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"Three Times a Lady" is a song by American soul group the Commodores, from their 1978 album ''Natural High''. It was produced by James Anthony Carmichael and the Commodores and it was the most popular track of the album. In an appearance on ''The Early Show'' on June 12, 2009, Lionel Richie said he was inspired to write the song because of a comment his father made about his mother. His father said to his mother "I love you. I want you. I need you. Forever" hence the three times a lady. It was also the only Motown song to reach the Top 10 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 that year and the Commodores's first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit, topping the chart for two weeks on August 12, 1978 and also went to number one the soul chart for two weeks. The song spent three weeks at #1 on the adult contemporary chart. It reached #1 on the Canadian RPM Singles Chart for four weeks, and was one of only a few Motown singles to reach the top spot in the UK Singles Chart, staying there for five weeks. The song was also very successful in Ireland, staying at #1 in the charts for three consecutive weeks. It was #1 in Australia for five weeks, and reached #2 in New Zealand. In the years since the Commodores had started in 1974 it has been one of their most emotional songs since "You Don't Know That I Know" from the album ''Caught in the Act '' in 1975. The original Commodores' version of the song was included as the final track on Lionel Richie's greatest hits compilation album ''Back To Front'', released in 1992. ==Covers and parodies== * Nate Harvell recorded one of the first country versions in 1978, reaching #23 on the Billboard country chart. * The song was also covered in the country genre by country singer Billy "Crash" Craddock on his 1986 album ''Crash Craddock'' and in 2007 by Cobra Starship as an iTunes bonus track for their album ''¡Viva La Cobra!''. In 2001 it was covered by Anglo-Norwegian boy band a1 and featured on ''Motown Mania'' and as a bonus track on their hit single "No More". * The Shadows did an instrumental of the song on ''Moonlight Shadows'' (1986). * Kenny Rogers covered the song on ''After Dark''. It was also featured on his hits compilation ''All The Hits And All New Love Songs''. Kenny performed the song on the Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters television show on November 29, 1980. * The most successful cover version was performed by Conway Twitty, whose version appears on his 1983 album ''Lost in the Feeling''. Twitty's version reached No. 7 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart in the late winter of 1984. Allmusic reviewer Tom Jurek wrote that "Three Times a Lady" and the previous single, "Heartache Tonight" "offer(ed) a solid view of Twitty's amazing crossover potential, and his ability to take well-known pop tracks and turn them into solid country smashes long after the countrypolitan days of Chet Atkins and RCA." (In addition to "Heartache Tonight" (a cover of a song by The Eagles), Twitty had successfully covered "Slow Hand" and "The Rose," previously pop hits for the Pointer Sisters and Bette Midler, respectively.) * In the movie ''Garden State'', the song is performed at a funeral by actress Jackie Hoffman. * Comedian Bill Bailey performed a German translation of the song in his ''Part Troll'' set. According to Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills, the song is about Richie professing his love for fat women.〔()〕 * The chorus of the song was parodied on ''Saturday Night Live''. Eddie Murphy, in the Buckwheat persona, would use numeric hand gestures and yell, "Unce! Tice! Fee tines a mady!" * In an episode of ''Seinfeld'', Newman sings part of this song, while his mail truck catches fire. * It was used twice in ''The Sopranos'' episode, "The Test Dream", first when sung by Finn DeTrolio's father and again as the end credits rolled. John Heard played Finn's father in "The Test Dream" as well as the crooked cop Vin Makazian in the earlier episodes "Meadowlands", "Pax Soprana", and "Boca", who committed suicide in "Nobody Knows Anything". * In What's Your Number?, Chris Evans sings an alternate version to Anna Faris. "Once, twice, twenty times a lady," referencing the number of guys her character has slept with. * In one ''Get Fuzzy'' strip, Bucky sings a parody of this song called "Three Times a Tabby" while licking himself. * In the ''Future Wars'' episode of ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'', the robots develop a computer program (using Dianne Feinstein as a baseline) to determine that Gypsy is exactly 2.7 times a lady. * Swedish singer Siv-Inger (Siw Inger) published 1979 on her third album "Liv och kärlek" a Swedish cover version called "Vårt Liv Och Vår Kärlek". * A portion of the song was sung by multiple members of the cast in an episode of the Drew Carey Show. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Three Times a Lady」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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