Hank Mills was the pen name taken by country

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 songwriter Samuel Garrett. Mills authored a number of country and western hits of the 1960s and 70's, including 3 BMI award winners: "Girl on the Billboard" (written with Walter Haynes) was a #1 hit for Grand Ole Opry

Grand Ole Opry

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, that has presented the biggest stars of that genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM...

 singer Del Reeves

Del Reeves

Franklin Delano Reeves , better known as Del Reeves, was an American country music singer, best known for his "girl-watching" novelty songs of the 1960s including "Girl on the Billboard" and "The Belles of Southern Bell"...

 in 1965; "Little Ole Wine Drinker Me" (written w/ Dick Jennings), as performed by Dean Martin

Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...

, reached #38 on Billboard's Top 40 charts in 1967;
and "Angel's Sunday" reached #13 on Billboard's country music charts in 1971 for country crooner Jim Ed Brown

Jim Ed Brown

Jim Ed Brown is an American country music singer who achieved fame in the 1950s with his two sisters as a member of The Browns. He later had a successful solo career from 1965 to 1974, followed by a string of major duet hits with Helen Cornelius through 1981...

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Mills also appeared in and wrote songs for the 1967 Southeastern Pictures film The Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers.

Other notable songs include: "Send Me No Roses", "One Bum Town", "Walkin' Bum", "It Keeps Slipping My Mind", "My Big Truck Drivin' Man", "Big Job", "Great Big Spirit of Love", "I Can't Go On Loving You", "Kay", "After Effects (From Loving You), "If I Were A Little Girl", "An Old Bridge", "Prayer From A Mobile Home", "Nothing To Write Home About", "White Lightning Express" and "Facing the Wall".