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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