Lady Willpower
| "Lady Willpower" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 1968 45rpm dust cover | ||||
| Single by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap | ||||
| from the album Incredible | ||||
| B-side | "Daylight Stranger" | |||
| Released | June 1968 | |||
| Recorded | 1967 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:48 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jerry Fuller | |||
| Gary Puckett & The Union Gap singles chronology | ||||
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"Lady Willpower" is a song written by Jerry Fuller and recorded by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap for their 1968 album, Incredible. It is sung from the point of view of a man who is frustrated that the woman he is seeing will not agree to have sex with him. He promises, if she complies, to "shower [her] heart with tenderness," but it is also implicit that the relationship will end ("It's now or never") if she does not.
The song hit #1 on the U.S. Cash Box Top 100 and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 (behind "Grazing in the Grass" by Hugh Masekela).[1] It also reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart during the year.[2] It reached #26 U.S. Easy Listening.[3]
The single was awarded a million-selling Gold disc from the RIAA.[4]
It ranked among Cash Box magazine's Top 100 singles of 1968, where it hit the #1 position the week ending August 3, 1968.[5] The song was the #34 song on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles in 1968.[6]
References
- ↑ Gary Puckett & The Union Gap charting singles Retrieved 09-26-11
- ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 442. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 194.
- ↑ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 232. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
- ↑ Cash Box Top Singles of 1968 Archived 2010-11-21 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 09-26-11
- ↑ Billboard Top 100 Songs of 1968 Archived 2010-11-25 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 09-26-11