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As Rogers was in country music, the Commodores were R&B heavyweights at the tail end of the 1970s, also selling 10 million albums with 10 Top 10 crossover pop hits. Richie, at the time, was enjoying a bizarrely similar space of musical success: Five years had elapsed since, on the back of Richie-penned love ballads, Motown’s ‘70s superstars the Commodores had morphed from the hunky funk titans behind “Brick House” to the milquetoast soul crooners of “Three Times a Lady” fame. 23, 1980, to punctuate a five-year run wherein the Gambler’s bet on himself after leaving the First Edition in 1976 yielded 10 million solo albums sold and 10 Top 10 crossover pop hits. The song was one of two previously unreleased singles on Rogers’ Greatest Hits compilation album, released on Sept. “It was such a neat thing that Ray Charles did when he did R&B songs to country tracks.” “I wanted Lionel and me to make country music with R&B tracks,” explained Rogers in a 2005 interview. Initially, “Lady” was suggested to Richie by Rogers as a “fun juxtaposition,” inspired by Ray Charles’ decade of country-tinged hits spurred by his influential 1962 double album, Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music.