She's a Lady

"She's a Lady" hit No. 1 in Cash Box magazine for a week and spent one week at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, behind "Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin.^[2] The song was also a No. 4 hit on the US Billboard Easy Listening chart.^[3] Billboard ranked it as the #25 song for 1971. In Canada, the single reached No. 1 on the RPM 100 national singles chart.

The song was re-released in 2013 on Paul Anka's Duets CD with a new rendition featuring Tom Jones. Anka rewrote the first verse of the song (recorded with Jones) because he disliked its chauvinistic sentiments.^[4]

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

The song has been covered multiple times. The more notable versions include:

• In 1973 as "C'est Ma Lady", a single by Quebecois singer Jean Nichol
• In 2007 as a single by Dutch singer Jeroen van der Boom
• In 2018 as "Lady Graveyard" by British band Luminous Bodies
• In 2021 from the album Diamonds Unlocked II by Axel Rudi Pell

In 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.
• 2000 film Miss Congeniality.
• 2002 film The Wild Thornberrys Movie.
• 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham.
• 2006 film Flushed Away. Hugh Jackman's character Roddy St. James sings it in the film, but Jones' version is in the soundtrack.
• 2009 film Madea Goes to Jail.
• 2014 film The Little Rascals Save the Day.

In television

• The song was featured in the 2003 episode of Futurama "Bend Her".
• The song and title was spoofed in the short-lived 2004 reality show called He's a Lady on TBS.
• 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.
• The song is used for the commercial of Lacoste Inspiration in 2006
• In Season 4 of the American Dancing With the Stars, Laila Ali and 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 and Tristan MacManus danced a Cha-Cha-Cha to this song in week 8 of competition.
• In the last 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.
• In Season 14 of America's Got Talent, singer under the name of Gingzilla performed the song at her audition, winning four 'yeses' from the judges.^[19]

Other appearances

• The song is featured in YouTuber JonTron's video about the NES game Nightshade, in which Jon sings a slowed down version of the song while destroying the game cartridge.