I saw The Animals when I was 14yrs old in NZ where I grew up. Eric Burdon stopped the song halfway through and told the girls if they didn't want to hear them and kept on screaming they would stop and leave the stage lol. Legend.
Well done Mr Burden. I actually had my only concert experience ruined by screaming teenage girls jumping up and down and knocking my smaller friend off her feet. I had to push the girls away, so I could help my friend get up.They swore at me when I asked them politely to let me help her up. So I gave two of them elbows in their sides and pushed them away. I had to do it, they were deliberately treading on her legs whilst bouncing. I never went to a concert ever again. My friend and I were also teenage girls, just not daft and nasty ones like that bunch. Coincidentally, some years later I told my Mum about my bad experience putting me off of concerts and she told me that back in the 60s she had a similar experience at a concert in her early teens which also put her off of every attending any.
Heres whats crazy was this 21 year old kid had this much soul in his voice. Keep in mind this was during the era that gave us the Beatles, Stones and the Who. Eric, the animals singer is in his 80s and still sounds great for his age.
Vox Continental, from memory... Vox gear was popular for a lot of UK bands at the time, as US stuff had tariffs on them to try and help the post-war UK economy.
@@alanp3334 Yes, definitely a Vox Continental - one of the distinctive sounds of the sixties. Its big advantage over the grand old Hammond organs was that it was lightweight and folded up/ came apart for easy transport when travelling to gigs/ on tour. It was also colourful and looked great with various options to make it extra cool including the black/ white keys reversal thing. This was a time when most of these bands were still travelling around in beat up old Transit vans, hauling their own equipment in and out and setting it up at every gig. These days no doubt they'd have a fleet of trucks and a team of professional roadies and tech wizards to take care of everything! I kind of prefer the way it was, but that's probably just me... and off topic. My apologies!
Oh man!! Blast back to the days of waiting for the segment on Ed Sullivan's show "for the youngsters" 🤩 The only way most of us could see the groups of the 60's doing the greatest songs of the day. Collected stacks of 45 records, sat playing them one at a time, flipping from the A to B side. The Animals were among my very favorites - that Voice!! Said it before - We had the BEST music.
@@laurabailey1054 Ummmmm, no. American Bandstand, Soul Train, Hollywood Palace, and a few others were all lip synced to the records. Many others were part recorded, part live. Ed Sullivan and the Midnight Special were live. Many variety shows like Dean Martin, Carol Burnett, Smothers Brothers, etc. were live to tape so there was some editing involved (editing, not autotuning).
Everyone wanted to be on the Ed Sullivan Show: The Beatles (their first appearancein the USA), The Doors, Elvis, The Rolling Stones, Buddy Holly, Janis Joplin, The Mamas and Papas, Roy Orbson...and on and on. It was a sign that you had made it!
Eric Burton had one of the most powerful voices in rock history. Absolutely effortless singing and so much power in his voice. Live, Eric was a truly masterful performer!!!!
Always makes me smile when you see Alan Price on keyboards playing these fantastic and soulful melodies and then many years later writes and performs Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear. Further from The Animals you could not get lol.
As far as I know every singer and band that appeared on Ed Sullivan was required to perform live. It was much more common back then to lip-sync on TV and mime to the studio recording. So Elvis, The Beatles, The Stones, The Animals etc. all played live on Ed's show in his Broadway theater.
Great band, undeniable from the get-go. Always like watching bassist Chas Chandler who left soon after to manage, produce, and discovered Jimi Hendrix. Love Hilton Valentine's 12-string Vox, and Alan Price's organ, wotevr tf it is. A classic sound. Eric always sounded like an old soul, singing with grit, honesty and true fire. 🔥 Also recommend 'Sky Pilot', 'Monterey', 'San Francisco Night'.
The Animals were the first group I ever saw in concert, back in 1965 at the Colosseum in Houston. They were great! Yes, he can sing very well live and in person.
I think I was at that concert too but they were not the main attraction. I saw them with Herman’s Hermits being the main event. Am I remembering it right? I know good and well that I saw them. I was surprised because they were so different than Herman’s Hermits.
Santa Esmeralda did a great cover of this song in the late 70's you might want to cover. This was one of my favorite Animals song. Another great Animals song is "When I was Young"
I agree. I love the Santa Esmeralda cover of this song. I owned the 45 and it was one of the songs I would crank the volume up on my record player and dance to back in the day.
Spill the Wine Live version 1970... ruclips.net/video/4-Xs7NK-7B8/видео.htmlsi=kxuN4VuxeKiyoVCa It was a rap about something that was not apparent to me in 70 until I heard Eric talk about it on Professor of Rock YT channel...Wow, I never knew.
Remember that back in the 60s, particularly that early period, groups would basically go into the studio and give 'performances', which were recorded. The specialized 'tracking' came a little later.
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - The Animals, 1964 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Santa Esmerelda, 1977. Same song, written by Bennie Benjamin, Horace Ott and Sol Marcus for Nina Simone in 1964.
I HAD A HUGE CRUSH ON MR. ERIC BURDON BACK WHEN I WAS A YOUNG TEENAGER, I'M OLDDDD LOL!! HE ALSO SANG IN THE BAND "WAR" AND THE SONG IS "SPILL THE WINE" INCREDIBLE SONG AND IT'S LIVE ON RUclips. 😊💓🔥🤘✌️ AWESOME REACTION!!
One way you can tell it is live audio is that Ed Sullivan made them change the lyrics of the first verse, changing "I seem to be bad" to repeating "I seem to be mad." Ed was very strict, and the reason he didn't invite the DOORS back is they defied him and sang the lyrics as they were written LIVE.
Nina Simone recorded the original version of this and it was released in 1964 a full year before the Animals covered it. A lot of British groups had big hits covering American artists including the Beatles, Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and Peter and Gordon -- to name very few.
Ed Sullivan did as much as anyone to promote British music in the 60's. This was another excellent reaction, thank you. One of the greatest Ed Sullivan performances of all of his shows was another Brit ,Tom Jones as he performs Delilah. It is a must to react to. ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=tom+jones+delilah+ed+sullivan
We watched the Ed Sullivan Show every Sunday night religiously, you didn’t talk, get up and go to the bathroom, nothing. My Daddy was totally wrapped up in the show. The audience was always polite, clapping or laughing when the cue cards would flash the reactions proper for what was happening. Then came the Beatles. Elvis, pop stars moving up. And the audience dynamic changed, it was young people, loud young people, who would drowned out the music. My dad was enraged. I wasn’t allowed to have pop music playing, my records were sedate, and musical. 1957 happened!!! Then I got a radio, and Jacksonville, Florida got a new station. WAPE, The Big Ape!!! Played all the new music!!! New neighbor moved in, her parents were hairdressers!!! They were cool, dressed like Rock and Roll stars and let her have all the new music. From then on I was hooked on dancing to the new stuff and it lasted til about 1975, got a husband and babies. But at 78, I can chair dance with the best of them.
Another song (from 1965) that still holds up all these decades later. I miss the past when singers could actually sing. When composers actually wrote songs. With a true live performance there will always be differences. (Watch Home Free's video of "My Church" and then their live performance at the 2017 London Acapella Festival for an example.)
..."Class of 76"...This was the Ed Sullivan Live TV Show...Broadcasted Live... Elvis, The Doors, and any and all Singing groups sang live on the Ed Sullivan Show (an older music TV audience) which brought in a young crowd to the station and audience...
This music completely changed my musical tastes. Animal was a turning point towards rock music for me when I was very young. I'm 68 old and I listen to all forms of rock.👏👏👏🙏⚜️🇨🇦😈🫶
The vocalist Eric Burdon was still doing Gigs last year in the United Kingdom at 82 years old, checkout the Animals rendition of a Bob Dylan song called ( It’s All Over Now Baby Blue) absolutely phenomenal, great reaction thanks 🙏
I haven't heard the Animals do this - I didn't know they'd recorded it. I do absolutely love Van Morrison's cover with his original band, Them. Came across it in the soundtrack to the movie, Basquiat (an artist bio-pic).
Th bassist is Chas Chandler who became a major record producer. He is the man who discovered Jimi Hendrix and signed him to his first record deal. He also produced many others.
Yeah, everyone back in the day, had to be able to sing LIVE. They had real talent so that was not a problem. I love the Animals and Eric Burdon and had their early album as a Christmas gift from boyfriend in 1966. This is my favorite song of theirs. Love your comment, BP, that Eric Burdon looks young and old at the same time. Maybe it has to do with his powerful and deeply beautiful voice and how he sings the songs.
This was back when British bands were expected to cover old blues standards - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds - all of them in that pre-1967 era were expected to do covers. But, Eric Burden has an amazing voice - deep and soulful! Few Brits could do the blues like he could. Eventually, he wanted to spread his wings, write his own songs and do things that were more creative and edgy as many musical artists of the time did. His solo material and with the band War are also real good.
A LOT of Animals songs were in Vietnam movies. The lead vocalist is Eric Burton. He's old now, overweight, balding and that voice still comes out of his face! Check out Mungo Jerry too - In the Summertime.
The back up vocalist and bass guitar player, Chas Chandler, was the one who discovered Jimi Hendrix and brought him back to England where he achieved success, but I see at the end that the keyboardist Alan Price is also singing backup. Maybe he's the one who is offkey. Eric Burdon, the lead singer, came from a mining area in Britain, tough people, and he sounds it.
My first concert was in1965. Since then i have seen just about everyone you have reacted to, and then thing that amazed me was, live, everyone of them sounded better than the record.
The Bassist Chas Chandler discovered Jimi Hendrix and brought him to England where he turned him into a star, and later managed Slade for 12yrs. The organist Alan Price had a career away from the Animals with the Alan Price Set, and worked with many US soul singers when they toured here, later he had his own tv series too.
When people ask me who's my favorite Beatle, I say Eric Burdon. "But...he's in The Animals". Yep. Same answer if someone asks do I like The Stones or the Beatles better? Neither. Animals.
This was the sound that changed a generation. They were right there with the Beatles and Ray Charles as innovators during that time period. English teen in the '50s - that means he was growing up during World War II.
Just a little bit music trivia for ya brother, the guy playing Bass is the guy that discovered Jimi Hendrix in America and brought him back to England where Hendrix started his world domination as the best player in the world.
Eric is the lead singer. I used to exercise his Shelty dog in his back yard. He'd sit in a lawn chair and watch me running round the pool with the dog. He is just so cool!
He then went on to be manager of Slade, biggest selling band of singles in the UK in the 1970s and had six consecutive no.1s. Chas could sure spot talent!
Eric Burdon was born in May 1941. His first real memories would be of "Post War Britain". This is what the song is about. His reflections on growing up.
Acts on Ed Sullivan show were live. The show was a live each Sunday night. Everything from Opera, jugglers, comics, animal acts and more. The Beatles made their American debut on Sullivan.
The original version of this song was recorded by Nina Simone (🔥), then by The Animals (also 🔥) and then the disco version by Santa Esmeralda (I was not a disco fan, but once again, this song was 🔥). Might not be a bad idea to check out those other versions
I have learned in watching your reactions that you educate yourself from people's comments about artists and use what you learned from your listeners in the next reaction to that artist. That is very smart.
Absolutely live performance. The Ed Sullivan show almost always had live audio performances by the musical groups, unlike most other shows back then. And EVERYONE watched the Ed Sullivan Show!
As a junior and senior in h s, my 57 Chev had a "reverb unit" and people would come to my house to hear this song in the car, reverb up. And Rising Sun more so.
Most of musical performances on Ed Sullivan show were live some had live vocals with a backing track but Ed even had an orchestra to play on artists performance s
Since 1967 they have been divided into Eric Burdon & the Animals (you should listen to "Year of the guru", one of the first raps), and Alan Price (you should listen to his version of "I put a spell on you" or "Don't try ")
It's live BP. It was how Ed Sullivan ran his show. A good example of this is Ed insisting that The Doors change the word "higher" in Light My Fire, because Ed thought it hinted on drugs. Not only did Jim Morrison NOT change the word, but really emphasized the second "higher". After the song was over, Ed refused to shake their hands, thank them or ever have them back on his show.
In 1990 the movie "Joe vs the Volcano" came out. The theme song of the movie was "16 Tons" It was originally done by Tennessee Ernie Ford. He had a very rich bass voice. Eric Burdon does the cover for the movie and Ernie Ford had nothing on Eric Burdon.
A group called Santa Esmeralda did an incredible cover of this song in 1977. They gave it a Spanish flamenco flavor and added a Disco groove. It was Huge.
Almost everyone who performed on the Ed Sullivan show had to sing live. That's why Morrison & Jagger were told to change a lyric or two. Morrison performed “Light My Fire.” his way regardless of the request. While , Mick Jagger changed the lyrics to the Rolling Stones' song “Let's Spend the Night Together” The show would sometimes use pre-recorded tracks for technical reasons. The Mamas and the Papas had to lip-sync to their hit “California Dreamin'” While performing, Michelle Phillips ate a banana in protest of having to lip-sync on the show.
I notice the guitarist had changed to a Vox 12 string guitar which was popular with some early British groups like the Beatles. I saw Eric when he was 75 and he was still belting out these songs and having a great time. I notice he always has a twinkle in his eye when he looks at the camera like he is thinking something funny to himself. The background is sung by both the bass player and the organist.
a lot of these songs were played in the tv show Tour of Duty. Stuff like Creedence, (just about all of their songs), Rolling Stones (Paint It Black), and believe it or not Marty Robbins, (about all of his stuff) Ask a vet. And, the lead singer's name is Eric Burdon,and man, could he sing.
Great reaction and good ear, another thing about this song, its actually quite a hard song to sing the pace of the vocals in the notes to keep in tune and especially live is something most moss, a simple song but very difficult to sing in tune and keep the pace! Nice description also that he's young but is old at the same time, well described always thought that myself when I was young! Many had that talent both male and female back then, like an old soul in a young body, but they could reflect the feelings of the song visually through their vocals! I'm sure many artists can do that today but its rare in mainstream manufactured music now! Also Ed Sullivan what a trip, before my time, but dam wish we could get that again, the Old Grey Whistle test etc etc!
I probably saw this Ed Sullivan show when the Animals appeared back in mid to late 60s...check out the episode when the Doors played : ) The guitar player did eventually get back in tune , but that's live music...Thanks BP
Eric Burdon (lead singer) would later remake this song when he was with "The Eric Burdon Band." That version is also worth checking out, it's a bit different.
This is a timeless classic performed first by Simone ,The Animals , Santa Esmeralda , and my favorite version by No Mercy . You should check that one out , which features a classic spanish guitar. Santa Esmeralda is the disco version ,but so is No Mercy .
It's definitely live. His singing is impeccable, but the guitarist had a couple of oopsies ... 😁 Written by Bennie Benjamin, Horace Ott, and Sol Marcus for Nina Simone, whose version was released in 1964.
Eric Burdon a truly underrated vocalist. You need to do a reaction to Eric Burdon and War ( the group he went on to record with after the animals) doing Tobacco Road
"My man the lead singer" actually has a name. It's Eric. You might enjoy some of his later side projects...San Franciscan Nights...Monterey...and Spill the Wine (a collaboration with the group War)
This is my favorite Animals song and one of my all time favorite songs but, Nina Simone is the penultimate performer of this song and she was the first to record it. Elvis Costello also has a very good version. 👍
Back in the day they didn't have all the "goodies" to enhance voices, etc. The talent had to be authentic. Miss that.
There's newer artists out there who are old school.
Especially a lot of the folk/blues singers.
Amen sister
Yes but the Kinks created their own buzz guitar sound by slicing into their speakers.
@@davidjudd951Newer Rock & Country artists also
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Yes.
I saw The Animals when I was 14yrs old in NZ where I grew up. Eric Burdon stopped the song halfway through and told the girls if they didn't want to hear them and kept on screaming they would stop and leave the stage lol. Legend.
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@kimwilson3863 that is awesome.
I was at a concert where Sting told everyone on the floor to take some steps back because they were pushing too much. Some artists are brilliant!
Well done Mr Burden. I actually had my only concert experience ruined by screaming teenage girls jumping up and down and knocking my smaller friend off her feet. I had to push the girls away, so I could help my friend get up.They swore at me when I asked them politely to let me help her up. So I gave two of them elbows in their sides and pushed them away. I had to do it, they were deliberately treading on her legs whilst bouncing. I never went to a concert ever again. My friend and I were also teenage girls, just not daft and nasty ones like that bunch. Coincidentally, some years later I told my Mum about my bad experience putting me off of concerts and she told me that back in the 60s she had a similar experience at a concert in her early teens which also put her off of every attending any.
Eric Burdon & War - Spill The Wine (1970)
The live version is best.
Yes! The live version is best!
Yes! This one, and definitely the live version.
YES PLEASE
Spill The Wine
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one of my all time favs.
Ahh yes the Ode to Heroin song!!!
Heres whats crazy was this 21 year old kid had this much soul in his voice. Keep in mind this was during the era that gave us the Beatles, Stones and the Who. Eric, the animals singer is in his 80s and still sounds great for his age.
He looks about 14 but 🔥 🔥 🔥
They seemed to pour out of Britain every month ,just a deluge of great talent! The British Invasion!
The Animals were one of the first groups back then to incorporate organ into their band, which gave them such a unique sound. Killer song & reaction.
hammond organ
Vox Continental, from memory... Vox gear was popular for a lot of UK bands at the time, as US stuff had tariffs on them to try and help the post-war UK economy.
@@alanp3334 Yes, definitely a Vox Continental - one of the distinctive sounds of the sixties. Its big advantage over the grand old Hammond organs was that it was lightweight and folded up/ came apart for easy transport when travelling to gigs/ on tour. It was also colourful and looked great with various options to make it extra cool including the black/ white keys reversal thing.
This was a time when most of these bands were still travelling around in beat up old Transit vans, hauling their own equipment in and out and setting it up at every gig.
These days no doubt they'd have a fleet of trucks and a team of professional roadies and tech wizards to take care of everything!
I kind of prefer the way it was, but that's probably just me... and off topic. My apologies!
LOVE this band and Eric Burdon. These classic Ed Sullivan performances are priceless. Thanks so much for this great (and very real) reaction!
Oh man!! Blast back to the days of waiting for the segment on Ed Sullivan's show "for the youngsters" 🤩 The only way most of us could see the groups of the 60's doing the greatest songs of the day. Collected stacks of 45 records, sat playing them one at a time, flipping from the A to B side. The Animals were among my very favorites - that Voice!! Said it before - We had the BEST music.
Eric Burdon: Fantastic rock and blues vocalist. Very cool. Hard knocks grit and soul.
Ed Sullivan was a live show every Sunday night. The singing was also live.
All tv was live back them.
@@laurabailey1054 Ummmmm, no. American Bandstand, Soul Train, Hollywood Palace, and a few others were all lip synced to the records. Many others were part recorded, part live. Ed Sullivan and the Midnight Special were live. Many variety shows like Dean Martin, Carol Burnett, Smothers Brothers, etc. were live to tape so there was some editing involved (editing, not autotuning).
Everyone wanted to be on the Ed Sullivan Show: The Beatles (their first appearancein the USA), The Doors, Elvis, The Rolling Stones, Buddy Holly, Janis Joplin, The Mamas and Papas, Roy Orbson...and on and on. It was a sign that you had made it!
Chambers Brothers.
Eric Burton had one of the most powerful voices in rock history. Absolutely effortless singing and so much power in his voice.
Live, Eric was a truly masterful performer!!!!
*Burdon*
Always makes me smile when you see Alan Price on keyboards playing these fantastic and soulful melodies and then many years later writes and performs Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear. Further from The Animals you could not get lol.
As far as I know every singer and band that appeared on Ed Sullivan was required to perform live. It was much more common back then to lip-sync on TV and mime to the studio recording. So Elvis, The Beatles, The Stones, The Animals etc. all played live on Ed's show in his Broadway theater.
Great band, undeniable from the get-go. Always like watching bassist Chas Chandler who left soon after to manage, produce, and discovered Jimi Hendrix. Love Hilton Valentine's 12-string Vox, and Alan Price's organ, wotevr tf it is. A classic sound. Eric always sounded like an old soul, singing with grit, honesty and true fire. 🔥
Also recommend 'Sky Pilot', 'Monterey', 'San Francisco Night'.
The Animals were the first group I ever saw in concert, back in 1965 at the Colosseum in Houston. They were great! Yes, he can sing very well live and in person.
I think I was at that concert too but they were not the main attraction. I saw them with Herman’s Hermits being the main event. Am I remembering it right? I know good and well that I saw them. I was surprised because they were so different than Herman’s Hermits.
Santa Esmeralda did a great cover of this song in the late 70's you might want to cover.
This was one of my favorite Animals song.
Another great Animals song is "When I was Young"
yes please do they had a spanish guitar
I agree. I love the Santa Esmeralda cover of this song. I owned the 45 and it was one of the songs I would crank the volume up on my record player and dance to back in the day.
Yes! They used it in Kill Bill! Love that version!
Eric Burden was in a jam band called 'War' in the 70s...Low Rider and Spill the Wine were 2 of my favs...ty
Spill the Wine Live version 1970... ruclips.net/video/4-Xs7NK-7B8/видео.htmlsi=kxuN4VuxeKiyoVCa It was a rap about something that was not apparent to me in 70 until I heard Eric talk about it on Professor of Rock YT channel...Wow, I never knew.
@@barbkennedy9382Thanks so much for the link!
Remember that back in the 60s, particularly that early period, groups would basically go into the studio and give 'performances', which were recorded. The specialized 'tracking' came a little later.
Back in the day, singers could really sing - no lipsinking, no computers, no autotune. Today's music is lifeless - no heart or soul.
Then you are listening to the WRONG MUSIC. Try branching out. Instead of watching the stuff you don't like.
When I saw the Animals in concert back in the day the one thing I remember is that the longer Eric Burdon sang the better he sounded.
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - The Animals, 1964
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Santa Esmerelda, 1977.
Same song, written by Bennie Benjamin, Horace Ott and Sol Marcus for Nina Simone in 1964.
Lead singer comes from Newcastle Upon Tyne England
Good Geordie boys, Hylton Valentine is from my home town North Shields.
I HAD A HUGE CRUSH ON MR. ERIC BURDON BACK WHEN I WAS A YOUNG TEENAGER, I'M OLDDDD LOL!! HE ALSO SANG IN THE BAND "WAR" AND THE SONG IS "SPILL THE WINE" INCREDIBLE SONG AND IT'S LIVE ON RUclips. 😊💓🔥🤘✌️ AWESOME REACTION!!
That's the way the song is on the album.The backup vocalist continues the word good and in Vibrato.
Check it out
One way you can tell it is live audio is that Ed Sullivan made them change the lyrics of the first verse, changing "I seem to be bad" to repeating "I seem to be mad." Ed was very strict, and the reason he didn't invite the DOORS back is they defied him and sang the lyrics as they were written LIVE.
This was back before auto tune. It is live. Pure raw talent. Love your reaction!
Eric Burdon (lead singer), his voice is something else. 🎼♥️
Nina Simone recorded the original version of this and it was released in 1964 a full year before the Animals covered it. A lot of British groups had big hits covering American artists including the Beatles, Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and Peter and Gordon -- to name very few.
Ed Sullivan did as much as anyone to promote British music in the 60's. This was another excellent reaction, thank you. One of the greatest Ed Sullivan performances of all of his shows was another Brit ,Tom Jones as he performs Delilah. It is a must to react to. ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=tom+jones+delilah+ed+sullivan
We watched the Ed Sullivan Show every Sunday night religiously, you didn’t talk, get up and go to the bathroom, nothing. My Daddy was totally wrapped up in the show. The audience was always polite, clapping or laughing when the cue cards would flash the reactions proper for what was happening. Then came the Beatles. Elvis, pop stars moving up. And the audience dynamic changed, it was young people, loud young people, who would drowned out the music. My dad was enraged. I wasn’t allowed to have pop music playing, my records were sedate, and musical. 1957 happened!!! Then I got a radio, and Jacksonville, Florida got a new station. WAPE, The Big Ape!!! Played all the new music!!! New neighbor moved in, her parents were hairdressers!!! They were cool, dressed like Rock and Roll stars and let her have all the new music. From then on I was hooked on dancing to the new stuff and it lasted til about 1975, got a husband and babies. But at 78, I can chair dance with the best of them.
Another song (from 1965) that still holds up all these decades later. I miss the past when singers could actually sing. When composers actually wrote songs. With a true live performance there will always be differences. (Watch Home Free's video of "My Church" and then their live performance at the 2017 London Acapella Festival for an example.)
..."Class of 76"...This was the Ed Sullivan Live TV Show...Broadcasted Live... Elvis, The Doors, and any and all Singing groups sang live on the Ed Sullivan Show (an older music TV audience) which brought in a young crowd to the station and audience...
This music completely changed my musical tastes. Animal was a turning point towards rock music for me when I was very young. I'm 68 old and I listen to all forms of rock.👏👏👏🙏⚜️🇨🇦😈🫶
The vocalist Eric Burdon was still doing Gigs last year in the United Kingdom at 82 years old, checkout the Animals rendition of a Bob Dylan song called ( It’s All Over Now Baby Blue) absolutely phenomenal, great reaction thanks 🙏
I had forgotten about that song, it's amazing.
I haven't heard the Animals do this - I didn't know they'd recorded it. I do absolutely love Van Morrison's cover with his original band, Them. Came across it in the soundtrack to the movie, Basquiat (an artist bio-pic).
Th bassist is Chas Chandler who became a major record producer. He is the man who discovered Jimi Hendrix and signed him to his first record deal. He also produced many others.
Eric Burdon is a f***ing legend. The Beatles and most of their peers recognised Eric was 'the man' when it came to blues singing.
This is by far my favorite song of theirs. The lyrics for this song just hit different. Everyone can relate to this song at some point in life!
Yeah, everyone back in the day, had to be able to sing LIVE. They had real talent so that was not a problem. I love the Animals and Eric Burdon and had their early album as a Christmas gift from boyfriend in 1966. This is my favorite song of theirs. Love your comment, BP, that Eric Burdon looks young and old at the same time. Maybe it has to do with his powerful and deeply beautiful voice and how he sings the songs.
This was back when British bands were expected to cover old blues standards - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds - all of them in that pre-1967 era were expected to do covers. But, Eric Burden has an amazing voice - deep and soulful! Few Brits could do the blues like he could. Eventually, he wanted to spread his wings, write his own songs and do things that were more creative and edgy as many musical artists of the time did. His solo material and with the band War are also real good.
A LOT of Animals songs were in Vietnam movies. The lead vocalist is Eric Burton. He's old now, overweight, balding and that voice still comes out of his face! Check out Mungo Jerry too - In the Summertime.
That was exactly how it is supposed to be. The backup is not off
The back up vocalist and bass guitar player, Chas Chandler, was the one who discovered Jimi Hendrix and brought him back to England where he achieved success, but I see at the end that the keyboardist Alan Price is also singing backup. Maybe he's the one who is offkey. Eric Burdon, the lead singer, came from a mining area in Britain, tough people, and he sounds it.
My first concert was in1965. Since then i have seen just about everyone you have reacted to, and then thing that amazed me was, live, everyone of them sounded better than the record.
That's Chas Chandler the guitarist on the left,singing, he later went on to manage Jimi Hendrix. The band were English- Geordie's
The Bassist Chas Chandler discovered Jimi Hendrix and brought him to England where he turned him into a star, and later managed Slade for 12yrs. The organist Alan Price had a career away from the Animals with the Alan Price Set, and worked with many US soul singers when they toured here, later he had his own tv series too.
When people ask me who's my favorite Beatle, I say Eric Burdon. "But...he's in The Animals". Yep. Same answer if someone asks do I like The Stones or the Beatles better? Neither. Animals.
This was the sound that changed a generation. They were right there with the Beatles and Ray Charles as innovators during that time period. English teen in the '50s - that means he was growing up during World War II.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! you broke the 400K. Well deserved, love your musical take on old school musicians and music. Thank you.
This song has always been one of my favorites. The words have followed me and characterized me. Unique!!
Just a little bit music trivia for ya brother, the guy playing Bass is the guy that discovered Jimi Hendrix in America and brought him back to England where Hendrix started his world domination as the best player in the world.
Chas Chandler
Eric is the lead singer. I used to exercise his Shelty dog in his back yard. He'd sit in a lawn chair and watch me running round the pool with the dog. He is just so cool!
The bass player, Chas Chandler, became Jimi Hendrix's manager after Hendrix moved to the UK in 1966
He then went on to be manager of Slade, biggest selling band of singles in the UK in the 1970s and had six consecutive no.1s.
Chas could sure spot talent!
He actually discovered Jimi Hendrix and arranged a band around him, got him his start in England.
@@MikePhillips-pl6ov I didn't know that, thanks.
@@kenhoyer8601 Hendrix had a modicum of success in the US before moving to the UK; but yes, he did bring him to the mainstream properly with the band
Chas discovered Jimi in New York and brought him to the UK.
Eric Burdon was born in May 1941. His first real memories would be of "Post War Britain". This is what the song is about. His reflections on growing up.
Oh lord flashback…1970…way too many teenagers packed into a turquoise Impala…summertime cruising…blasting and singing “Spill the Wine”…priceless.
Acts on Ed Sullivan show were live. The show was a live each Sunday night. Everything from Opera, jugglers, comics, animal acts and more. The Beatles made their American debut on Sullivan.
This is one of my most favorite songs ever.
As far as I'm aware, he's still singing.
He was singing the clubs in Newcastle from a very young age, the keyboard player, Alan Price had a couple of hits of his own, great keyboard player
The original version of this song was recorded by Nina Simone (🔥), then by The Animals (also 🔥) and then the disco version by Santa Esmeralda (I was not a disco fan, but once again, this song was 🔥). Might not be a bad idea to check out those other versions
Nina Simone is fantastic! BP should definitely react to her..
Sky Pilot, Monterey, and Eric Burdon's collaboration with the East LA band. War, called Spill the Wine are awesome 😊
Eric Burton vocal.chas Chandler bass.hilton Valentine guitar. Alan price keyboard.john Steele drums chas and Hilton are gone
Eric Bourdin and War, Spill the Wine, Tobacco Road, Paint it Black are three Amazing works of Art!
I have learned in watching your reactions that you educate yourself from people's comments about artists and use what you learned from your listeners in the next reaction to that artist. That is very smart.
I saw Eric in concert about 8 year’s ago he has grey hair but sounds just as good now.
Absolutely live performance. The Ed Sullivan show almost always had live audio performances by the musical groups, unlike most other shows back then. And EVERYONE watched the Ed Sullivan Show!
Eric Burden.......the Pocket Rocket😂❤
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As a junior and senior in h s, my 57 Chev had a "reverb unit" and people would come to my house to hear this song in the car, reverb up. And Rising Sun more so.
There is something very universal about the Animals.
Light haired singer/guitar player is chas Chandler who discovered and managed Hendrix at first
Most of musical performances on Ed Sullivan show were live some had live vocals with a backing track but Ed even had an orchestra to play on artists performance s
Eric Burdon & The Animals - When I Was Young
Since 1967 they have been divided into Eric Burdon & the Animals (you should listen to "Year of the guru", one of the first raps), and Alan Price (you should listen to his version of "I put a spell on you" or "Don't try ")
It's live BP. It was how Ed Sullivan ran his show. A good example of this is Ed insisting that The Doors change the word "higher" in Light My Fire, because Ed thought it hinted on drugs. Not only did Jim Morrison NOT change the word, but really emphasized the second "higher". After the song was over, Ed refused to shake their hands, thank them or ever have them back on his show.
In 1990 the movie "Joe vs the Volcano" came out. The theme song of the movie was "16 Tons" It was originally done by Tennessee Ernie Ford. He had a very rich bass voice. Eric Burdon does the cover for the movie and Ernie Ford had nothing on Eric Burdon.
Loved Ed Sullivan show. Couldn’t wait each week to see what band was on.
The backup singer, Chas Chandler, later became a talent scout and discovered Jimi Hendrix.
A group called Santa Esmeralda did an incredible cover of this song in 1977. They gave it a Spanish flamenco flavor and added a Disco groove. It was Huge.
Almost everyone who performed on the Ed Sullivan show had to sing live. That's why Morrison & Jagger were told to change a lyric or two. Morrison performed “Light My Fire.” his way regardless of the request. While , Mick Jagger changed the lyrics to the Rolling Stones' song “Let's Spend the Night Together” The show would sometimes use pre-recorded tracks for technical reasons. The Mamas and the Papas had to lip-sync to their hit “California Dreamin'” While performing, Michelle Phillips ate a banana in protest of having to lip-sync on the show.
I notice the guitarist had changed to a Vox 12 string guitar which was popular with some early British groups like the Beatles. I saw Eric when he was 75 and he was still belting out these songs and having a great time. I notice he always has a twinkle in his eye when he looks at the camera like he is thinking something funny to himself. The background is sung by both the bass player and the organist.
I always thought Eric Burdon had an old soul edgy and sexy voice. Cool bluesy bad boy vibe.
a lot of these songs were played in the tv show Tour of Duty. Stuff like Creedence, (just about all of their songs), Rolling Stones (Paint It Black), and believe it or not Marty Robbins, (about all of his stuff) Ask a vet. And, the lead singer's name is Eric Burdon,and man, could he sing.
Great reaction and good ear, another thing about this song, its actually quite a hard song to sing the pace of the vocals in the notes to keep in tune and especially live is something most moss, a simple song but very difficult to sing in tune and keep the pace!
Nice description also that he's young but is old at the same time, well described always thought that myself when I was young!
Many had that talent both male and female back then, like an old soul in a young body, but they could reflect the feelings of the song visually through their vocals! I'm sure many artists can do that today but its rare in mainstream manufactured music now!
Also Ed Sullivan what a trip, before my time, but dam wish we could get that again, the Old Grey Whistle test etc etc!
Yes Animals are great!!
It’s crazy when you hear a good old song and the lines from it are heard in almost every hit song from 95 to today.
When you did Sullivan it was live, that's what got Jim Morrison in trouble he was told not to say couldn't get much higher, he did..
I probably saw this Ed Sullivan show when the Animals appeared back in mid to late 60s...check out the episode when the Doors played : ) The guitar player did eventually get back in tune , but that's live music...Thanks BP
Eric Burdon kills it, amazing voice. Check out his version of 'Hold On I'm Coming' a classic!
Eric Burdon (lead singer) would later remake this song when he was with "The Eric Burdon Band." That version is also worth checking out, it's a bit different.
This is a timeless classic performed first by Simone ,The Animals , Santa Esmeralda , and my favorite version by No Mercy . You should check that one out , which features a classic spanish guitar. Santa Esmeralda is the disco version ,but so is No Mercy .
I saw Eric Burden about three or four years ago, and he still can rock them all out live!
Chas Chandler Bass player backing vocalist, was Manager of Slade.
somehow he looks like Trump playing a guitar :)
It's definitely live. His singing is impeccable, but the guitarist had a couple of oopsies ... 😁
Written by Bennie Benjamin, Horace Ott, and Sol Marcus for Nina Simone, whose version was released in 1964.
Eric Burdon a truly underrated vocalist. You need to do a reaction to Eric Burdon and War ( the group he went on to record with after the animals) doing Tobacco Road
"My man the lead singer" actually has a name. It's Eric.
You might enjoy some of his later side projects...San Franciscan Nights...Monterey...and Spill the Wine (a collaboration with the group War)
1 of my favs of there's, brill song. ❤❤❤
Another one you might like is "Sky Pilot". It's about a chaplain during the Vietnam war. I find it quite moving. Great reaction, BTW.
This is a live performance. There are subtle differences in his vocal cadence and octave movement from the recorded studio version.
The moon faced bassist Chas Chandler basically discovered Jimmy Hendricks. He brought him to England & was a co manager.
By far the best version of this song is on: The Eric Burdon Band -- Sun Secrets - from 1974. 8 and a half minute pure joy.
This is my favorite Animals song and one of my all time favorite songs but,
Nina Simone is the penultimate performer of this song and she was the first to record it.
Elvis Costello also has a very good version. 👍