Sorry for the lateness of today's post - we were traveling for Thanksgiving. In one year on the Hot 100 from fifty years ago, we've gone from "Dominique" by the Singing Nun...to this!!
Our featured song today may have been the hardest rockin' song of 1964. The Kinks' Dave Davies achieved the distortion for the iconic intro by sticking pinholes into his amplifier speaker, then slicing said speaker with a razor. Their record producer, Shel Talmy, worked with The Who a few years later, and Pete Townshend admitted they stole the band's early sound from the Kinks. Van Halen had a GREAT remake of this on their debut album, but it's hard to beat the original!
Kinks - You Really Got Me
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