The song's title and first verse lyrics occurred to Schock while she was flying home from a Las Vegas vacation and she jotted them down on a napkin.

Schock recalled that a music director of a key Top 40 station in Los Angeles indicated that he would playlist the track if it had a more uptempo arrangement.

"Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" afforded Reddy a sixth and final top ten hit on Billboard's Hot 100 and - on 4 October 1975 - became the seventh of her eight singles to reach No.1 on the magazine's Easy Listening chart.

("Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" was kept from first by "Third Rate Romance" by the Amazing Rhythm Aces and then by "I'm Sorry" by John Denver).

[6] "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" was also a hit (No.12) in New Zealand, and became Reddy's final chart item in her native Australia at No.94.