GLADYS HORTON, 66
Co-founder and Lead Singer of the Marvelettes
Died Jan. 26, 2011. Ms. Horton was a teenager in the Detroit suburb of Inkster when she and friends former a group called the Casingyets, short for "Can't Sing Yet."
They changed their name to Marvelettes and at age 15, Gladys and her friends evidently had learned how to sing and had a #1 song across the US with "Please Mr. Postman" for Motown when she was just 15.
Horton also sand lead on the Marvelette songs "Playboy," "Beechwood 4-5789," and "Too Many Fish in the Sea."
All of these are some of my all-time favorite songs.
She was replaced as lead singer in 1965 and left the group two years later.
From AP.
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