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"Who'll Be the Next in Line" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks. It was written by Ray Davies.

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"Who'll Be the Next In Line"
Single by the Kinks
from the album Kinkdom
A-side	"Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" (UK)
B-side	"Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" (US)
Released	19 March 1965 (UK) 21 July 1965 (US)
Recorded	22–23 December 1964
Studio	Pye Studios (No. 2), London
Genre	Rock beat R&B
Length	2:02
Label	Pye 7N 15813 (UK) Reprise 0366 (US)
Songwriter(s)	Ray Davies
Producer(s)	Shel Talmy
The Kinks UK singles chronology
"Tired of Waiting for You" (1965) "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" / "Who'll Be the Next In Line" (1965) "Set Me Free" (1965)
The Kinks US singles chronology
"Set Me Free" (1965) "Who'll Be the Next In Line" / "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" (1965) "See My Friends" (1965)

Release

"Who'll Be the Next in Line" was first released as the B-side to "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy", a Kinks single released in Britain. However, that song's chart performance in the UK was a disappointing #17,[1] breaking a string of top-ten hits for the Kinks. Reprise felt that the "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" single was unfit for release in America. The subsequent single, "Set Me Free", was released, but after The Kinks' next proposed single, "See My Friends" was sent to Reprise, they decided to release the "Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" single with "Who'll Be the Next in Line" as the A-side. The single charted, hitting #34, which was more successful than the following "See My Friends", which only hit #111.[2] "Who'll Be the Next in Line" also appeared as a bonus track on some reissues of the Kinks' album Kinda Kinks.

Billboard described the song as a "pulsating funky blues rhythm number which rocks all the way."[3] Cash Box described it as a "fast-moving, rollicking thumper about a fella who has plenty of regrets about his romantic involvements."[4]

Covers

• "Who'll Be the Next in Line" was covered by French singer Françoise Hardy on her 1968 En Anglais album.
• The song was covered by Gary Myrick and The Figures on their self-titled album in 1980.
• "Who'll Be the Next in Line" was also covered by Sir Douglas Quintet on their 1981 Border Wave album.
• Queens of the Stone Age covered "Who'll Be the Next in Line" on their Rated R 2000 album, as one of its UK only bonus tracks. It was also included on disc two of the 2010 reissue of Rated R.
• The song was covered by Mudhoney for the tribute album Give the People What We Want: Songs of The Kinks, a compilation released by SubPop in 2001.

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