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The track was written by James Banks, Eddie Marion and Henderson Thigpen, who had beforehand written hits for Little Milton, the Bar-Kays and different Stax Information artists. In keeping with Thigpen, he and Banks have been brainstorming concepts for songs at Stax Studio (quote:)”attempting to provide you with…one thing completely different. When individuals get critical, they are saying: ‘Hey, let’s speak man to man’…We thought it will be attention-grabbing to have a track with anyone arising [with]: ‘Hey, let’s speak girl to girl’.” Thigpen had just lately overheard his spouse on the cellphone arguing with a pal about an concerned couple of their acquaintance, and – with Eddie Marion – Thigpen and Banks accomplished their “Lady to Lady” track structuring it as a cellphone name from a spouse to her husband’s mistress.

“Lady to Lady” was first supplied to Inez Foxx, then signed to Stax’s Volt label, who turned it down as a result of – in line with Banks – she didn’t need to do the spoken intro, feeling that format may solely work for a male singer. Round this time Shirley Brown was launched to Stax president Jim Stewart by Albert King in whose stay revue she’d carried out whereas a young person: Stewart was impressed sufficient by Brown to himself produce her Stax debut recording – Stewart’s first manufacturing process in two years – of “Lady to Lady” (Stewart co-produced the observe with Al Jackson Jr.) with Brown chopping her vocal in a single take. Brown would state in a 1975 interview (quote:)”The fellows who wrote [‘Woman to Woman’] sang it by way of to me and I felt it wanted a rap to start it, so I wrote one off the highest of my head”; nevertheless the track’s co-writer James Banks has acknowledged that the spoken intro was a part of the track when it was supplied to Inez Foxx, whose dislike of the “rap” brought on her to show the track down.