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“All Day And All of the Night” by The Kinks

From the EP Kinksize Hits (1965)

“All Day And All of the Night” by The Kinks appears on 39 radio countdowns from 17 stations between 1982 and 2025. It was first released in 1965 on the EP Kinksize Hits. Its best result is #68 on the KZOK Top 1025 of 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,294 alternative song of all time.

39countdowns
17stations
#68best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1982–2025years charted

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The Kinks followed "You Really Got Me" in 1964 with "All Day and All of the Night", and they didn't pretend it was a new idea: it's a close cousin, built on the same kind of power-chord battering ram, with a near-identical beat and build, similar backing vocals and another snarling guitar break. It went to number 2 in Britain and number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 the following year, and it landed on the Kinksize Hits EP at home and on Kinks-Size in America.

Ray Davies wrote it and sings it like he can't sit still, and Shel Talmy produced. Dave Davies' guitar is the star, a sound he later said was where he found his own voice, with Pete Quaife on bass, Bobby Graham on drums and Perry Ford hammering the piano.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1982 141 95.5 KLOS KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982) 499
1988 387 Live 105 Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988) 501
1991 492 WNEW-FM WNEW Firecracker 500 (1991) 500
1994 275 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) 1000
1997 500 100.7 WZLX WZLX Memorial 500 (1997) 499
1997 955 102.3 WBAB WBAB Top 1,023 Rock and Roll Songs of All Time (1997) 1023
1999 1299 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 1299 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1306 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1305 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 290 100.7 WZLX WZLX Memorial 500 (2002) 500
2003 1290 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1290 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2004 461 Virgin Radio Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 500
2005 1290 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 223 Virgin Radio Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 500
2006 294 Virgin Radio Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006) 500
2012 137 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) 885
2013 467 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2013) 500
2013 493 Big 100 BIG 500 Labor Day Countdown (2013) 500
2014 509 WXPN WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014) 885
2014 309 Big 100 BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) 1000
2015 188 102.9 The Whale 102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2015) 500
2016 466 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2016) 500
2017 471 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2017) 500
2018 468 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2018) 500
2019 68 102.5 KZOK KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 1025
2020 393 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) 1025
2020 1293 WXPN WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time 2020
2021 305 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) 1043
2022 522 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022) 1043
2022 455 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) 1025
2022 369 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2022) 500
2023 788 101.5 WPDH WPDH Top 1015 (2023) 1015
2023 299 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) 1043
2023 493 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time 909
2024 209 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) 1043
2024 381 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2024) 500
2025 311 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2025) 500

Also listed as: All Day And All Of The Night; All Day and All of the Night; All Day & All of the Night; All Day and All of The Night.

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