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October 13th, 2009 at 12:12 PM
The Kinks Go…Choral?
Can you picture your high school chorus getting down with The Kinks‘ greatest hits? Well, neither can I. But something close is about to happen: Kinks frontman Ray Davies has teamed up with the Crouch Festival Choir on an album called The Kinks Choral Collection. The record, which has been out since June in the U.K., but won’t reach the U.S. until November 10, features Davies’ new arrangements of songs including “You Really Got Me,” “All Day and All of the Night,” and six cuts from my very own favorite Kinks album, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. Unfortunately, “Lola” will not be in attendance.
You can stream “Days,” the first cut from The Kinks Choral Collection here. On first listen, the song has more of a sentimental tinge than the original. And the choral element certainly fits the speed and content of the track. But I can’t help wondering: What can we expect Davies to do with “You Really Got Me,” “Johnny Thunder,” or any of the other more raucous cuts? It’ll be nice to see these old songs see new life, but I sure hope they don’t get ruined in the process.
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October 13th, 2009 at 12:10 PM { # }
hello from Holland,
yes, yes, i saw Ray on you tube and i thought … that’s interesting/nice.
as a fanatic fan i can only be very enthousiastic about the chorus album, yes i do. and it was very amasing seeing Ray in Carre ,Amsterdam. Fantastic.
from the first album (KINKS, in red jackets.) i think i have all the songs (??)
untill now from Ray, less than from Dave.off course i saw hem also in Utrecht, april 2009, and spoke some words with him, and Karin. for me he is un exampel of surfival the complext world we live in. with a smile and a grin. and yes….let the unexpected happen, … live life at the maximum, as he once sung.
hans bak, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Holland.
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