WHEN I WAS YOUNG
THE ANIMALS
SONGWRITERS: ERIC BURDON, VIC BRIGGS, JOHN WEIDER;
BARRY JENKINS & DANNY MCCULLOCH
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: 1969 ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
LABEL: MGM RECORDS
GENRE: PSYCHEDELIC ROCK
YEAR: 1988
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.
"When I Was Young" is a song with a
countercultural theme released in
early 1967 by Eric Burdon and The Animals and was written by five of the band members Eric Burdon (vocals),
Barry Jenkins (drums), John Weider (guitar/violin), Vic Briggs (guitar), and Danny McCulloch(bass).
It charted in Australia peaking Nº. 2 and stayed 4 weeks there. Later it was a hit charting
Nº. 10 on the Canadian RPM chart, Nº 15 in the United States and Nº 9 in the Netherlands. The
song has been covered by many punk rock and heavy metal bands.
The rooms were so
much colder then
My father was a soldier then
And times were very hard
When I was young
I smoked my first cigarette at tem
And for girls, I had a bad yen
And I had quite a ball
When I was young
When I was young, it was more important
Pain more painful
Laughter much louder
Yeah, when I was young
When I was young
I met my first love
at thirteen
She was brown and I was pretty green
And I learned quite a lot when I was young
When I was young
When I was young
Pain more painful
Laughter much louder
Yeah, when I was young
When I was young
My faith was so much
stronger then
I believed in fellow man
And I was so much older then
When I was young
When I was young
When I was young.
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