My Man and Me

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"My Man and Me"
Single by Lynsey de Paul
from the album Taste Me...Don't Waste Me
B-side "Dancing on a Saturday Night"
Released1975
Genre Pop
Length3:46
Songwriter(s) Lynsey de Paul
Lynsey de Paul singles chronology
"No, Honestly"
(1974)		"My Man and Me"
(1975)		"Rhythm and Blue Jean Baby"
(1975)

"My Man and Me" is a song written, [1] recorded and produced by the British female singer-songwriter Lynsey de Paul for her second album, Taste Me... Don't Waste Me , and released as a single backed with de Paul's smoochy version of "Dancing on a Saturday Night" on 21 February 1975. [2]

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Chart performance

It reached the UK top 40 in March 1975 and was de Paul's seventh UK Singles Chart hit. [3] It was listed as one of the best singles of 1975 in the UK music paper Record Mirror . [4] The song also reached No. 23 on the Radio Capital Countdown on 29 March 1975, No. 27 on the Radio Luxembourg singles chart on 1 April 1975 [5] and No. 35 on the NME singles chart. [6] Despite not being her biggest hit, it is rated the most played de Paul song on the BBC. [7] It was also listed as one of the best singles of 1975 by the Record Mirror (at that time known as Record Mirror & Disc). [8]

Other recordings

Notable performances of the song include a live version for The Old Grey Whistle Test , [9] and a live performance on David Nixon's Christmas Magic shown on prime time TV on Christmas Day, [10] plus an appearance singing the song on Top of the Pops on 20 February 1975. [11] De Paul also performed the song on The Russell Harty Show on 14 March 1975, [12] and on the British children's TV programme Magpie . [13] De Paul also performed the song as part of a special televised concert for the BBC. [14] It was included as one of the tracks on the K-Tel 1976 compilation album 44 Superstars, [15] as well as various Polydor compilation albums such as That's When the Music Gets Me, [16] 14 Internationale Hits, [17] and Super Dance Party 3. [18]

The song has been released as a cover version by Swedish singer Agneta Munther with Swedish lyrics by Britt Lindeborg on her 1975 album Två sidor; [19] as well as by Japanese duo Beautiful Hummingbird (Mitsuko Koike and Nobuaki Tabata) [20] accompanied by acoustic guitar on their self titled 2013 CD album. [21]

The song title and lyric was altered to "My Girl and Me" on the 1977 single release by ex-the Move member Carl Wayne, which was produced by de Paul. [22] It was given a more bluesy makeover that seems to be a precursor to de Paul's re-recorded version of the song for her 1979 album Tigers and Fireflies . [23] It has since been released on a number of de Paul compilation albums. [24] [25] [26] [27]

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