All Day and All of the Night
by The Kinks
- 136
- BPM
- G major
- Key
- 9B
- Camelot
- 56
- Danceability
- 27
- Acousticness
The Kinks' follow-up to "You Really Got Me" was built on another power chord riff. The likeness did not go unnoticed. Years later, people pointed to similarities between "All Day and All of the Night" and the Doors' 1968 song "Hello, I Love You". Ray Davies said his publisher wanted to sue but he did not. He thought a deal was cut somewhere. Dave Davies called it the most irritating case of all. Robby Krieger of the Doors denied that the song's structure was taken from Davies and said its feel came from "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream. According to the Doors biography No One Here Gets Out Alive, UK courts ruled in favor of Davies and any royalties are paid to him.
The Kinks' record came out in 1964 and hit number two in the UK on the Record Retailer chart. In 1965 it reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. In the UK it appeared on the Kinksize Hits EP, and in America on the second album, Kinks-Size. In France it came out on a four-track EP in 1964, reissued for Record Store Day 2017.
Dave Davies said the song was where he found his voice on guitar. Decades later he used two Peavey amplifiers together, having never liked Marshalls.
All Day and All of the Night runs at 136 BPM, the tempo of techno, trance and big-room dance. In classical terms it sits in allegro territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.76 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 441 ms. It is in G major, Camelot 9B, which shares its notes with E minor and mixes cleanly with C major and D major.
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