My Kinda Lover

"My Kinda Lover"
"My Kinda Lover"
Single by Billy Squier
from the album Don't Say No
B-side	"Christmas Is the Time to Say 'I Love You'"
Released	November 1981
Genre	Rock, hard rock
Length	3:32
Label	Capitol
Songwriter(s)	Billy Squier
Producer(s)	Reinhold Mack; Billy Squier
Billy Squier singles chronology

"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]

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

Rapper Eminem sampled "My Kinda Lover" on his 2014 song "Shady XV".^[8]
The song was used in the Mötley Crüe biopic, The Dirt, when lead singer Vince Neil is performing it with a cover band at a party when Tommy, Mick, and Nikki arrive to recruit Neil into the band.

References

^ ^a ^b "Billy Squier: My Kinda Lover". allmusic. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (8th ed.). Billboard Books. p. 594. ISBN 0-8230-7499-4.
^ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. November 28, 1981. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
^ ^a ^b Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
^ ^a ^b "Billy Squier: Billboard Singles". AllMusic. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
^ 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.
^ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, January 23, 1982". Archived from the original on June 3, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
^ "My Kinda Lover by Billy Squier". Who Sampled. Retrieved June 10, 2018.