YOUR WEDNESDAY K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!

"I CAN'T EXPLAIN/THINK I'M IN LOVE."  Jumping back to the very first single released by The Who under their own name. 1964, December saw the unleashing of this rock and roll juggernaut, still doing it to this day, celebrating fifty years, Pete Townshend  and what looks like Betsy Ross but who is actually Roger Daltrey. In fact the band is in the early stages of it's 187th Farewell Tour, get your very expensive tickets now.

The story behind this song is one of inspiration/thievery.  Townshend noted the song's similarity to "All Day and All of the Night" by The Kinks: "It can't be beat for straightforward Kink copying. There is little to say about how I wrote this. It came out of the top of my head when I was 18 and a half." And, in a 1994 issue of Q magazine, Roger Daltrey was quoted, saying,

We already knew Pete (Townshend) could write songs, but it never seemed a necessity in those days to have your own stuff because there was this wealth of untapped music that we could get hold of from America. But then bands like The Kinks started to make it, and they were probably the biggest influence on us – they were certainly a huge influence on Pete, and he wrote 'I Can't Explain', not as a direct copy, but certainly it's very derivative of Kinks music.

(and has anybody noticed the B-Side is "Bald Headed Woman"?)

Anyway, regardless of the source, "Can't Explain" is a nifty little number, a little snotty and you gotta love that riff. And for that reason alone, we are declaring this your-

-K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!

P.S: Wanna hear the brand new Who song? Of course you do!