The US edition of The Animals' self-titled debut album.

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History

Formed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne during 1962 and 1963 when Burdon joined the existing Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo, the original line-up comprised Eric Burdon (vocals), Alan Price (organ and keyboards), Hilton Valentine (guitar), John Steel (drums), and Bryan "Chas" Chandler (bass). The Animals' moderate success in their hometown and a connection with Yardbirds manager Giorgio Gomelsky motivated them to move to London in 1964, in time to be grouped with the British Invasion. They performed fiery versions of the staple rhythm and blues repertoire (Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, etc). A rocking version of the standard "Baby Let Me Follow You Down" (retitled "Baby Let Me Take You Home") was their first single. This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ... Eric Victor Burdon (born May 11, 1941, Walker-on-Tyne, Northumberland) was the lead singer of The Animals and later of War. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Alan Price (born April 19, 1941 in Fairfield, Washington, Tyne and Wear, England) is a musician, songwriter, and actor. ... The Casavant pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Montreal The organ is a keyboard instrument with one or more manuals, and usually a pedalboard. ... Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ... Hilton Valentine (born Hilton Stuart Patterson Valentine, on 21 May 1943) in North Shields, Northumberland, England, is a British musician who was the original guitarist in the band The Animals. ... Left: Rosa Hurricane, a heavy metal-style solid body guitar. ... John Steel (born February 4, 1941) was the original drummer of the band The Animals. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... Bryan Chas Chandler (18 December 1938 – 17 July 1996) was a British musician, record producer and manager of several successful music acts. ... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass or simply bass) is an electrically amplified plucked string instrument. ... Yardbirds album cover The Yardbirds were an early British rock band, noted for spawning the careers of several of rock musics most famous guitarists, including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... The appearance of The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 9, 1964, marked the dramatic start of the British Invasion. ... Rhythm and blues (or R&B or even Runub) was coined as a musical marketing term in the United States in 1949 by Jerry Wexler at Billboard magazine, and was used to designate upbeat popular music performed by African American artists that combined jazz, gospel, and blues. ... Jimmy Reed James Jimmy Mathis Reed (September 6, 1925 - August 29, 1976) was an important United States blues singer notable for bringing his distinctive style of blues to mainstream audiences. ... John Lee Hooker John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an influential American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. ... Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Dr. Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. ...

It was followed in June 1964 by the huge transatlantic hit "House of the Rising Sun". Burdon's howling vocals and Price's dramatic arrangement created arguably the first folk rock hit. (Whether the arrangement was inspired by Bob Dylan's version of the song or by blues singer Josh White's [who recorded it twice in 1944 and 1949] remains a subject of dispute, as does whether all five Animals deserved credit for the arrangement and not just Price.) The House of the Rising Sun is a United States folk song. ... Bob Dylans folk-rock album, Blonde On Blonde Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. ... Bob Dylan is the eponymous debut from American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. ... Josh White (born Josha Daniel White in Greensboro, North Carolina, February 11, 1914 or 1915; d. ...

The Animals' two-year chart career, masterminded by producer Mickie Most, featured singles that were intense, gritty pop covers such as Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home To Me" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (from Nina Simone). In contrast their album tracks stayed with rhythm and blues, with Hooker's "Boom Boom" and Ray Charles' "I Believe to My Soul" being notable examples. Burdon's powerful, deep voice and the use of keyboards as much or more than guitars were two elements that made the Animals' sound stand out. Mickie Most, born Michael Peter Hayes- (June 20, 1938- May 30, 2003), successful record producer notably with a string of Number 1 hit singles with his own RAK Recordslabel and acts such as The Animals, Hermans Hermits, Donovan, and Suzi Quatro. ... Sam Cooke (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964) was a popular and influential American gospel, R&B, soul, pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. ... Bring It On Home to Me is a 1961 song written and originally released by R&B singer-songwriter Jake Morrison. ... Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Dr. Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. ... Ray Charles was the stage name of Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004). ...

By May 1965 the group was starting to feel internal pressures. Price left due to personal and musical differences as well as a fear of flying on tour; he went on to a successful career as a solo artist and with the Alan Price Set. Mickey Gallagher filled in for him on keyboards for a spell, until Dave Rowberry replaced him and was on hand for the hit working-class anthems "We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place" (an iconic song which was used in Dennis Potter's Stand Up, Nigel Barton and in Our Friends in the North, adopted as an anthem by American troops in Vietnam and later used, applied to the Iraq War, in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11) and "It's My Life". In February 1966 Steel left and was replaced by Barry Jenkins; a cover of Goffin-King's "Don't Bring Me Down" was the last hit as the Animals. Fear Of Flying is the second album by American singer Mya, released in the United States on April 25, 2000 (see 2000 in music) on Interscope Records. ... Gallagher (right) with Eric Burdon. ... The working class is a social class often contrasted with middle class and upper class in terms of the nature of work undertaken (manual labor or skilled), the level of remuneration (typically low hourly rates although there are exceptions) and access to resources (limited access to capital, education and land). ... Liber Amoris Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935—7 June 1994) was a controversial British dramatist who is best known for several widely acclaimed television dramas which mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. ... The opening titles sequence of Our Friends in the North. ... Combatants Coalition Forces (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Poland) Iraq Commanders Tommy Franks Saddam Hussein Strength 263,000 375,000 The 2003 invasion of Iraq, termed Operation Iraqi Freedom by the US administration, began on March 20. ... Michael Moore. ... Fahrenheit 9/11 is an award-winning documentary film by American filmmaker and liberal activist Michael Moore, which had a general release in the United States and Canada on June 25, 2004 in the run up to that years presidential election. ... Gerry Goffin (born February 11, 1939) is an American lyricist. ... Tapestry (1971) Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is a Jewish American singer and songwriter. ...

By this time their business affairs "were in a total shambles," according to Chandler (who would go on to manage Jimi Hendrix), and the group disbanded. Even by the standards of the day, when artists tended to be financially naïve, the Animals made very little money from their successes, eventually claiming mismanagement and theft on the part of their manager Mike Jeffery. James Marshall Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and cultural icon. ...

A group with Burdon, Jenkins, and new sidemen John Weider (guitar/violin/bass), Vic Briggs (guitar/piano), and Danny McCulloch (bass) was formed under the name Eric Burdon and the New Animals (or sometimes just Eric Burdon and the Animals) in October 1966, and changed direction. The hard-driving blues was transformed into Burdon's version of psychedelia, as the former heavy-drinking Geordie (who later said he could never get used to Newcastle, "where the rain comes at you sideways") relocated to California and became a spokesman for the Love Generation. Some of their hits included "San Franciscan Nights" (containing the line "warm San Franciscan night," curious in that nighttime weather in San Francisco—even in mid-summer—seldom exceeds 60 degrees Fahrenheit or 15 degrees Celsius), "Monterey" (a tribute to the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival), and the anti-war "Sky Pilot". There were further changes to this line-up: Zoot Money (keyboards) was added in April 1968, and in July 1968 Andy Somers [sic] (guitar)—later of The Police—replaced Briggs and McCulloch. A violin The violin is a bowed stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ... A baby grand piano, with the lid up. ... Psychedelia is a term describing a category of music, visual art, fashion, and culture that is associated originally with the high 1960s, hippies, and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq. ... The Summer of Love is a phrase given to the summer of 1967 to try to describe the feeling of being in San Francisco that summer, when the so-called hippie movement came to full fruition. ... Poster promoting the festival The Monterey International Pop Music Festival took place from June 16 to June 18, 1967. ... Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti_war is a name that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... Zoot Money is a pianist, organist, and actor, born George Bruno Money on 17th June 1942, who appeared (playing a promotions man) in the film Breaking Glass with Hazel OConnor. ... Andy Summers, 1996 Andy Summers was born Andrew James Summers on December 31, 1942 in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England. ... The Police was a three-piece British pop band which was strongly influenced by reggae, and came to prominence in the wake of the punk rock phenomenon and rose to become one of the most popular groups in the world from the late 1970s to the mid- 1980s. ...

By 1969 these Animals had dissolved, and Eric Burdon joined forces with a Latin group from Long Beach, California called War. County Los Angeles County, California Area  - Total  - Water 170. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The original Animals line-up of Burdon, Price, Valentine, Chandler, and Steel briefly reunited for an album in 1977 and again for an album and tour (supplemented by other players, including Zoot Money) in 1983. Chandler died in 1996.

In the 2000s Burdon has toured with a new set of musicians under the name "Eric Burdon and the Animals". Periodically during the 1990s and 2000s Valentine, Steel, and Dave Rowberry toured under the name "(Hilton Valentine's) The Animals" and Valentine and Steel under the name "Animals II". Rowberry died in 2003. As of 2005 another "The Animals" was also active, consisting of Steel and Mickey Gallagher; this group frequently play gigs on a Color Line ship that travels between Scandinavia and Germany. Color line is a poor company whom sail people on harry trips from Oslo to Hitchals in Den ...

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Discography

Albums

Animals album releases varied significantly between the UK and the US; even those with the same or similar names had different contents. In addition countless compilation and repackaging releases have been made over the years.

UK albums

• The Animals (October/1964)

 1.Story of Bo Diddley 2.Bury My Body 3.Dimples 4.I've Been Around 5.I'm In Love Again 6.The Girl Can't Help It 7.I'm Mad Again 8.She Said Yeah 9.The Right Time 10.Memphis Tennessee 11.Boom Boom 12.Around and Around 

• Animal Tracks (May/1965)

 1.Mess Around 2.How You've Changed 3.Hallelujah I Love Her So 4.I Believe To My Soul 5.Worried Life Blues 6.Roberta 7.I Ain't Got You 8.Bright Lights, Big City 9.Let The Good Times Roll 10.For Miss Caulker 11.Roadrunner 

• Animalisms (June/1966)

 1.One Monkey Don't Stop No Show 2.Maudie 3.Outcast 4.Sweet Little Sixteen 5.You're On My Mind 6.Clapping 7.Gin House Blues 8.Squeeze Her, Tease Her 9.What Am I Living For 10.I Put A Spell On You 11.That's All I Am To You 12.She'll Return It 

• Winds of Change (1967) (now Eric Burdon and the New Animals)

 1.Winds Of Change 2.Poem By The Sea 3.Paint It Black 4.The Black Plague 5.Yes I'm Experienced 6.San Franciscan Nights 7.Man - Woman 8.Hotel Hell 9.Good Times 10.Anything 11.It's All Meat 

• The Twain Shall Meet (1968)

 1.Monterey 2.Just The Thought 3.Closer To The Truth 4.No Self Pity 5.Oranges And Red Beans 6.Sky Pilot 7.We Love You Lil 8.All Is One 

• Love Is (1968)

 1.River Deep, Mountain High 2.I'm An Animal 3.I'm Dying, Or Am I 4.Ring Of Fire 5.Colored Rain 6.To Love Somebody 7.As The Years Go Passing By 8.Gemini - The Madman 

US albums

• The Animals (September/1964)

 1.The House Of The Rising Sun 2.Blue Feeling 3.The Girl Can't Help It 4.Baby Let Me Take You Home 5.The Right Time 6.Talkin' 'Bout You 7.Around and Around 8.I'm In Love Again 9.Gonna Send You Back To Walker 10.Memphis Tennessee 11.I'm Mad Again 12.I've Been Around 

• The Animals on Tour (March/1965) (not live)

 1.Boom Boom 2.How You've Changed 3.I Believe To My Soul 4.Mess Around 5.Bright Lights, Big City 6.Worried Life Blues 7.Let The Good Times Roll 8.I Ain't Got You 9.Hallelujah I Love Her So 10.I'm Crying 11.Dimples 12.She Said Yeah 

• Animal Tracks (September/1965)

 1.We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 2.Take It Easy 3.Bring It On Home To Me 4.Roberta 5.Story Of Bo Diddley 6.I Can't Believe It 7.For Miss Caulker 8.Club A Go-Go 9.Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 10.Bury My Body 

• British Go Go (January/1965)
• In the Beginning (Live, 1965)
• Animalization (August/1966)

 1.Don't Bring Me Down 2.One Monkey Don't Stop No Show 3.You're On My Mind 4.She'll Return It 5.Cheating 6.Inside Looking Out 7.See See Rider 8.Gin House Blues 9.Maudie 10.What Am I Living For 11.Sweet Little Sixteen 12.I Put A Spell On You 

• Animalism (December/1966)

 1.All Night Long 2.Shake 3.The Other Side Of This Life 4.Rock Me Baby 5.Lucille 6.Smoke Stack Lightning 7.Hey Gyp 8.Hit The Road Jack 9.Outcast 10.Louisiana Blues 11.That's All I Am To You 12.Going Down Slow 

• Eric Is Here (1967) (now Eric Burdon and the New Animals)

 1.In The Night 2.Mama Told Me Not To Come 3.I Think It's Gonna Rain Today 4.On This Side Of Goodbye 5.That Ain't Where It's At 6.True Love (Comes Only Once In A Lifetime) 7.Help Me Girl 8.Wait Till Next Year 9.Losin' Control 10.It's Not Easy 11.The Biggest Bundle Of Them All 12.It's Been A Long Time Comin' 

• Every One of Us (1968)

 1.White House 2.Uppers And Downers 3.Serenade To A Sweet Lady 4.The Immigrant Lad 5.Year Of The Guru 6.St. James Infirmary 7.New York 1963 - America 1968 

• Love Is (October/1968)

 1.River Deep, Mountain High 2.I'm An Animal 3.I'm Dying, Or Am I 4.Ring Of Fire 5.Colored Rain 6.To Love Somebody 7.As The Years Go Passing By 8.Gemini - The Madman 

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Reunion and later albums

• Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted (1977)

 1.Brother Hill (The Last Clean Shirt) 2.It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 3.Fire On The Sun 4.As The Crow Flies 5.Please Send Me Someone To Love 6.Many Rivers To Cross 7.Just A Little Bit 8.Riverside County 9.Lonely Avenue 10.The Fool 

• Ark (1983)

 1.Loose Change 2.Love Is For All Time 3.My Favourite Enemy 4.Prisoner Of The Light 5.Being There 6.Hard Times 7.The Night 8.Trying To Get You 9.Just Can't Get Enough 10.Melt Down 11.Gotta Get Back To You 12.Crystal Nights 13.No John No 

• Rip It to Shreds (Live, 1984)
• The Best of The Animals (Compilation album, 1997)
• The Best of The Animals (Compilation album, 2000)
• Interesting Life (2003)
• Complete French EP 1964/1967 (2003)
• Retrospective (Compilation album, 2004)

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Singles

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References

• Program notes by Keith Altham Publicity, The Animals 1983 reunion tour
• Burdon, Eric (1986). I Used to Be an Animal, but I'm All Right Now. Faber and Faber. ISBN 0571134920.
• VH-1 Behind the Music: Eric Burdon & the Animals, aired 13 June 1999

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See also

• List of bands/musicians from the North East

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External links

• The Animals Official Homepage
• An Animals discography from Music City