Lady (Kenny Rogers song)

Infobox Single
Name = Lady


Artist = Kenny Rogers
from Album = Kenny Rogers Greatest Hits
Released = September 1980 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1980
Genre = Country, pop
Length = 3:51
Label = Liberty Records 1380
Writer = Lionel Richie
Producer = Lionel Richie
Chart position =

• #1 (Billboard Hot Country Singles)
  
• #1 (Billboard Hot 100)
  
• #1 (Adult Contemporary Singles)
  Last single = "Don't Fall In Love With a Dreamer"
  (with Kim Carnes) (1980)
  This single = "Lady"
  (1980)
  Next single = "What Are We Doin' In Love"
  (with Dottie West)
  (1981)

  "Lady" is a song made famous by American country and pop music singer Kenny Rogers.

  It is listed at #47 on "Billboard's All Time Top 100." [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/specials/hot100/charts/top100-titles-50.shtml]

  ong history

  The song was written and produced by Lionel Richie, and ranks among Rogers' biggest hits. Recorded in 1980, Rogers once told an interviewer, "The idea was that Lionel would come from R&B and I'd come from country, and we'd meet somewhere in pop."

  The success of "Lady" also proved instrumental to Richie's career. The production work on the song was his first outside the Commodores and foreshadowed his success as a solo act during the 1980s. Rogers was also a featured vocalist on "We Are the World," co-written by Richie.

  Chart success

  Since his breakup with the First Edition, Rogers had tasted considerable success as a solo act, with nine No. 1 entries on the "Billboard magazine" Hot Country Singles chart (prior to the release of "Lady"), plus several Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary Singles charts.

  "Lady," according to music historian Fred Bronson, would prove to be an important record for both Richie and Rogers. It became the first record of the 1980s to chart on all four of "Billboard magazine's" singles charts - country, Hot 100, adult contemporary and Top Black Singles.

  It reached No. 1 on three of those charts in late 1980, including a six-week run on the Hot 100 and one week on the Hot Country Singles chart.

  As a country entry, "Lady" was Rogers' 10th chart-topping hit in a career that saw him collect 20 No. 1 songs between 1977 and 2000. On the Hot 100, it was his only solo chart-topping song, although Rogers would have a duet No. 1 three years later (1983's "Islands in the Stream" with Dolly Parton). On the Adult Contemporary Singles chart, "Lady" was Rogers' second (of eight) songs that reached the chart's summit.

  References

  * [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=33:j9fuxqurldje All Music Guide - "Lady" by Kenny Rogers]
  *Bronson, Fred, "The Billboard Book of Number One Hits" 5th ed. Billboard Publications, New York, 2003. ISBN 0823076776.
  *Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.
  *Whitburn, Joel, "Top Pop Singles: 1955-2006," 2007.