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"I Go to Sleep" is a song written by Ray Davies which has been covered by numerous artists. Peggy Lee, the Applejacks and Cher recorded covers in 1965 without chart success. The Pretenders released a cover in 1981 which reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart.
Apr 30, 2020 · This week we’ll be looking at some of our favourite Kinks songs to give you a broad swath of what it is we love about them, a taster before you, invariably, are inspired to begin a longer deep...
- Come Dancing
- See My Friends
- Strangers
- Victoria
- Powerman
- Celluloid Heroes
- Lola
- Sunny Afternoon
- You Really Got Me
- Waterloo Sunset
The childhood memories of the Davies’ home provide the background and inspiration of “Come Dancing”(Arista, 1982). Ray and Dave’s older sisters were known to frequent the local dance halls, and it was a tribute to his sister, Rene. On Ray’s 13th birthday, Rene visited Canada and gifted him his first guitar. Later that night, Rene suffered a heart a...
Jetlagged and unable to sleep, Ray found himself on the early morning beach in Mumbai (then called Bombay) during a tour of Asia. He encountered two fishermen chanting their way to work. The chant and spiritual beliefs of the soul crossing rivers inspired Ray to write this earlier tribute to his sister, Rene. The backing tracks were slowed down in ...
The second track on Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One is one of the most potent Kinks songs ever written by Dave Davies. Though never released as a single, the song quickly became a fan favorite of the album. While Dave is mainly associated with heavily distorted fuzzy sound and other hard-hitting, electrified guitar lines, he opt...
“Victoria” was released as a single from the concept album Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (Pye in the UK, Reprise in the US, 1969). The album itself was to be a soundtrack for a television program that never was completed. Melody Maker would call the album “…beautifully British to the core.” Ray’s lyrics and music are a blen...
No strangers to label strangulation, Ray set his eyes on the recording executives and management with “Powerman.” While Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One was well received by music journalists, the buying public largely ignored it. It was Reprise’s last album released in the United States (Pye Records would release Arthur in the U...
The second single to be released from Everybody’s in Show-Biz (RCA, 1972), the UK single, would include the entire album version, while the American version stuck to the more corporate (cough-cough-powerman-cough) radio-friendly four minutes. Ray wrote the song while living in a seedy apartment in Hollywood. Always recognizing the stark contrast ar...
“Lola” (Pye Records in the UK, Reprise in the US, 1971) has as much conflict and controversy as the Kink’s first American tour. Ray would claim it was based on an incident involving their manager, Robert Wace. Mick Avory said it was based on frequenting the trans bars in west London and a specific fan that would turn up at all the Kinks appearances...
Ill and at home, Ray wrote the opening riff on his upright piano. He told Rolling Stone he had spent the time before writing it listening to Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, and Bob Dylan. He said they provided the chromatic part in the back of the song. “Sunny Afternoon”spent two weeks at #1 on the UK Singles Chart and #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in ...
Released as a single on August 4, 1964, after a hard won battle with Pye Records (later released on the album Kinks on Pye Records in the UK and the album You Really Got Meon Reprise Records for the US) the Kinks took to the charts in Britain and abroad. One of Ray’s first songs started as a light, jazzy tune. Ray envisioned opening piano riffs and...
Written after one of his breakdowns, Ray felt vulnerable and wouldn’t show the lyrics to the band. Instead, he tested them out on his sister Rosie and niece Jackie. Ray initially did not want to release the song as a single from the album Something Else from the Kinks (Pye Records in the UK, Reprise in the US, 1967). When the single was released, i...
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Written by Ray Davies of The Kinks, this ballad was originally recorded by Peggy Lee on her 1965 album Then Was Then - Now Is Now!. Davies didn't write many songs that weren't specifically for The Kinks, but this one was widely covered, with popular versions by Cher and The Pretenders.
"I Go to Sleep" is a 1965 song by The Kinks and has been covered by numerous artists including The Pretenders in 1981 where it went to number 6 in Belgium, number 7 in the United Kingdom, number 9 in the Netherlands and number 28 in New Zealand.
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Apr 8, 2022 · Buried towards the back of their 1964 debut album Kinks, Stop Your Sobbing swapped the feral proto-metal roar of their You Really Got Me for sunny beat-pop. But as with so many great Ray Davies songs, there was an undercurrent of melancholy to it.
