Apeman (song)

1970 single by The Kinks

"Apeman" is a 1970 song by British band The Kinks and appears on their eighth studio album "Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One". It went to number 5 in the United Kingdom, number 45 in the United States, number 8 in Germany, number 19 in Canada and number 12 in South Africa.

"Apeman"
Single by the Kinks
from the album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
B-side"Rats"
Released27 November 1970[1]
RecordedAugust–September 1970[a]
StudioMorgan, London[1]
Genre
Length3:54
Label
Songwriter(s)Ray Davies
Producer(s)Ray Davies
The Kinks singles chronology
"Lola"
(1970)
"Apeman"
(1970)
"God's Children"
(1971)

References

change
  1. For the US single, Ray rerecorded the lyric "fuckin'" as "foggin'" on 16–18 November 1970.[1]
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hinman 2004, p. 147.
  2. Shoemaker 2002, p. 174.
  3. Hinman 2004, p. 148.
  4. Kitts, Thomas M. (2007). "Waterloo Sunset: The Romantic Imagination". Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else. Abindgon-on-Thames: Routledge. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-415-97769-2. Retrieved 17 January 2023.