My Kind Of Girl

Album

My Kind Of Girl

Label

Parlophone

Genre

Traditional Pop

Entered Chart

May 29, 1961

Peak Date

Jul 31, 1961

Released

1961

Recorded

1961

Catalog #

Warwick 636

B-Side

This Time

This Leslie Bricasse song was a rare British international success in the years before the Beatles took over the singles charts. In peaking at #18 in the US, Monro became the first British singer to reach the American Top 20 in over three years - the previous being Laurie London with "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" in April 1958. Matt's daughter, Michele Monro, recalled to Mojo magazine February 2011: "For all its success, Dad never did receive a cent in royalties from America. However it was testament to the song's popularity and Matt's performance that both Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. later recorded the track." The song won ITV's British Song Contest in February 1961.

She walks like an angel walks
She talks like an angel talks
And her hair has a kind of curl
To my mind, she's my kind of girl

She's wise like an angel's wise
With eyes like an angel's eyes
And a smile kind of like a pearl
To my mind, she's my kind of girl

Pretty little face
That face just knocks me off my feet
Pretty little feet
She's really sweet enough to eat

She looks like an angel looks
She cooks like an angel cooks
And my mind's in a kind of whirl
To my mind, she's my kind of girl

Pretty little face
That face just knocks me off of my feet
Pretty little feet
She's really sweet enough to eat

She looks like an angel looks
She even cooks like an angel cooks
And my mind's in a kind of whirl
To my mind, she's my kind of girl

And my heart's kind of full of joy
Because she told me, I'm her kind of boy