Why, oh Why haven't the MARVELOUS MARVELLETS been inducted into the Hall of Fame?? I don't for the life of me l, can't understand -- what's the "Hold Up"???
The Marvelettes deserve to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as of 35 years ago. I'm also glad that their label mate Mary Wilson fought to get the Truth In Rock bill passed and that bill prevents fake and imposter groups from performing and the bill states that in order for them to perform they have to at least one original member or they have to perform as a Revue or Tribute. If they don't they surviving original members can sue the group, the promoters and venues for booking fake and imposter groups to perform. In 2012 Katherine Adnerson-Schaffner and The estate of Gladys Horton which is run by her son Vaughn who published his mom's memoirs last year. Kat hired 3 talented singers from Detroit to perform with her and they bill themselves as The Marvelettes featuring Original Member Katherine Anderson-Schaffner.
RIP Katherine, It's such a shame how underrated The Marvelettes are. their story is so tragic and i feel for Georgia she wrote them their first hit and didn't even get to enjoy the fruits of her labor
Usually, I don't agree when people say someone is underrated, but in this case, the Marvelettes were definitely not on more peoples' radar, and they delivered to Motown it's first #1 hit in 1961. Nobody else at Motown did that for another two years (Stevie Wonder). And their songs were REALLY good: "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" is a minor classic in Motown's catalogue. And a classic by itself: sophisticated and jazzy. They were GREAT!
Much respect to the Marvelettes. All those groups in the sixties had to tour too hard, too much, too fast -- and the travel and performing took its toll in many ways. That the music lives on is a tribute to their flexibility and endurance as well as talent, rehearsing & effort. These songs aren't "oldies" but CLASSICS. To turn on AM radio and hear a Marvelettes hit meant instant happiness.
I remember grooving to the Marvellettes word for word as a little girl, the youngest of five, hearing these songs played by my teen sisters in the 60s.
I moved to Las Vegas in about 2002. When I saw marquees with The Marvelettes, The Platters, and The Coasters, I almost exploded! All HUGE favorites of mine! But when I found that there were almost no original members, I just lost my enthusiasm to see them. Little Anthony and The Imperials were still together, and played Vegas now and then, sounding JUST like they did as teenagers. Ditto The Tokens. What a high! ! ! Gene Pitney, Neil Sedaka, Lesley Gore, Peggy March, Darlene Love... I loved living here. I didn't know much about The Marvelettes' story, and finding out about how it all went down, I'm glad I didn't go to any of the 'tribute' shows.
Thank u Mary Wilson ( RIP ) FOR going to congress about " promotion of the original singers" with u can't be a Marvelestt of a Supreme or a SHIRELL without the singers in the original group thx u RIP Mary Wilson u did. Bless all the original groups from the 60's and 70's.
I wasn’t born until the 70s but this is probably my fav Motown group besides the Jacksons and the temps.. awesome music. Don’t mess with bill and magician grabbed my attention.
Wonderful presentation. I was in elementary and junior high school. Enjoying the Marvellets growing up in Northern California. Trying to sing the songs they master 🙏🏾🙌🏾🫶🏾
DON'T MESS WITH BILL - I was with my babysitters dog, as a child in Detroit, playing with a dog named Bill. "Don't Mess With BILL!!!" I used to hug that pretty black dog and sing that song! Oh, what a childhood memory!
There is a bit of a fiction here. They said that African-American artists did not appear on record sleeves at the time Mr. Postman was released - but the Supremes were on their cover and they were released 5 months earlier. Besides there had been plenty of African-American artists on album covers long before that. These include Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Harry Belafonte, Louis Armstrong, Della Reese, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole , Duke Ellington and even Little Richard. Plus many more. Why Motown chose not to feature The Marvelettes on their debut album is perhaps only known to Berry Gordy...but it's definitely not the reason given here.
@@Aubreyelise2015 I just named you a whole load of AA women who were on their own record sleeves long before Mr Postman - including other Motown artists.
I remember the MARVELETTES performing in Cleveland, Ohio at a nightclub called the MUSIC BOX at 10616 Euclid Ave. I had the priviledge of playing behind them. They were the best. They should have been in the Rock Hall of Fame before any of these people that they are nominating these days what a trip. How much does it cost to get them in? Everything has a price.
Lucky you! I was born in 1966 so I didn't know anything about them until I bought a VHS called Girl Groups The Story Of A Sound. They didn't interview any of the ladies, but in England there was a Tribute Show to the Carpenters, and a girl group called the saturdays did their version of please mr. postman but someone forgat. They were next to TLC the most haunted and cursed group in music.
39:47 that hit home my mom passed away on the same month and year in Jan 2011 may she rip shame on the industry for not treating them like those other groups 😔💔.
Now I realize what set them apart from the Other Girl Groups at Motown back in the day, at one point or another they sang. God Bless The DJ for acknoweldging it was their song first.
JUANITA COWART, as of 2024 , is the LAST LIVING ORIGINAL MEMBER of THE MARVELETTES… and as of that year, despite TWO NOMINATIONS, The Marvelous MARVELETTES still have YET to be INDUCTED into The ROCK and ROLL HALL of FAME.
I keep seeing Juanita Cowart left due to a meantal breakdown over being teased about a comment she made on American Bandstand when describing the group. She said that Inkster was a suburb of Detroit. I don't understand why ppl thought that was something funny and something to tease her about? Inkster *IS* a suburb of Detroit. So she wasn't wrong. "Inkster is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A western suburb of Detroit, Inkster is located about 14 miles southwest of downtown Detroit."
I'm from Detroit, Mi. And, yes I know about them " Lady's". My, sisters & brothers would play all of their 45s every weekend. Blue lights in the basement 😎 I, was the youngest brother at 11 🤔
The Marvelettes were electric and were the first group i loved. I was not a particular fan of the Supremes except for my girl Flo. I was hearing about problems for Flo with Berry and Diane. It was sad 😢
I hate that Georgia wasn’t able to live her true dreams. Just imagine the gems she would’ve continued to push out if she didn’t have to play surrogate mother to her siblings. No young woman should be kept from her dreams due to responsibilities that were never hers.
I have A living Aunt who is the same age as Ms. Georgia Dobbins. She had a similar experience with my Grandfather and told me that this was common for a lot of Black Girls in those days
Berry Gordy had a preference when it came to girl groups. The Marvelettes were a wonderful ladies, who should of been up there, like other well known girl groups.
I want to give a random shout out to Donald Austin (Crazy Legs). He played guitar on “that’s how heartaches are made” and was good friends with Gladys Horton up until she passed in 2011. God bless these folks and I’m thankful for their contribution to music history ❤💪🙏
I hired a group of fake Marvelettes, they looked so young that I had to ask them are you the real Marvelettes ? one of then lied the others just stayed silent. They were good though.
Barry renamed the group. You would think, so he controlled the name. This was probably the lesson learned. Motown was changing the world those 12 hits were part of the 60’s soundtrack.
MR BG of Motown showed his disrespect and usury of .members of our Black Talent ...with no consideration or love for caring how we as a peoples togerther grow as counterpart (Caucasians) are pampered and treated way better or Caucasians women. Still fighting them and each other. So very much saddened of our folks lacking to come together and really stand up for each in truth and the Love Jesus Christ demands we exhibit. AMEN
Mary Wilson loved The Marvelettes. In fact she was the one who helped get the Truth In Rock Bill passed to stop fake groups from performing. The way she spoke was done in fun and love but when she spoke about the fakes and Gladys being angry was spoke in a tone of anger of what happened to her label mates.
I was a fan in the 60s. They had a lot of followers in the UK, particularly after The Beatles covered their hit 'Mr Postman'. They were cool and cute but just not quite as cute as some of the other girl groups at the time. Motown could have plugged them more though. Real talent.
A lot of male crooners from this time weren't considered handsome but sold records by the millions they were so hard on women not every woman was going to be beautiful like the ronettes type of looks.
Motown released a box set of their music not to honor their name and contribution to Motown but to squeeze that last bit of money from talented group. The music industry is full of greedy users.
Jesus Christ will bless these angels and All of Us==with our own individual universe's -with sweet Jesus permission (we'll all say -I see now why we went through all that Humble stuff{. Jesus just give us a little PATIENCE 🙏🙏✌️✌️🌍🌎🏌️🏌️🏌️🚴🚴📬📬🙏🙏😊
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Induct these lovely women in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...NOW!!
Why, oh Why haven't the MARVELOUS MARVELLETS been inducted into the Hall of Fame?? I don't for the life of me l, can't understand -- what's the "Hold Up"???
Sad may b it's berry🤯💀💀
"Lovely?"
Or make a Soul and R&B Hall of Fame
The Marvelettes deserve to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as of 35 years ago. I'm also glad that their label mate Mary Wilson fought to get the Truth In Rock bill passed and that bill prevents fake and imposter groups from performing and the bill states that in order for them to perform they have to at least one original member or they have to perform as a Revue or Tribute. If they don't they surviving original members can sue the group, the promoters and venues for booking fake and imposter groups to perform. In 2012 Katherine Adnerson-Schaffner and The estate of Gladys Horton which is run by her son Vaughn who published his mom's memoirs last year. Kat hired 3 talented singers from Detroit to perform with her and they bill themselves as The Marvelettes featuring Original Member Katherine Anderson-Schaffner.
RIP Katherine, It's such a shame how underrated The Marvelettes are. their story is so tragic and i feel for Georgia she wrote them their first hit and didn't even get to enjoy the fruits of her labor
Her death really hurt
An Absolute Disgrace.
Usually, I don't agree when people say someone is underrated, but in this case, the Marvelettes were definitely not on more peoples' radar, and they delivered to Motown it's first #1 hit in 1961. Nobody else at Motown did that for another two years (Stevie Wonder). And their songs were REALLY good: "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" is a minor classic in Motown's catalogue. And a classic by itself: sophisticated and jazzy.
They were GREAT!
She is my Aunt she was married to my Uncle Joe Rest I'm peace to both of them.
True
I love Documentaries like this❤❤❤
The marvelettes need their life story told
These ladies should be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by now too!
Most definitely!
I have and always will give tribute to "The Marvelettes". Motown & Berry Gordy-shame on you!
Definitely should
❤@@FreddaDurham
Much respect to the Marvelettes. All those groups in the sixties had to tour too hard, too much, too fast -- and the travel and performing took its toll in many ways. That the music lives on is a tribute to their flexibility and endurance as well as talent, rehearsing & effort. These songs aren't "oldies" but CLASSICS. To turn on AM radio and hear a Marvelettes hit meant instant happiness.
I never knew that the marvelous didn’t get their due because I like them all the time this is this is September 2024
I remember grooving to the Marvellettes word for word as a little girl, the youngest of five, hearing these songs played by my teen sisters in the 60s.
What has Berry Gordie done 2 recognize their contribution to MOTOWN
Um don't know😮
I moved to Las Vegas in about 2002. When I saw marquees with The Marvelettes, The Platters, and The Coasters, I almost exploded! All HUGE favorites of mine! But when I found that there were almost no original members, I just lost my enthusiasm to see them.
Little Anthony and The Imperials were still together, and played Vegas now and then, sounding JUST like they did as teenagers. Ditto The Tokens. What a high! ! ! Gene Pitney, Neil Sedaka, Lesley Gore, Peggy March, Darlene Love... I loved living here.
I didn't know much about The Marvelettes' story, and finding out about how it all went down, I'm glad I didn't go to any of the 'tribute' shows.
They were great ,I remember their songs should ov had more recognition.
My favorite! A and B sides were everything. "Forever", " Locking Up My Heart". " Mr. Postman".
Ella Fitzgerald sang "The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game". That's props.
The Andantes sang that!
❤I still love that GEM❤
Rest Well Wanda🕊🕊🕊
Amen my sister 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
I loved the Marveletts, they harmonized so well, love the sound among many other artists💖
What has been done to recognize these young ladies contribution to MOTOWN
Love the Marvellets❤❤❤
MARVELETTES....
A movie should def be done about them. What an amazing story.
Always the Marvelous Marvelletes. Amen. From 1960-67. Amen.
I always love the ladies from the beginning love I love love😊
1961-1970. MARVELETTES...
I hope they were awarded for their contributions to the industry .
that's a crying shame these fakes were allowed to make money using someone else's name 💰 🤬
😊 Awesome group didn't get the recognition they 🤔 deserved. One of my favorite groups. Underappreciated.
Thank u Mary Wilson ( RIP ) FOR going to congress about " promotion of the original singers" with u can't be a Marvelestt of a Supreme or a SHIRELL without the singers in the original group thx u RIP Mary Wilson u did. Bless all the original groups from the 60's and 70's.
Absolutely awesome history
This is a fabulous film of the group.Definitely the most soulful indeed!
The 80s and 90s as well.
I wasn’t born until the 70s but this is probably my fav Motown group besides the Jacksons and the temps.. awesome music. Don’t mess with bill and magician grabbed my attention.
the marvelettes is my favorite girl group in the 60s and their last album in the 1970 🥁🎸🎺🎹☮️
My #1 girl group at Motown.
These women should be the first to promote MusicVideos.
One of my favorites.😀
Berry Gordie needs to give these young ladies their dew
❤❤❤❤❤The Great Girl group
Wonderful presentation. I was in elementary and junior high school. Enjoying the Marvellets growing up in Northern California. Trying to sing the songs they master 🙏🏾🙌🏾🫶🏾
DON'T MESS WITH BILL - I was with my babysitters dog, as a child in Detroit, playing with a dog named Bill. "Don't Mess With BILL!!!" I used to hug that pretty black dog and sing that song! Oh, what a childhood memory!
I LOVE the Marveletts!
There is a bit of a fiction here. They said that African-American artists did not appear on record sleeves at the time Mr. Postman was released - but the Supremes were on their cover and they were released 5 months earlier. Besides there had been plenty of African-American artists on album covers long before that.
These include Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Harry Belafonte, Louis Armstrong, Della Reese, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole , Duke Ellington and even Little Richard. Plus many more. Why Motown chose not to feature The Marvelettes on their debut album is perhaps only known to Berry Gordy...but it's definitely not the reason given here.
Probably because Motown didn’t think they were pleasing to the eyes at first.
Not to mention Clyde McPhatter Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke were on album covers in the FIFTIES!
@@Frnk_3 Most of the ones I mentioned were on album covers in the FORTIES ! Eg Duke Ellington Black Brown & Beige 1943.
I'm sure they meant AA women. Most times it was yt women on those covers
@@Aubreyelise2015 I just named you a whole load of AA women who were on their own record sleeves long before Mr Postman - including other Motown artists.
I love them 😍
Grew up dancing to Motown. Marvelettes had some hot hits - Don't Miss With Bill, My Baby Must Be a Musician, The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game
Loved this group use to listen to them on WCHB one of my favorite groups the sign on Inkster Rd. Letting people know this is home town Is still there.
As a kid, we danced by that music. We loved it.
There is a book out there somewhere, call The Marvelettes motowns mistery girl group, i got it from the library
I need a motown movie!
Great Group 😊❤
I remember the MARVELETTES performing in Cleveland, Ohio at a nightclub called the MUSIC BOX at 10616 Euclid Ave. I had the priviledge of playing behind them. They were the best. They should have been in the Rock Hall of Fame before any of these people that they are nominating these days what a trip. How much does it cost to get them in? Everything has a price.
What is Berry Gordie doing?
We love you Marvellettes
My favorite group the marvelette rest in peace I still listening to theirs music 🎶🎶🎶🎶 2024
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
That song Beechwood always reminds me of Cooley High lol...the house party scene
Right! Cochise and Loretta dancing!
They deserve this❤
So much in love❤they should make a movie about them they are the frist and the last much love
My favorite!
Absolutely wonderful group👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😎
They deserved much better. Mr. Postman was my first love song.
What is Berry Gordie doing besides enjoying what they helped him get
😮😮😮😮😮
I have all their 45s. They are still my favorite girl group. Shirelles #2.
I love this group.
Gladys ❤
Lucky you! I was born in 1966 so I didn't know anything about them until I bought a VHS called Girl Groups The Story Of A Sound. They didn't interview any of the ladies, but in England there was a Tribute Show to the Carpenters, and a girl group called the saturdays did their version of please mr. postman but someone forgat. They were next to TLC the most haunted and cursed group in music.
Thank you very much! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
They gave up so much , for so little 😢 I just hope that they know how much they were Loved and appreciated by their fans ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
39:47 that hit home my mom passed away on the same month and year in Jan 2011 may she rip shame on the industry for not treating them like those other groups 😔💔.
Thank you for this, i really loved them growing up
Wow what memories. I know all their songs.
Now I realize what set them apart from the Other Girl Groups at Motown back in the day, at one point or another they sang. God Bless The DJ for acknoweldging it was their song first.
They gotta do smokie Robinson & the miracles, the vandellas, the platters and the four tops.
I really want an Unsung episode for Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Me 2❤❤ 2
JUANITA COWART, as of 2024 , is the LAST LIVING ORIGINAL MEMBER of THE MARVELETTES… and as of that year, despite TWO NOMINATIONS, The Marvelous
MARVELETTES still have YET to be INDUCTED into The ROCK and ROLL HALL of FAME.
The original baby girls 😊😊❤
Great female singers RIP
I forgotten about the great songs they recorded
They made many songs 😊
My Favourite Mowtown Girl Group😊
I keep seeing Juanita Cowart left due to a meantal breakdown over being teased about a comment she made on American Bandstand when describing the group. She said that Inkster was a suburb of Detroit.
I don't understand why ppl thought that was something funny and something to tease her about? Inkster *IS* a suburb of Detroit. So she wasn't wrong.
"Inkster is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A western suburb of Detroit, Inkster is located about 14 miles southwest of downtown Detroit."
😊😊lovely
I'm from Detroit, Mi. And, yes I know about them " Lady's". My, sisters & brothers would play all of their 45s every weekend. Blue lights in the basement 😎 I, was the youngest brother at 11 🤔
We need a movie about them. Katherine and Juanita need to come together and make this happen
The Marvelettes were electric and were the first group i loved. I was not a particular fan of the Supremes except for my girl Flo. I was hearing about problems for Flo with Berry and Diane. It was sad 😢
I hate that Georgia wasn’t able to live her true dreams. Just imagine the gems she would’ve continued to push out if she didn’t have to play surrogate mother to her siblings. No young woman should be kept from her dreams due to responsibilities that were never hers.
Right that really broke my heart! 😢
How have these young girls been recognized what has Berry Gordie done to honor their contribution to motown
I have A living Aunt who is the same age as Ms. Georgia Dobbins. She had a similar experience with my Grandfather and told me that this was common for a lot of Black Girls in those days
@@jadellemusic it can be fixed Barry Gordie smoke Robinson and anyone else that was there at the time let's go to work
They were basically the female version of The Temptations. Definitely worthy of a Tv movie. Rip to the ones who aren’t here anymore
When Gordy fell in love with Ross and the Supremes, goodbye to the Marvelettes
Berry Gordy had a preference when it came to girl groups. The Marvelettes were a wonderful ladies, who should of been up there, like other well known girl groups.
What was the preference
He was lavishing all is attention on The Supremes, particular Diana Ross.
@@paulettemcintosh-smikle ok
@@paulettemcintosh-smikletruth
Berry Gordy was a pimp
He catered to The Supremes, had a daughter with her.
Ikr smh
Fabulous group. Yea
I want to give a random shout out to Donald Austin (Crazy Legs). He played guitar on “that’s how heartaches are made” and was good friends with Gladys Horton up until she passed in 2011. God bless these folks and I’m thankful for their contribution to music history ❤💪🙏
Georgesnna was adorable😍
I like them better than I like the supremes
Omgod I SURE DO 2 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
There should have been a manager who really cared for these ladies 😔...
Definitely
8-16-24 Berry Gordy had an obligation to protect those minors. Motown failed The Marvelettes BIG TIME.
What is he doing? about it now?
I know so many i had much older siblings i was born in the 60s
Blame Berry Gordy.
We sure do!!!!!!!!!!!
The cantsingyettes. Lol. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Don’t Mess With Bill
I hired a group of fake Marvelettes, they looked so young that I had to ask them are you the real Marvelettes ? one of then lied the others just stayed silent. They were good though.
I grow up with them in Inkster. Cowart was my cousin. They live next door to my aunt Wilma and in front of her house.
Where was Berry Gordy in all of this? Did he intervene at all?
I can remember being pissed that motown recognized them at motown 25
Huh?
Inkster Michigan where my fam from 😀🥰
Barry renamed the group. You would think, so he controlled the name. This was probably the lesson learned. Motown was changing the world those 12 hits were part of the 60’s soundtrack.
So one hit wonders
MR BG of Motown showed his disrespect and usury of .members of our Black Talent ...with no consideration or love for caring how we as a peoples togerther grow as counterpart (Caucasians) are pampered and treated way better or Caucasians women. Still fighting them and each other. So very much saddened of our folks lacking to come together and really stand up for each in truth and the Love Jesus Christ demands we exhibit. AMEN
I concur
Wow. So foul what they were doing to Gladys Horton. Smh.
Mary Wilson always had a patronizing tone when talking about other girl groups besides The Supremes.
She did even after what she went through in her own group smh
Thank You. Good to know that I wasn't the only one who noticed it.
Mary Wilson loved The Marvelettes. In fact she was the one who helped get the Truth In Rock Bill passed to stop fake groups from performing. The way she spoke was done in fun and love but when she spoke about the fakes and Gladys being angry was spoke in a tone of anger of what happened to her label mates.
And Patti LaBelle is the only person from the Girl Group Era who still has a career. 😅
Mary was honest AND with heart..Wasn't nasty.
OH Yes!
What a sad story.
Any one got the Norman Connors unsung...??
I never heard of them. I know of other girl groups of that era. Maybe it's their time that their story is told.
Where is Gladys Horton??❤
As a teen I, unfortunately, credited all girl groups as the Suprems, and all male groups as the Temptation. I was wrong.
I was a fan in the 60s. They had a lot of followers in the UK, particularly after The Beatles covered their hit 'Mr Postman'.
They were cool and cute but just not quite as cute as some of the other girl groups at the time. Motown could have plugged them more though. Real talent.
A lot of male crooners from this time weren't considered handsome but sold records by the millions they were so hard on women not every woman was going to be beautiful like the ronettes type of looks.
They're not in the Rock and Roll HOF?
Motown released a box set of their music not to honor their name and contribution to Motown but to squeeze that last bit of money from talented group. The music industry is full of greedy users.
Jesus Christ will bless these angels and All of Us==with our own individual universe's -with sweet Jesus permission (we'll all say -I see now why we went through all that Humble stuff{. Jesus just give us a little PATIENCE 🙏🙏✌️✌️🌍🌎🏌️🏌️🏌️🚴🚴📬📬🙏🙏😊
Amen to these GORGEOUS QUEENS
So Motown created the 60s sound... 😲