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"Please Mr. Postman" is a song written by Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland and Robert Bateman. It is the debut single by the Marvelettes for the Tamla ( Motown ) label, [ 3 ] notable as the first Motown song to reach the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
Please Mr. Postman is the 1961 studio debut album from Motown girl group The Marvelettes and the sixth album ever released by the company. The focal track is the number-one hit single, " Please Mr. Postman ".
Like "Postman", the song was retooled by other writers and upon its release in early 1962, reached number 7. A fourth hit, " Beechwood 4-5789 ", [ 3 ] co-written by Marvin Gaye , reached number 17. During 1962, two more albums would be issued by the band including Smash Hits of '62 (later issued as The Marvelettes Sing ) and Playboy .
"Feel It Still" is a song by American rock band Portugal. The Man.The song draws on the melody from the Marvelettes' 1961 hit "Please Mr. Postman"; [4] [5] written by the band along with producers John Hill and Asa Taccone, "Feel It Still" also includes a credit for Motown songwriter Brian Holland.
In later years, he was a frequent attendee at Motown reunion events, and was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in Dearborn, Michigan early in 2016. [4] He died later that year, aged 80, following a heart attack after attending an awards ceremony in Los Angeles, California .
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"The House of Blue Lights" is a boogie woogie-style popular song written by Don Raye and Freddie Slack. Published in 1946, it was first recorded by Slack with singer Ella Mae Morse and Raye. The song's intro includes a "hipster"-style spoken exchange: "Well, whatcha say, baby? You look ready as Mr. Freddy this black.
Like their previous single, the vocals are led by original Marvelette Gladys Horton, and is partially based on the then-current Twist dance move. The song's subject is a sequel of the original "Postman" single and this time the narrator is finally happy that the postman has delivered a letter from the narrator's boyfriend.