Too Hot ta Trot

"Too Hot ta Trot"
Single by The Commodores
from the album Commodores Live!
B-side"Funky Situation"
ReleasedNovember 17, 1977 (1977-11-17)
GenreFunk
Length3:30
LabelMotown
Songwriter(s)Lionel Richie, Milan Williams, Ronald LaPread, Thomas McClary, Walter "Clyde" Orange, William King
Producer(s)James Carmichael
The Commodores singles chronology
"Brick House"
(1977) 		"Too Hot ta Trot"
(1977) 		"Three Times a Lady"
(1978)

"Too Hot ta Trot" is a song by R&B/funk band, the Commodores. The song is written in E major.

The track on their 1977 live album Commodores Live!, and it spent a week at number one on the R&B singles chart and peaked at number twenty-four on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1978.[1]

Record World called it a "thumping funk exercise from a live lp."[2]

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (1977–1978) Peak
position
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)[3] 38
US Billboard Hot 100 24
US Hot Soul Singles (Billboard) 1

Use in film

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 130.
  2. ^ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. December 3, 1977. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  3. ^ "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com. Retrieved September 22, 2021.


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