The answer, of course, is “D.” That “someone else” was The Marvelettes, the teenage Inkster girl group whose song “Please Mr. Postman” soared to the top of both the pop and R&B charts in late 1961.

That's 155 on The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 1: 59-61, and another 112 on its 4-CD continuum, Vol. 2: 1962. Together these bound, color-coded ledgers, each housing an actual Tamla/Motown 45, ...

There was never a doubt what show Mosaic Youth Theatre founder Rick Sperling would choose as his last one to present before retiring. It had to be “Now That I Can Dance: Motown 1962,” the bittersweet ...

If The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 2: 1962 (Hip-O Select) were a pile of the original 50-odd 7-inch singles it collects, it’d be an impossibly cool artifact. As it is, it’s a pretty neat idea—the ...

DETROIT - On Friday, May 11th 2012, Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit will wrap up its 20th Celebration Season with a revival of the hit musical production, Now That I Can Dance -- Motown 1962. The show ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — Before the Supremes or the Temptations had their first hit, the Marvelettes had Motown’s first #1 song. Who were these teenagers from Inkster who ...

Mary Wells Old Love (Let's Try It Again) - Single (Mono - First Version) The Complete Motown Singles, Volume 2: 1962 Motown The Jacksons Rock with You - Live from the 1981 U.S. Tour The Legacy of Funk ...

Undated -- On November ninth, 1953, Brian Epstein first saw The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. He soon became the band's manager. In 1962, Motown Records released "You've Really Got ...

In 1959, an aspiring songwriter and record producer named Berry Gordy Jr. borrowed $800 to start his own record label in Detroit. Good investment. Within a year, Motown had its first million-selling ...

The performers couldn't enter through the front door at most venues when the first Motown revue swung through the Deep South on tour. It was 1962, and busloads of Freedom Riders were still fresh in ...