join me this ninety minutes to celebrate my, your and all wonderful ladies in our lives
| Title | Artist | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Ladies Night | Kool & The Gang | In 1979, Kool & the Gang unveiled a smooth new sound with Ladies Night. It is a play on the popular use of “Ladies Nights” at bars and clubs that were meant to draw in more female patrons in order to draw in even more male clientele. |
| Lady (Hear Me Tonight) | Modjo | “Lady (Hear Me Tonight)” is a song by French house duo Modjo, written and performed by vocalist Yann Destagnol and features a guitar sample of the 1982 single “Soup for One” performed by Chic, as written by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. |
| Sorry I’m A Lady | Baccara | “Sorry, I’m a Lady” by Spanish duo Baccara, is a song co-written by Rolf Soja and Frank Dostal, released in 1977. Baccara was a Spanish group originally created by Mayte Mateos in partnership with María Mendiola. |
| The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena) | Jan & Dean | “The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)” is a song written by Don Altfeld, Jan Berry and Roger Christian, and recorded by the American pop singers Jan and Dean in 1964 with the studio musicians known as The Wrecking Crew. “The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)” refers to actress Kathryn Minner appearing in a commercial as a white-haired elderly lady speeding down the street driving ‘a brand-new shiny red super-stocked Dodge’. |
| Lady Willpower | Gary Puckett & The Union Gap | “Lady Willpower” is a song written by Jerry Fuller and recorded by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, released in 1968. Morrissey recorded his version of the song and included it on his 2019 album, California Son. |
| Lady In My Life | Michael Jackson | “The Lady in My Life” is a song by Michael Jackson released in 1982 as the second track from the Thriller album. It is one of the only two non-single tracks on the album, written by Rodney Lynn Temperton. |
| Foxey Lady | Jimi Hendrix | “Foxey Lady” or “Foxy Lady” for the UK release by the Jimi Hendrix Experience is inspired by Lithofayne “Faye” Pridgon, Hendrix’s girlfriend in the mid-1960s. In 1964 Hendrix moved into the Hotel Theresa in Harlem, where he befriended Lithofayne Pridgon, known as “Faye”, who became his girlfriend. A Harlem native with connections throughout the area’s music scene, Pridgon provided him with shelter, support, and encouragement. Their relationship helped inspire Hendrix’s hit song “Foxey Lady”. |
| You Could Have Been a Lady | April Wine | “You Could Have Been a Lady”, written by Errol Brown and originally recorded by Hot Chocolate in 1971, was covered by April Wine, a young Canadian rock band, in 1972. |
| Lady Laura | Roberto Carlos | “Lady Laura” by Brazilian singer Roberto Carlos, written by Roberto Carlos and Erasmo Carlos, was released in 1978, initially in Portuguese. |
| Dama, dama | Cecilia | “Dama, dama” by Cecilia was released in 1975. Cecilia, (born Evangelina Sobredo Galanes in Madrid on October 11, 1948) was the daughter of Spanish diplomats, traveled through different countries during her childhood and was raised by an American nun. She took her stage name from the song “Cecilia” by Simon and Garfunkel. |
| The Spanish Lady | Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill, Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill & Dónal Lunny | “The Spanish Lady” is a traditional Irish folk song. Sisters Tríona and Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill from Kells, County Meath and Dónal Lunny are Irish traditional singers. |
| Dame Uit Suriname | Cherry | “Dame Uit Suriname” (Lady from Suriname) by husband-wife duo Cherry is a Dutch ironic protest song from 1983, written by Simon Been. Cherry Wijdenbosch and Simon Been are married and live in Utrecht. Cherry was born in Jakarta to an Indian mother and a Surinamese father. |
| Three Times A Lady | Commodores | “Three Times a Lady” by American soul group the Commodores, released in 1978, was written by Lionel Richie, dedicated to his wife Brenda, inspired by his father’s toast to his mother, Alberta, saying “She’s a great lady, she’s a great mother, and she’s a great friend”. |
| Lady Love | Lou Rawls | “Lady Love” by Lou Rawls, is written by Yvonne Gray (alias Vonghn Gray), playing keyboards on the track. |
| Lady Lay | Pierre Groscolas | “Lady Lay” by Pierre Groscolas was released in 1973. Pierre Robert Groscolas is a French singer born on October 29, 1946 in Algeria. The song was written by Groscolas and French songwriter Michel Jourdon. “Lady Lay” became the official theme of the Rio Carnival in 1975. |
| Lay Lady Lay | Bob Dylan | “Lay Lady Lay” by Bob Dylan might be a song about his dog (or cat). Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, and grew up in the area’s Jewish community. Dylan once stated that he wrote “Lay Lady Lay” as a tune for Barbara Streisand to sing, not necessarily as an homage to her. |
| River Lady | Roger Whittaker | John Joyce, wrote the lyrics for “River Lady” (A Little Goodbye) with the melody composed by Roger Whittaker. The riverboat serves as a powerful symbol of the journey of life. Just like a river, life keeps flowing, taking us to different destinations and stages. |
| Lady d’Arbanville | Cat Stevens | “Lady d’Arbanville” written and performed by Cat Stevens in 1970 is about the actress Patti D’Arbanville, who he dated at the time. Cat Stevens recorded a black and white video featuring both him and the song’s muse in a Gothic English mansion. |
| Lady Eleanor | Lindisfarne | “Lady Eleanor” by English folk rock band Lindisfarne is a song written by band co-founder Alan Hull, released in 1971, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s 1839 short story “The Fall of the House of Usher”. |
| For My Lady | Toots Thielemans | Baron Toots Thielemans wrote “For My Lady” and recorded it with The Shirley Horn Trio in 1991. Toots Thielemans, born in Brussels as Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor Thielemans (29 April 1922 – 22 August 2016), was an influential Belgian harmonica player, whistler and guitarist. Considered the pre-eminent jazz harmonica player, he performed and recorded with some of the greats like Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Bill Evans, Fred Hersch, Dizzy Gillespie, Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius. He made a last stage appearance in August 2014, at the Jazz Middelheim Festival in Antwerp, the festival with which he was closely associated for decades. Two Hohner harmonica types are named to him: Toots Mellow Tone and Toots Hard Bopper. |
| She’s A Lady | Tom Jones | “She’s a Lady” released in 1971 by Welsh singer Tom Jones, is a song written by Paul Anka and originally released on his album Paul Anka ’70s. The song was re-released in 2013 on Paul Anka’s ” Duets” CD with a new rendition featuring Tom Jones. |
| The Lady Is a Tramp | Frank Sinatra | “The Lady Is a Tramp” is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical “Babes in Arms”. The song was also used in the 1957 film version of Pal Joey starring Frank Sinatra and Rita Hayworth. It became Sinatra’s signature song in the sixties. The song is a spoof of New York high society and its strict etiquette (the first line of the verse is “I get too hungry for dinner at eight…”) and phony social pretensions. |
| You’re a Lady | Peter Skellern | “You’re a Lady” by British singer-songwriter Peter Skellern, released in 1972, features the Congregation, a choral pop ensemble. |
| Lady of the Dawn | Mike Batt | “The Lady of the Dawn” by Mike Batt, released in 1979 as part of his album “Tarot Suite”, was inspired by the concept of the tarot cards and their symbolism. |
| Goodnight Ladies | Lou Reed | “Goodnight Ladies” is Lou Reed’s final track on his 1972 album Transformer, produced by Mick Ronson & David Bowie. It paints a solitary Saturday night following an unsuccessful bid to bring a lady home from a bar. |
Sources
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