[1] Working on the piano at his parents' home in Fortis Green, north London,[2] he wrote the song while awaiting news about the birth of his and his wife's first child.
[5] Davies's demo remained unreleased until April 1998, when it appeared as a bonus track on the CD remaster of Kinda Kinks.
Kassner succeeded in convincing the American jazz singer Peggy Lee to cover "I Go to Sleep",[7] which she recorded backed by a studio orchestra conducted by Sid Feller.
[9][nb 2] During the same US tour, after a Kinks show in Philadelphia on 19 June, the singer Mary Wells expressed to Davies a desire to record the song, but he rejected the offer since it had already been promised to Lee.
[7] The English Beat group the Applejacks issued a cover of the song as a single in the UK on 27 August 1965,[12] but it failed to chart.