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( June 2017 ) `` The End of the World '' Single by Skeeter Davis from the album Skeeter Davis Sings The End of the World B - side `` Somebody Loves You '', `` Blueberry Hill '' Released 1962 Format 7 '' single Recorded 1962 Genre Country Length 2 : 33 Label RCA Songwriter ( s ) Arthur Kent, Sylvia Dee Producer ( s ) Chet Atkins Skeeter Davis singles chronology `` The Little Music Box '' ( 1962 ) `` The End of the World '' ( 1962 ) `` I 'm Saving My Love '' ( 1963 ) `` The Little Music Box '' ( 1962 ) `` The End of the World '' ( 1962 ) `` I 'm Saving My Love '' ( 1963 ) `` The End of the World '' is a country pop song written by Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee, for American singer Skeeter Davis. It had success in the 1960s and spawned many covers. Contents 1 Background 2 Chart performance 3 The Carpenters version 4 Sonia version 4.1 Formats and track listings 4.2 Charts 5 Other versions 6 Appearances in media 7 References 8 External links Background `` The End of the World '' was written by Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee ; the latter drew on her sorrow from her father 's death. Davis recorded her version on June 8, 1962, at the RCA Studios in Nashville, produced by Chet Atkins, and featuring Floyd Cramer. Released by RCA Records in December 1962, `` The End of the World '' peaked in March 1963 at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 ( behind `` Our Day Will Come '' by Ruby & the Romantics ), No. 2 on the Billboard country singles, No. 1 on Billboard 's easy listening, and No. 4 on Billboard 's rhythm and blues. It is the first, and, to date, only time that a song cracked the Top 10 on all four Billboard charts. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 3 song of 1963. In the Skeeter Davis version, after she sings the whole song through in the key of B - flat, the song modulates up by a half step to the key of B, where Skeeter speaks the first two lines of the final stanza, before singing the rest of the stanza, ending the song. Davis 's recording of `` The End of the World '' was played at Atkins 's funeral in an instrumental by Marty Stuart, and at Davis 's own funeral at the Ryman Auditorium. Her version has been featured in several TV shows, video games and films including Girl, Interrupted, Riding in Cars with Boys, Daltry Calhoun, ' ' An American Affair ' ', The Boat That Rocked, Mad Men, Under the Dome and Fallout 4 in addition to the TV spot for Wayward Pines season 2, and opening credits of the BYU TV series Granite Flats. Chart performance Chart ( 1963 ) Peak position Australian Kent Music Report 32 U.K. Singles Chart 18 U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles U.S. Billboard Hot 100 U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles U.S. Billboard Easy Listening The Carpenters version `` The End of the World '' Single by The Carpenters from the album Live in Japan B - side `` Sing '' ( live with the Kyoto Children 's Choir ) Released March 5, 1975 Format Cassette Recorded June 4 -- 9, 1975 Genre Country Length 2 : 04 Label A&M / King Records, Universal Songwriter ( s ) Arthur Kent, Sylvia Dee Producer ( s ) Richard Carpenter The Carpenters singles chronology `` Only Yesterday '' ( 1975 ) `` The End of the World '' ( 1975 ) `` Solitaire '' ( 1976 ) `` Only Yesterday '' ( 1975 ) `` The End of the World '' ( 1975 ) `` Solitaire '' ( 1976 ) In 1975, American pop music duo Carpenters released a cover of `` The End of the World '' as a promotional single from their live album Live in Japan. It was recorded at the Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan. Sonia version `` End of the World '' Single by Sonia from the album Everybody Knows B - side `` Ca n't Help the Way That I Feel '' Released August 1990 Format CD Single 7 '' Single 12 '' Single Recorded Genre Pop Length 3 : 36 Label Chrysalis Songwriter ( s ) Arthur Kent, Sylvia Dee Producer ( s ) Stock, Aitken & Waterman Sonia singles chronology `` You 've Got a Friend '' ( 1990 ) `` End of the World '' ( 1990 ) `` Only Fools ( Never Fall in Love ) '' ( 1991 ) `` You 've Got a Friend '' ( 1990 ) `` End of the World '' ( 1990 ) `` Only Fools ( Never Fall in Love ) '' ( 1991 ) In 1990, British singer Sonia covered `` End of the World ''. The fifth and final single from her debut album, Everybody Knows, it reached number 18 in the UK, the same chart position as the original. The single 's B - side `` Ca n't Help the Way That I Feel '' also appeared on Sonia 's debut album. This was her final single with Stock Aitken Waterman. Formats and track listings 7 '' single `` End of the World '' `` Ca n't Help the Way That I Feel '' CD single and 12 '' vinyl single `` End of the World '' `` Ca n't Help the Way That I Feel '' `` Counting Every Minute '' ( Tick Tock Remix ) Charts Chart ( 1990 ) Peak Position Australian Singles Chart 153 Irish Singles Chart 18 UK Singles Chart 18 Other versions A No. 2 hit in Sweden in September 1966 via a local cover by Mike Wallace & the Caretakers, `` The End of the World '' has also been remade by a number of other artists including Jessica Andersson, Anika ( as B - side to her single `` Yang Yang '' and on her album Anika ), Eddy Arnold, Best Coast, Debby Boone, Brilliant, Carola ( in Finnish as `` Maailmain '' ), Chantal Pary ( in French `` Le jour se lèvera ), the Carpenters, Rivers Cuomo, Bobby Darin, Lana Del Rey, Barbara Dickson, Dion, Mary Duff, Allison Durbin, Judith Durham, Exposé, Agnetha Fältskog, Rosie Flores, Emi Fujita, Girls, Nina Gordon, Herman 's Hermits ( as the B - side of `` I 'm Henery the Eighth, I Am '' ), Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann ( released on the b - side to Eurovision Song Contest winner song 1963 ; Dansevise ), Satoko Ishimine, Joni James, Cyndi Lauper, Brenda Lee, Vic Dana, Lobo, Julie London, Claudine Longet, Loretta Lynn, Al Martino, Johnny Mathis, Anne Mattila ( in Finnish as `` Maailmain '' ), Imelda May, Maywood, John Cougar Mellencamp, Anita Meyer, the Mills Brothers, Ronnie Milsap, Dorothy Moore, Mud, Anne Murray, Leigh Nash, Nomeansno, Patti Page, Helen Shapiro, Anne Shelton, Vonda Shepard, Nancy Sinatra, Sonia, the Tokens, Twiggy, Twinkle, the Vanguards, Bobby Vinton, Jeff Walker, Dottie West, Lena Zavaroni, and Tracy Huang ( 黃鶯 鶯 ). In 2009 Susan Boyle remade `` The End of the World '' for her debut album, I Dreamed a Dream. A cover version by Allison Paige peaked at number 72 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in May 2000. The Brazilian band Roupa Nova made a cover version in Portuguese, in 1997, named `` O Sonho Acabou ''. There have been three Cantonese versions covered by three different Hong Kong singers, namely `` 長 相思 '' by Pauline Chan ( 陳寶珠 ) in 1968, `` 含羞 草 '' by Annabelle Lui ( 雷 安娜 ) in 1987 and `` 冬 戀 '' by Danny Chan ( 陳百強 ) in 1988. For the Mandarin version, the first one `` 打 不動 你 的 心 '' was covered by Hong Kong veteran female singer Rebecca Pan ( 潘迪華 ) in 1965 while the second one `` 後 會 無期 '' by another Hong Kong female singer G.E.M. Tang ( 鄧紫棋 ) in 2014. Subsequently, there was the third one titled `` 星 夢 之 光 '', lyrics written by an SNH48 member, Wu Yanwen ( 吳燕 文 ), and performed by SNH48 themselves in 2015. Cyndi Lauper covered the song in 2016, the cover is part of the album Detour. Appearances in media The song was used as the opening and closing theme for the political thriller radio drama Pandemic, produced by BBC Radio 4. It was also used in the 1999 drama film Girl, Interrupted, as well as in the Stephen King / Steven Spielberg CBS TV series Under the Dome season one episode five, `` Blue on Blue. '' An abbreviated version of the song is the theme music for the TV series Granite Flats. The song was used for the main title and credit sequences in the 2008 film An American Affair. The song appears on the in - game radio in the video game Fallout 4. In episode 8 ( `` End of the World '' ) of the 2015 TV series The Man in the High Castle, an American singer performs the song in Japanese. The song was also used in the second part of the 2015 Japanese dark fantasy action horror film Attack on Titan. The song appears in the episode of Lost, What Kate Did. The song appears in an episode of the TV series Wayward Pines, Season 2, Episode 9, `` Walcott Prep ''. The song also makes an appearance at the end of Season 3, episode 7, of HBO 's The Leftovers. The song appears at the end of episode 12 of the third season of Mad Men ; `` The Grown - Ups ''. The song appears at the closing credits of Darren Aronofsky 's controversial film mother ! ( 2017 ). References Jump up ^ Gilliland, John ( 1969 ). `` Show 10 -- Tennessee Firebird : American country music before and after Elvis. ( Part 2 ) '' ( audio ). Pop Chronicles. University of North Texas Libraries. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits : 1944 -- 2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 180. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). Top R&B / Hip - Hop Singles : 1942 -- 2004. Record Research. p. 147. Jump up ^ `` '' The End of the World '' -- Skeeter Davis : 1963 ``. The Pop History Dig. 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External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Preceded by `` Rhythm of the Rain '' by The Cascades `` Billboard '' Middle - Road number - one single by Skeeter Davis March 16, 1963 ( four weeks ) Succeeded by `` Ca n't Get Used to Losing You '' by Andy Williams Sonia Studio albums Everybody Knows ( 1990 ) Sonia ( 1991 ) Better the Devil You Know ( 1993 ) Love Train - The Philly Album ( 1998 ) Compilations Greatest Hits ( 2007 ) Singles `` You 'll Never Stop Me Loving You '' ( 1989 ) `` Ca n't Forget You '' ( 1989 ) `` Listen to Your Heart '' ( 1989 ) `` Counting Every Minute '' ( 1990 ) `` You 've Got a Friend '' ( 1990 ) `` End of the World '' ( 1990 ) `` Only Fools ( Never Fall in Love ) '' ( 1991 ) `` Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy '' ( 1991 ) `` You to Me Are Everything '' ( 1991 ) `` We 've Got the Power '' ( 1992 ) `` Boogie Nights '' ( 1992 ) `` Better the Devil You Know '' ( 1993 ) `` Hopelessly Devoted to You '' ( 1994 ) `` Wake Up Everybody '' ( 1995 ) `` Fool for Love '' ( 2009 ) Record labels Chrysalis Records IQ Records Arista Records BMG Related topics Stock Aitken Waterman Nigel Wright Brian Teasdale Dean Collinson Steve Levine Skeeter Davis Solo albums I 'll Sing You a Song and Harmonize Too ( 1959 ) Here 's the Answer ( 1961 ) Skeeter Davis Sings The End of the World ( 1963 ) Singles `` ( I Ca n't Help You ) I 'm Falling Too '' `` The End of the World '' `` For Loving You '' `` Fuel to the Flame '' `` Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now '' `` The Hands You 're Holding Now '' `` He Says the Same Things to Me '' `` Homebreaker '' `` I Ca n't Believe That It 's All Over '' `` I Ca n't Stay Mad at You '' `` I 'm a Lover ( Not a Fighter ) '' `` I 'm Saving My Love '' `` Last Date '' `` Lost to a Geisha Girl '' `` My Last Date ( with You ) '' `` One Tin Soldier '' `` Optimistic '' `` Please Help Me, I 'm Falling '' `` Set Him Free '' `` Sun Glasses '' `` There 's a Fool Born Every Minute '' `` What Does It Take ( To Keep a Man Like You Satisfied ) '' `` Where I Ought to Be '' Related Discography The Davis Sisters `` I Forgot More Than You 'll Ever Know '' Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_End_of_the_World_(Skeeter_Davis_song)&oldid=802205708 '' Categories : 1962 singles 1963 singles 1990 singles Skeeter Davis songs Sonia ( singer ) songs Susan Boyle songs Billboard Adult Contemporary number - one singles Songs with lyrics by Sylvia Dee Torch songs 1962 songs Song recordings produced by Chet Atkins Song recordings produced by Stock Aitken Waterman RCA Records singles Chrysalis Records singles Songs with music by Arthur Kent ( composer ) Songs about suicide Hidden categories : Wikipedia introduction cleanup from June 2017 All pages needing cleanup Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from June 2017 All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify Use mdy dates from June 2016 Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Français 日本 語 Norsk Norsk nynorsk Simple English Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 24 September 2017, at 17 : 39. 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Question: who sang why does the sun keep on shining
Answer: Skeeter Davis