We're #100! ~ Day 1

This week, the week of May 16-20, 2016, as approach blog post #100 we will look at songs that just cracked the Billboard Hot 100!

We call it:  "We're number 100!"

May 16, 2016

As I've already mentioned multiple times having a hit record is not easy.

Getting a record on the charts (whichever chart you choose) is not easy.

So just GETTING on the hot 100 is an accomplishment!

But ONLY getting to #100 and no higher might be a bit of let down.

In today's installment the artist probably wasn't too upset as she had multiple, other top 100 hits.

"Try a Little Tenderness" was originally written and recorded in the 1930's.  (Bing Crosby did a version in 1933.)

The best known version to many is by the 1966 reworking by Otis Redding that went to #25.  Although Three Dog Night took THEIR rendition to #29 in 1969 too.

Aretha Franklin could only make it to #100 when she recorded the song in September of 1962...although it was her first record on the Hot 100.

~ Glenn