☆/ "THE END OF THE WORLD" [ HQ ] December 1962 REMASTER &- Mus!cVolume */ SINGLE BY SKEETER DAVIS FROM THE ALBUM / SKEETER DAVIS SINGS THE END OF THE WORLD
B－side Somebody Loves You
Blueberry Hill
Released December 1962
Recorded June 8, 1962
Studio RCA Studio B, Nashville
Genre Country popeasy listening
Length 2:41
Label RCA Victor
Songwriters Arthur Kent , Sylvia Dee
Producer Chet Atkins
SKEETER DAVIS SINGLES CHRONOLOGY
¹ㆍ The Little Music Box (1962) ²ㆍThe End of the World (1962) ³ㆍ I'm Saving My Love (1963)
SKEETER DAVIS - END OF THE WORLD
[ HQ ] 1963 AUDIO Mus!cVolume */ UPLOADED IN 2019 */ B-side "Somebody Loves You", "Blueberry Hill" */ Released December 1962 */ Recorded June 8, 1962 */ Studio RCA Studio B, Nashville */ Genre */ Country popeasy listening */ Length 2:41 */ Label RCA Victor */ Songwriters */ Arthur KentSylvia Dee */ Producer Chet Atkins 🌐 / "THE END OF THE WORLD" is a pop song written by composer Arthur Kent and lyricist Sylvia Dee, who often worked as a team. They wrote the song for American singer Skeeter Davis, and her recording of it was highly successful in the early 1960s, reaching the top five on four different charts, including No. 2 on the main Billboard Hot 100. It spawned
many cover versions.
BACKGROUND
"The End of the World" is a sad song about the aftermath of a romantic breakup.
Dee, the lyricist, said she drew on her sorrow from her father's death to set the mood for the song. Davis recorded her version with sound engineer Bill Porter on June 8, 1962, at the RCA Studios in Nashville, produced by Chet Atkins, and featuring Floyd Cramer. Released by RCA Records in December 1962, "The End of the World" peaked in March 1963 at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (behind "Our Day Will Come" by Ruby & the Romantics), No. 2 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart,[3] No. 1 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart, and No. 4 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart.[4] It is the first, and, as of April 2019, only time that a song cracked the Top 10 (and Top 5) on all four Billboard charts. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 2 song of 1963. In the Davis version, after she sings the whole song through in the key of B-flat-major, the song modulates up by a half step to the key of B, where Davis speaks the first two lines of the final stanza, before singing the rest of the stanza, ending the song. "The End of the World" was played at Atkins' funeral in an instrumental by Marty Stuart. The song was also played at Davis's own funeral at the Ryman Auditorium. Her version has been featured in several films, TV shows, and
video games.
