Wanda Young, best known as a member of Motown's popular and chart-topping The Marvelettes, has died at age 78. Meta Ventress, Young's daughter, told the New York Times that her mother died on Dec.
15 in Garden City, Mich. She told the outlet that the cause of death had to do with complications due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The artist and her fellow Marvelettes were teenagers when they recorded their enduring hit "Please Mr. Postman" for Motown Records boss Berry Gordy Jr.
in 1961, marking the label's first definitive No. 1 pop hit. Wanda Young of The Marvelettes has died. (James Kriegsmann/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) The all-female group was signed by Motown to its Tamla label earlier that year and included.
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