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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] Note that this is a different song than the song titled " I've Got Five Dollars " written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart .
"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.
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.
"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)
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The above-mentioned "similarities" are revealed in the song's chorus: "hotter than a two-dollar pistol," "the fastest thing around," "long and lean," "every young man's dream," "turned every head in town," "built and fun to handle." The song was a fixture in Jones' live set in the 1980s and 1990s and appears on the 1999 LP Live with the Possum.