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The End of the World (Skeeter Davis song)

"The End of the World"
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Single by Skeeter Davis
from the album Skeeter Davis Sings The End of the World
B-side "Somebody Loves You", "Blueberry Hill"
Released 1962
Format 7" single
Recorded 1962
Genre Country
Length 2:33
Label RCA
Writer(s) Arthur Kent, Sylvia Dee
Producer(s) Chet Atkins
Skeeter Davis singles chronology
"The Little Music Box"
(1962)
"The End of the World"
(1962)
"I'm Saving My Love"
(1963)
"The End of the World"
Single by The Carpenters
from the album Live in Japan
B-side "Sing" (live with the Kyoto Children's Choir)
Released March 5, 1975
Format Cassette
Recorded June 4–9, 1975
Genre Country
Length 2:04
Label A&M/King Records, Universal
Writer(s) Arthur Kent, Sylvia Dee
Producer(s) Richard Carpenter
The Carpenters singles chronology
"Only Yesterday"
(1975)
"The End of the World"
(1975)
"Solitaire"
(1976)
"End of the World"
Single by Sonia
from the album Everybody Knows
B-side "Can't Help the Way That I Feel"
Released August 1990
Format CD Single
7" Single
12" Single
Recorded 1990
Genre Pop
Length 3:36
Label Chrysalis
Writer(s) Arthur Kent, Sylvia Dee
Producer(s)
Sonia singles chronology
"You've Got a Friend"
(1990)
"End of the World"
(1990)
"Only Fools (Never Fall in Love)"
(1991)

"The End of the World" is a country and pop music hit song recorded by Skeeter Davis that enjoyed international success in the 1960s.

"The End of the World" was written by Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee; the latter drew on her sorrow from her father's death.

Davis recorded her version on June 8, 1962, at the RCA Studios in Nashville, produced by Chet Atkins, and featuring Floyd Cramer. Released by RCA Records in December 1962, "The End of the World" peaked in March 1963 at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (behind "Our Day Will Come" by Ruby & the Romantics), No. 2 on the Billboard country singles, No. 1 on Billboard's easy listening, and No. 4 on Billboard's rhythm and blues. It is the first, and, to date, only time that a song cracked the Top 10 on all four Billboard charts.Billboard ranked the record as the No. 3 song of 1963.

In the Skeeter Davis version, after she sings the whole song through in the key of B-flat, the song modulates up by a half step to the key of B, where Skeeter speaks the first two lines of the final stanza, before singing the rest of the stanza, ending the song.

Davis's recording of "The End of the World" was played at Atkins's funeral in an instrumental by Marty Stuart, and at Davis's own funeral at the Ryman Auditorium. Her version has been featured in several TV shows, video games and films including Girl, Interrupted, Riding in Cars with Boys, Daltry Calhoun, ''An American Affair'', The Boat That Rocked, Mad Men,Under the Dome and Fallout 4 in addition to the TV spot for Wayward Pines season 2, and opening credits of the BYU TV series Granite Flats.


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