| My Man and Me | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Lynsey de Paul |
| Album: | Taste Me...Don't Waste Me |
| B-Side: | "Dancing on a Saturday Night" |
| Released: | 1975 |
| Genre: | Pop |
| Length: | 3:46 |
| Prev Title: | No, Honestly |
| Prev Year: | 1974 |
| Next Title: | Rhythm and Blue Jean Baby |
| Next Year: | 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]
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]
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]