The Marvelettes were an American singing girl group on the Tamla label. Motown’s first successful female vocal group, the Marvelettes are most notable for recording the company’s first #1 Pop hit, “Please Mr. Postman”, and for setting the precedent for later Motown girl groups such as Martha and the Vandellas and the Supremes. Motown gave the Marvels the star treatment. Gordy renamed the group the Marvelettes and had “Please Mr. Postman” re-written for them and released as their first single in the summer of 1961 on the Tamla imprint with Gladys Horton singing lead. The song took fourteen weeks to hit the #1 position on the Pop chart, a record for its time. The song also held at #1 on the Billboard R&B chart for seven consecutive weeks. It was the first of two million-selling gold certified 45’s for the group. An album also called Please Mr. Postman was rush released to capitalize on the girls initial success but neither it or subsequent four albums charted.