Were #100! Day 5! Post #100!

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 20, 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.

Maybe a list of Beatles song covered by other performers would be a good one to do.  And if I did would have thought that THIS one would have gone higher than #100.

Fats Domino's cover of "Lady Madonna" was released just one year after the original (which may have been loosely based on Domino's style) and was his last appearance on the Hot 100.

And that wraps up another theme and another week!  Have a great weekend everyone!

~ Glenn

We're #100! Day 4!

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 1966 Peter, Paul and Mary had already charted six top 40 and three top ten hits released "Other Side of This Life".  It went no higher than #100.

Following this the trio had four more top 40 hits and their only #1 "Leaving On a Jet Plane", in 1969.

~ Glenn

We're #100! ~ Day 3!

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.

The Australian group "The Easybeats" had multiple hits in their home country but only one top 20 song hit the US charts with "Friday On My Mind" reaching #16 in 1966.

Three years later the bad managed one more song on the charts...hitting #100 and going no further.

 

"St. Louis" was the last top 25 (#21) hit for the group in Australia and they split not long after.

~ Glenn 

We're #100 ~ Day 2!

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.

As often happens sometimes international success does not create the same in the US.

Today's song went to #1 in five countries, top five in several more, and sold over a million copies...but only reach #100 in the US.

"Walkin' Back to Happiness" was Helen Shapiro's only appearance on the US charts despite multiple top five hits in the UK.

~ Glenn

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