"I Can't Stay Mad At You" Skeeter Davis

The month was September and the year 1963. Skeeter Davis' "I Can't Stay Mad At You," by the song writing team of Gerry Goffin and Carole King, was inspired by Neil Sedaka's "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do." It followed her smash hit, "The End of the World" and was another crossover success, peaking at #7 in 1963. It was featured on her RCA album, Let Me Get Close to You.

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• Skeeter
• Davis
• Pop
• 1960s

[christheone8773]

GREAT SONG - I thought for awhile that Neil Sedaka had something to do with this song, but I guess not-

[catman916]

@christheone8773

Neil Sedaka and his songwriting partner Howie Greenfield worked in the Brill Building along with Gerry Goffin and Carole King. I guess that there was a lot of "cross fertilization."

[12Fegens]

Catchy vocal by the late Skeeter Davis.

[catman916]

It's a song that makes you feel good. You are lucky to have known Skeeter.

[gfkd11]

Too a gem!!

FANTASTIC!!

[wilcarr1]

A kinder gentler time the 60s and Beverly B in my old 55 Ford.

[ThePaddyjoejr1]

I Have this By: Kathy Taylor.

[eottoe2001]

That is a fine version. I don't recall that she did it. She really was fine singer. Thank for the post.

[coneyandapop]

This is real music. Not the cookie cutter music of now.

[desert3347]

So "Underrated" As a Singer.

RIP Skeeter

[centralparocker]

Top notch all the way, baby....!!!!

[Kirke182]

Skeeter got her start on Detroit's Fortune label in '52 and gave them their first major hit. Back then she was part of a duo called the Davis Sisters but her partner, Betty Jack (who was not her sister) , died in a car wreck shortly after.

[vincent5august]

Just plain cool!!!

[sportsmediaamerica]

Skeeter's a very underrated vocalist. Great pop song!!!

[MARILLIONROCKER45]

It was the summer of 1963 and beginning a new life just having arrived in Houston from Milwaukee. Back with family and friends and old girlfriends with so many great times still ahead. I was just 18 and remember driving down Waugh Drive on a Saturday morning and hearing this song on the radio. It always made me feel happy. What awesome memories. Skeeter Davis was just the best.