She's a Lady

"She's a Lady" is a million-selling gold-certified hit song written by Paul Anka and performed by Tom Jones, and released at the beginning of 1971. It is Jones' highest-charting single in the U.S. to date, hitting #1 in Cash Box magazine for a week and spending one week at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, stuck behind Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin.^[2] The original version of the song was re-written for commercial release in 1971 by Jones and Anka due to the explicit lyrics. It was also a Top Ten hit on the US Billboard Easy Listening chart.^[3] Billboard ranked it as the No. 25 song for 1971.^[4]

In Canada, the single reached #1 on the RPM 100 national singles chart.^[5]

Paul Anka's recording of the song was released on his album Paul Anka '70s (RCA 4309, 1970) The song was re-released in 2013 on Paul Anka's " Duets" CD featuring a new rendition featuring Paul Anka & Tom Jones.

B-side track

The single's B-side track was "My Way" whose lyrics were also written by Paul Anka.

Cover versions

• Between 1972 and 1974, this song was covered by Singapore-based female singer Ervinna, backing music by the Charlie & His Boys, on her LP album Golden Hits Of 20th Century Vol. 6 with White Cloud Record of Singapore.
• The song was covered in 1978 by Filipino singer Sam Sorono (1950–2008) on his Sings Tom Jones' Greatest Hits LP album with EMI Records.
• In 1998, covered version by Chinese Singer, Jacky Cheung.
• The song was covered in 2000 by Funkstar De Luxe in his Studio Album Keep on Moving (It's Too Funky in Here).
• The song was covered in 2001 by Hong Kong singer Sammi Cheng in her Cantonese Studio Album Shocking Pink.
• The song was covered and released as a single in 2007 by Dutch singer Jeroen van der Boom.
• The song was covered by Ali Campbell (ex UB 40) and Shaggy in 2009, on the album Flying High.
• The song was covered by the Hungarian metal band Superbutt in 2011, released on their album Music For Animals

Appearances in other media

Film:

• 1973 film That Man Bolt. Sung by Samantha Nightingale (Teresa Graves) in a Nightclub sequence.
• 1995 film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. "She's a Lady" was re-released in Europe in 1995. The single included remixes by American DJ Junior Vasquez.
• 1993 film Wilder Napalm.
• 1996 film Bound.
• 1998 film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
• 1998 film Così ridevano.
• 1999 film Agnes Browne.
• 2003 film Bend It Like Beckham.
• In the film Flushed Away, Roddy sings this song to Rita's mouse family for her grandmother thinks he's Tom Jones.
• In The Wild Thornberrys Movie as Darwin dresses as a girl to trick the girls so they will not find out he's a chimpanzee.
• On the soundtrack to the 2000 film Miss Congeniality.
• The song was also used in the intro of Tyler Perry's 2009 film Madea Goes to Jail.

Television:

• The song was featured in the 2003 episode of Futurama "Bend Her".
• The song was used in the 2009 Trop50 orange juice commercial featuring Kyra Sedgwick.
• The song is also used in TV spots for the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.
• In Season 4 of the American Dancing With the Stars, Laila Ali & Maksim Chmerkovskiy danced a Cha-Cha-Cha to this song in week 9 of competition.
• In Season 14 of the American Dancing With the Stars, Katherine Jenkins, Mark Ballas & Tristan MacManus danced a Cha-Cha-Cha to this song in week 8 of competition.
• In the last ever edition of The Weakest Link, at the end of the episode, a montage of Weakest Link moments were shown while "She's a Lady" was playing while the clips were being shown.

Other:

• This song is currently the introduction for Kate Voegele on her 'Lift Me Up' tour.

References

External links

• "She's a Lady" at Discogs (list of releases)
• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics