Kissing with Confidence

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| name = Kissing with Confidence

| cover = Kissing_with_Confidence_UK_single_cover.jpg

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| type = single

| artist = Carly Simon and Will Powers

| album = Dancing for Mental Health

| released = 1983

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| recorded = 1983

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| genre = Pop

| length = 3:54

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| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Carly Simon

| type = single

| prev_title = You Know What to Do

| prev_year = 1983

| title = Kissing with Confidence

| year = 1983

| next_title = Tired of Being Blonde

| next_year = 1985

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{{Extra chronology

| artist = Will Powers

| type = single

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| title = Kissing with Confidence

| year = 1983

| next_title = Adventures in Success

| next_year = 1983

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"Kissing with Confidence" is a song by Will Powers (the stage name/persona of photographer-turned-singer Lynn Goldsmith) from her 1983 album Dancing for Mental Health.{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/dancing-for-mental-health/115537116|title=Dancing for Mental Health |publisher=iTunes|access-date=July 24, 2014}}{{cite web |title=Dancing for Mental Health - Will Powers |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/dancing-for-mental-health-mw0000845640 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=November 18, 2022 |archive-date=April 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427172032/https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0002717561 |url-status=live}} It was written by Goldsmith, Jacob Brackman, Nile Rodgers, Todd Rundgren, and Steve Winwood. Goldsmith used a voice recorder to sound like a man. Carly Simon is the uncredited lead singer.{{cite web|url=http://www.carlysimon.com/ai/Kissing.htm |title=Kissing With Confidence |website=Carlysimon.com |access-date=July 24, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050311104455/http://www.carlysimon.com/ai/Kissing.htm |archive-date=March 11, 2005}}

Mixed by Rundgren, it was released as a single in the UK, peaking at No. 17 on the UK Singles Chart.[http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/will%20powers/ Will Powers UK chart history], The Official Charts Company. Retrieved March 16, 2012. It also peaked at No. 50 in Australia.{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=237}}