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name
  • Gladys Horton
gender
  • Female
subject
  • American contraltos
  • American female singers
  • Musicians from Detroit, Michigan
  • American soul singers
  • 1945 births
  • 2011 deaths
  • African-American singers
  • Musicians from Gainesville, Florida
  • People from Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles
  • The Marvelettes members
abstract
  • One of two lead singers of the American girl group The Marvelettes. Her most famous lead is on the 1959 smash hit %22Please Mr. Postman%22. Horton was also the lead singer on follow-up hits such as %22Beechwood 4-5789,%22 %22Playboy%22 and %22Too Many Fish In The Sea%22 before losing her lead role to Wanda Young in 1965. Horton departed the group in 1967 and moved to the Los Angeles area in the early 1970s. She performed in later years as Gladys Horton of the Marvelettes, though she complained that her ability to tour was hampered by other %22Marvelettes%22 incarnations with dubious ties to the original group. Her example was frequently cited amid legislative attempts to protect the naming rights of original artists. She retired from the music business in 2009, a year before suffering a stroke that eventually led to her death in a Sherman Oaks, California nursing home on January 26, 2011 at the age of 66.
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  • Gladys Catherine Horton (May 30, 1945 – January 26, 2011) (various sources cite her year of birth as 1944) was an American R&B and pop singer, famous for being the founder and lead singer of the popular Motown all-female vocal group The Marvelettes.
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  • Norton
  • Horton
  • G. Horton
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wikipedia
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  • 687437
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wsb:real_name
  • Gladys Horton
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