"Why" was a concert staple since MTM was released and it was one of the three songs they played on "Midnight Special" in 1973. ("Believe Me" & "Miles Away" were the other two)
Then in 1975, on "Midnight Special" they played "Why" again, along with "Rhiannon", "Over My Head" & "World Turning".
Ali's right, "Sentimental Lady" was the single from "Bare Trees", didn't do all that well in the charts, but got some decent airplay on non-commercial FM stations (in those days, if you weren't played on AM radio, you didn't have a "hit")...as of course did "Hypnotized"...but "Bermuda Triangle" & "Heroes Are Hard To Find" both got some significant airplay in 1974 just before Welch left...that neither of those songs caught on with AM stations and didn't give the band much of a "breakthrough" to a mass audience was one of the plethora of reasons Welch DID decide to leave the band.
To me, ALL of the following songs that could've (and should've) been BIG AM hits, but for some reason just didn't catch on with AM programmers:
Sentimental Lady (at least, not until Welch's OWN version in 1978)
Spare Me A Little Of Your Love
Did You Ever Love Me
Dissatisfied (sounds like "Don't Stop" a little bit...and we know what happened with THAT tune)
Remember Me
Hypnotized
For Your Love
Believe Me
Heroes Are Hard To Find
Bermuda Triangle
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