My Kind of Lady
| "My Kind of Lady" | ||||
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| Single by Supertramp | ||||
| from the album …Famous Last Words… | ||||
| B-side | "Know Who You Are" | |||
| Released | January 1983 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 4:24 (single), 5:17 (album version) | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Songwriters | Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson | |||
| Producers | Supertramp, Peter Henderson | |||
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"My Kind of Lady" is a song by the British rock band Supertramp, released as the second single from the band's 1982 album …Famous Last Words…. The song is a 1950s-style mid-tempo love ballad; it peaked at #16 on the USA Billboard Adult Contemporary and #31 on the USA Billboard Pop Singles charts. The lead and backing vocals were all sung by Davies, who harmonizes with himself by switching between his natural voice and a falsetto vocal. The echo-treated and natural-sounding voice was sung in Davies' baritone. The falsetto passages were double-tracked and mixed with a phaser. Despite being released as a single, the track was not performed live.
The song's writing credits are given to Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, members of the band, although as indicated on the album sleeve, it is a Davies composition. Like John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Davies and Hodgson shared writer's credits from 1974 until 1983, when Hodgson left Supertramp to pursue a solo career.
The song was the last single released during original member Hodgson's tenure.