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Tired of Waiting for You

Tired of Waiting for You

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"Tired of Waiting for You" was a hit 1965 rock song by the English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 band The Kinks
The Kinks
The Kinks are an English rock group categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of the British Invasion era....

. It reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top 200 singles based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 of this list...

 and #6 in the USA. It was recorded late August 1964 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London, with additional guitar overdub at IBC Studios
IBC Studios
The IBC Recording Studios were recording studios in 35 Portland Place, London, England. After the Second World War it was the address of the leading independent studio in London and the British Isles...

, London on 29 December 1964. "Come On Now" was recorded 22 or 23 December 1964 at Pye Studios (No. 2).

American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 group Green Day
Green Day
Green Day is an American rock trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong , Mike Dirnt , and Tré Cool for the majority of its existence....

, country music
Country music
Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains...

 singer Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam
Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter and actor, most famous for his country music. Active since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.-Early life:Yoakam was born...

 and Suzi Quatro
Suzi Quatro
Suzi Quatro is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress.She scored a string of hit singles in the 1970s that found greater success in Europe than in her homeland, and had a recurring role on the popular American sitcom Happy Days.-Early life:Quatro was born into a Catholic musical family...

 have covered
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 the song.
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"Tired of Waiting for You" was a hit 1965 rock song by the English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 band The Kinks
The Kinks
The Kinks are an English rock group categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of the British Invasion era....

. It reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top 200 singles based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 of this list...

 and #6 in the USA. It was recorded late August 1964 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London, with additional guitar overdub at IBC Studios
IBC Studios
The IBC Recording Studios were recording studios in 35 Portland Place, London, England. After the Second World War it was the address of the leading independent studio in London and the British Isles...

, London on 29 December 1964. "Come On Now" was recorded 22 or 23 December 1964 at Pye Studios (No. 2).

American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 group Green Day
Green Day
Green Day is an American rock trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong , Mike Dirnt , and Tré Cool for the majority of its existence....

, country music
Country music
Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains...

 singer Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam
Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter and actor, most famous for his country music. Active since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.-Early life:Yoakam was born...

 and Suzi Quatro
Suzi Quatro
Suzi Quatro is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress.She scored a string of hit singles in the 1970s that found greater success in Europe than in her homeland, and had a recurring role on the popular American sitcom Happy Days.-Early life:Quatro was born into a Catholic musical family...

 have covered
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 the song. The Green Day
Green Day
Green Day is an American rock trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong , Mike Dirnt , and Tré Cool for the majority of its existence....

 version can be found on the soundtrack for Howard Stern
Howard Stern
Howard Allan Stern is an American radio and media personality most notable for his radio show which since January 9, 2006, has been broadcasting on Sirius XM, an uncensored satellite radio service...

's 1997 film Private Parts
Private Parts (1997 film)
Private Parts is a 1997 biographical film directed by Betty Thomas from a script written by Len Blum and Michael Kalesniko. Produced by Ivan Reitman and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is adapted from the 1993 best-selling autobiography of the same name by radio personality Howard Stern...

 and on their album Shenanigans. The Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam
Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter and actor, most famous for his country music. Active since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.-Early life:Yoakam was born...

 version, is available on his album, Under the Covers
Under the Covers (Dwight Yoakam album)
Under the Covers is a 1997 album of cover songs recorded by Dwight Yoakam. It peaked at #8 on Billboards Top Country Albums chart, and #92 on the Billboard 200.-Track listing:# "Claudette" - 2:59...

. Suzi Quatro
Suzi Quatro
Suzi Quatro is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress.She scored a string of hit singles in the 1970s that found greater success in Europe than in her homeland, and had a recurring role on the popular American sitcom Happy Days.-Early life:Quatro was born into a Catholic musical family...

 covered this song on her 1978 album If You Knew Suzi
If You Knew Suzi
If You Knew Suzi... is the sixth regular studio album by Suzi Quatro, released at the end of 1978, with a 1979 copyright date . The credits show it to be a multinational production: tracks were recorded in Cologne, Germany, Paris, France, and Glendale, California...

. Sweethead
Sweethead
Sweethead is a US rock band formed in 2008 by Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen and new-on-the-scene lead vocalist Serrina Sims. Norm Block and Eddie Nappi from Mark Lanegan Band round out the group.-History:...

 also covered this song on their 2009 EP The Great Disruptors.

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