Skeeter Davis - The End Of The World / HQ 1963

☆/ "THE END OF THE WORLD" HQ 1963 AUDIO / REMASTER - Mus!cVolume */ SINGLE BY SKEETER DAVIS FROM THE ALBUM SKEETER DAVIS SINGS THE END OF THE WORLD */ Released 1962 / * Format 7" single / * Recorded 1962 / * Genre Country pop / * Length 2:33 / * Label RCA / * Songwriter(s) Arthur Kent, Sylvia Dee / * Producer(s) Chet Atkins SKEETER DAVIS SINGLES CHRONOLOGY 1. The Little Music Box (1962) 2.The End of the World (1962) 3. I'm Saving My Love (1963) "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-5 on four different charts, including #2 on the main Billboard Hot 100. It spawned many cover versions. SKEETER DAVIS - END OF THE WORLD / HQ 1963 AUDIO / Mus!cVolume UPLOADED IN 2019_"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 the Billboard country singles,No. 1 on Billboard's easy listening, and No. 4 on Billboard's rhythm and blues. It is the first, and, to date, only time that a song cracked the Top 10 (and Top 5) on all four Billboar 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's 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 (see "Appearances in media" below).