This week, Jim is looking for a track from a second album. That’s a pretty broad field but Madame had just happened to mention The Kinks as I set to my task, so here is the closing track on Side 1 of their second album, ‘Kinda Kinks’, which was released in March 1965. Surely it can’t have been sixty years ago. Can it?…
Anyway, this is a classic that reached Number One in the UK when released as a single. Apparently, Ray Davis wrote it when he was fifteen years old.
So tired, tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
So tired, tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
I was a lonely soul
I had nobody ’til I met you
But you keep-a me waiting
All of the time, what can I do?
It’s your life
And you can do what you want
Do what you like
But please don’t keep-a me waiting
Please don’t keep-a me waiting
‘Cause I’m so tired, tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
So tired, tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
Written by Ray Davies
the only deadhead in the hameau 
This brings back some memories! As you say, it’s frightening to think that this came our well over sixty years ago!
This is one I haven’t heard in forever! Great choice.
Excellent! You can never go wrong with the Kinks!
Great choice. Ray Davies wrote this song while he was a student at Hornsey School of Art in London.Ā This song is about a girl who has a guy under her spell, and she keeps stringing him along which is making him bored as this relationship is going nowhere and this is wearing him out.
The Kinks are in my upper ranks, no, top ranks, of favorite musicians. Wonderful selection and although 60 years have gone by, sounds as fresh as the day it was created.
This still sounds fresh today, like many other Kinks songs
Love me some Kinks