Kinky Music
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| Released | 18 June 1965 | |||
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| Length | 31:01 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
| Producer | Larry Page | |||
| The Larry Page Orchestra chronology | ||||
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| AllMusic |    [1] |
Kinky Music is a studio album by the Larry Page Orchestra, released on 18 June 1965 by Decca Records.[2][3] The album consists of orchestral middle of the road or easy listening[1] arrangements of compositions by Ray Davies, principal songwriter of the English rock band the Kinks, whom Larry Page then managed.[4] The album fit in a trend of orchestral arrangements of popular British rock acts, like George Martin's 1964 album Off the Beatle Track.[1][5] Davies did not participate in any aspect of the album's creation,[6] nor did any of the Kinks perform on it.[1] The recordings instead featured then prodigious session musicians, like Jimmy Page, Big Jim Sullivan and John Paul Jones.[1]
Page considered the work a marketing exercise to introduce Davies' melodic talent to a wider audience, but the album sold poorly.[7] Davies was generally supportive or sarcastic regarding the album upon its release, but he later criticised the project as exploitative, calling it both "appalling" and "horrible".[4][8] Writing in retrospect for AllMusic, critic Richie Unterberger describes the album "frivolous", "bland" and unlikely to interest even devoted Kinks fans.[1]
Track listing
[edit]All tracks are written by Ray Davies, except where noted.
Side one
- "Tired Of Waiting For You" – 2:41
- "Come On Now" – 2:02
- "Something Better Beginning" – 2:59
- "You Really Got Me" – 2:27
- "Don't Ever Change" – 3:14
- "Got My Feet On The Ground" (Dave Davies, R. Davies) – 3:15
Side two
- "All Day And All Of The Night" – 2:39
- "One Fine Day" (D. Davies) – 2:09
- "Just Can't Go To Sleep" – 2:47
- "Revenge" (R. Davies, Larry Page) – 2:03
- "I Took My Baby Home" – 2:29
- "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" – 2:16
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Unterberger, Richie. "Kinky Music – Larry Page Orchestra". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 27 November 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
- ^ Hinman 2004, p. 58.
- ^ Rogan 2015, p. 662.
- ^ a b Rogan 2015, p. 237.
- ^ Miles 2001, p. 159.
- ^ Hinman 2004, p. 64.
- ^ Rogan 2015, pp. 237, 662.
- ^ Hinman 2004, pp. 57, 58.
Sources
[edit]- Hinman, Doug (2004). The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night: Day-by-Day Concerts, Recordings, and Broadcasts, 1961–1996. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-0-87930-765-3.
- Miles, Barry (2001). The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-7119-8308-3 – via Google Books.
- Rogan, Johnny (2015). Ray Davies: A Complicated Life. London: The Bodley Head. ISBN 978-1-84792-317-2 – via the Internet Archive.