NEVERE TOO OLD

A 96-year-old has become the oldest person to hit the Billboard Hot 100, after a touching ode to his departed wife went viral. Fred Stobaugh of Illinois wrote the lyrics to “Oh Sweet Lorraine” a month after his wife’s death and sent it in to an amateur music contest. The contest’s organizer, Jacob Cogan, was so moved by the words that he set them to music—and a viral video about the project has helped the song race up the charts. The former truck driver never imagined his poem would touch a nerve with so many. “It just seemed like it fit her,” he said.