Forever No. 1: The Honey Cone’s ‘Want Ads’

Girl groups ruled the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1960s. The Crystals, The Shangri-Las, The Shirelles and several other all-female vocal groups reached the chart’s pinnacle in the chart’s first full decade of existence — led, of course, by The Supremes, from Detroit’s powerhouse Motown label, who topped the Hot 100 a staggering 12 times, more than any other ’60s artist outside of The Beatles.
But by the end of the decade, most of those early-’60s groups had seen