Kinky Music
Studio album by
the Larry Page Orchestra
Released18 June 1965 (1965-06-18)
Genre
Length31:01
LabelDecca
ProducerLarry Page
The Larry Page Orchestra chronology
Kinky Music
(1965)		 Executive Suite
(1967)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Kinky Music is a studio album by the Larry Page Orchestra, released on 18 June 1965 by Decca Records.[2][3] The album consists of orchestral middle of the road or easy listening[1] arrangements of compositions by Ray Davies, principal songwriter of the English rock band the Kinks, whom Larry Page then managed.[4] The album fit in a trend of orchestral arrangements of popular British rock acts, like George Martin's 1964 album Off the Beatle Track.[1][5] Davies did not participate in any aspect of the album's creation,[6] nor did any of the Kinks perform on it.[1] The recordings instead featured then prodigious session musicians, like Jimmy Page, Big Jim Sullivan and John Paul Jones.[1]

Page considered the work a marketing exercise to introduce Davies' melodic talent to a wider audience, but the album sold poorly.[7] While he was generally supportive or sarcastic regarding the project upon its release, Davies later criticised the album as exploitative, calling it both "appalling" and "horrible".[4][8] Writing in retrospect for AllMusic, critic Richie Unterberger describes the album "frivolous", "bland" and unlikely to interest even devoted Kinks fans.[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ray Davies, except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Tired Of Waiting For You" – 2:41
  2. "Come On Now" – 2:02
  3. "Something Better Beginning" – 2:59
  4. "You Really Got Me" – 2:27
  5. "Don't Ever Change" – 3:14
  6. "Got My Feet On The Ground" (Dave Davies, R. Davies) – 3:15

Side two

  1. "All Day And All Of The Night" – 2:39
  2. "One Fine Day" (D. Davies) – 2:09
  3. "Just Can't Go To Sleep" – 2:47
  4. "Revenge" (R. Davies, Larry Page) – 2:03
  5. "I Took My Baby Home" – 2:29
  6. "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" – 2:16

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Unterberger, Richie. "Kinky Music – Larry Page Orchestra". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 27 November 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
  2. ↑ Hinman 2004, p. 58.
  3. ↑ Rogan 2015, p. 662.
  4. 1 2 Rogan 2015, p. 237.
  5. ↑ Miles 2001, p. 159.
  6. ↑ Hinman 2004, p. 64.
  7. ↑ Rogan 2015, pp. 237, 662.
  8. ↑ Hinman 2004, pp. 57, 58.

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