“Lady” by Little River Band

"Lady" was the third and last single pulled from Sleeper Catcher, Little River Band's fourth album, in 1978, and it had to wait its turn. Graeham Goble wrote it, but lead singer Glenn Shorrock didn't care for it, so it sat in the drawer until the band came up one song short for the album. Goble has often told where it came from: a girl he never actually met, dancing in front of his earlier band Mississippi at the Matthew Flinders Hotel in Melbourne in 1973.

John Boylan produced it with the band, and in the end Shorrock, Goble and Beeb Birtles all share the lead vocal, with David Briggs adding talkbox. It did better abroad than at home, reaching the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1979 while stalling at 46 on Australia's Kent Music Report.

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