"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. Three Times a Lady ""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. It was also the only Motown song to reach the Top 10 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 that year."
"some backing vocals. ""Only One Woman"" was released in the UK and the U.S. in August 1968; the single reached the Top 5 in the UK and was their biggest hit. Following the release of the group's debut single, Bonnet made a remark to a reporter as to ""Only One Woman"" being a bit boring, angering Barry. Their second single, ""The Walls Fell Down"" only reached number 28 on the same chart. But in the Netherlands it was more successful, where it reached number 3 in their Top 40 in April 1969. Their third single, ""I Can't See Nobody"", a"
"the UK Singles Chart), but it was the third single, ""When Will I See You Again"", that propelled the trio into the mainstream. It topped the UK Chart for two weeks in August 1974 (the first time this had been achieved by an all-female group since The Supremes in 1964,) and became the fourth best-selling single of the year. It also reached #2 in the US, where it sold over two million copies and earned the trio a gold record in December 1974 (at that time, Platinum certifications has not been assigned to singles). The Three Degrees also recorded two"
"the three-part ""The Three Fates"", and ""Lucky Man"", an acoustic ballad that Lake wrote when he was twelve. The album was released in the UK in November 1970, and reached No. 4 in the UK and No. 18 in the US. ""Lucky Man"" was released as a single that peaked at No. 48 in the US. From September 1970 to March 1971, the band completed their first concert tour with shows across the UK, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Their performance on 9 December 1970 at the Lyceum Theatre in London was filmed and released in UK theatres in 1972 with"
"single, ""Neighbourhood"", which was initially released on 25 March 1996 and only peaking at number 56 in the UK Singles Chart. Third single ""Female of the Species"", released 27 May 1996, turned out to be the band's breakthrough single, reaching number 14 in the UK charts and ultimately selling close to a million copies, despite originally being intended as a B-side. It was the band's only entry on any music chart in the United States when it peaked at number 15 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart in early 1997. In Australia, ""Female of the Species"" entered the ARIA"
"period it was released a third single from the album: ""Good Enough"". Sirens (British band) Sirens are British girl group from Newcastle upon Tyne, best known for their Top 50 single, ""Baby (Off the Wall)"". The Sirens line-up originally consisted of Karina Brians, Kat Haslam, Lynsey Schofield and Michelle Heaton. Heaton left the band before their debut single was released and was replaced by Lea Cummings. They dubbed themselves Sirens in honour of the infamous Greek myth of three beautiful women (Siren) luring sailors to their deaths by singing to them. Brians left school at 14 to try to make"
"American trio who successfully toured England and parts of Europe in 1927, recorded and appeared on BBC radio they toured the US variety and big-time theaters extensively, and later changed their stage name to the Three X Sisters. The ladies were together from 1923 until the early 1940s, and known for their close harmonies, as well as barbershop style or novelty tunes, and utilized their 1930s radio success. The Three X Sisters were also especially a notable addition to the music scene, and predicted later girl group success by maintaining their popularity throughout the Great Depression. The Boswell Sisters, who"
"screamed at. At one point I really did."" The band's first album, ""Duran Duran"" was released on the EMI label in 1981. The first single, ""Planet Earth"", reached the United Kingdom's top 20 at number 12. A follow-up, ""Careless Memories"", stalled at Number 37. However, it was their third single, ""Girls on Film"", that attracted the most attention. The song went to Number 5 in the UK. The video, featuring topless women mud wrestling, pillow fighting and stylised depictions of other sexual fetishes, was made with directing duo Godley & Creme in August. The video was filmed just two weeks"
"for two weeks in August 1974 (the first time this had been achieved by an all female group since The Supremes). Following an appearance on ""Top of the Pops"", other countries followed suit and ""When Will I See You Again"" did extremely well worldwide reaching #2 in the U.S. where it sold over two million copies and earned the group a gold record in 1974. The group recorded two live albums in 1975 and a further studio album ""The Three Degrees International"". This album was called ""Take Good Care of Yourself"" in the UK, the title song of which reached"
"3 in the United Kingdom. Both singles were in the UK top 5 simultaneously. Bristol first came to local attention in the Detroit area as a member of the soul duo 'Johnny & Jackey' with Jackey Beavers, an associate Bristol met while in the US Air Force. The pair recorded two singles in 1959 for Anna Records, a label owned by Gwen Gordy (Berry Gordy's sister) and Billy Davis and four 45s for Gwen Gordy and Harvey Fuqua's Tri-Phi label, none of which was a success beyond the Midwestern United States. In the mid 1960s, Motown had absorbed Tri-Phi and"
"3 Colours Red 3 Colours Red were an English rock band, formed in 1995 in London. They achieved their biggest chart success at the end of the 1990s, along with other British rock bands such as Ash and Feeder. The band was named by sticking a pin in a London listings magazine, ""Time Out"". It landed randomly on an advertisement for the concluding part of the Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski's, ""Three Colors"", trilogy. They went on to record two UK Top 20 albums, and six Top 40 singles. In 1995, it was suggested by a mutual friend that bass"
"going to move on. You know, Lou Reed said whenever he played live he ended up going back to heroin music. There are old associations, associations we don't want because they don't reflect the way we feel today. ... Right now, technology is what's important, and that's what our music tries to reflect."" The band broke into the UK Singles Chart and the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart at the beginning of 1983 with ""Lies"" and ""Love On Your Side"", which became the band's first UK Top 10 single. They then released their third album, ""Quick Step and Side Kick"""
". Three Dog Night's version of ""Easy to Be Hard"" went to . Nina Simone's 1968 medley of ""Ain't Got No / I Got Life"" reached the top 5 on the British charts. In 1970, ASCAP announced that ""Aquarius"" was played more frequently on U.S. radio and television than any other song that year. Productions in England, Germany, France, Sweden, Japan, Israel, the Netherlands, Australia and elsewhere released cast albums, and over 1,000 vocal and/or instrumental performances of individual songs from ""Hair"" have been recorded. Such broad attention was paid to the recordings of ""Hair"" that, after an unprecedented bidding"
"three-vocalist group, and he and Wells enlisted mutual friend Negron. The official commentary included in the CD set ""Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965–1975"" states that vocalist Hutton's then-girlfriend June Fairchild suggested the name after reading a magazine article about indigenous Australians, in which it was explained that on cold nights they would customarily sleep in a hole in the ground whilst embracing a dingo, a native species of wild dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs and if the night was freezing, it was a ""three dog night"". Their first Top Ten hit was ""One"","
"The history of The Human League's Fast Product era is covered in the 2015 documentary, Big Gold Dream. The Human League The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Initially an experimental electronic outfit, the group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their third album ""Dare"" in 1981. The album contained four hit singles, including the UK/US number one hit ""Don't You Want Me."" The band received the Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act in 1982. Further hits followed throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, including"
"of the band Dylan Amlot has continued to DJ, while Milroy Nadarajah turned to crime and, in 2004, was jailed for seven years for supplying cocaine to a London drug gang. The Three Amigos (band) The Three Amigos were a band in the late 1990s and early 2000s, most famous for their cover of ""Louie Louie"". The Three Amigos first single was their cover of ""Louie Louie"". Released in July 1999, it reached #15 in the UK Singles Chart. The band's logo on the single cover paid tribute to the logo of The Kingsmen, one of the first bands to"
"Brit Award for Best British Single. Their debut album, ""Welcome to the Pleasuredome"", reached number one in the UK in 1984 with advanced sales of over one million. After the follow-up success of ""Two Tribes"" and ""The Power of Love"", the group became only the second act in the history of the UK charts to reach number one with their first three singles; the first being fellow Liverpudlians Gerry and the Pacemakers. This record remained unbeaten until the Spice Girls achieved a six-single streak in 1996–97. In 1985 the band won the Brit Award for Best British Newcomer, and also"
"In 1999, they were ranked sixth in ""Forbes""' inaugural Celebrity 100 Power Ranking. They produced a total of nine number one singles in the UK—tied with ABBA behind Take That (eleven), The Shadows (twelve), Madonna (thirteen), Westlife (fourteen), Cliff Richard (fourteen), The Beatles (seventeen), and Elvis Presley (twenty-one). The group had three consecutive Christmas number-one singles in the UK (""2 Become 1"", 1996; ""Too Much"", 1997; ""Goodbye"", 1998); they only share this record with The Beatles. Their first single, ""Wannabe"", is the most successful song released by an all-female group. Debuting on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart at number"
"do. Following the departure of Louise Nurding, the group decided not to replace her and carried on as a trio. ""Power of a Woman"" was the first album as a trio, and entered the charts at number six. Another great success for the group, it produced four hit singles, they were, ""Power of a Woman"", ""I Am Blessed"" (which they performed for Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in 1995), a remixed version of ""Good Thing"" and a remixed version of ""Secrets"". All continued Eternal's tally of Top 10 Hits. In 1997, Eternal achieved their first ever UK number"
"they made their first TV appearance on 18 August 1965 on Granada TV's ""Scene at 6.30"". Their first single, a cover of the Beatles song ""Girl"", was released in early 1966 and was a success in the UK Singles Chart, where it reached #11 in February 1966. The single also had an American release on Parrot. The band were popular in the Manchester area. However, after ""Girl"", there were no more hits, despite two more singles ""Behind The Door"" and ""East Side Story"" being released. They performed ""Behind the Door"", ""Respect"" and ""Down in the Valley"" on 12 April 1966"
"The Gaylords and subsequently invited to join the group. Shortly thereafter, McAleese adopted his stage name (a moniker he coined by combining the names Dean Martin and Tennessee Ernie Ford) and The Gaylords were re-christened Dean Ford and the Gaylords. With hopes of achieving more commercial success, Ford and the band relocated to London in 1965. Three years later, Marmalade, with Ford as lead singer, became the first Scottish band to score a #1 hit song on the U.K. pop singles chart.[1], also racking up many prior and additional consecutive quality hits worldwide. In addition to his lead vocals, Ford"
"a college club called the Cracked Pot by Frank Werber, who became their manager and secured them a deal with Capitol Records. Their first hit was a catchy rendition of an old-time folk murder ballad, ""Tom Dooley"", which had been sung at Lead Belly's funeral concert. This went gold in 1958 and sold more than three million copies. The success of the album and the single earned the Kingston Trio a Grammy award for Best Country & Western Performance at the awards' inaugural ceremony in 1959. At the time, no folk-music category existed in the Grammy's scheme. The next year,"
"3LW 3LW (initialism of ""3 Little Women"") was an American girl group that enjoyed a number of modest hits during the early 2000s. Its founding members were Adrienne Bailon, Kiely Williams, and Naturi Naughton. Jessica Benson later replaced Naughton after she left the group in 2002. 3LW was signed to the label Epic Records, and later moved to So So Def. In 1999, the original line up of 3LW formed. Their debut single, ""No More (Baby I'ma Do Right)"", was released in the fall of 2000. ""No More (Baby I'ma Do Right)"" was a chart success, and was followed by"
"Guys 'n' Dolls Guys 'n' Dolls were a UK pop group made up of a three girl/three boy line-up. In the mid-1970s, they scored UK top ten hits with the singles ""There's a Whole Lot of Loving"" and ""You Don't Have to Say You Love Me"". They found further success in Holland in the late 1970s where they had a number one hit with ""You're My World"". Guys 'n' Dolls were formed in November 1974, after Ammo Productions held auditions for three young men and three young women to perform as a vocal group. The six original members were Paul"
"3SL 3SL were a short lived Welsh pop group made up of Steve, Ant, and Andy Scott-Lee. They are the brothers of Steps singer Lisa Scott-Lee, who also managed the group. They originated from Rhyl in North Wales. The group's first single, ""Take It Easy"", reached No.11 in the UK Singles Chart in April 2002. Their follow-up single, a cover of Case's ""Touch Me, Tease Me"", reached number 16, and the band was subsequently dropped by their record label, Sony, leaving their self-titled debut album unreleased. The group later toured the country with S Club 7 as part of their"
"that country. Dash indicates did not chart in that country. <small>Notes: The Nolans The Nolans are an Irish/British girl group who formed in 1974 as The Nolan Sisters, before changing their name in 1980. They are best known for their hit single ""I'm In the Mood for Dancing"". Released in December 1979, the song reached number three in the UK in February 1980 and topped the Japanese charts in November 1980. Five of the sisters, Anne, Denise, Maureen, Linda, and Bernie, became regular guest performers on numerous television shows in the UK in the 1970s and supported Frank Sinatra on"
"gave the band their first UK Top 40 hit. Their second album, ""Youthquake"" (1985), reached the UK Top 10 and brought the band international recognition, largely due to the success of the lead single, ""You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"" which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and number 11 on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1985. The album also contained three other UK Top 40 hits: ""Lover Come Back to Me"", ""In Too Deep"", and ""My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)"". The band's third album, ""Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know"", was"
"London, where he did session work. Britten's multi layered guitars featured on Alvin Stardust's 1973 hit ""My Coo Ca Choo"". In 1973 he was part of Cliff Richard's Eurovision Song Contest 1973 entry and, along with John Farrar, Alan Tarney and Trevor Spencer, submitted six songs; of which ""Power to All Our Friends"" was chosen and came third. After a lean charting period for Cliff Richard, Britten gave him ""Devil Woman"" and, in 1976, it became Richard's first top 10 in the UK for three years (and his first top 10 hit in the US). He was a guitarist in"
"and an ""NME""-sponsored gig brought them to the attention of Hut Records. They released their first single, ""Showgirl"" in 1993, and their debut album ""New Wave"" a month later. Haines was later to claim that this was the album that started Britpop, though he later showed disdain towards the movement, stating in a 2003 interview that Britpop consisted of ""a bunch of bands who weren't good enough to exist in their own right, like music's equivalent of the Bloomsbury Group."" Certainly it was ahead of its time in turning back from the acid house then popular to more traditional songwriting"
"single, ""Lady"" became a hit in Europe. Encouraged by this, the group set about recording their debut album. The album ""Good Things Happening"" was released later in the year along with two more singles, but none of these found success. Before the record label folded, Brotherhood of Man released one more single in the Summer of 1975. This was the upbeat ""Kiss Me Kiss Your Baby"" and although failed to make an impression in the UK, became a big hit in Europe, reaching Number one in Belgium and Number two in the Netherlands as well as top 10 placings in"
"band. In 1974, still as a four-piece band, without Curry, Tiger Lily made their first gig in Chorley, Lancashire, hometown of Leigh. The band wore clothes like New York Dolls, who influenced them. However, their true first show was in the Marquee Club, London, supporting Heavy Metal Kids. Later, Billy Currie joined originally as violinist. The band had a glam style influenced by Rolling Stones, Beatles late era, and the current glam artists (like David Bowie, Roxy Music, New York Dolls and Steve Harley). Gull Records released on 14 March 1975 their only 7"" single named ""Ain't Misbehavin'"", which was"
"Sirens (British band) Sirens are British girl group from Newcastle upon Tyne, best known for their Top 50 single, ""Baby (Off the Wall)"". The Sirens line-up originally consisted of Karina Brians, Kat Haslam, Lynsey Schofield and Michelle Heaton. Heaton left the band before their debut single was released and was replaced by Lea Cummings. They dubbed themselves Sirens in honour of the infamous Greek myth of three beautiful women (Siren) luring sailors to their deaths by singing to them. Brians left school at 14 to try to make money by doing a variety of jobs before running her own stableyard."
"Keavy Lynch and their friend Sinéad O'Carroll. The trio began writing and recording together, but soon realised that there was ""someone missing"". Upon Keavy's suggestion, they asked Armaou to come for an audition and she played a tape recording of a song she had written. The other girls liked it and Armaou became the fourth member of the band, who later changed their name to B*Witched. B*Witched enjoyed huge success worldwide, becoming the first girl group in history to have their first four singles debut at number one in the UK. Their self-titled debut album also topped the UK Albums"