'Please Mr. Postman:' From Marvelettes To Carpenters Cover

By | January 22, 2020

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'Please Mr. Postman' again and again and again. Source: discogs.com

"Please Mr. Postman" by the Marvelettes and later The Carpenters is one of the most successful pop or R&B compositions ever. This ode to snail mail frustration topped the Billboard pop chart twice, as performed by the two (very) different acts, and in its original version was also a #1 R&B hit. It also earned the fairly rare honor of being recorded and released by The Beatles

The Marvelettes' Original

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The Marvelous Marvelettes (cbsnews)

Some say it takes a village to raise a child. The same could be said of the 1961 #1 hit, “Please Mr. Postman.” The smash-hit by The Marvelettes evoked such a rabid response by people all over the world, two other bands capitalized on its unrelenting success. Despite the overwhelming success of “Please Mr. Postman, the provenance of the song started from an unusual place.

Before The Marvelettes became the wildly popular, sweet-sounding girl group, they were just five girls from a suburban high school in Detroit trying to make it. Here’s the story of the dulcet but sorrowful sounding “Please Mr. Postman.”