Kind of a Drag

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| name = Kind of a Drag

| cover = File: Kind of a Drag - Buckinghams.jpg

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| type = single

| artist = The Buckinghams

| album = Kind of a Drag

| B-side = You Make Me Feel So Good

| released = December 1966

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| genre = Pop{{cite book|last1=Considine|first1=J.D.|last2=Coleman|first2=Mark|last3=Evans|first3=Paul|last4=McGee|first4=David|chapter=

The Buckinghams|editor1-last=DeCurtis|editor1-first=Anthony|editor2-last=Henke|editor2-first=James|editor3-last=George-Warren|editor-first3=Holly|date=1992|title=Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Random House|location=New York|page= 57}}

| length = 2:05

| label = USA Records

| writer = Jim Holvay

| producer = Carl Bonafede, Dan Belloc

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| next_title = Don't You Care

| next_year = 1967

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"Kind of a Drag" is a song written by Jim Holvay and recorded by the Buckinghams.{{Cite web|url=https://www.passthepaisley.com/tag/james-holvay-songwriter/|title = James Holvay Songwriter | Pass the Paisley}} It was the title track of their debut LP. The single reached #1 on the U.S. Hot 100 in February 1967, becoming the first #1 single within the new calendar year, remaining in the top position for two weeks,Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002 earning a gold disc.{{cite book

| first= Joseph

| last= Murrells

| year= 1978

| title= The Book of Golden Discs

| edition= 2nd

| publisher= Barrie and Jenkins Ltd

| location= London

| page= [https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/202 202]

| isbn= 0-214-20512-6

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| url= https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/202

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It was the first of the band's three Top 10 hits in 1967, among five total Top 40 hits for that year. Holvay was Chicago-based and had been performing with a group called The Mob.

The co-producers of "Kind of a Drag" were the band's first personal manager Carl Bonafede and big band leader Dan Belloc, owner of the Holiday Ballroom in Chicago. The arranger of the horn sound was Frank Tesinsky. The engineer at the first recording sessions held at Chess Records in Chicago was Ron Malo, who also mixed the final recording."Screaming Wildman: Carl Bonafede, Joel Bierig: 9781539420965: Amazon.com: Books". www.amazon.com. page 231 Retrieved 2017-04-03. The producers wanted to speed up the tempo of the final release. Ron Malo had the ability to do that, according to lead guitar player Carl Giammarese; Malo was able to keep "Kind of a Drag" in the key of G."Screaming Wildman: Carl Bonafede, Joel Bierig: 9781539420965: Amazon.com: Books". www.amazon.com. page 232 Retrieved 2017-09-14 Following this, the band's debut album, also entitled Kind of a Drag, was released and featured the band's early recordings.Nite, Norm N. (1978). Rock On: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock N' Roll, volume II. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, p. 58, Norm N. Nite's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock N' Roll.