![]() EMI Music Publishing, the current music publisher of the song, list all five writers in their catalog. Postman" to just Holland, Bateman, and Gorman. The Songwriters Hall of Fame credits "Please Mr. The 1992 Motown boxed set Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection credits Dobbins, Garrett, Holland, Bateman, and Gorman as the composers. The 1976 Beatles discography book All Together Now credits the songwriting to Holland, Bateman, and Berry Gordy. The original With the Beatles album cover credited it to just Brian Holland (the 1987 CD release credits it to "Dobbin-Garrett-Garman-Brianbert"). ![]() The original Tamla 45 single for the Marvelettes' version credits "Dobbins/Garett/Brianbert" as the songwriters, and credits "Brianbert" as producer. Journalist Ben Fong-Torres credits the song to Holland, Bateman, Gorman, Dobbins and Garrett. Freddie Gorman, himself a Detroit postman and another songwriting partner of Holland (before Holland became part of the Holland–Dozier–Holland team) was also involved in the final reworking. ![]() Gordy renamed the group and hired "Brianbert" – Brian Holland and Robert Bateman's songwriting partnership – to rework the song yet again. ![]() Dobbins left the group after the audition and was replaced. Marvels original lead singer Georgia Dobbins needed an original song for their audition, and got a blues song from her friend William Garrett, which she then reworked for the group. In April 1961, the Marvelettes (then known as the Marvels) arranged an audition for Berry Gordy's Tamla label. Postman" and includes a credit for Brian Holland. The 2017 song " Feel It Still" by Portugal. Postman" has been covered several times, including by the British rock group the Beatles in 1963. Postman" became a number-one hit again in early 1975 when the Carpenters' cover of the song reached the top position of the Billboard Hot 100. The single achieved this position in late 1961 it hit number one on the R&B chart as well. It is the debut single by the Marvelettes for the Tamla ( Motown) label, notable as the first Motown song to reach the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. Postman" is a song written by Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland and Robert Bateman. Brianbert ( Brian Holland & Robert Bateman).Benny Benjamin – drums on "I Want a Guy".Richard "Popcorn" Wylie – piano on "Please Mr.The Funk Brothers – other instrumentation:.Raynoma Liles Gordy – Musitron and Ondioline on "I Want a Guy".Brian Holland and Robert Bateman – producers.Wanda Young – lead and background vocals.Gladys Horton – lead and background vocals."Oh I Apologize" (Berry Gordy, William Robinson) a."Whisper" (Berry Gordy, Marv Johnson) b."All the Love I Got" (Berry Gordy, Janie Bradford) a."You Don't Want Me No More" (Berry Gordy) a." Way Over There" (Berry Gordy, William Robinson) a."I Know How It Feels" ( Janie Bradford, Robert Bateman, Richard Wylie) b."So Long Baby" (James Young, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman) b.Postman" ( Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman) a " I Want a Guy" ( Brian Holland, Freddie Gorman, Berry Gordy) b."Angel" ( Sonny Sanders, Robert Bateman) b.Superscript identifies lead singer: (a) Gladys Horton, or (b) Wanda Young Side 1 All of the tracks from the album can be found on the Hip-O Select deluxe compilation CD Forever: The Complete Motown Albums. Postman received mainly negative reviews as it was believed to have been "too rushed" so that the focal track's success could be capitalized. Postman" did not contain any images of The Marvelettes, because including African-American artists on album covers did not become customary until around 1963. Other songs on the album include "Oh I Apologize", produced by Smokey Robinson, who would produce much of the group's later material, and "Angel," an early lead for Wanda Young who would later take Gladys Horton's place as the group's main lead singer. Postman." Although the original version by The Supremes flopped, The Marvelettes' cover became a regional hit. The album notably features cover versions of label mates The Miracles' " Way Over There" and " I Want a Guy", which was the debut single for fellow Motown girl group The Supremes the same year, and their cover had served as the b-side to " Twistin' Postman" the less successful follow-up to "Please Mr. The focal track is the number-one hit single, " Please Mr. Postman is the 1961 studio debut album from Motown girl group The Marvelettes and the sixth album ever released by the company.
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