My Kind of Lady

{{Short description|1983 single by Supertramp}}

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{{Use British English|date=December 2012}}

{{Infobox song

| name = My Kind of Lady

| cover = Supertramp My Kind of Lady single cover.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Supertramp

| album = …Famous Last Words…

| B-side = Know Who You Are

| released = January 1983{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Supertramp&titel=My+Kind+Of+Lady&cat=s|title=Supertramp singles}}

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Pop

| length = 4:24 (single), 5:17 (album version)

| label = A&M

| writer = Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson

| producer = Supertramp, Peter Henderson

| prev_title = It's Raining Again

| prev_year = 1982

| next_title = Cannonball

| next_year = 1985

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|Q0FXu6bv_8k|"My Kind of Lady"}}

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"My Kind of Lady" was the second single from Supertramp's 1982 album …Famous Last Words…. The song is a '50's-style mid-tempo love ballad; it peaked at #16 on the USA Billboard Adult Contemporary and #31 on the USA Billboard pop singles charts.{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5562|pure_url=yes}} |title=allmusic – Supertramp – Billboard singles |accessdate=24 February 2009}} 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 and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Davies and Hodgson joined writer's credits from 1974 until 1983, when Hodgson left Supertramp to pursue a solo career.{{cite web |url=http://www.rogerhodgson.com/documents/bio.html |title=Roger Hodgson website biography |accessdate=24 February 2009}}

The song was the last single released during original member Hodgson's tenure.

Cash Box predicted that the song would be successful based on the "minimal production, Rick Davies’ trademark falsetto and a catchy sax solo."{{cite magazine|title=Reviews|magazine=Cash Box|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1983/CB-1983-01-29.pdf|date=January 29, 1983|accessdate=2022-07-17|page=12}} Billboard praised the song's "sense of fun" and said it is a throwback to 1956 with "chunky piano, bleating sax, and rhymes you can quote before you've heard them."{{cite magazine|magazine=Billboard|title=Top Single Picks|date=January 22, 1983|accessdate=2023-02-08|page=69|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5iMEAAAAMBAJ}}