Friday, June 27, 2025

Flashback Friday: The End Of The World

 

 

 

"Why does the sun go on shining?
Why does the sea rush to shore?
Don't they know it's the end of the world?
'Cause you don't love me any more..."

 

 In recent years, "The End of the World" has become one of the songs
played in the video game "Fallout 4" which depicts life in America in
the wake of an atomic holocaust.  In reality, this song, recorded by
 pop-country artist Skeeter Davis in June, 1962, deals with the
  more familiar sense of misery and hopelessness found within 
a broken heart in the aftermath of a romantic breakup.

Released by RCA Records in December 1962, "The End of the World" peaked in
 March 1963 at Number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Number 2 on Billboard's
Hot Country Singles chart, Number 1 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart, and
Number 4. on Billboard's Hot R & B Singles chart.

It is the first, and to date, only time that a song cracked the Top 10 and Top 5 on all
 four Billboard charts. Billboard also ranked the record as the Number 2 song of 1963.

 

 

The End of the World
(1962)
Skeeter Davis
Legacy RecordingsVEVO
 (June 14, 2021)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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