Easy (Commodores song)

Infobox Single
Name = Easy


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Artist = Commodores
Album = Commodores
A-side =
B-side =
Released = March 1977
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Recorded = 1977
Genre =
Length = 4:15
Label = Motown
Writer = Lionel Richie
Producer = James Carmichael
Commodores [ [http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Commodores&titel=Easy&cat=s australian-charts.com] page on the Commodores version of Easy, retrieved on date|08-2-24]
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Last single = "Fancy Dancer"
(1977)
This single = "Easy"
(1977)
Next single = "Brick House"
(1977)
Misc = Extra track listing
Album = Commodores
Type = single
prev_track = "Patch It Up"
prev_no = 8
this_track = "Easy"
track_no = 9
next_track =
next_no = "Easy" is a 1977 hit single by Commodores for the Motown label, from their fifth studio album, Commodores.

Written by Commodores lead singer Lionel Richie, the song, a slow ballad with country and western roots, expresses a man's feelings as he leaves his lover and ends their relationship. Since the narrator finds the girlfriend to be a bit of a drag, rather than being depressed about the break-up, he states that he is instead "easy like Sunday morning."

The single was released in the wake of the failure of the Commodores' single "Just to Be Close to You" at pop radio. Richie wrote "Easy" with the intention of it becoming a crossover hit for the group. "Easy" reached number-one on the Billboard R&B chart, and number-four on the Billboard Hot 100. Before "Easy's" success, the Commodores had primarily been a funk band, but the success of "Easy" paved the way for similar Richie-composed ballads such as "Three Times a Lady", and also for Richie's later solo hits.

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