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From '' How About Somemore? ''
Label: Midnight Records – MIR LP 139 + MID 4520
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Autographed + Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1988
Tracklist
A1 You're Doin' It Well
A2 Rules Of Love
A3 Don't Try To Mend It
A4 That Ain't Fair!
A5 Need Some Lovin'
A6 Try Me
B1 How About Somemore?
B2 Too Bad
B3 Silver Linings
B4 Talking To Stone
B5 She's Comin' Home
– Bonus vinyl
A Psycho
B1 All I Want
B2 I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Notes
Limited collector's edition of 1800 copies plus a 7" EP with three bonus tracks & insert.
Area Pirata Prod.
🎵 [SONG INFO]
"I'm Not Like Everybody Else" is a song written by Ray Davies and first recorded by the Kinks in 1966 and released that year as the B-side of "Sunny Afternoon".
The lead vocal is sung by Dave Davies, with occasional parts vocalized by his brother Ray, the band's usual lead singer.
The song is a defiant anthem of non-conformity, and it has been covered by various artists.
History
Davies had written the song for the Animals, but it was turned down, so the Kinks released their own version with guitarist Dave Davies on lead vocals.
This went against the norm where each brother usually sang songs they had written themselves. Later performances of the song were sung by Ray, with Dave providing backing vocals and Eric Clapton-influenced guitar solos. Both the Davies brothers continue to perform the song in their solo concerts.
Dave Davies described the song as "a Kinks fans favourite".
He also said, " It was never a hit for the Kinks, but over the years every true Kinks fan relates to that particular song, and it's funny, because that particular version is one of the only songs where Ray and I actually swap lead vocals. Elsewhere, when he sings lead I do the octave harmonies, or where I sing lead he's doing background vocals. Ray and I have very different ranges, fortunately, and our textures are different, which really helps for distinctive harmonies. "
Music and lyrics
The song is a defiant anthem of non-conformity, and its lyrics exhibit sentiments of frustration, accompanied by the outsider perception of being different from the rest, while yearning to seek and find, as well as assert, one's own individual identity.
The song begins with an opening signature played somewhat menacingly on a twelve-string electric guitar in the key of A minor, punctuated by subtle drum beats, which then shifts into the key of G major when the lyrics begin, highlighting the song's angry stance.
''I won't take all that they hand me down
And make out a smile though I wear a frown
And I'm not gonna take this all lying down
Cause once I get started I go to town
Cause I'm not like everybody else''
Yet the mood also conveys a sense of sadness, and in the second verse expresses love and a sense of remorse, but with a cautious warning:
''But darling, you know that I love you true
Do anything that you want me to
Confess all my sins like you want me to
There's one thing I will say to you
I'm not like everybody else''
As the song progresses into its last bars, it builds up to a cathartic finale with intense playing from all of the members of the Kinks and then comes to a crashing close.
Release and reception
The song was first released as the B-side to their single "Sunny Afternoon" but soon became a favourite and was often part of the Kinks live act. Ray Davies continues to play the song regularly and used the song as an opening number in his 2006–2008 solo live appearances. Cash Box said that it is a "rhythmic ode about a highly individual type of guy".
The song has been included on many compilations including Sunny Afternoon in the UK in 1967, The Great Lost Kinks Album in the US in 1973 and the 2002 greatest hits release The Ultimate Collection. It also appears as a bonus track on the 1998 CD reissue of Face to Face, the 2011 deluxe edition of The Kink Kontroversy, and the compilation The Anthology 1964–1971.
Personnel
According to band researcher Doug Hinman:
Dave Davies – Lead Vocal, Electric Guitar
Ray Davies – backing Vocal, Electric Guitar
Pete Quaife – Bass
Mick Avory – Drums
An organ part is audible on the recording, although no organist is credited in contemporary documentation
Cover versions
Notable covers of the song include renditions by the Chocolate Watchband in 1968, by the Australian band Jimmy and the Boys as their debut single in 1979, and by the Damned on their covers album Not Like Everybody Else in 2026.
Jimmy and the Boys
Chris Spedding
Camper Van Beethoven
Boss Hog for the soundtrack to Richard Linklater's 1996 film subUrbia
The Chesterfield Kings
Human Drama
The Finchley Boys
The Sacred Mushroom
🔗 [LINKS]
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#imnotlikeeverybodyelse
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From '' How About Somemore? ''
Label: Midnight Records – MIR LP 139 + MID 4520
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Autographed + Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1988
Tracklist
A1 You're Doin' It Well
A2 Rules Of Love
A3 Don't Try To Mend It
A4 That Ain't Fair!
A5 Need Some Lovin'
A6 Try Me
B1 How About Somemore?
B2 Too Bad
B3 Silver Linings
B4 Talking To Stone
B5 She's Comin' Home
– Bonus vinyl
A Psycho
B1 All I Want
B2 I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Notes
Limited collector's edition of 1800 copies plus a 7" EP with three bonus tracks & insert.
Area Pirata Prod.
🎵 [SONG INFO]
"I'm Not Like Everybody Else" is a song written by Ray Davies and first recorded by the Kinks in 1966 and released that year as the B-side of "Sunny Afternoon".
The lead vocal is sung by Dave Davies, with occasional parts vocalized by his brother Ray, the band's usual lead singer.
The song is a defiant anthem of non-conformity, and it has been covered by various artists.
History
Davies had written the song for the Animals, but it was turned down, so the Kinks released their own version with guitarist Dave Davies on lead vocals.
This went against the norm where each brother usually sang songs they had written themselves. Later performances of the song were sung by Ray, with Dave providing backing vocals and Eric Clapton-influenced guitar solos. Both the Davies brothers continue to perform the song in their solo concerts.
Dave Davies described the song as "a Kinks fans favourite".
He also said, " It was never a hit for the Kinks, but over the years every true Kinks fan relates to that particular song, and it's funny, because that particular version is one of the only songs where Ray and I actually swap lead vocals. Elsewhere, when he sings lead I do the octave harmonies, or where I sing lead he's doing background vocals. Ray and I have very different ranges, fortunately, and our textures are different, which really helps for distinctive harmonies. "
Music and lyrics
The song is a defiant anthem of non-conformity, and its lyrics exhibit sentiments of frustration, accompanied by the outsider perception of being different from the rest, while yearning to seek and find, as well as assert, one's own individual identity.
The song begins with an opening signature played somewhat menacingly on a twelve-string electric guitar in the key of A minor, punctuated by subtle drum beats, which then shifts into the key of G major when the lyrics begin, highlighting the song's angry stance.
''I won't take all that they hand me down
And make out a smile though I wear a frown
And I'm not gonna take this all lying down
Cause once I get started I go to town
Cause I'm not like everybody else''
Yet the mood also conveys a sense of sadness, and in the second verse expresses love and a sense of remorse, but with a cautious warning:
''But darling, you know that I love you true
Do anything that you want me to
Confess all my sins like you want me to
There's one thing I will say to you
I'm not like everybody else''
As the song progresses into its last bars, it builds up to a cathartic finale with intense playing from all of the members of the Kinks and then comes to a crashing close.
Release and reception
The song was first released as the B-side to their single "Sunny Afternoon" but soon became a favourite and was often part of the Kinks live act. Ray Davies continues to play the song regularly and used the song as an opening number in his 2006–2008 solo live appearances. Cash Box said that it is a "rhythmic ode about a highly individual type of guy".
The song has been included on many compilations including Sunny Afternoon in the UK in 1967, The Great Lost Kinks Album in the US in 1973 and the 2002 greatest hits release The Ultimate Collection. It also appears as a bonus track on the 1998 CD reissue of Face to Face, the 2011 deluxe edition of The Kink Kontroversy, and the compilation The Anthology 1964–1971.
Personnel
According to band researcher Doug Hinman:
Dave Davies – Lead Vocal, Electric Guitar
Ray Davies – backing Vocal, Electric Guitar
Pete Quaife – Bass
Mick Avory – Drums
An organ part is audible on the recording, although no organist is credited in contemporary documentation
Cover versions
Notable covers of the song include renditions by the Chocolate Watchband in 1968, by the Australian band Jimmy and the Boys as their debut single in 1979, and by the Damned on their covers album Not Like Everybody Else in 2026.
Jimmy and the Boys
Chris Spedding
Camper Van Beethoven
Boss Hog for the soundtrack to Richard Linklater's 1996 film subUrbia
The Chesterfield Kings
Human Drama
The Finchley Boys
The Sacred Mushroom
🔗 [LINKS]
areapirata.com
areapiratarec.bandcamp.com
Available on bandcamp:
areapiratarec.bandcamp.com/album/how-about-some-more
#thevipers
#imnotlikeeverybodyelse
#garagepunk
#garagerock
#thekinkscover
![Max Bygraves - [Medley] And I Love You So / Fly Me To The Moon / Quando Quando Quando](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Swf10ZtArzY/mqdefault.jpg "Max Bygraves - [Medley] And I Love You So / Fly Me To The Moon / Quando Quando Quando
From Viva! Congalongamax Vol.10
Label: Pye Records – NSPL 18458
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1975
Tracklist
Medley
A1a Enjoy Yourself (Its Later Than You Think)
A1b Manana
A1c The Coffee Song
Medley
A2a And I Love You So
A2b Fly Me To The Moon
A2c Quando Quando Quando
A3 Y Viva Espana
Medley
A4a Blue Skies
A4b Jealous
A4c Am I Blue
A5 Singalongaconga
Medley
B1a Yours
B1b Besame Mucho (Kiss Me)
B1c Amor
Medley
B2a Spanish Eyes
B2b Always In My Heart
B2c Marie Elena
Medley
B3a Wedding Samba
B3b Brazil
B3c The Laughing Samba
B3d Hava Nagila
Medley
B4a Yellow Bird
B4b Island In The Sun
B4c Jamaica Farewell
Arranged By, Conductor – Frank Barber
Producer – Norrie Paramor
And I Love You So is a song written by folk singer and guitarist Don McLean and released on his 1970 debut album, Tapestry.
Its chorus features an unusual rhyming scheme for a popular song: ABBA versus the usual AB(C or A)B.
The song was the B-side to McLeans debut single Castles in the Air, released in January 1971.
In 1973, And I Love You So was released as an A-side with If We Try as its B-side on United Artists Records.
Cover versions
And I Love You So was a 1973 hit for singer Perry Como on his RCA Victor album of the same name, And I Love You So, reaching No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It would be the last of his many popular recordings, dating back to 1943, to reach the top 40. It also spent one week at No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart. It reached No. 2 in South Africa and No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart on RCA Records and remained on the chart for 35 weeks (the longest of his hits in the UK).
Como also recorded a Spanish version, titled Y te quiero así.
Bobby Goldsboro
Shirley Bassey
Bobby Vinton
Elvis Presley
Sergio Franchi
Glen Campbell
Rick Astley
Harry Connick, Jr.
George Lam
Roch Voisine
Claude François performed a French version, Et je taime tellement, in 1977.
Other performers who have recorded the song include: Harry Belafonte, Tom T. Hall, Emmylou Harris, Engelbert Humperdinck, Howard Keel, Johnny Mathis, Nana Mouskouri, Olivia Newton-John, Jim Nabors, and Helen Reddy.
Fly Me to the Moon, originally titled In Other Words, is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard.
The first recording of the song was made in 1954 by Kaye Ballard.
Frank Sinatras 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon.
In 1999, the Songwriters Hall of Fame honored Fly Me to the Moon by inducting it as a Towering Song.
Background and composition
In 1954, when Fly Me to the Moon was first presented to the public, Bart Howard had been pursuing a career in music for over 20 years.
He played piano to accompany cabaret singers, but also wrote songs with Cole Porter, his idol, in mind.
In the book Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret James Gavin noted that Howard wrote the song in response to his publishers plea for a simpler song: why did he have to write such grandiloquent lyrics? In Other Words talked about the verbosity of poets who use many words to say a simple thing; hold my hand, Kiss me. In response, Howard wrote a cabaret ballad. A publisher tried to make him change some words from fly me to the Moon to take me to the Moon, but Howard refused. Many years later Howard commented that ... it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes.
He used his position as a piano accompanist and presenter at the Blue Angel cabaret venue to promote the song, and it was soon introduced in cabaret performances by Felicia Sanders.
Cover versions
Early recordings
Kaye Ballard
Chris Connor
Johnny Mathis
Portia Nelson
Nancy Wilson
Eydie Gormé
Subsequent recordings
Peggy Lee
Connie Francis
Joe Harnell
Julie London
Paul Anka
Brenda Lee
Frank Sinatra included the song on his 1964 album It Might as Well Be Swing, accompanied by Count Basie. The music for this album was arranged by Quincy Jones.
Bobby Womack
Alamgir
Quando quando quando (or Quando, Quando, Quando) is an Italian pop song from 1962, in the bossa nova style, with music written by Tony Renis and lyrics by Alberto Testa. The song, originally recorded in two different versions by Tony Renis and Emilio Pericoli, competed in the Sanremo Music Festival in 1962, where it placed fourth, and later became a commercial success in Italy, topping the Musica e dischi singles chart.
American entertainer Pat Boone, who recorded the song in 1962, sang the English lyrics written by Ervin Drake.
English-language versions
Engelbert Humperdinck
Michael Bublé performed the song as a duet with Nelly Furtado
Edgardo Cintron and The Tiempos Noventa Orchestra
Fergie and will.i.am covered the song for the soundtrack to the 2009 musical film Nine, based on the stage musical based on Federico Fellinis 8½.
Notable cover versions
Bobby Curtola
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#rumba
#samba
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