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No Way To Treat A Lady | ||||||||||||
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| Recording Artist: | Bonnie Tyler | ||||||||||||
| Writers: | Jim Vallance Bryan Adams |
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| Date Written: | 1982 | ||||||||||||
| Albums: | Secrets Dreams And Forbidden Fire (1986) The Very Best Of Bonnie Tyler (1994) |
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Bonnie Tyler: vocal Sid McGinnis: guitar? Eddie Martinez: guitar? Roy Bittan: keyboards Steve Buslowe: bass Larry Fast: synthesizers and programming Max Weinburg: drums Backing vocals: Todd Rundgren, Rory Dodd, Eric Troyer |
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Produced by Jim Steinman. Recorded by John Rollo at The House Of Music and The Power Station, New York. Mixed by Larry Alexander at The Power Station. |
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Three years later Bonnie recorded the Bryan Adams/Jim Vallance song "No Way To Treat A Lady", releasing it the same year that Bonnie Raitt released her own version of the song. Bonnie Tyler's version of "No Way To Treat A Lady" was produced and arranged by Jim Steinman, best known for his epic recordings with Meatloaf. Steinman must have had access to Raitt's unreleased 1984 recording of the song (which she abandoned when she changed labels mid-album) as Steinman's arrangement mirrors a number of elements from the lost Raitt version, including an excellent vocal part originally sung by Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac. Here's a Bonnie Tyler quote from a 1986 interview in "Tracks" magazine: "The first track that I recorded was 'No Way To Treat A Lady' by Bryan Adams. I did one song of his on the last album called 'Straight From the Heart', so we asked him if he had any songs for this album. He gave this one to me and came along to the studio to have a listen and told me he loved the way we'd done it. I'm a big fan of Bryan Adams myself, you know. I think he's got a tremendous voice. Love the duet he did with Tina Turner. I wouldn't mind doing a duet with him, but there we are. It's been done now, with the best: Tina Turner. I heard through the grapevine that he'd also given the song to Bonnie Raitt. So he did write it for Bonnie, but which Bonnie we don't know. Well, I've got it on my album, I don't think she's done it." |
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| Lyrics: | You can tease me You can sweet-talk and lead me on But believe me Won't be long till I'm catchin’ on Now you left me here with nothin’ And you put my love on hold Well there must be somethin’ behind those eyes Cuz I believed every lie you told That ain't no way to treat a lady That ain't no way to treat a woman in love That ain't no way to treat a lady I coulda sworn that you'd had enough So you’d leave me When I'm lonely and in despair It intrigues me How you don't really seem to care Well I ain't here for nothin’ And my love doesn't come that cheap I would hold you to all your promises If I could find one you meant to keep That ain't ain't no way to treat a lady That ain't no way to treat a woman in love That ain't ain't no way to treat a lady That ain't no way to treat a woman in love You can tease me You can sweet-talk and lead me on But believe me Won't be long till I'm catchin’ on Cuz I ain't here for nothin’ And my love doesn't come that cheap And I would hold you to all your promises If I could find one you meant to keep That ain't ain't no way to treat a lady That ain't no way to treat a woman in love That ain't ain't no way to treat a lady That ain't no way to treat a woman in love |
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