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  • See My Friends
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  • Songs written by Ray Davies
  • 1965 singles
  • Pye Records singles
  • Song recordings produced by Shel Talmy
  • The Kinks songs
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  • %22See My Friends%22 is a song by The Kinks, written by the group's singer and guitarist, Ray Davies. Released in 1965, it reached #10 on the UK Singles Chart. A rare foray into psychedelic rock for the group, it is credited by Jonathan Bellman as the first Western rock song to integrate Indian raga sounds, being released four months before the Beatles' %22Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)%22.The song is sometimes mistitled %22See My Friend%22, because this is how the song was identified on the initial UK single pressing. However, the website of Kassner Music, which owns the publishing rights to the song, specifies the title as %22See My Friends%22, which are also the words Davies clearly sings throughout the track. Most subsequent issues of the song have borne the more familiar %22See My Friends%22 title.Ray Davies has been heard to say the song is about the death of his older sister, Rene, who lived for a time in Ontario, Canada. Upon her return to England she fell ill due to an undiagnosed hole in her heart and died while dancing at a night club. Just before she died, he has said, she gave him his first guitar for his 13th birthday.Inspiration for the song came from a stopover in Bombay during The Kinks' 1965 Asian tour, where the jetlagged Davies encountered fishermen chanting on their way to their morning work.Ray Davies, at the time of the song's release, expressed disappointment toward the single's lukewarm reception, saying %22[It's] the only one I've really liked, and they're not buying it. You know, I put everything I've got into it ... I can't even remember what the last one [%22Set Me Free%22] was called - nothing. It makes me think they must be morons or something. Look, I'm not a great singer, nor a great writer, not a great musician. But I do give everything I have ... and I did for this disc.%22Shel Talmy who was the producer of the record %22See My Friends%22 says in different interviews that the song had been inspired by Jon Mark.
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