High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wanda Young (born 1944) is an American singer, famous for being the member and later lead singer of the popular Motown all-female singing group The Marvelettes.Wanda was born in 1944 and raised in the western Detroit suburb of Inkster, Michigan. Originally aspiring to be a nurse, Young's professional music career started after fellow Inkster High School classmate Gladys Horton asked her to fill in for a departing member of her group the Marvels, which featured Horton, Katherine Anderson, Juanita Cowart and Georgeanna Tillman. After a successful audition, Young joined the group and the quintet, which had auditioned for a deal with Motown earlier, returned with a song written by former Marvels member Georgia Dobbins titled "Please Mr. Postman". Impressed with the group's sound, they were immediately signed and had their name changed to The Marvelettes and after the song was remastered, the song was released and became Motown's first #1 Pop single in late 1961 - it also held the top slot for seven weeks on Billboard's R

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