Postman" as it made the "Marvelettes" huge on the back of such a great song!

Well done all!

[stingbeelee]

Is "Please Mr. Postman" the most important/significant Motown recording? I've read that when the record hit number one is when people started to notice Motown records; the record provided a significant jump start for Motown to bear down and write/produce more acts.

[thanxal]

Sixty-three years!!! Do we feel old yet? LOL!