Skeeter Davis - I Can't Stay Mad At You (Original Stereo)

[blackandtanful]

永遠の♪ｼｭﾋﾞﾄﾞゥﾋﾞ♬ｿﾝｸﾞ､ｽｷｰﾀｰ･ﾃﾞｲヴｨ­ｽ"I Can't Stay Mad At You"(恋はいじわる）～ｹﾞﾘｰ･ｺﾞｰﾌｨﾝ&ｷｬﾛﾙ･­ｷﾝｸﾞのﾅｲｽ作品でしたﾈ!

[Appleholic1]

When my wife pissed me off by forgetting to fuel my car that I let her use after she promised she would even after I gave her the money to do it and even after I had to go get the stranded car at the mall, all I could do when she looked at me with her big blue eyes and was so sorry for doing it sorry was say, shooby dooby doo bop dum dum she dooby dooby doo bop....I can't stay mad at you. YOU GOT ME WHERE YOU WANT ME. and thank you God for that.

[tbay581]

What a Beautiful Song, Love her Voice. Thanks for Posting and Have a Great Day~~

[Unkydunky2u]

very underated singer!!!

[stephenk54]

What a song!

[tommieparch]

this is right outta the song (breakin up is hard to do ) & it sounds like Sedaka is doin the back vocals....Tommy

[DancingSpiderman]

Cute CUTE song !

Hahaha, nice name, "Skeeter"!

I heard this song on Veronica FM internet Oldies radio station on iTunes !!

[MACJO63]

As I recall, Guitar Great Chet Atkins produced this in Nashville with Skeeter...

[RodionRadichev]

The stereo makes a great song like this even better!

[gustfront180]

great song~thanks so much for posting this! "happy dance" :)

[mouse12345ify]

WOW  on a cold November 20th 2011 night i felt the wartmth of the good old days :) THANKS ps HAPPY THANKSGIVNG

[wfarrar69]

this did better on the pop charts in 1963(#7pop),than on the country charts(#14country).she was one of the best female country singers i enjoy listening and still do listen to her music.

[RonaldVaughan]

GOT TO BE AN ALL-TIME FAVORITE....espcially with dynamite production by CHET ATKINS!! :)

[JANJA11348]

Check out this song tribute to the USA.

[ukcatfan36]

ALWAYS loved this song..still great to listen to after all these years!!!

[femmesusan1]

God I LOVED this song! Wait, I still do! Love her special voice, so cute.

[saguaroboy]

Like a lot of King related songs- there's a weird masochistic willingness to take abuse. Sweet melody plus negativish subject matter equals great art!

[kcbill54]

This song always sounds great on the radio out on the open road--a very good tune.

[obviousotter]

The Queers did a great cover of this.

[cdiller77]

still love you

[vincent5august]

One tough song from 8th grade.

[johnhharley48]

Good songs are timeless . R.I.P. Skeeter  .

[sportsmediaamerica]

Carole King just never ceases to amaze. What a master of pop melody.

[jsroadpilot]

great song wish they would play it more often

[onthewater352]

shes not that good and looks ruff

[intrusosgang]

Hot ass chick @ 1:35

[andwen66]

This great record is all over 50s on 5 on XM

[Rabidburt]

Great artist who's, sadly, more or less forgotten - except for the people posting here.

BTW, was she named after a biting insect who sucks the blood on your wrists and forearm?

[50Emerald]

@Rabidburt In fact Skeeter's nickname was given to her by her grandfather...

[javernot]

King and Goffin knew how to imitate successful pop styles--see especially "Last Train to Clarksville," written for the Monkees on the heels of "Paperback Writer"

[Johnk662561]

If you look at radio station music surveys of this time, you'll see music from EVERYONE being played on rock and roll radio. It wasn't as tightly structured back then as it is today. Inm 1963 you might see this song, followed by a Johnny Mathis tune followed by something by Johnny Horton followed by the Beach Boys. Nobody really "worried" about whether their song "crossed over" because there were very, VERY few dedicated radio formats back then.

[mr2448]

back then, who knew she was country! End of the World was great. Today even the Everly Brothers are perceived as country, who knew?

[amalfi348]

Teenage love... wasn't it great!

[nopalak1]

I heard this very long time ago...love it ... God bless you !

[MARILLIONROCKER45]

Summer of 1963 Houston. Wow, what a great song and memories. The Roman brothers driving down Waugh Drive in Ford convertible and the entire summer ahead of us. Life was good.

[mouse12345ify]

thanks for the flashback !:) memories are made of this:)!! HAPPY2011

[speedy45rpm]

Just a wonderful entry from Skeeter -- cheerful, melodic and so very 1963. I first recall hearing it on Joey Reynolds's show on WKBW in Buffalo. I loved it the first time I heard it, and almost half a century later it sounds just as fresh.

[Kirke182]

She got her start on Detroit's old Fortune label.

[Bishbud]

Skeeter loved songs of the "sequel / answer" genre such as "He'll have to stay" or "Tell Tommy I Miss him" and I think she might have done one of the "Girl from Wolverton Mountain"

[peanutzinuk]

Brillant! Remember this song being played on KDKA, KQV & WEEP (afore it went all country), Pittsburgh, '63-ish. Remember this on RCA which I got this single in JC Penny's (?) "Grab Bag" - 6 singles for a $1 +tax.. . .thank you VERY much for taking time to upload!!! Wonderful song. . . .from an ex-Pittsburgher now in UK. . . .

[ImagineNoPossessions]

She was married to the late Ralph Emery. He savaged her in his biog. She then turned around and wrote a tell-all of her own.

My mom had one of her albums.

I think she in someways predates Dotty West. Dotty was able to "remake" herself to have a career spanning what 4 decades?? Unbelievable

[lancelot1953]

Wonderful song with all the harmonic voices that sound more like Doo Wop than country, gorgeous and powerful voice. Thank you for sharing this great selection from Skeeter Davis' repertoire.

L

[Antihippie24]

Skeeter is actually my 3rd cousin, I live in Corinth Kentucky, her last name was Penick, I will say though I never met her in person, she lived down in TN before she passed away but she could sing.

[brownindian17]

My favorite Skeeter Davis song

[TL250Rider]

This Song Has a Gold Star Flavor Was it recorded at Gold Star?

[TL250Rider]

Priceless

[BandBoxParade]

One thing tha'ts unusual is the the tune is in stereo. Even in '63, stereo was pretty rare for a pop tune. I know 'cause I was there.

[bobaloo47]

RIP SKEETER--LOVE YA

[TL250Rider]

One of Carole King's Best.

This is music

I would love to see the New People Sing the Carole King Recordings.

It would wonderful to see Kaley Cuoco sing this song.

[MEC1992]

Skeeter had a pure voice....nothing false or phoney. Listen to her hold notes perfectly in tune, whether high or low, she is delightful.

[brownindian17]

another one of my favorites of the 60.s

[BobbyDelRiv]

WOW!

[buddyeagle]

Sounds like DUSTY SPRINGFIELD'S - i only wanna be with you. very cool!

[TL250Rider]

Carole King RULES 

[saguaroboy]

@TL250Rider Her songs were really weird during this time- very much playing into it being ok for women to be subjugated and, in some instances, abused!

[BandBoxParade]

@saguaroboy ya gotta be kidding.  When did women stop being objectified and subjugated?

[saguaroboy]

@BandBoxParade Did 'ya' even READ my comment? Did I say crimes against women ever stopped, silly? Relax and enjoy the music. My observation was that her songwriting at this time in history was rife with odd, anti-feminist sentiments- counter to her early seventies empowered female stuff.

[thebig55T]

Skeeter is soundin' great... love her voice and this song

[MrMotownmanny]

When I bought the Re issue 45 The End Of The World on RCA in 1978, This song was the B side. I 'd had never heard of it untill I played it. It's a great song.

[EarleYetter]

@MrMotownmanny That was the fun of 45s -- you'd play both sides, and sometimes you would find a gem!

[TL250Rider]

This is fantastic

Thank you for the listing

[jaemel1]

One of my favorite records of all time!

[harvey1954]

This song sounds like a follow-up to her "Let Me Get Close To You" by Carole King. It has the same feel and in those days acts were always aping their late hit with a slightly revamped follow-up.

[ezramead]

Skeeter Davis had a version of Silver Threads, minus the Nashville sound, that was her best recording. I saw it on Napster at its inception, not since.

[pontecanis]

A really lovely lady--her bastard monster of a husband used to beat the living daylights out or her --she took him for big bucks in the divorce, though...RIP Skeeter

[olo3357]

i really cant......

[phredhead]

d`ya think there`s a problem with self esteem here. If mrs phredhead caught me runnin aroun, tellin lies, and holding another girl tight she`d use my balls for bookends

[phredhead]

D`ya think there`s a problem with Skeeter`s self esteem. If Mrs Phredhead caught me " runnin around, tellin lies, and holdin another girl tight" she`d use my balls for bookends

[beachrvol]

The music of the fifties and sixties was the REAL rock n' roll. The radio stations

that advertise "Classic Rock" have no idea what rock n' roll is!

[yedon68]

..it is my understanding skeeter turned down 'breaking up is hard to do' and then decided to record this about 2 years later...!

[Nocaro]

I had not heard that, but I suppose it's possible although Neil Sedaka was working pretty closely with Connie Francis at the time, and I would think he would have offerred that song to her if anyone.

[yedon68]

@Nocaro skeeter was not the first to turn it down...!

[nadamasencore]

@Nocaro Funniest thing is that Breaking Up is hard to do was written by Carole King, maybe with Gerry Goffin. Neil Sedaka worked with them at Brill Building. They seemed to be very good friends. Cf Oh Carole. Anyway Carole King she's a real Queen of Pop

[Nocaro]

@nadamasencore Good insight and possibly some subliminal influence going on in the Brill Building.

[nadamasencore]

Wikipedia keeps stating that Neil Sedaka wrote this song with Howard Greenfiled ... and they don't include it neither in their list of King and Goffin songs. I have a record with Carole King singing it and the cover says she sings to promote her songs ... Well am doubting if my assersion is correct. Have no way to contact either Carole King or Neil Sedaka to ask them :) Maybe you can!!

[Nocaro]

@nadamasencore Hopefully this is a line from Skeeter Davis' bio online that will clear the matter up, "Davis achieved one other country-pop hit with the Carole King-penned "I Can't Stay Mad At You". Carole King and her husband Gerry Goffin wrote this song. But keep in mind that King and Goffin shared the Brill Building for a time with the likes of people like Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield so there may have been some unintentional "melodic influencing" ...Lanny (Nocaro)

[stevemichaels2020]

@nadamasencore Yes, Gerry Goffin wrote the lyrics and Carole King wrote the music to I CAN'T STAY MAD AT YOU. You can check out the Goffin/King Discography at carolekingdotcom.

[50Emerald]

@yedon68 The background vocals sound very much like what Neil Sedaka would have in a song -- the "shooby-dooby-doo-bop" embellishments....

[Tonycrashed]

Love it. I saw Skeeter Davis at The Grand 'Ole Opry House In Nasville Tennessee in 1995. Beautiful when she sang End Of The World.

[creekxx206]

the truth baby ♥

[nickellodeon55]

This did get to #14 on Billboard's country chart (much less on Cashbox). Interesting as Nocaro may have thought, it sounds like a Neil Sedaka record with a female lead. It also made #2 on Billboard's "Easy Listening" survey.

[trailboyus66]

Makes you wonder and Yes Skeeter did the most to kick start Country-Rock.

It ended up with a record broken and to this day no other group has been on all 4 charts with one hit as the Pointer Sisters did with the late June Pointer in several hits that had country overtones.....

I had the pleasure of meeting June and Bonnie in Dallas in 2003....

I also met Skeeter in 1973..... all so cool...

[Nocaro]

It's really a shame in some ways that Skeeter and several other country artists were afraid of alienating their country audiences by recording songs like this back in those days.

[bobaloo47]

LOVE YA SKEETER--RIP

[CollegeInShorts]

what is so 'unusual' about this song?

[Nocaro]

The recording is a POP tune sung in a very "popular" manner by a COUNTRY singer...back in those days, "country singers" typically didn't record "pop" music for fear of alienating their base audience.

[NcicHit2]

@Nocaro That's true. I think sold better in the pop market than the country market. Good song anyway.

[nep566]

@Nocaro you are really full of it - there were no such "fears" back then and there wasn't a big separation between country and pop music then either

[Nocaro]

@nep566 There was a LOT OF FEAR by country artists in those days, much more so than today, in recording popular sounding music so much so that people like Patsy Cline and Conway Twitty refused to record much of the material offerred to them. Conway was particularly sensitive to this and after recording such pop hits as "Lonely Blue Boy", never went down that road again.

[nep566]

@Nocaro So why did she record this pop song and also "End of the World", another pop song, if she was so afraid ?

[Nocaro]

@nep566 Without talking directly to Skeeter to find out exactly what her thinking was at the time it's impossible to know, but both "End of the World" and this song were recorded fairly close together. "End Of The World" probably surprised her that it crossed over as well as it did, but there was no doubt about this one's pop appeal. But note that except for those two songs, she never recorded anything with that kind of wide popular appeal again.

[JaimeMusso17]

this sounds like breaking up is hard to do ? uhhohh.

[stevemichaels2020]

Great tune by Skeeter Davis written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King!

[saguaroboy]

@stevemichaels2020 I guess one of her producers (not chet atkins) said her voice was not great- but in the studio- magic. There's something so vulnerable there- and when she sings any of Carole Kings 'self hating' songs that just click like crazy.

[JubalCalif]

@stevemichaels2020

I second that emotion! A really delightful "blast from the past"!!!

[Lpompe]

As baladas da primeira metade dos 60's são melodicamente parecidas. Até que em 65 os Beatles gravaram "Help!" e aí tudo mudou!