ON THIS DATE (47 YEARS AGO) November 29, 1967 - The Kinks: Autumn Almanac b/w David Watts (Reprise 0647) 45 single is released in the US. Autumn Almanac is a pop song, written by Ray Davies and recorded by The Kinks in 1967. Autumn Almanac has since been noted for being an absolute classic, a finely observed slice of English custom, a weird character study and for its mellow, melodic sound that was to characterize the Kinks next [musical] phase... Some have placed this and other Davies compositions in the pastoral-Romantic tradition of the poetry of Wordsworth, among others. In his 1995 autobiography X-Ray and in subsequent performances of his VH1 Storytellers effort, Davies described the song as being inspired by a local hunch-backed gardener in his native Muswell Hill neighbourhood of North London. Like many recordings of the mid-to-late 1960s, Autumn Almanac was released in both mono and stereo versions. The Kinks
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