BLUE
FEELING
THE
ANIMALS
SONGWRITER:
HENSHAW
COUNTRY:
U. K.
ALBUM: THE ANIMALS
LABEL: ABKCO MUSIC & 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 launched 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.
The Animals is the American debut album by
the 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 includes several R&B standards,
written by the likes of Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and John Lee Hooker, as well
as the number one 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, and later CD and digital
reissues of The Animals would feature the full-length recording).
The British album The Animals was released a month later, the group's debut album there albeit
with substantially differing contents.
Sit here and wonder
what am I so blue
Is it because I'm still in love with you?
Blue blue feeling got me down today
Blue blue feeling, my baby's gone away
Now that she's gone,
I don't know what I'll do
I guess I'll have to find, find somebody new
Blue blue feeling got me down today
Blue blue feeling, my baby's gone away
Baby please don't
leave me, oh don't leave me
Now that she's gone, I'm feeling kind of blue
I guess I'll have to find, find somebody new
Blue blue feeling got me down today
Blue blue feeling, my baby's gone away
Well baby please
don't leave me
Baby please don't go
Awh!Honey child don't leave me now,
Baby please, baby please.
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