The Marvelettes -"Please Mr. Postman"

[Verisimilitude]

Motown's very first #1 pop hit in 1961. Also covered by the Beatles, the Carpenters (who took their version to #1), and the Supremes. A timeless record all in all.

[bigbluenote]

A classic! Still fun to listen to.

[Deleted]

Classic. Excellent song.

[Soulsista]

Absolute classic.

[HolidayGuy]

A pre-Supremes girl group that helped put Motown on the map.

Classic indeed.

[WotUNeed]

Great record. Add me to the list of folks who consider it a classic.

[Dammn Baby]

Amazing.

Deliver de letter de sooner de better is kind of iconic, tbh.

[Janhova's Witness]

Legendary. It literally transports you to a different time yet still sounds like something you can listen to today.

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Georgia Dobbins, who co-wrote this, passed away last week at 78. She was originally a member of The Marvelettes but left the group before the song was recorded.

[disman00911]

Another classic Motown/oldies song.  I once heard this as bumper music during a segment on the morning local news when I was younger.

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#410 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

You Know What It Is: The catchiest song ever written about pestering a federal employee, with handclaps and harmonies weaponized to essentially intimidate a postal worker into producing a letter from the group’s intended — or else.

Coming Around Again: “Please Mr. Postman“ is one of the rare songs to top the Hot 100 twice, with The Carpenters’ less-zippy cover version following the Marvelettes’ original to No. 1 in 1975.

Gimme More: Significantly more restrained but equally winning was the group’s 1966 hit “The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game,” penned and produced by the incomparable Smokey Robinson.