Kinks-Size

Kinks-Size is a studio album by the English rock band the Kinks. Released in the United States and Canada in March 1965,^[a] it was their second album issued on Reprise Records.^[6] It peaked at number 13 on the Billboard album chart in the third week of June 1965,^[7] the same week the Kinks began their first US tour.^[6] It is the Kinks' fourth-highest-charting album on the Billboard album chart and the second-highest of their 1960s albums.^[8][b] The album ranked number 78 on Billboard's year-end album chart for 1965.

Kinks-Size
Studio album by the Kinks
Released	March 1965 (1965-03)[a]
Recorded	August–December 1964
Studio	Pye and IBC, London
Genre	R&B[2] pop[3] rock[4]
Length	23:02
Label	Reprise
Producer	Shel Talmy
The Kinks US chronology
You Really Got Me (1964) Kinks-Size (1965) Kinda Kinks (1965)
Singles from Kinks-Size
"Tired of Waiting for You" / "Come on Now" Released: c. 24 February 1965[5]

Reprise issued the album to capitalise on the nation-wide publicity generated by the band's February 1965 appearance on the musical variety programme Hullabaloo.^[9] 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.^[6] All of its songs were recorded at Pye Studios in London, between August and December 1964, though Dave Davies also overdubbed an electric guitar contribution to "Tired of Waiting for You" at IBC Studios in London.^[10]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	[11]

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."^[2]

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:^[12]

The Kinks

• Ray Davies – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica; piano ("Louie Louie" and "I've Got That Feeling"); lead guitar ("Revenge")
• Dave Davies – backing vocals, lead guitar; lead vocals ("I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" and "Come on Now")
• Pete Quaife – backing vocals, bass guitar
• Mick Avory – drums; tambourine ("All Day and All of the Night")

Additional musicians

• Perry Ford – piano ("All Day and All of the Night")
• Bobby Graham – drums ("Tired of Waiting for You", "Revenge", "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" and "All Day and All of the Night")
• Johnny B. Great – backing vocals ("All Day and All of the Night")
• Nicky Hopkins – piano ("Things Are Getting Better")
• Jimmy Page – twelve-string acoustic guitar ("I Gotta Move" and "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter")

Production

• Bob Auger – engineer
• Shel Talmy – producer

Charts

Weekly chart performance Chart (1965) Peak position US Billboard Top LPs[6] 13 US Cash Box Top 100 Albums[13] 10 US Record World 100 Top LPs[14] 12

Year-end chart performance Chart (1965) Ranking US Billboard[15] 78 US Cash Box[16] 51

Notes

1. Doug Hinman writes the album "probably" came out on 24 March, but that it could also have been 31 March.^[1]
2. The band's compilation The Kinks Greatest Hits! reached number nine in November 1966.^[8]

References

1. Hinman 2004, pp. 51, 52.
2. Eder, Bruce. Kinks-Size at AllMusic. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
3. Anon. (3 April 1965). "Album Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. p. 64. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 February 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2023 – via WorldRadioHistory.com.
4. Anon. (27 March 1965). "Cash Box Album Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. p. 30. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023 – via WorldRadioHistory.com.
5. Hinman 2004, p. 46.
6. Hinman 2004, p. 52.
7. "Billboard Top LPs" (PDF). Billboard. 19 June 1965. p. 28. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 February 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2023 – via WorldRadioHistory.com.
8. "The Kinks Chart History". Billboard. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
9. Rogan 1984, p. 32; Hinman 2004, p. 48: (February 1965).
10. Hinman 2004, pp. 37, 38, 41, 43, 46, 50.
11. Sheffield 2004, p. 458.
12. Hinman 2004, pp. 37, 38, 41, 46.
13. "Cash Box Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Cash Box. 22 May 1965. p. 29. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023 – via WorldRadioHistory.com.
14. "100 Top LP's". Record World. 29 May 1965. p. 5.
15. "Top LP's of 1965 (Based on total sales at retail)" (PDF). Billboard. 25 December 1965. p. 25. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023 – via WorldRadioHistory.com.
16. "Best Albums of 1965" (PDF). Cash Box. 25 December 1965. p. 31. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023 – via WorldRadioHistory.com.

Sources

• 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.
• Rogan, Johnny (1984). The Kinks: The Sound and the Fury. London: Elm Tree Books. ISBN 0-241-11308-3.
• Sheffield, Rob (2004). "The Kinks". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City: Simon & Schuster. pp. 458–460. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8 – via the Internet Archive.