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The Animals (American album)

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Recorded
  
1964

Label
  
MGM

Length
  
32:41

Producer
  
Mickie Most

Released
  
September 1964 (1964-09)

Genre
  
British blues, rhythm and blues

The Animals is the self-titled American debut album from British invasion group, The Animals. Released in late summer 1964, the album introduced the States to the "drawling, dirty R&B sound (with the emphasis on the B)" that typified the group. The album featured many R&B standards, written by the likes of Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and John Lee Hooker, as well as the classic #1 hit single "House of the Rising Sun", here presented in its truncated-for-radio form (it would be restored to full length on the February 1966 compilation The Best of The Animals).

Contents

The British album The Animals was released a month later, the group's debut album there albeit with substantially differing contents.

Track listing

  1. "The House of the Rising Sun" (Traditional, arranged Alan Price) (Edited single version) – 2:59
  2. "The Girl Can't Help It" (Bobby Troup) – 2:20
  3. "Blue Feeling" (Jimmy Henshaw) – 2:28
  4. "Baby Let Me Take You Home" (Wes Farrell, Bert Russell) – 2:18
  5. "The Right Time" (Lew Herman) – 3:42
  6. "Talkin' 'Bout You" (Ray Charles) (Edited short version) – 1:55
  1. "Around and Around" (Chuck Berry) – 2:44
  2. "I'm in Love Again" (Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino) – 2:59
  3. "Gonna Send You Back to Walker" (Johnnie Mae Matthews) – 2:22
  4. "Memphis, Tennessee" (Chuck Berry) – 3:04
  5. "I'm Mad Again" (John Lee Hooker) – 4:15
  6. "I've Been Around" (Fats Domino) – 1:35

Personnel

  • Eric Burdon – vocals
  • Alan Price – keyboards
  • Hilton Valentine – guitar
  • Chas Chandler – bass
  • John Steel – drums

    • References

    The Animals (American album) Wikipedia
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