My Kind of Lady

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“My Kind of Lady”
Single by Supertramp from the album ...Famous Last Words...
Released	February 1983
Genre	Rock
Length	4:24
Label	A&M
Writer(s)	Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson
Producer	Supertramp, Peter Henderson
Supertramp singles chronology
"It's Raining Again" (1982) "My Kind of Lady" (1983) "Cannonball" (1985)

My Kind of Lady was the second single from Supertramp's 1982 album ...Famous Last Words.... The song was written by Rick Davies and was a mid-tempo love ballad. The song peaked at #31 on the U.S. charts. The voices were all sung by Rick. The echo-treated and natural sounding voice was sung in Rick's baritone. The falsetto passages were double tracked and mixed with a phaser. Despite being released as a single, the track was not performed live.

[edit] Video

For the video for "My Kind of Lady", the band depicted themselves as a 1950s doo-wop group and 50s rock band. As a result, the band members shaved off their trademark beards and moustaches and cut their hair short. However, Rick Davies and John Helliwell would permanently grow their facial hair back shortly after the video was shot. Roger Hodgson would be seen since with or without facial hair (in fact he only appears in the rock group sequences as he showed up late for the shoot and was not in the doo-wop sequences). Dougie Thomson and Bob Siebenberg have remained clean shaven ever since the video shoot (although Siebenberg had been the only member of Supertramp to appear on every album cover's inner or back sleeve photos clean shaven although he did have facial hair for short stretches in the 1970s).

The video had two different endings. One was a black and white ending with the band playing and the other was in color with a diiferent angle of the band playing at the end.

[edit] Personnel

Rick Davies - lead and backing vocals, piano
Roger Hodgson - guitar
Dougie Thomson - bass guitar
John Helliwell - baritone saxophone, alto saxophone, synthesizers
Bob Siebenberg - drums