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Reprise Records released The Kinks Greatest Hits! in the US on 10 August 1966. [b] The band's first greatest hits album, [5] it mostly consists of singles issued by the group between 1964 and 1966, [6] ranging from "You Really Got Me" to "Dedicated Follower of Fashion", recorded in mid-July 1964 and February 1966, respectively.
The Kinks, an English rock band, were active for over three decades, from 1963 to 1996, releasing 26 studio albums and four live albums. [1] The first two albums are differently released in the UK and the US, partly due to the difference in popularity of the extended play format (the UK market liked it, the US market did not, so US albums had the EP releases bundled onto them), and partly due ...
"You Really Got Me" was written by Ray Davies, the Kinks' vocalist and main songwriter, sometime between 9 and 12 March 1964. [4] Created on the piano in the front room of the Davies' home, the song was stylistically very different from the finished product, being much lighter and somewhat jazz-oriented. [4]
Their third single, the Ray Davies-penned "You Really Got Me", [4] [5] became an international hit, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and reaching the top 10 in the United States. [6] The Kinks' music drew from a wide range of influences, including American R&B and rock and roll initially, and later adopting British music hall, folk, and ...
Van Halen is the debut studio album by American rock band Van Halen, released on February 10, 1978, by Warner Bros. Records.Widely regarded as one of the greatest debut albums in rock music, [9] [10] [11] the album was a major commercial success, peaking at number 19 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart. [12]
This re-release failed to chart. Although the Kinks had performed the song live on the TV show Ready Steady Go! in 1965, it would not become a staple of their live shows until the 1970s. The song was covered and released as a single in 1982 by Van Halen for their album Diver Down, reaching 17 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart
"All Day and All of the Night" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks from 1964. Released as a single, it reached No. 2 in the UK on the Record Retailer chart [8] and No. 7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1965. [9] The song was included on the Kinksize Hits EP in the UK and the Kinks' second American album, Kinks-Size (1965).
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