Gladys Horton, co-founder of Motown girl group The Marvelettes, has died at the age of 66. The band were signed to Berry Gordy's Tamla label and had a US number one single with Please Mr Postman in 1961, released when Horton was just 15. Her son, Vaughn Thornton, said she died on Wednesday in a nursing home in Sherman Oaks, California, where she had been recovering from a stroke. Horton was replaced as lead singer in 1965 and left the group in 1967
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