The End of the World



"The End of the World" is a pop music hit song recorded by Skeeter Davis that enjoyed international success in the 1960s.



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[hide]  *1 Background  ==Background[edit] == "The End of the World" was written by Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee; the latter drew on her sorrow from her father's death.
 * 2 Chart performance
 * 3 The Carpenters version
 * 4 Sonia version
 * 4.1 Formats and track listings
 * 4.2 Charts
 * 5 Other versions
 * 6 References
 * 7 External links

Davis recorded her version on June 8, 1962 at the RCA Studios in Nashville, produced by Chet Atkins, and featuring Floyd Cramer.[1]  Released by RCA Records in December 1962, "The End of the World" peaked in March 1963 at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 2 on the Billboard country singles,[2]  No. 1 on Billboard's easy listening, and No. 4 on Billboard's rhythm and blues.[3]  It is the first, and, to date, only time that a song cracked the Top 10 on all four Billboard charts.[citation needed]

Davis's recording of "The End of the World" was played at Atkins's funeral in an instrumental by Marty Stuart, and at Davis's own funeral at the Ryman Auditorium.

Davis's version has been featured in Girl, Interrupted, Riding In Cars With Boys, Daltry Calhoun, An American Affair, The Boat That Rocked, "The Grown-Ups" episode ofMad Men,[4]  "Blue on Blue" episode of Under the Dome, and the opening credits of the BYU TV series Granite Flats. ==Chart performance[edit] == ==The Carpenters version[edit] == in 1975, American pop music duo Carpenters released their promotional single entitled "End of the World" from their live album ""Live in Japan"". It was recorded at theFestival Hall, Osaka, Japan. The song reached #3 on US Billboard Hot 100. ==Sonia version<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:'HelveticaNeue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">[edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:21px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">In 1990, British singer Sonia covered "End of the World". The fifth and final single from her debut album, Everybody Knows, it reached number 18 in the UK,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  the same chart position as the original.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-UK_charts_5-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  The single's B-side "Can't Help The Way That I Feel" appeared on Sonia's debut album. This was her final single with Stock Aitken Waterman. ===Formats and track listings<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === ===Charts<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === ==Other versions<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:'HelveticaNeue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">[edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:21px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">A No. 2 hit in Sweden in September 1966 via a local cover by Mike Wallace & the Caretakers, "The End of the World" has also been remade by a number of other artists including Jessica Andersson, Anika (as a b-side to her single "Yang Yang" and on her album Anika), Eddy Arnold, Best Coast, Debby Boone, Brilliant, Carola (in Finnish as "Maailmain"), The Carpenters, Rivers Cuomo, Bobby Darin, Lana Del Rey, Barbara Dickson, Dion, The Andrews Sisters, Mary Duff, Allison Durbin, Exposé, Agnetha Fältskog, Rosie Flores, Girls, Nina Gordon, Herman's Hermits (as the B-side of "I'm Henry VIII, I Am"), Satoko Ishimine, Joni James, Brenda Lee, Lobo, Julie London,Claudine Longet, Loretta Lynn, Al Martino, Johnny Mathis, Anne Mattila (in Finnish as "Maailmain"), Imelda May, John Cougar Mellencamp, Anita Meyer, the Mills Brothers,Ronnie Milsap, Dorothy Moore, Mud, Anne Murray, Leigh Nash, Nomeansno, Patti Page, Helen Shapiro, Anne Shelton, Vonda Shepard, Nancy Sinatra, Sonia, The Tokens, Twiggy, Twinkle, The Vanguards, Bobby Vinton, Jeff Walker, Dottie West, and Lena Zavaroni. In 2009 Susan Boyle remade "The End of the World" for her debut album, I Dreamed a Dream.
 * 7" single
 * 1) "End of the World"
 * 2) "Can't Help the Way That I Feel"
 * CD single and 12" vinyl single
 * 1) "End of the World"
 * 2) "Can't Help the Way That I Feel"
 * 3) "Counting Every Minute" (Tick Tock Remix)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:21px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">A cover version by Allison Paige peaked at number 72 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in May 2000.