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Days (Ray Davies song)

"Days"
Days (The Kinks single - cover art).jpg
Single by The Kinks
B-side "She's Got Everything"
Released 28 June 1968
Format 7" single
Recorded 23, 27 May 1968 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
Genre Folk rock
Length 2:50
Label Pye 7N 17573 (UK)
Reprise 0762 (US)
Songwriter(s) Ray Davies
Producer(s) Ray Davies
The Kinks singles chronology
"Wonderboy"
(1968)
"Days"
(1968)
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"Wonderboy"
(1968)
"Days"
(1968)
"Plastic Man"
(UK, 1969)
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"Starstruck"/
"Picture Book"(US, 1969)
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"Lincoln County"
(Dave Davies solo, 1968)
"Days"
Single by Kirsty MacColl
from the album Kite
A-side "Days"
B-side "Happy"
Released June 1989
Format 7", 10" and 12" vinyl, 3" CD, cassette, CD in kite-shaped box
Recorded 1988
Genre Pop
Songwriter(s) Ray Davies
Producer(s) Steve Lillywhite
Kirsty MacColl singles chronology
"Free World"
(1989)
"Days"
(1989)
"Innocence"
(1989)
"Free World"
(1989)
"Days"
(1989)
"Innocence"
(1989)

"Days" is a song by The Kinks, written by lead singer Ray Davies, released as a single in 1968. It also appeared on an early version of the album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (released only in continental Europe and New Zealand), and now appears as a bonus track of the remastered CD. On the original Pye 7N 17573 label, the name of the song is "Day's" due to a grammatical error.

The song was an important single for Davies and the Kinks, coming in a year of declining commercial fortunes for the band. The song had been intended as an album track but after the relative failure of the previous single "Wonderboy" (which only reached No. 36 in the UK), "Days" was rushed out as a single with an old unreleased track "She's Got Everything" (recorded in February 1966 in the same session as "Dedicated Follower of Fashion") as the B-side. It reached No. 12 on the UK chart, but failed to chart in the U.S. This did not help future releases however as the next four Kinks singles failed to reach the top 30 (two of them failing to chart altogether) in the UK.

The song appeared on an advertisement for the Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet in 2011 and, in the 2013 comedy film, The Harry Hill Movie when Hill saves Abu the Hamster from being killed by a crazy vet.

Kirsty MacColl covered "Days" on her 1989 album Kite. It was released as a single and reached No. 12 on the UK singles chart, the same position achieved by The Kinks in 1968. It was re-released in 1995, charting much lower, only reaching No. 42 in the UK. It was one of MacColl's most popular singles.

The video features MacColl in old fashioned clothing sitting on a meadow and riding in a boat whilst encountering animated animals.

The single was released in multiple formats. Each featured "Days" and "Happy", and all bar the 7" and cassette featured "Still Life". Both CD formats (the standard case and the Kite-shaped case) had "Please Help Me, I'm Falling", whilst "El Paso" was only available on the 10".


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