The Marvelettes: Please Mr Postman

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This may have the most writers of a single song: Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland and Robert Bateman.

Released in 1961, it reached No 1 in America, the first Tamla Motown single to do so.

The Beatles covered it on their first album, Please Please Me (1963).

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