"Where Is My Man" is the title of a song from 1983 by the American

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 singer and actress Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Mae Kitt was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby." Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the...

, which appeared on her 1984 album I Love Men

I Love Men

I Love Men is a 1984 studio album by Eartha Kitt, her first album recorded for 14 years. The album was recorded in New York at the Power Station. Produced by French record producer Jacques Morali, who had previously produced recordings by the Village People and The Ritchie Family. This album...

The song was co-written by comedy writer Bruce Vilanch

Bruce Vilanch

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 along with musicians and producers Fred Zarr

Fred Zarr

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 and Jacques Morali

Jacques Morali

Jacques Morali was a French music producer, who is best remembered for being the creator and driving force behind the disco group, Village People....

.

The song was first released in France as a single

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 where it was wildly successful. The song features Kitt singing in a low, seductive-sounding voice. Included in the song are some sounds that have come to be associated with Kitt, including a purring sound similar to one she made while portraying Catwoman

Catwoman

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 on the 1960s TV series Batman

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. The lyrics to the song detail specific things the singer expects to receive from her future lover, such as a trip to Saint-Tropez

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 and shopping at Tiffany's

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The title failed to find release in the United States until the producers' attorneys (the firm of Grubman, Indursky, Shindler) introduced the title to their client, New York based Streetwise Records. Streetwise Records released the title in late 1983 in the United States to the dance and club markets. It was Kitt's first recording released in the United States after her ostracism and self-imposed exile to Paris following her outspoken objection to the Vietnam War at a White House function in 1968, and it became her biggest-selling single in 30 years.

In the United Kingdom

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, "Where Is My Man" reached the Top 40 on the UK Singles Chart

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, where it peaked at #36.
This was her first UK Hit single in 28 years, the previous chart entry, "Under The Bridges of Paris" dating from 1955.
The single was also a hit in dance clubs around the world peaking at #5 in Sweden and #22 in Netherlands. In the US, the song made the Top 10 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Hot Dance Club Play

Hot Dance Club Play

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chart, peaking at #7 and remaining on the survey for 14 weeks.