The Animals self-titled 1964 LP MONO US Press VERY GOOD

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The Animals

self-titled

Label:MGM Records – E-4264  Format:Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono  Country:US  Released:1964  Genre:Rock  Style:Blues Rock

AllMusic:  Released a month ahead of its U.K. counterpart, with which it shared only seven of its 12 tracks, the Animals' first American album is an entertaining assortment of the recent LP sessions, plus both sides of their first two singles ("Baby Let Me Take You Home" and, of course, "House of the Rising Sun") and one further B-side, "Blue Feeling" (from the newly released "Boom Boom" single). The presence of that latter track, incidentally, would see British collectors spend much of the next 27 years searching for American pressings, before it finally found its way onto a full U.K. release; that matter notwithstanding, however, both permutations of the album offer up a handsome representation of precisely what the Animals meant at this time, a drawling, dirty R&B (with the emphasis on the B) sound personified in the three assaults on the Chuck Berry songbook. The bread and butter of virtually every band on the circuit of the time, the Animals' versions of "Around and Around," "Memphis," and "Talkin' 'Bout You" are far removed from the clear-cut visions served up elsewhere in the British Invasion. Eric Burdon's gleeful retelling of what, by Berry's normal standards, is the somewhat cutesy tale of "Memphis," is still second only to the decade-later Faces' version in terms of fashioning drama from the document, while it would take a souped-up Bowie and the Spiders to bring more sense of movement to "Around and Around." The remainder of the set sees the group moving further afield in search of material, with Fats Domino's "I've Been Around" also extending their studio prowess by recruiting a female chorus to chase Burdon through the lyric. Another Domino number, "I'm in Love Again," reinforces the band's obvious admiration for the New Orleans scene -- although the fact that the same city plays host to the action of "House of the Rising Sun" was probably more fortuitous than intended. That latter song, of course, dominates the album, even in the cruelly truncated edited version that is included here. What has to be admired, then, is the manner in which The Animals refuses to try and follow it up -- indeed, the only other "trad. arranged by" credit in the band's recorded repertoire, "Bury My Body," was among the U.K. album tracks omitted from the American set.

Tracklist
A1        The House Of The Rising Sun
Arranged By – Price
Arranged By – Price
    2:59
A2        The Girl Can't Help It
Written-By – Troup
Written-By – Troup
    2:20
A3        Blue Feeling    2:28
A4        Baby Let Me Take You Home
Arranged By – Price
Arranged By – Price
    2:18
A5        The Right Time
Written-By – L. Herman
Written-By – L. Herman
    3:42
A6        Talkin' 'Bout You
Written-By – Charles
Written-By – Charles
    1:55
B1        Around And Around
Written-By – Berry
Written-By – Berry
    2:44
B2        I'm In Love Again
Written-By – Domino
Written-By – Domino
    2:59
B3        Gonna Send You Back To Walker
Written-By – Hammond, Jr, Mathews
Written-By – Hammond, Jr, Mathews
    2:22
B4        Memphis, Tennessee
Written-By – Berry
Written-By – Berry
    3:04
B5        I'm Mad Again
Written-By – Hooker
Written-By – Hooker
    4:15
B6        I've Been Around
Written-By – Domino
Written-By – Domino
    1:35

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    Bass Guitar – Chas Chandler
    Drums – John Steel
    Engineer – Val Valentin
    Guitar – Hilton Stuart Patterson Valentine
    Organ, Piano, Vibraphone, Guitar, Bass Guitar – Alan Price
    Producer – Mickie Most
    Vocals – Eric Victor Burdon

Released on a black MGM label with the lion logo on top.
Cover variation: The back of the sleeve has pictures of each member of the group and tells the life lines of the Animals. Birthdate & place, parents', brothers & sisters names, where educated, favorite food and drink, miscellaneous likes & dislikes, pets, cars, personal ambitions and more.

Also issued in stereo (#SE-4264).
this release might be a MGM Record Mfg. pressing denoted by S block stamp in runouts

    Matrix / Runout (Var.1 A-Side): E 4264 64 MG 672 Side One
    Matrix / Runout (Var.1 B-Side): E 4264 64 ME 673 Side 2
    Matrix / Runout (Var.1 A & B Sides): Tony Romeo 8/11/64
    Matrix / Runout (Var.2 Side A etched, S block stamped in runout): E 4264 64 MG 672-4 Side one Tony Romeo 8/11/64 S
    Matrix / Runout (Var.2 Side B etched, S block samped in runout): E 4264 B 64 MG 673-4 Side 2 S

CONDITION:  Vinyl is VG+ (no spindle marks, no surface marks) in a plastic inner sleeve in a hard card picture sleeve (VG+)