Ray Davies - Sings Lola and Chit Chats with Regis and Kelly

[itwontbez]

It's moments like this that make me wonder why Regis Philbin is considered an "icon". He is so embarrassingly out of his element here; I'm still a novice when it comes to All Things Kinks, yet I knew he was wrong about a.) when they first came to America, and b.) The fact that they were no longer together. RP has been guilty of getting things like this wrong about his guests for many years, yet many people still love him....I really don't get it.

[sharonra2000]

come on regis, shush, let ray and his lead man do their thing as they do it sooooo well. love you ray,,,,love from sharon in vermont

[highroadnow]

wankers, ha ha

After Ray played on David Letterman, Letterman said, Ray DAVIS, everyone

pathetic

[barnacleboymtk]

christ, just fast forward to 1:22 and spare yourselves. in fact dont even watch at all! plenty of other ray videos on here.

[tophernates]

kelly: you enjoy making music alone once awhile?. ray subtely : i do it a lot

haha classic

[GaGaLiveOnSNLive]

Regis is lost

[hiljab]

Stupid americans. Poor Ray. Of cause he cant perform after this stupid .... spiritkilling jerk

[hiljab]

Stupid americans. Poor Ray

[moxie96]

@hiljab we're not all stupid and not all of us -like myself- like regis and kelly and all these other nausiating talking head entertaiment/reality shows we're stuck with. If we were given a better set of choices to watch on tv then the stupid americans around here would be normal like you and me...

[MegaRussellC]

Firstly, TOTAL disrespect going to commercial after 20 seconds of one of the greatest concept song of all time.

The 2 ninnys that host the show have to feel even more stupid than usual unless Kelly's kid is a transvestite.

[Opqosite]

hahaha. i don't think kelly or regis get it.

[MurrayShempstein]

Kelly: You enjoy making music alone once in awhile?

Ray: I do it a lot.

Regis: Once a Kink always a Kink.

[krankiekat]

That's because I was the only person there for Ray for the taping.

[uebergeek]

Oops, audience doesn't realize when he yells "L-O-L-A!" that's their cue to sing. Davies winds up giggling embarrassedly...

[footagefile]

God, Regis is pathetic!

[james00779]

Man we are all getting old, But !!! can you still kick ass like ray think about all the Crap thats going down today then tell me this guy sucks. IF YOUCAN.

[itchyk]

hehe, yeah, it sucks he´s getting old, but thats the life:)) niice flow at the end:))love this song and many others from them:)

[lakshmiluvsvishnu]

I feel sick

[corporal8448]

There's nothing like dedicating a song to someones daughter which is all about going to a bar and picking up a tranvestite. Classy.

[Goofy2149]

LOL! I was thinking the same thing. Poor child is gonna need therapy now.

[BigRiverOne]

Chronic, one hit wonder

[DexterAndCromwell]

The Kinks were definitely not a one hit wonder band. They had about 20!

[truenorthcompass]

the kinks are one of the most influential bands of the 60's

one hit after another wonders

[BeASimpleMan]

It sucks he's getting old

[markalicuos]

ur old

[algavin47]

Regis loves the Kinks. Yeah, ok.

[TheZigZagWanderer]

Ray looks like he's having trouble keeping a straight face during "Lola".

[zstardust838]

Man they're dumb. Regis and Kelly, not Ray of course!

[ianhunterfan08]

the kinks are still toghether

[Duxinflite]

No, Regis was dead wrong when he said the Kinks are still a band. I kinda get a kick out of Regis, but he is super lame here. Ahh, so what, I just saw Ray perform last Saturday.

[OropherThranduil]

WE NEED A REUNION OF THE HARDEST SOUNDING BAND OF THE BRITISH INVASION.

i mean they're all alive even their first AND second bass guitar players are alive.

[stregadisalem]

Why would Kelly want Ray Davies to sing "Lola" for her daughter named Lola? Does she even realize what the song is about? Aparently not.

[alabhaois]

LOL!!

[quadrophenia0901]

Good point. maybe her daughter used to be her son. crazier things have happened...

[Duxinflite]

HAHA. Good one!

[ebarteldes]

My thoughts exactly...

[STILLAVRIL1]

Who are these wankers, and why are they let loose on television interviewing the likes of Ray Davies?

Is there no quality control in America?

Are all television channels this crass?

[alphuez]

Answers are, respectively...

-- No, there isn't

-- Pretty much

PS: comments above about Kelly wanting this "for her daughter" (possibly ex-son) are funny as hell!

[moxie96]

@STILLAVRIL1 they are one of the oldest set of bad moring tv talk entertaiment show hosts. All networks got them (I hate the one who has this guys former female cohost over on NBC SO MUCH!!!) Quality had gone out the rulebook since 1987 and gotten worse now. I envy your programming, I am to assume you are from the UK region right? American Tv producers think Americans like their Tv dummed down and their brains turned to mush so not much effort is done anymore just make reality tv it all seems.

[deyoungparker]

"Hey, hi Bill...terrific..."

[VicWalsh]

when the camera is blurred a little ray davis reminds me of quentin tarantino

[MulatuAstatke]

OMG...this was funny and painful at the same time. Ray was on Regis & Kathy Lee in the '90's and Regis really messed it up back then, too. That interview might still be on YouTube. Oh man, why can't they recognize the greatness that is Ray Davies...or at least just do some research! I mean come on, even Wikipedia clearly states they disbanded in '96!

[quadrophenia0901]

I know what you mean! And that was just Ray and Dave is '96. the actual original band disbanded a lot earlier.

god could kathy be more musically retarded?

[nirvana1714]

this song is a CLASSIC

[TheSaxby]

Ay gevalt. G-d bless Ray for surviving Regis Philbin. "I love The Kinks, really." Really, Regis? Then why didn't you know that they broke up twelve years ago and that they came to America AFTER the Beatles?

And I could tell that Kelly was completely clueless, too. I wouldn't sing a song about a transvestite for my daughter even if her name WERE Lola! I can only hope for the child's sake that Kelly didn't name her after the Lola in the song. You could almost see Ray thinking, "Ugh. Americans."

[haalaan]

RAY DAVYES!

sin duda es un genio,,compociciones tan revolucionadas para los años 60s q estavan,,sin duda aun ,,en esta epoca son admirables ya sea,,uno de sus exitos,,you realy gotme ,,

[zstardust838]

Absolutely cringeworthy!!! I'm speechless. . .

[DaigoMoustache]

Oh my GOD. This is just embarassing! I feel like going back in time a few weeks just so I could walk onto that set and punch Regis in the back of the head. They have a musical genius right in front of them and they have no clue what they're talking about. SHAME!

[dlanodrelda]

2 idiots with 1 genius - guess who is who!

[Zeitgeist74]

Poor Ray, what the hell is he doing on this dumb show? :o What a disgrace!

[BrokenLeggBilly]

Regis is such a fuck up!

[miss2tone]

That made me laugh so much...

[BrokenLeggBilly]

Why?

[miss2tone]

Because you called Regis a fuck up. I havent thought of him in that way before. it just tickled me. Not an issue, it just made me laugh out loud.

[shirleedee]

Oh, and one more thing I forgot - Ray Davies works as a solo artist - The Kinks broke up in '96. Regis and Kelly are so busted!

[shirleedee]

I can't believe the show got the facts so wrong - The Beatles first tour was very early '64, The Kinks didn't come over until 1965. Ray Davies reply was so funny - "And before The Everly Brothers too", since The Everly Brothers are from the US and were popular 1957-1964.

[lookylooky2006]

What ya gotta love is not only how they time it to end as they get to the "meat" of the song but how the Disney logo pops up ( still an association with children) but does Kelly R even know what the song is about and if not its priceless what her reaction must have been

"well I 'm not a dumb but I cnat understand why she walk like a women but talks like a man lola

[shirleedee]

I can't help but think that they were both totally clueless!

[12rr12rr]

"Well Im not the worlds most masculine man

But I know what I am and Im glad Im a man

And so is lola"

[someotherself]

so... as I am a a person that has very little contact with American TV shows... humm... are these 2 people, R&K, that mismatched and "funny" (to say the nicest word) or was it just an accident of non-communication? He seemed to have some idea of who their guest may be, and what he does, she, however, appeared to be totally lost in such trifle details. Or... this was all just a clever joke which I didn't catch, since I'm not that sharp anyway. :-|

[eshannon3]

I have heard the a Ray Davies North American Tour might happen this spring, which would be expected. The only thing that could top that, is of course, a Kink's reunion! Let's hope it happens in the near future...

[number1kinksfan]

**cringe** Bless ray for putting up with that! haha!

[bert8654]

This is painful to watch.

[sukille]

Ray was very kind to these interviewers from another planet.

[johnnydinkis2]

I wonder if Kelly Ripa knew that the song she was having played for her daughter was about a transvestite. Considering they didn't know The Kinks broke up 12 years ago, I'm guessing not.

[jayne0914]

I cannot believe that he looked at that index card and said that they came over before the Beatles! Duh! Who wrote it - an 18 year old who didn't bother to do any research first? And furthermore, he says that the Kinks are still together! Shame on them. PS Ray is still a fine specimen - I saw him outside of Letterman the night before this. He looks much younger in person.

[PC3900]

No!! The Beatles arrived in February 1964, and the Kinks first US tour was June 1965.

[jayne0914]

The Beatles music hit the radio in the USA in December of 1963 shortly after Kennedy was assassinated. The first Kinks songs hit the radio in the USA in 1964. I remember it well. I had the Kinks photographs on the ceiling over my bed, and my mother said to me "who are those creeps? They look like cavemen!" That made me love them more. HA!

[alphuez]

Perfect reply, Jane!!!

[HipN9]

Everybody knows that the Kinks came over here a year before the Beatles! 1963 was the year they took New York by storm! They started the British Invasion with their first hit "Muswell Hillbillies." I'll never forget seeing them on Ed Sullivan singing that song in their pink hunting jackets!

[eshannon3]

Hello!!! Their first hit was "YOu Really Got Me" released in August of '64 - 7 months after the Beatles arrival to the states. And "Muswell Hillbillies was released in November of '71. The clue phone is ringing.....

[HipN9]

Uhm, I was kidding. Mentioning "Muswell Hillbillies" as their first hit was a joke. Should I pass the clue phone to you so you can answer it?

[eshannon3]

OK, OK, I thought there might be a slight chance that you were kidding, as you actually knew about Muswell Hillbillies and the red hunting jackets....But, given the number knuckleheads out there - witness the two celebs - I just had to set the record straight. Enjoy ray's new album, my fellow Kinkofile!

[whofan1]

Regis and Kelly are idiots!

[singleh27]

Whoever does research on the show should have told Regis that The Kinks broke up in '96.

Oh and Perry Como references always go great with today's audiences.

Otherwise it's good to see Ray on American TV.

[barrows1224]

P.S.

Regis is a fucking loser.

[compabutch]

No kidding.... when he flashed the new CD, I expected Ray to backhand him and say, "We don't need you plastic TV fatheads tossing us peanuts any more, Jackass. The CD will do fine without your patronizing bullshit!" In his senility, Regis might have thought his guest was Perry Como. Kelly certainly believed that Lola was a nursery song.

[barrows1224]

Oh, to be a fan of the Kinks in the US! You always feel like you're the only one who knows better.