Connections between P.F. Sloan and The Kinks

While making the Sloan-booklet I ran into some connections between P.F. Sloan and The Kinks:

• The Turtles recorded no less than five Sloan-songs, including the hit-singles "Let me be",
  "You baby" and "Can I get to know you better, while Ray Davies produced their LP "Turtle soup".
• The Chesterfield Kings (The Kings with a "g") recorded five Kinks-songs on various LPs.
  On their CD/2LP "Surfin' rampage" they were also one of the few groups to cover three Sloan-songs
  from the Fantastic Baggys period: "Anywhere the girls are", "Summer means fun" and "Tell 'em I'm surfin'".
• Herman's Hermits recorded four Sloan-songs on the soundtrack-LP "Hold on!", including the hit-single
  "A must to avoid", while they also had a hit with Ray Davies' "Dandy".
  The Danish pressing of "Dandy" even has the Sloan-song "Hold on!" on the b-side!
• Speaking of Denmark: The Hitmakers, a Danish 'pigtråd'-band from the sixties, issued The Kinks'
  "Who'll be the next in line" and Sloan's "Where were you when I needed you" on different singles.
• P. F. Sloan must have admired Kinks-guitarist Dave Davies and Dave Davies admired P.F. Sloan.
  In the intro of the Sloan-song "Anywhere the girls are" by The Fantastic Baggys you can hear the riff
  of the first Kinks-hit "You really got me", while the Sloan-song "Drums a go go" by Hal Blaine is significantly
  similar to the second Kinks-hit "All day and all of the night". And asked for his opinion about 'the folksong',
  Dave Davies' answer in a 1965-interview in the Dutch magazine "Hitweek" was: "Phil Sloan is my big favorite".
• P.F. Sloan and Dave Davies even shared two song titles: "She's my girl" and "Is it any wonder".
• Dawn Eden didn't only write the liner for The Fantastic Baggys CD "Tell 'em I'm surfin' " and Sloan's
  solo-CD "Anthology", but also for the Velvel-reissue of the Kinks-CD "Word of mouth".
• Andrew Sandoval, who wrote the liner notes for the reissue-CD "Where were you when I needed you"
  by The Grass Roots in 1994, played rhythm guitar during a Dave Davies-solo tour in 1997 and was
  one of the performers on a Harry Nilsson tribute concert in 1998 where P.F. Sloan was another one!

Could it be all these connections between P.F. Sloan and The Kinks are more than just a coincidence?

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