Gladys Horton and Georgia Dobbins, from Inkster, Michigan, couldn’t sing – or so they thought. They came fourth, but their teacher, a Mrs Sharpley, arranged for an audition at Detroit’s Motown records, which had just charted with The Miracles’ “Shop Around” and was scouting for a follow-up. Her eye caught a title that she thought was cute: “Please Mister Postman”. …
