Tired of Waiting for You

"Tired of Waiting for You"
West German picture sleeve
Single by the Kinks
from the album Kinda Kinks
B-side"Come on Now"
Released15 January 1965
Recorded24 August and 29 December 1964[1]
StudioPye and IBC, London
GenrePop[2]
Length2:31
Label
Songwriter(s)Ray Davies
Producer(s)Shel Talmy
The Kinks UK singles chronology
"All Day and All of the Night"
(1964) 		"Tired of Waiting for You"
(1965) 		"Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy"
(1965)
The Kinks US singles chronology
"All Day and All of the Night"
(1964) 		"Tired of Waiting for You"
(1965) 		"Set Me Free"
(1965)

"Tired of Waiting for You" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks.[3] It was released as a single on 15 January 1965 in the UK and on 17 February 1965 in the US. The single reached number one in the UK and number six in the US. It then appeared on their second studio album, Kinda Kinks. It was the group's highest-charting single in the US - tied with "Come Dancing", which achieved the same chart position eighteen years later in 1983.

  1. ^ Hinman 2004, pp. 33–34, 43.
  2. ^ Rogan 1998, p. 11.
  3. ^ Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp. 87–9. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.