By Bob Berry

It’s one of the great lyrics.

“I’m easy as Sunday Morning…”.

Lionel Richie wrote it, and he and The Commodores took a song about breaking up, “Easy”, to Top 5 in the late spring of 1977. It’s a beautiful song, sung, like their other smash ballads, “Three Times A Lady” and “Still“, so effortlessly, so wonderfully.

And I’ll venture a guess that one reason Lionel Richie is sometimes overlooked as a great singer, is the simple fact that he made it seem so easy.

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