My Kinda Lover

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"My Kinda Lover"
My Kinda Lover - Billy Squier.jpg
Single by Billy Squier
from the album Don't Say No
B-side "Christmas Is the Time to Say 'I Love You'"
ReleasedNovember 1981
Genre Rock, hard rock
Length3:32
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Billy Squier
Producer(s) Reinhold Mack
Billy Squier
Billy Squier singles chronology
"In the Dark"
(1981)		"My Kinda Lover"
(1981)		"Emotions in Motion"
(1982)

"My Kinda Lover" is a rock song written and performed by American hard rock singer and guitarist Billy Squier. [1] It was the third and final single released from his Triple Platinum 1981 album Don't Say No , [1] following "In the Dark". [2]

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Record World said that "While his band spanks, crunches and crashes, Billy seduces with a light, likeable tenor." [3]

It peaked at number 45 on the United States Billboard Hot 100, [4] and number 43 on the Cash Box Top 100 chart in early 1982. It also reached number 31 on Billboard 's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. [5]

Charts

Chart (1981/82)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [6] 64
US Billboard Hot 100 [4] 45
US Cash Box Top 100 [7] 43
US Billboard Rock Tracks [5] 31

Later uses

References

  1. 1 2 "Billy Squier: My Kinda Lover". allmusic . Retrieved January 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (8th ed.). Billboard Books. p. 594. ISBN   0-8230-7499-4.
  3. ↑ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. November 28, 1981. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
  4. 1 2 Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN   0-89820-089-X
  5. 1 2 "Billy Squier: Billboard Singles". AllMusic . Retrieved January 15, 2017.
  6. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 289. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  7. ↑ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, January 23, 1982". Archived from the original on June 3, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
  8. ↑ "My Kinda Lover by Billy Squier". Who Sampled. Retrieved June 10, 2018.


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