The Kinks' album *The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society* is considered one of the best records of the 1960s. Yet when it was released in November 1968, it sold poorly, a situation exacerbated by Ray Davies’s refusal to let Pye release a single from it in the UK or the US. The band’s only promotional activity was an appearance on folk singer Julie Felix’s Saturday night BBC TV show, where they played a few songs from the record.