Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970: #200: “My Way”- Brook Benton. April 18, 1970.

• Single: ” My Way”- Brook Benton
• Record Company- Cotillion
• Genre: Soul
• Written by Paul Anka, Claude Francois and Jacques Rivaux.
• Time: 4:08
• B-side:”A Little Bit Of Soap”
• Album- Brook Benton Today
• Grade: B-
• Peaked at #72 6 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100

Brooke Benton was born Benjamin Franklin Peay in 1931 in Lugoff, South Carolina. He was an R&B singer-songwriter who had 50 Hot 100 singles with 24 making the Top 40. His biggest hit was “The Boil Weevil Song” #2 in 1961 but the song he is remembered most for today is “Rainy Night In Georgia” #4 in 1970. Benton died at the age of 56 in 1988 of spinal meningitis. “My Way”is the song which Frank Sinatra made famous in 1969.