"My Man and Me" is a song written, 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.

Chart performance

It reached the UK top 40 in March 1975 and was de Paul's seventh

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hit. It was listed as one of the best singles of 1975 in the UK music paper ''

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''. The song also reached No. 23 on the Radio Capital Countdown on 29 March 1975, No. 27 on the

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singles chart on 1 April 1975 and No. 35 on the '' NME'' singles chart. Despite not being her biggest hit, it is rated the most played de Paul song on the BBC.

Other recordings

Notable performances of the song include a live version for ''

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'', a live performance on ''David Nixon's Christmas Magic'' shown on prime time TV on Christmas Day, and an appearance singing the song on ''

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'' on 20 February 1975. It was included as one of the tracks on the K-Tel 1976 compilation album ''44 Superstars'', as well as various Polydor compilation albums such as ''That's When the Music Gets Me'', ''14 Internationale Hits'', and ''Super Dance Party 3''. 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''; as well as by Japanese duo Beautiful Hummingbird (Mitsuko Koike and Nobuaki Tabata) accompanied by acoustic guitar on their self titled 2013 CD album. The song title and lyric was altered to "My Girl and Me" on the 1977 single release by ex-

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member Carl Wayne, which was produced by de Paul. 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 ''

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''. It has since been released on a number of de Paul compilation albums.

References

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* 1975 songs Lynsey de Paul songs Songs written by Lynsey de Paul Jet Records singles {{1970s-song-stub