THE ANIMALS - BABY LET ME TAKE YOUR HOME

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BABY LET ME TAKE YOU HOME

THE ANIMALS
SONGWRITERS: WES FARRELL & BERT RUSSELL
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: THE ANIMALS
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1964
 
           The Animals(also billed as Eric Burdon and The Animals) are an English rhythm and blues and rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s. The band moved to London upon finding fame in 1964. The Animals were known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature song and transatlantic number-one hit single, "The House of the Rising Sun", as well as by hits such as "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", "It's My Life", "Don't Bring Me Down", "I'm Crying", "See See Rider", and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood". The band balanced tough, rock-edged pop singles Against rhythm and blues-oriented album material and were part of the British Invasion of the US.
      The Animals underwent numerous personnel changes in the mid-1960s, and suffered from poor business management, leading the original incarnation to split up in 1966. Burdon assembled a mostly new lineup of musicians under the name Eric Burdon and the Animals; the much-changed act moved to California and achieved commercial success as a psychedelic and hard rock band with hits such as "San Franciscan Nights", "When I Was Young", and "Sky Pilot", before disbanding at the end of the decade. Altogether, the group had 10 top-20 hits in both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100.
       The original lineup of Burdon, Alan Price, Chas Chandler, Hilton Valentine, and John Steel reunited for a one-off benefit concert in Newcastle in 1968. They later had brief comebacks in 1975 and 1983. Several partial regroupings of the original-era members have occurred since then under various names. The Animals were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
        "Baby Let Me Take You Home", a song credited to Bert Russell(a.k.a. Bert Berns) and Wes Farrell, was The Animals' debut single, released in 1964. In the UK, it reached #21 on the pop singles chart. In the U.S. its B-side, "Gonna Send You Back to Walker" (retitled "to Georgia"), was released but was not a significant hit, placing only at #57 on the pop singles chart. American soul singer Hoagy Lands previously recorded the song in 1964 as "Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand", released on Atlantic 2217.
         The song is an arrangement of Eric Von Schmidt's rendering of "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" as covered by Bob Dylan, on his first, self-titled, album. The Animals' version opens with striking unaccompanied guitar arpeggios, inserts a middle section with spoken words over an organ riff and closes with a frantic double-time coda. The result was a key influence on Dylan's change to electric music and to the folk-rock genre.
          In 2006, Eric Burdon, of The Animals, began to perform the song in a heavier version, on his concerts again, adding a short story how they came to it.

Baby, can I take you home?
Baby, let me take you home
I'll love you all my life, you can bet I'll treat you right
If you'll just let me take you home
 
Baby, can I dance with you?
Baby, can I dance with you?
I'll do anything in this God-Almighty world
If you'll just let me dance with you
 
Baby, let me take you home
Baby, let me take you home
I'll love you all my life, you can bet I'll treat you right
If you'll just let me take you home
 
When I saw you baby, I couldn't ignore you
And I wanted you for my girl
And when you said, "Yeah"
I just couldn't care about anybody else in this world alone
 
You smiled at me baby and I could see my life
Planned out ahead
You took my hand and it felt so good
And this is what you said
 
Baby, won't you be my man?
Baby won't you be my man?
Yes, I'll be your man and I'll do the best I can
I want to be your man, that's all baby
 
Oh, c'mon, c'mon baby
Ohh baby, c'mon baby
Oh, c'mon baby
Baby, feel alright, baby, feel alright
Hey baby, it's alright, so good, it's so good
 
It's all right, it's all right
It's all right, it's all right
It's all right, it's all right.

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