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Sessions Outtakes 1964 - 1994

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shows by developing his famous and somewhat Back Where We Started CD One: The Songs We Sang For Auntie egocentric stage personae. You may already know both Kinks’ By moving to Columbia Records in the 90s The 1. 16. Mr. Churchill Says which were broadcasted by the BBC in the 70s. Kinks hoped to get some radio airplay again. (recorded 7/9/64; Playhouse Theatre) (recorded 18/12/69; Camden Theatre) Here you will hear the parts of these At least some BBC TV shows featured them 2. Got Love If You Want It 17. The Moneygoround performances not available on the official promoting their new “Phobia”. But (recorded 1/10/64; Beat Room) (recorded 1970) release. “Father Christmas” is the only without Columbia giving earnest support the CD 3. Hide And Seek (Winley; Byrd) 18. Marathon which was never released on bootleg before. All failed. Nevertheless (with a session (recorded 6/8/65; Aeolian Hall, Studio 1) (recorded March 1970) the others from the so-called “Kristmas instead of ) entered the 4. Never Met A Girl Like You Before 19. Koncert” have been re-broadcasted, but this studios again in the beginning of 1994 to record (recorded 10/8/65; Playhouse Theatre) (recorded March 1970) song had been available only on video tape another radio session. 5. Milk Cow (Estes) 20. before and so our recording is from an other After the tour in 1993/4 the played before (recorded 10/8/65; Playhouse Theatre) (recorded 6/6/74; Langham Studio 1) source than the rest. This is the reason why we an invited audience at studios and released 6. Got My Feet On The Ground changed the tracklist. “You Really Got Me” was parts of it on “To The Bone”. To promote this (recorded 10/8/65; Playhouse Theatre) All Songs written by (except played at the end in the original . The album, they played their last BBC session to date 7. otherwise stated) show is nearly completely assembled here, the at the Emma Freud Show. It is funny to hear (recorded 13/12/65; Playhouse Theatre) only missing song is “Get Back In Line” which how Ray reacted to the questions of his host 8. I Am Free (Dave Davies) Personnel: Ray Davies (vocals, guitar, piano); can be found on the official “BBC Sessions”. who seemed to be badly prepared. (recorded 13/12/65; Playhouse Theatre) Dave Davies (vocals, guitar); There are a lot of BBC songs 9. Love Me Till The Sun Shines (drums); (bass guitar, backing missing here. Maybe there will be (recorded 4/8/67; Playhouse Theatre) vocals; tracks 1-14); (bass guitar; enough stuff for another 10. tracks 15-20); compilation in the future. But (recorded 25/10/67; Maida Vale Studio 4) additional personnel on track 20: John Gosling meanwhile enjoy this one! D.W. 11. (piano), John Beecham (trombone); Alan (recorded 25/10/67; Maida Vale Studio 4) Holmes (tenor saxophone); Laurie Brown 12. Mr. Pleasant (trumpet); Pamela Travis and Maryann Price production and art design: D.W. (recorded 25/10/67; Maida Vale Studio 4) (backing vocals) co-production: J.T. 13. Susannah’s Still Alive Mastering, conversion onto CD: T.V. (recorded 25/10/67; Maida Vale Studio 4) The title of disc one (and of this set as a whole) 14. David Watts was the supposed title of the official release. In © 2002 Meerkur-Records (recorded 25/10/67; Maida Vale Studio 4) 1971 it was also the working title of a planned MEERCD001 15. Victoria Ray Davies solo album which never happened. (recorded 18/12/69; Camden Theatre) page 6/3

to bring them 2CD set, but listen carefully: “You Really Got CD Two: Tales Told By Mr. Wonderful together on one Me”, “Milk Cow Blues” and “Love Me Till The record. Among our Sun Shines” are alternate BBC takes. sources are: The most interesting tracks on this CD are “Hide 1. Mr Wonderful (Bock; Hollocefner; 8. “Kollektable And Seek” (erroneously titled “All Aboard” on Weiss) 9. Sleepwalker Kinks” Tapes, various older bootlegs) and “Mirror Of Love”. 2. Dedicated Follower Of Fashion 10. Life On The Road “Rare Anthology The BBC studio version of the latter has never 3. Daylight 11. A Well Respected Man/Death Of A 1&2”, “Kristmas appeared on a Kinks bootleg yet and “Hide And 4. Here Comes Flash Clown (R. Davies; D. Davies) Koncert”, “Another Seek” was never officially released by The 5. Demolition 12. Sunny Afternoon Great Lost Kinks Kinks. 6. He’s Evil 13. Album” and “My Among the recordings which haven’t managed 7. Lola 14. All Day And All Of The Night Brother Is My Best to surface on the official CD are also 15. Slum Kids Friend”. We would “Marathon” and “Got To Be Free”. They have Recorded live at the Hippodrome Theatre, 16. like to thank those been sorted out because Ray Davies has played Golders Green, , 14/7/74 17. Hard Way who have produced these CDs: without their them as solo tunes exclusively for the TV Play 18. Lola work this compilation wouldn’t have been “The Long Distance Piano Player” (although All Songs written by Ray Davies (except 19. Alcohol possible. the official CD includes “This Strange Effect“, otherwise stated) 20. Skin And Bone/Dry Bones (trad.) another Ray-only recording). Two other songs, 21. You Really Got Me The Songs We Sang For Auntie “Mr. Churchill Says” and “Victoria”, are both Personnel: Ray Davies (vocals, guitar); Dave 22. Father Christmas the known album version with new vocals. Davies (vocals, guitar); Mick Avory (drums); John Dalton (bass guitar); John Gosling (pia- Recorded live at the Rainbow Theatre, As mentioned above, this was the proposed title no, organ), John Beecham (trombone, tuba); Finsbury Park, London, 24/12/74 of the official CD, which unfortunately does Tales Told By Mr. Wonderful Alan Holmes (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Laurie without great recordings Brown (trumpet); Pamela Travis and Claire All Songs written by Ray Davies (except such as “Sunny According to keyboarder Hamill (backing vocals) otherwise stated) Afternoon”, “A Well John Gosling, it was his idea Respected Man”, “Mr. to add the song “Mr. The title of this CD was inspired by the famous Personnel: Ray Davies (vocals, guitar); Dave Pleasant” or “Autumn Wonderful” to the live set in Macbeth monologue: Davies (vocals, guitar); Mick Avory (drums); Almanac”. We have the beginning of the 70s. He "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player (bass guitar); John Gosling (piano, included them here. Some originally intended to That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, organ); Alan Holmes, Nick Newell and John of the songs on the first CD caricature Ray Davies who And then is heard no more: it is a tale Beecham (brass section); Debbie Doss and Kim may sound very similar to then began to be the Told by an idiot, full of sound of fury, Goody (backing vocals); Ray Cooper the versions on the official undisputed centre of their Signifying nothing." (Macbeth V,5) (percussion) page 4/5

CD Three: Back Where We Started The BBC Sessions Outtakes 1964-1994 1. Scattered Personell: Ray Davies (vocals, guitar); Dave In 2001 The Kinks released their “BBC accessible on private video or poor quality audio (recorded 25/3/93; The Late Show) Davies (vocals, guitar except tracks 5-8); Bob Sessions” as a 2CD set – at last. For many years tapes, but we were determined to get our hands 2. Days Henrit (drums); (bass guitar); announcements had heralded a possible release on all known tracks no matter how (recorded 25/3/93; The Late Show) Mark Haley (piano, tracks 1-2); to no avail. But in late 2000 a British mail-order unconvincing their quality may be. Thus, we 3. Over The Edge (piano, keyboards, tracks 3-13); additional presented the first draft of the proposed track included “I Am Free” (with a cut at the end), (recorded 18/6/94; Later With Jools Holland) guitarist on tracks 5-8: Jacko list which included no less than 60 tracks and “Got To Be Free”, “Marathon” (both transferred 4. The Informer promised a whole career-spanning release. from video tape) or “Got My Feet On The (recorded 18/6/94; Later With Jools Holland) The title of this CD is a quote in the Ray Davies’ Unfortunately this didn’t materialize: The Ground” (varying sound). 5. Phobia composition “Do It Again”. official “BBC Sessions” only covers the period You might already know the BBC takes (recorded 7/1/94; Maida Vale Studios) from 1964-1977, but even with regards to this assembled here since most of them have been 6. Over The Edge time span the 2CD set is far from being available on previous bootleg CDs. We have (recorded 7/1/94; Maida Vale Studios) complete; which gives us more than one reason made every effort to collect these scattered 7. Wall Of Fire for a compilation of outtakes like this one, and pieces of the Kinks’ BBC performances in order (recorded 7/1/94; Maida Vale Studios) so you will find a lot of the 8. songs which were omitted from (recorded 7/1/94; Maida Vale Studios) the official release. 9. All Day and All Of The Night “The Songs We Sang For (recorded 7/10/94; Maida Vale Studios) Auntie” was the working title 10. Waterloo Sunset of the official release but it was (recorded 7/10/94; Maida Vale Studios) skipped at the last minute. So 11. I’m Not Like Everybody Else we felt free to use it here where (recorded 7/10/94; Maida Vale Studios) the BBC cannot forbid the use 12. Till The End Of The Day of the word “auntie”. (recorded 7/10/94; Maida Vale Studios) When you listen to the CDs 13. You Really Got Me closely you may understand (recorded 7/10/94; Maida Vale Studios) This was the first circulating cover for the why these songs failed to get official Release. The subtitle reads “BBC on the official record. Their All songs written by Ray Davies Sessions 1964-1994” sound quality leaves something to be desired. Some of the tracks have only been