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n. (want ad English)
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"Want Ads" was a million-selling Number 1 pop and R&B hit recorded by female group, Honey Cone for their third album Sweet Replies and also appears on their fourth album Soulful Tapestry (both 1971 releases). The song on the Detroit-based Hot Wax label was written by Greg Perry, General Norman Johnson and Barney Perkins. It was produced by staff producer, Greg Perry, and features a young Ray Parker, Jr. ("Ghostbusters") on rhythm guitar.
"Want Ads" was released as the first single from Soulful Tapestry in the United States in the spring of 1971 (see 1971 in music). It reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for one week and topped the R&B singles chart for three weeks in the United States, becoming the group's most successful single and their only number one placement on the pop charts.
Usage examples of "want ads".
His correspondence with Ricky was his first attempt at finding love through the want ads, and so far he'd been thrilled with the results.
She said she'd been reading the Times for fifty years, front to back, everything including the obits and the want ads, and after a moment or two offered the opinion that the paper was in much better hands now.
The jobs listed at the library seemed to be of a higher quality than those in the want ads of the _Register_ or the _Los Angeles Times_, and anything was better than the so-called Career Center at UC Brea.
A newspaper from a month before still lay there, turned back to the want ads.