Chart Singles Written By Davies
The following is a list of Davies compositions that were chart hits for artists other than The Kinks. (See The Kinks discography for hits by The Kinks.)
| Year | Title | Artist | Chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | "This Strange Effect" | Dave Berry | #37 | ||
| "Something Better Beginning" | The Honeycombs | #39 | |||
| 1966 | "A House in the Country" | The Pretty Things | #50 | ||
| "Dandy" | Herman's Hermits | #1 | #5 | ||
| 1978 | "You Really Got Me" | Van Halen | #49 | #36 | |
| "David Watts" | The Jam | #25 | |||
| 1979 | "Stop Your Sobbing" | The Pretenders | #34 | #65 | |
| 1981 | "I Go To Sleep" | The Pretenders | #7 | ||
| 1988 | "All Day and All of the Night" | The Stranglers | #7 | ||
| "Victoria" | The Fall | #35 | |||
| 1989 | "Days" | Kirsty MacColl | #12 | ||
| 1997 | "Waterloo Sunset" | Cathy Dennis | #11 | ||
| 2007 | "Village Green Preservation Society" | Kate Rusby | #102 | ||
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