A Son of the Rock

I heard on the radio at the weekend of the death of Wanda Young, latterly lead singer of the Motown female vocal group The Marvelettes.

The Marvelettes were Motown’s first successful female group with a US no 1 in 1961 with Please Mr Postman (a song which was in the UK mainly associated with The Beatles – they covered it on their second album – until The Carpenters had a no 2 hit with it in 1974.)

Young became the group’s lead singer in 1965. This was th efisrt single she sang lead on

The Marvelettes: I’ll Keep Holding On

Wanda LaFaye Young (Wanda Rogers;) 9/8/1943 – 15/12/21. So it goes.