Kinks-Size Explained

Kinks-Size
Type:	studio album
Artist:	the Kinks
Cover:	Kinks-size.jpg
Released:	24 March 1965
Recorded:	August–December 1964
Studio:	Pye and IBC, London
Genre:	R&B pop^[1] rock^[2]
Length:	23:02
Label:	Reprise
Producer:	Shel Talmy
Chronology:	The Kinks US
Prev Title:	You Really Got Me
Prev Year:	1964
Next Title:	Kinda Kinks
Next Year:	1965

Kinks-Size is a studio album by the English rock band the Kinks. Released in the United States and Canada in March1965, it was their second album issued on Reprise Records. It peaked at number 13 on the Billboard album chart in the third week of June1965,^[3] the same week the Kinks began their first US tour. It is the Kinks' fourth-highest-charting album on the Billboard album chart and the second-highest of their 1960s albums.^[4] The album ranked number 78 on Billboard year-end album chart for 1965.

Reprise issued the album to capitalise on the nation-wide publicity generated by the band's February1965 appearance on the musical variety programme Hullabaloo.^[5] The album had no direct analogue outside of the US market, but instead collected songs from the UK EP Kinksize Session, two songs which had been left off of the US version of the band's debut LP and both the A- and B-sides of the "All Day and All of the Night" and "Tired of Waiting for You" singles. All of its songs were recorded at Pye Studios in London, between August and December1964, though Dave Davies also overdubbed an electric guitar contribution to "Tired of Waiting for You" at IBC Studios in London.

Reception

The album has been critiqued as a clear cash-grab by Reprise, but the actual songs included have been praised as "the best parts of the group's work in England", with Bruce Eder of AllMusic writing, "this record rocks, showing off the better sides of the group's R&B output and early, formative, Beatles-influenced experiments as well."

Track listing

All songs written by Ray Davies unless otherwise noted.

Side one

1. "Tired of Waiting for You"2:30
2. "Louie Louie" (Richard Berry)2:57
3. "I've Got that Feeling"2:45
4. "Revenge" (Davies, Larry Page)1:28
5. "I Gotta Move"2:24

Side two

1. "Things are Getting Better"1:57
2. "I Gotta Go Now"2:54
3. "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" (J.D. Miller)2:20
4. "Come on Now"1:45
5. "All Day and All of the Night"2:02

Personnel

According to band researcher Doug Hinman:

The Kinks

• Ray Davieslead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica; piano ; lead guitar
• Dave Daviesbacking vocals, lead guitar; lead vocals
• Pete Quaifebacking vocals, bass guitar
• Mick Avorydrums; tambourine

Additional musicians

• Perry Fordpiano
• Bobby Grahamdrums
• Johnny B. Great backing vocals
• Nicky Hopkinspiano

Production

• Bob Augerengineer
• Shel Talmyproducer

Charts

+Weekly chart performance	Chart (1965)	Peak position
US Billboard Top LPs	13
US Cash Box Top 100 Albums^[6]	10
US Record World 100 Top LPs^[7]	12

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Ranking
US Billboard^[8]	78
US Cash Box^[9]	51

References

Sources

• Book: Hinman . Doug . The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night: Day by Day Concerts, Recordings, and Broadcasts, 1961–1996 . 2004 . Backbeat Books . San Francisco, California . 978-0-87930-765-3.
• Book: Rogan . Johnny . Johnny Rogan . The Kinks: The Sound and the Fury . 1984 . Elm Tree Books . London . 0-241-11308-3.
• Book: Sheffield, Rob . Rob Sheffield . Brackett . Nathan . Nathan Brackett . Hoard . Christian . Christian Hoard . The New Rolling Stone Album Guide . 2004 . . New York City . 978-0-7432-0169-8 . The Kinks . 458–460 . https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/458/ . registration . the Internet Archive.

Notes and References

1. Anon.. Album Reviews. Billboard. 3 April 1965. 64. WorldRadioHistory.com. 22 February 2023. 15 February 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230215154951/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1965/Billboard%201965-04-03.pdf. live.
2. Anon.. Cash Box Album Reviews. Cash Box. 27 March 1965. 30. WorldRadioHistory.com. 16 February 2023. 16 February 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230216193820/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1965/CB-1965-03-27.pdf. live.
3. Billboard Top LPs . . 19 June 1965 . 28 . WorldRadioHistory.com . 18 February 2023 . 15 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230215155155/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1965/Billboard%201965-06-19.pdf . live .
4. Web site: The Kinks Chart History . . 24 March 2020 . 21 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230221154201/https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-kinks/chart-history/tlp/ . live .

5. : (February1965).

6. Cash Box Top 100 Albums. 22 May 1965. Cash Box. 29. WorldRadioHistory.com. 16 February 2023. 16 February 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230216035614/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1965/CB-1965-05-22.pdf. live.
7. 100 Top LP's. 29 May 1965. Record World. 5.
8. Top LP's of 1965 (Based on total sales at retail). 25 December 1965. Billboard. 25. WorldRadioHistory.com. 16 February 2023. 15 February 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230215155755/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1965/Billboard-1965-International-Record-%26-Talent.pdf. live.
9. Best Albums of 1965. 25 December 1965. Cash Box. 31. WorldRadioHistory.com. 16 February 2023. 16 February 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230216040346/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1965/CB-1965-12-25.pdf. live.