KINKED! Kinks Songs & Sessions 1964-1971

[Frantic]

KINKED! Kinks Songs & Sessions 1964-71
Available April 2016, on Ace Records (www.acerecords.co.uk)

1 King Of The Whole Wide World - Leapy Lee
2 I Bet You Won’t Stay - The Cascades
3 Look For Me Baby - Goldie & The Gingerbreads*
4 I Go To Sleep - Peggy Lee
5 This Strange Effect - Dave Berry
6 All Night Stand - The Thoughts**
7 So Mystifying - The Olympics*
8 Un Jeune Homme Bien - Petula Clark
9 One Fine Day - Shel Naylor
10 Oh What A Day It’s Gonna Be - Mo & Steve
11 Little Man In A Little Box - Barry Fantoni
12 A House In The Country - The Pretty Things
13 When I See That Girl Of Mine - Bobby Rydell
14 Nobody’s Fool - Cold Turkey
15 Act Nice & Gentle - Duster Bennett
16 I’ve Got That Feeling - The Orchids
17 Emptiness - The Honeycombs
18 Rosie Won’t You Please Come Home - Marianne Faithfull
19 I'm Not Like Everybody Else - The Chocolate Watchband**
20 Who’ll Be The Next In Line - The Knack
21 Dandy - Herman’s Hermits
22 The Virgin Soldiers March - The John Schroeder Orchestra
23 A Little Bit Of Sunlight - The Majority
24 Big Black Smoke - Mick & Malcolm
25 Mister Pleasant - Nicky Hopkins
26 End Of the Season - The Uglys

* = previously unreleased

** = previously unreleased alternate version/mix

• One of the greatest songwriting talents that Britain has ever produced, right from his earliest days with the Kinks, Ray Davies was tremendously prolific. His wry take on the British way of life was matched by uncanny melodic and commercial sensibilities, resulting in a body of work that remains unsurpassed. From ‘You Really Got Me’ on, the Kinks’ popularity and influence across the globe has been immeasurable, and this is ably demonstrated by the many covers of Davies songs.
• Kinked! Songs & Sessions is an alternative celebration of the Kinks first decade, via the songs that “got away,” when a surfeit of strong material was shopped by Davies’ then-publisher and management, both in the UK and overseas. These tunes include several signature items never officially recorded by the Kinks – ‘I Go To Sleep,’ ‘This Strange Effect,’ ‘All Night Stand’ – or often released well in advance of the Kinks’ own versions.
• The range of interpreters is wide, from pop-jazz chanteuse Peggy Lee and teen idol Bobby Rydell to Brit-girls the Orchids and Goldie & The Gingerbreads, UK mainstays Herman’s Hermits and the Pretty Things, sessioneer Nicky Hopkins, satirist Barry Fantoni, US garage punk avatars the Chocolate Watchband and R&B veterans the Olympics. Several cuts are previously unissued alternate versions / mixes or recent vault discoveries.
• Kinked! also gathers the known outside tracks to feature some or all of the Kinks as accompaniment, like the obscure ‘King Of The Whole Wide World’. And as writer, Kinks guitar slinger extraordinaire Dave Davies contributes one track, the rare beat pounder ‘One Fine Day.’
• Detailed liner notes provide a background to the artists and how they acquired the songs. Kinked! is a lovingly-compiled, great-sounding and long overdue definitive collection that is bound to satisfy the casual Kinks aficionado as much as the hardcore fan.

 

[soundog III]

9 One Fine Day - Shel Naylor

As writer, Kinks guitar slinger extraordinaire Dave Davies contributes one track, the rare beat pounder ‘One Fine Day.’

A worthy candidate for most interesting track on this comp. Always been really mystified regarding the background of this session. Here's a bit of info gleaned moments ago from that most reliable of sources, though this commentary rings true to my eyes & ears.

https://www.kindakinks.net/misc/40yearskinks/teil1_e.html

An excerpt follows:

To this day, however, it is still unknown which {Ravens / Kinks} recordings were made in November [1963]. Above all, "One Fine Day" is a mystery song, because it was recorded in early 1964 by a singer called "Shel Naylor" -- the backing track was recorded by Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and maybe Bobby Graham. Naylor was a 17-year-old singer (real name Robert Woodward) who was promoted by Larry Page at that time. There have been previous suspicions that this recording was actually the Kinks playing the backing track which is not correct.



Shel's real name was Rob Woodward, and later, with Nigel Fletcher he became the mainman in Lieutenant Pigeon.

 

[jeffs11375]

I can find no reference to this on Ace's website but this is the best news I've heard in a long long time. I've been waiting for a compilation like this for years. Where did you find out about it?

 

[Frantic]

I can find no reference to this on Ace's website but this is the best news I've heard in a long long time. I've been waiting for a compilation like this for years. Where did you find out about it?

Straight from Alec Palao's mouth.

 

[jeffs11375]

Thanks Frantic. Although there are so many great tracks here I am especially excited about the Leapy Lee track "King of the Whole Wide World". Whenever I hear it I can just hear Ray singing it. Did they ever record it?

 

[Frantic]

Thanks Frantic. Although there are so many great tracks here I am especially excited about the Leapy Lee track "King of the Whole Wide World". Whenever I hear it I can just hear Ray singing it. Did they ever record it?

No they didn't.

 

[dan nowicki]

A worthy candidate for most interesting track on this comp.

Alec mentioned this project to me when he was in Phoenix in November. I'm especially interested in hearing the unreleased tape of The Olympics doing "So Mystifying," which Alec speculated could be the earliest example of an American group recording a Kinks song.

 

[Frantic]

Alec mentioned this project to me when he was in Phoenix in November. I'm especially interested in hearing the unreleased tape of The Olympics doing "So Mystifying," which Alec speculated could be the earliest example of an American group recording a Kinks song.

Not many soul versions of Kinks songs out there.

 

[gregk25]

Will this be out on vinyl, too?

 

[Frantic]

no. cd only