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Thread #36688   Message #4114447
Posted By: DaveRo
26-Jul-21 - 11:18 AM
Thread Name: Songs of the Kinks / Ray Davies
Subject: RE: Songs of the Kinks / Ray Davies
There are so many good songs by Ray Davies. Sometime during my aMule days I acquired a Greatest Hits album which includes 'Come Dancing', which is now one of my favourites.

"The song was inspired by Davies' memories of his older sister, Rene, who died of a heart attack while dancing at a dance hall. The lyrics, sung from the perspective of an "East End barrow boy," are about the boy's sister going on dates at a local Palais dance hall." (from WikiPedia)
(I'm not sure about the East End barrow boy: Ray lived in Muswell Hill which is quite genteel.)

Here's a youtube, with no pictures:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AEeH5OkjeIY

I've sung Kinks songs in a U3A singing group. Everybody know them. If not, in Dedicated Follower they do the 'Oh yes he is!" responses. In Waterloo Sunset I divide them in into sections to do the Sha-la-la's and the vocal harmonies. It's not exactly choral music, but fun.

I always think of this song when I'm around Waterloo of an evening, which is quite often - or was.

How we made Waterloo Sunset