NEW * Set Me Free - The Kinks {Stereo} 1965

1965......#23 U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #24 U.S. Cash Box Top 100, #9 UK Singles Chart, #2 Canada Original video edited and AI remastered with HQ stereo sound. “Set Me Free“ is a song by Ray Davies, released first by the Kinks in 1965. Along with “Tired of Waiting for You“, it is one of band’s first attempts at a softer, more introspective sound. The song’s B-side, “I Need You“, makes prominent use of powerchords in the style of the Kinks’ early, “raunchy“ sound. “Set Me Free“ was heard in the Ken Loach-directed Up the Junction, a BBC Wednesday Play which aired in November 1965; this marked the first appearance of a Kinks song on a film or TV soundtrack. Billboard said of the single that “hot on the heels of [the Kinks’] ’Tired of Waiting for You’ smash comes this down home blues rhythm material with a good teen lyric.“ Cash Box described it as “a snappy tune that’s taken for an engaging disk ride.“
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