END OF THE WORLD, THE

Created on 10/01/2006
Latest update on 17/10/2023

Artist: Skeeter Davis
Author: Sylvia Dee/Arthur Kent
Label: RCA
Year: 1962

Cross-over mega hit; n°2 US & C&W, also n°4 R&B and n°1 Adult Contemporary.

Covers:

1963:

Ruby & The Romantics

1963:

Julie London [album title track]

1963:

Frank Alamo [as Fait pour durer; hit Fr]

1963:

Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann [as For Evigt Forbi, B-side of Dansevise]

1963:

Lord Creator

1963:

Bobby Darin

1964:

Loretta Lynn

1964:

Eddy Arnold

1964:

Brenda Lee

1964:

Helen Shapiro

1965:

Herman's Hermits

1965:

Pat Boone

1965:

Los Apson [as El Fin Del Mundo]

1965:

Twinkle

1966:

Elsa Leroy [as Où va le vent?]

1966:

Al Martino

1967:

Nancy Sinatra

1968:

Leno [as O Fim Do Mundo]

1969:

Floyd Cramer

1970:

Patti Page

1972:

Bobby Vinton

1973:

Carpenters

1974:

Mud

1974:

Andy Mackay [on In Search Of Eddie Riff]

1975:

Judge Dread

1990:

Sonja

1996:

Gregory Isaacs

1996:

Rosie Flores

2001:

Straitjackets

2003:

John Mellencamp

2008:

Aïta [as Mon coeur croit encore]

2009:

Susan Boyle

2016:

Cyndi Lauper

2017:

Sharon Van Etten

2019:

Rickie Lee Jones

Contact


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