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The song notably influenced the song "A Hundred Dollars" by Marshall Crenshaw on his album Mary Jean & 9 Others. Crenshaw explained, "I figured, 'Hmm, $5 in 1954, you'd need $100 in 1987 to do the same thing you could do with $5 in the earlier song. ' " [ 1 ]
"I've Got Five Dollars" is a 1931 popular song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart for the musical America's Sweetheart (1931) where it was introduced by Harriette Lake (aka Ann Sothern) and Jack Whiting.
"I've Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night" (Ted Daffin) "I Really Don't Want to Know" (Howard Barnes, Don Robertson) Gene Pitney solo "I'm a Fool to Care" (Daffin) "My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You" (Lee Ross, Bob Wills) "Sweeter Than the Flowers" (Morrey Burns, Syd Nathan, Ervin T. Rouse)
Crenshaw said of "A Hundred Dollars," the second track on the album, "It's really just a nice rock 'n' roll song. There’s this old one called, 'I've Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night,' so I figured, 'Hmm, $5 in 1954, you'd need $100 in 1987 to do the same thing you could do with $5 in the earlier song.' So maybe it's kind of an update ...
The song was ranked number 142 by Rolling Stone in its 2021 edition of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [4] and number 4 on its list of the 100 greatest country songs of all time. [10] In 2007, the 1980 release of the song on Epic Records by George Jones was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
"The Race Is On" is a song written by Don Rollins [1] (not to be confused with the Don Rollins who co-wrote "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" for Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett) and made a hit on the country music charts by George Jones and on the pop and easy listening charts by the unrelated Jack Jones. George's version was the first single ...
For example, $500 is “Five hundred and 00/100.” How Do You Write $450 in Words on a Check? Word choice gets slightly more complex when you put hundreds and tens together.
Its enduring lament, "I'm a fool to care, when you don't care for me", was recorded by numerous artists over the ensuing 75 years. The Les Paul and Mary Ford version went to No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1954, [ 1 ] and was featured in a popular Southern Comfort commercial in 2013. [ 5 ]