Who'll Be the Next in Line
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{{Infobox song
| name = Who'll Be the Next In Line
| cover = "Who'll Be the Next in Line" by the Kinks.png
| caption = US A-side label
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = the Kinks
| album =
| A-side = "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" (UK)
| B-side = "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" (US)
| released = {{Start date|1965|03|19|df=yes}}
| recorded = 22–23 December 1964
| studio = Pye, London
| venue =
| genre = *Garage rock{{cite web |last1=Hasted |first1=Nick |title=The Kinks: a guide to their best albums |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-kinks-a-guide-to-their-best-albums |website=Louder |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908015835/https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-kinks-a-guide-to-their-best-albums |archive-date=8 September 2022 |language=en |date=21 April 2020 |url-status=live}}
- R&B{{cite magazine|author=Anon.|title=Spotlight Singles|date=31 July 1965|magazine=Billboard|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VykEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14 |access-date=17 January 2023 |via=Google Books}}
| length = 2:02
| label = *Pye (UK)
- Reprise (US)
| writer = Ray Davies
| producer = Shel Talmy
| chronology = The Kinks UK
| prev_title = Tired of Waiting for You
| prev_year = 1965
| next_title = Set Me Free
| title = Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy
| title2 = Who'll Be the Next In Line
| next_year = 1965
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = The Kinks US
| type = single
| prev_title = Set Me Free
| prev_year = 1965
| title = Who'll Be the Next In Line
| title2 = Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy
| year = 1965
| next_title = See My Friends
| next_year = 1965
}}
}}
"Who'll Be the Next in Line" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks, written by the groups primary songwriter Ray Davies and was released in 1965.
Release
"Who'll Be the Next in Line" was first released as the B-side to "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy", a Kinks single released in Britain. However, that song's chart performance in the UK was a disappointing #17,{{cite web|title=officialcharts.com|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/11246/kinks/|website=officialcharts.com|accessdate=February 24, 2021}} breaking a string of top-ten hits for the Kinks. Reprise felt that the "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" single was unfit for release in America. The subsequent single, "Set Me Free", was released, but after The Kinks' next proposed single, "See My Friends" was sent to Reprise, they decided to release the "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" single with "Who'll Be the Next in Line" as the A-side. The single charted, hitting #34, which was more successful than the following "See My Friends", which only hit #111.{{cite web|url=http://www.kindakinks.net/charts.html |title=U.S. Chart Positions |website=Kindakinks.net |access-date=2016-09-29}} "Who'll Be the Next in Line" also appeared as a bonus track on the 1998 CD reissue of Kinda Kinks.
Billboard described the song as a "pulsating funky blues rhythm number which rocks all the way."{{cite news|newspaper=Billboard|accessdate=2021-03-11|date=July 31, 1965|page=14|title=Spotlight Singles|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1965/Billboard%201965-07-31.pdf}} Cashbox described it as a "fast-moving, rollicking thumper about a fella who has plenty of regrets about his romantic involvements."{{cite magazine |title=CashBox Record Reviews |date=July 31, 1965 |page=12 |access-date=2022-01-12 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1965/CB-1965-07-31.pdf |magazine=Cash Box}}
Personnel
According to band researcher Doug Hinman:{{sfn|Hinman|2004|p=51}}
The Kinks
- Ray Davies{{snd}}lead vocal, piano
- Dave Davies{{snd}}electric guitar
- Pete Quaife{{snd}}bass guitar
- Mick Avory{{snd}}drums
References
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=Sources=
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- {{cite book |last1=Hinman |first1=Doug |title=The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night: Day by Day Concerts, Recordings, and Broadcasts, 1961–1996 |date=2004 |publisher=Backbeat Books |location=San Francisco, California |isbn=978-0-87930-765-3}}
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Category:British garage rock songs
Category:Song recordings produced by Shel Talmy