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Matinee Idols - Who'll Be The Next In Line (Power Pop, The Kinks Cover)

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Channel: CoverVerse · 2013 · Music

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From '' Leaving Limbo ''
Label: DVG Records – FP-V-49216
Format: Vinyl, 12", EP
Country: US
Released: 1982

Tracklist
A1 Video World
Written-By – John Stephan, Smokey Nowak
A2 Touch Sense
Written-By – Jimme O'Neill
A3 Who'll Be The Next In Line
Written-By – Ray Davies
B1 Perelandra
Written-By – John Stephan, Smokey Nowak
B2 Big Bang
Written-By – John Stephan, Smokey Nowak
B3 You Told Me
Written-By – John Stephan, Smokey Nowak

Guitar, Vocals – John Stephan
Bass, Vocals – Smokey Nowak
Drums – Les Merrihew
Synthesizer – David Surkamp (tracks: A1, A2)
Saxophone – Gary Minkler (track: A1)
Backing Vocals – Iain Matthews (tracks: A2, A3)

Artwork By – Jacques Moitoret

Engineer – Vic Coupez
Engineer, Mixed By – Doug Rayburn, Gordy Kjellberg
Mastered By – John Golden

Producer – Iain Matthews

Notes
Recorded at Thunder Oak Audio; Bothell, WA and Studio One Recorders, Seattle, WA.


🎵 [SONG INFO]

"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 No. 17, 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 No. 34, which was more successful than the following "See My Friends", which only hit No. 111. "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". Cashbox described it as a "fast-moving, rollicking thumper about a fella who has plenty of regrets about his romantic involvements".

Personnel

According to band researcher Doug Hinman:
The Kinks
Ray Davies – Lead Vocal, Piano
Dave Davies – Electric Guitar
Pete Quaife – Bass Guitar
Mick Avory – Drums

Covers

Queens of the Stone Age covered "Who'll Be the Next in Line" on their Stone Age Complications album.
("Everybody's Gonna Be Happy" was also covered by Queens of the Stone Age on the limited edition UK and Japanese versions of their Songs for the Deaf album.)

"Who'll Be the Next in Line" was also covered by French singer Françoise Hardy in 1969.


🎤 [LYRICS]

Who'll be the next in line?
Who'll be the next in line for heartaches?
Who'll make the same mistakes I made over you?
Who'll be the next in line?
Who'll be the next in line for you?

Who'll be the next in line
Who'll be the next to watch your love fade
All your affections finally fade away.
They'll be no use in sight
Who'll be the next in line for you?

One day you'll find out when I'm gone
I was the best one you had
I was the one who gave you love.

Who'll be the next in line?
Who'll be the next in line for heartaches?
Who'll make the same mistakes I made over you?
Who'll be the next in line?
Who'll be the next in line for you?

Who'll be the next in line?
Who'll be the next in line for heartaches?
Who'll make the same mistakes I made over you?
They'll be no use in line
Who'll be the next in line for you
for you, for you?

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