Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few songs capture the innocence of young love quite like “Please Mr. Postman,” a sweet plea of young love that made chart history ...

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: August 21st, 1961, 55 years ago today ... a musical date worth writing home about. For that was the day the Motown label released “Please Mr. Postman.

The knockout girl group song “Please Mr. Postman,” by the Marvelettes was released on August 21, 1961. Later in the year it went on to become the first Motown single to hit #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 ...