Who Did It Better? Vol. 1: "Lady"
This will be the first post in a series of ten. The idea for this series came to me one day as I was listening to the radio. Yes, I am a holdout terrestrial radio listener, which sometimes means that I hear the same 250 songs over and over again, but also sometimes means that weird little coincidences happen. In this case, on the local "generic adult contemporary" station (you know, the one that is on in a vast multitude of gas stations and waiting rooms of businesses too smart and/or cheap to invest in a Muzak subscription), The Commodores' "Lady" was just winding down. As they went to commercial, I flipped to the classic rock station...which was in the middle of "Lady" by Styx. Two completely different songs, with the same title. It rapidly occurred to me that there were other artists who had "Lady" songs, and so a short time later, I went back and game some of them a listen, to decide: who did it better? The contenders: "Lady," ...