Davies's lead vocals are occasionally double tracked, and he sings in a tone of longing and regret. Davies is credited as the song's producer, while Pye's in-house engineer Brian Humphries operated the four-track mixing console. The Kinks recorded "Do You Remember Walter" in July 1968 in Pye Studio 2, one of two basement studios at Pye Records' London offices. Rogan adds that while "David Watts" hero-worships in the present tense, the narrator of "Do You Remember Walter" instead contrasts the past and the present, conveying "a loss of almost tragic proportions" where the Walter character is "demythologised in adulthood." In his November 1968 interview with Melody Maker, Davies stated the song's closing line, "People often change but memories of people can remain", served to sum up the song's message. Rogan considers the song a departure from some of Davies's earlier compositions where he created idealised figures, focusing in particular on the 1967 song " David Watts". Īcademic Ken Rayes writes the song evokes the album's themes of English pastoral poetry, suggesting it is a variation on a convention in the genre in which a reader is addressed as an acquaintance and told about "a dead 'Golden Age' hero". Due to its examination of Walter, the song is one of several character studies which appear on Village Green. "Do You Remember Walter" is one of the songs thematically central to the Kinks' 1968 album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society band biographer Andy Miller considers it the album's "lyrical heart", and Rogan writes it centres on the album's themes of nostalgia and loss. The song employs a vertical melody, which Miller describes as "like a piano exercise". Kitts thinks represent the narrator's "assault" on the adult Walter and the present. After opening with "machine gun drumming", the song is defined by a dominant piano and bass guitar, alongside snare rolls, elements which English professor Thomas M. The song's production is subdued, allowing for attention to remain on the lyrics. The singer mocks the older friend's early bedtime, while Walter is uninterested in his reminiscing of the past. In the second half of the song, the singer's idealised memory of his friend is broken when he sees him as fat, married and what band biographer Johnny Rogan terms "irredeemably grown up". The song's narrator recalls his various exploits with Walter, such as playing cricket in the rain and smoking cigarettes together, and remembers a childhood promise they made to one another that they would sail away to sea. The friend directly inspired the song's character Walter. Ray Davies was inspired to compose "Do You Remember Walter" after running into an old friend and finding they didn't have anything to talk about. – Ray Davies on the song's inspiration, November 1968 Then I met him again recently after about five years and we found we just didn't have anything to talk about. Walter was a friend of mine, we used to play football together every Saturday. Retrospective commentators have described it as one of Davies's best compositions. As one of several character studies to appear on Village Green, the song is often characterised by commentators as central to the album's themes of nostalgia and loss. The song was directly inspired by a similar experience of Davies. The song's narrator describes an experience of running into old friend, only to find that the two no longer have anything to talk about. Written and sung by Ray Davies, the song was recorded in July 1968. " Do You Remember Walter?" (also spelled " Do You Remember Walter") is a song by the English rock band the Kinks from their sixth studio album, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968).
" The Village Green Preservation Society" / " Do You Remember Walter?" From the album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
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