175K views · 6.2K reactions | 1965 Top 100 Billboard Songs ☀️ | Amazing Time Capsule | Facebook

🗓️ . August 23rd: On this day 1952 Kitty Wells became the first female solo artist to score a #1 hit on the Billboard country charts with “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” The song, an answer to Hank Thompson’s “The Wild Side of Life,” spent two weeks atop the chart and forever changed how women were seen, both in song and professionally. . 🎶 Kitty Wells - It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (Live) Songwriter: Joseph D. Miller . 🎥 Honky Tonk Town 🎧 🪕 🤠 Where the Country is F

32K views · 2K reactions | When I'm Gone" was a 1965 hit song for soul singer Brenda Holloway, written and produced by Smokey Robinson. The song was originally intended for Mary Wells but was given to Holloway after Wells left Motown. Holloway's version reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #12 on the R&B chart, becoming one of her biggest hits | Mark Hall | Facebook