Three Times A Lady: Museum Object and Cultural History
Three Times A Lady: Date: 1978. Published by: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., founded 1919. Composed by: Lionel Richie, American, born 1949.
The object in the museum catalogue
Sheet music for the song "Three Times A Lady" performed by the Commodores. The front cover of the booklet features a group portrait of The Commodores. The Commodores are pictured wearing white costumes decorated with metal plates and sequins. There are six men featured in the photograph; Lionel Richie stands in the middle of the back row. Blue and black type above the photograph of The Commodores reads: [Three Times A Lady / Words and Music by / LIONEL RICHIE / Recorded by THE COMMODORES on MOTOWN RECORDS]. The interior contains musical scales and lyrics for the song.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1978
- Published by: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., founded 1919
- Composed by: Lionel Richie, American, born 1949
- Recorded by: Commodores, American, founded 1968
- Subject of: Motown Record Corporation, American, founded 1959
- Type: sheet music
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 12 × 9 1/16 × 1/16 in. (30.5 × 23 × 0.2 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Composers (Musicians)
- Topic: Funk (Music)
- Topic: Soul (Music)
- Object number: 2016.68.4
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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