They sold millions of records, sold out shows for years, got tens of thousands of radio airplays and appeared on Ed Sullivan several times. Exactly how were they underrated?
Only ever hear the Grand funk version. This has the same power and of course is the original. Awesome stuff and to think this was Mainstream TV. Crazy.
Eric Burden and the Animals are at the top of the all time great pop groups. All of their many hits dealt with pithy themes of substance everyone could relate. What do we have today? Nothing comes close.
Sullivan had no prejudice against any kind of music so he featured literally the best bands and singers of the day. And he was surprisingly loyal to and supportive of the performers so long as they followed his rules.
Because he knew attracting the teenagers and kids to show was also a big part of his good ratings and success. the word is Variety, something extremally lacking today...
So true, except that the bands featured on The Ed Sullivan Show we're also all over top 40 radio at the time. Anyone and everyone who was paying attention was well aware of the animals and their music.
@Valerie L... Ed Sullivan and his talent scouts had a knack for introducing new and unique talents that where not well known to the general public to appear on his show. John Sebastian once said if you were asked and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show you knew you hit the big times. You and or your team if you are a group act had to be good and be popular in your region of the world to have appeared on the show. Reality competition show now a days like American Got Talent have nothing on the Ed Sullivan Show. Back then there was no competition between the acts on variety shows like the Ed Sullivan Show or The Hollywood Palace, just good ole variety.
@@BenneWill I'm just curious if you were alive and aware at the time. When the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan Show beatlemania was in full force. That appearance may have reinforced it but it certainly didn't have much of anything to do with creating it.
So much music that came from Great Briton at this time was very clean and sanitized. The Rolling Stones and The Animals had the instincts, the focus and the guts to produce music that carried the message forward from the blues with the modern twist. Eric Burdon was at his best right here
Eric Burdon is such a powerful sing, with so much dynamics and emotion. What a great performance. May Chas Chandler and Hilton Valentine rest in peace. Cheers! ✌️
Super cool guy, too. I met him - quite by accident - in 1990 when he was touring with Robby Krieger. It was a small outdoor venue, and I was waiting for my buddy to come back from the bar during the break. Someone bumped into me from behind and I turned around. It was Eric Burdon! I started talking to him and other people started coming over when they recognized him. He was really nice to everyone. Two things I remember vividly: being stricken by how much shorter than me he was, and I have never seen anyone drink so much alcohol and still perform at such a high level. Joe Walsh came close, but Eric Burdon was pounding drinks all night and you'd never be able to tell if you hadn't seen it.
Everybody knows about Elvis and the Beatles on Ed Sullivan... I think the other unsung heroes of that show are the Animals!!! They really surprised me with their talent and their power. Eric Burdon is one of rock & roll's greatest voices! Glad I got the Box Set to uncover those performances.
The Animals were in a line-up transition. Eric's remark "Even though we ain't got no bass" at (3:15) refers to Chas Chandler missing from the band. Eventually drummer John Steel departed too. With different personnel the act became Eric Burdon & the Animals.
Chas was still there for this performance. What he was likely refering to is the fact that Ed Sullivan's god damn sound engineers did not mic the fucking bass in this!
What you are saying is just a cop out attitude, because English people can't dance and are terrible dancers... English people could not dance, because they did not have rhythm like Black people, but they damn sure love to copy Black singing voices, and now they are trying to do the Black style of dance now and still can dance...White people like criticize, complain, and copy, alway in this order, only when they can copy Black Americans is acceptable... Y'all hated rap music too...
Great performance such a powerful band that tend to get overlooked but they are still in the top ten of all time and along with the Yardbirds are the original Rave Up artists.
In the early 2000s I was at Fort Lewis for Perioperative training. They had a college channel up there and one night it was all Animals. DJ said I have locked and blocked the door and Im playing the Animals all night. Man it was an event.
I feel blessed as I got to see them back in 1983 playing at Toronto's CNE bandshell to an audience of about 12000 persons. They had a new album out by the name of Ark and that was the tour name and they played new and old songs. The band composed of all five of the original members and they absolutely rocked!
@@Callipygous1975 This was recorded late 1965. Sounds ahead of that time. Borders on the upcoming psychedelic era. Eric left soon after this and pushed the envelope even further with the New Animals who were the first rock band to have a violin player. Definitely ahead of their time.
Eric and the boys were pushing the envelope for mid sixties American television with that lyric, "and when my time is up, you'll be my reefer." In the context of the song, the word "reefer" could well be the slang term for a walk-in refridgerator, but I'm sure that the alternate definition was not lost on them or their target audience. Love the fact that they snuck this by the censors! Thanks for posting!
Actually, the lyric is "Reaper". - *I've changed my mind!* Upon further listening, I think it is Re-Birth. He gets out of jail and is reborn. The song has murky origins based in blues songs and, apparently, revised lyrics were written at some point. I mean "rebirth" is not a common word in old traditional songs.
@@Callipygous1975 Grand Funk Railroad changed "rebirth" to "reefer" years later and it became the well known version on the Internet... which is stupid because this song was loosely based on a prison work chant by C. B. and Axe Gang from the 30s, 40s, it's not a stoner anthem.
By later in 1966, lead singer Eric Burdon had formed a new set of Animals. I don't know how many of the 1964-65 hitmaking lineup were still in the group as of this TV appearance. I do know that drummer John Steel and organist Alan Price were gone by mid-1966, with Price forming a new group, the Alan Price Set, who had a minor hit with Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You". Axe men Chas Chandler and Hilton Valentine were gone by later in the year, when I first heard a song by the new Animals, "Help Me Girl". (The Outsiders, of "Time Won't Let Me" fame, also put out a version of "Help Me Girl" around the same time.)
Four out of the five originals members can be seen on stage here (Eric Burdon, Chas Chandler, John Steel, Hilton Valentine). Alan Price had left. In the UK, The Alan Price Set had a number of hits, among them 'Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo' (1966), 'Simon Smith & The Amazing Dancing Bear' (1967), 'The House That Jack Built' (1967), 'Don't Stop The Carnival' (1968). He also charted as a solo artist with 'The Jarrow Song' (1974) and - together with Georgie Fame - with 'Rosetta' (1971).
If it weren't for Eric Burdon and the Animals creating this masterpiece, Grand funk railroad version would not exist. Grand funk railroad version of the song most likely would have been band back in 1966 from the Ed Sullivan Show or ask to alter the word "reefer"
A buzz/hum can be heard, like a bad connection, right from the start of the song - it was obvious that everyone on stage knew the bass wasn't there, Eric even worked that into the lyric ;-)
Always loved the Animals, Eric’s voice is amazing! I remember when House of the Rising Sun was released summer ‘64 & hearing it on Alan Freeman’s legendary radio show ‘Pick Of The Pops’… at almost four & a half minutes long it made for compelling listening! ❤
I've always loved The Animals and Mr. Burdons voice was one of my idols within " Rock" music....superb live interpretation. Also the other musicians were great and have made some important music history on their own as the bass player Chas Chandler discovered the genius of Jimi Hendrix and made him justifiedly famous worldwide , Alan Price was an outstanding organ player and composer who has arranged the immortal version of House Of The Rising Sun ...and so on.
@@patrickgueguin792 of course, management made that decision...when they appeared a few months later to perform Don't Bring me Down, they looked a lot cooler with their white turtleneck shirts
IMO the Animals better than the Rolling Stones, a tighter band, a very tight band, at the time...and the organ player was a "killer" on the keys. Very R and B based, really am extremely skilled band, and Burton's vocals in the R and B style were the top of the mountain, lots of power and emotion. the evidence usual here a the tape of this performance and others.
There was an earlier comment; The Animals were ahead of their time"... well I agree, because I thought that Grand Funk and Mark Farner wrote and played this song...I guess not! Love this version as well.
@@nibsvkh This is not always the case, depending on the song and artists. For example, I much prefer "See You in September" by the Happenings over the original by the Tempos. That said, I have never heard the song in this video by Grand Funk, but if it's anything like the other songs I've heard by them, I would likely prefer the Animals' version.
The Animals are so underrated Eric Burdon’s voice can literally knock you down that’s how talented he is.
They sold millions of records, sold out shows for years, got tens of thousands of radio airplays and appeared on Ed Sullivan several times.
Exactly how were they underrated?
I don’t think they were underrated. Everyone who knows anything credits Eric as one of the early greats
Only ever hear the Grand funk version. This has the same power and of course is the original. Awesome stuff and to think this was Mainstream TV. Crazy.
Original was Leadbelly
I love Grand Funk’s version but it’s a cover. The Animals wrote Inside Looking Out.
Me too
@@CKANE1952Nah. Eric Burdon wrote this, buddy.
@@WickedheartxoxoSometimes covers are better as in GFR !
The Animals always sounded ahead of their time.
Agreed
They're still ahead of current music in many ways imo
How so?
Exactly
I fell asleep half way. Sorry but these guys suck. Only had one big hit “Rising Sun” and they stuck to the same style
Probably the gutsiest band of the British invasion, even more than the Rolling Stones
The Pretty Things as well.
Grand Funk covered this in the early 70s . Burdon growled!
Them
Grand funks version of this in 69 was incredible
Hilton Valentine snapping the living crap out of that E string on that sweet, sweet Fire-Glo Rickenbacker 330.
That is probably the nastiest a Rick sounded at that time.
@@jimeb2jim256 Rickenbacker Rose Morris 330 with "f" hole and no binding. 🎸
It’s actually a Rose Morris 1997. The UK had unique Rickenbacker models
Dang that song and performance was so hot and fiery I’m surprised they let this on TV! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Oh yes, that was sexy 🥵
Eric Burden and the Animals are at the top of the all time great pop groups. All of their many hits dealt with pithy themes of substance everyone could relate. What do we have today? Nothing comes close.
Ain't that right Maynard....
@@thomastimlin1724 That's my line.
Not pop.
Soul all over.
Wow - That is full strength. Old Ed had the real shit!
Sullivan had no prejudice against any kind of music so he featured literally the best bands and singers of the day. And he was surprisingly loyal to and supportive of the performers so long as they followed his rules.
Because he knew attracting the teenagers and kids to show was also a big part of his good ratings and success. the word is Variety, something extremally lacking today...
Ed Sullivan was so cool giving exposure to so many artists that few would hear otherwise
So true, except that the bands featured on The Ed Sullivan Show we're also all over top 40 radio at the time. Anyone and everyone who was paying attention was well aware of the animals and their music.
Which is why they were on The Ed Sullivan Show!
@Valerie L... Ed Sullivan and his talent scouts had a knack for introducing new and unique talents that where not well known to the general public to appear on his show. John Sebastian once said if you were asked and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show you knew you hit the big times. You and or your team if you are a group act had to be good and be popular in your region of the world to have appeared on the show.
Reality competition show now a days like American Got Talent have nothing on the Ed Sullivan Show. Back then there was no competition between the acts on variety shows like the Ed Sullivan Show or The Hollywood Palace, just good ole variety.
@@shadowbear66 With the exception of maybe the Beatles. He invented Beatlemania.
@@BenneWill I'm just curious if you were alive and aware at the time. When the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan Show beatlemania was in full force. That appearance may have reinforced it but it certainly didn't have much of anything to do with creating it.
Masterpiece
Still alive at 81-Eric Burden ... What a voice
That’s a testament to the power of living fast and not having to die young!
Saw them live in Birmingham Alabama around 1966.
As raw as it got on AM radio. My favorite Animals song, which is saying a lot!
So much music that came from Great Briton at this time was very clean and sanitized. The Rolling Stones and The Animals had the instincts, the focus and the guts to produce music that carried the message forward from the blues with the modern twist. Eric Burdon was at his best right here
Britain is the place. Briton is a person who comes from it.
Eric Burdon is such a powerful sing, with so much dynamics and emotion. What a great performance. May Chas Chandler and Hilton Valentine rest in peace. Cheers! ✌️
Super cool guy, too. I met him - quite by accident - in 1990 when he was touring with Robby Krieger. It was a small outdoor venue, and I was waiting for my buddy to come back from the bar during the break. Someone bumped into me from behind and I turned around. It was Eric Burdon! I started talking to him and other people started coming over when they recognized him. He was really nice to everyone. Two things I remember vividly: being stricken by how much shorter than me he was, and I have never seen anyone drink so much alcohol and still perform at such a high level. Joe Walsh came close, but Eric Burdon was pounding drinks all night and you'd never be able to tell if you hadn't seen it.
Even though "we ain't got no bass" it's still great.
Everybody knows about Elvis and the Beatles on Ed Sullivan... I think the other unsung heroes of that show are the Animals!!! They really surprised me with their talent and their power. Eric Burdon is one of rock & roll's greatest voices! Glad I got the Box Set to uncover those performances.
How is it no band can command a stage like this today? Something incredible happened back in the 60s.
Chas Chandler--a very melodic, flowing, soulful, underrated bass player--AND he discovered Hendrix.
I was trying to remember his name. They did change the "nickel Bag" line from the GFR version to "canvas bag"
So intense. Excellent performance.
Coolest dudes to ever form a band. Eric’s voice is soul piercing!!!
The Animals were in a line-up transition. Eric's remark "Even though we ain't got no bass" at (3:15) refers to Chas Chandler missing from the band. Eventually drummer John Steel departed too. With different personnel the act became Eric Burdon & the Animals.
@pgh45rpms... Eric Burdon has always managed to find gifted musician who were excellent at their instrument even when he became a solo artist.
Chas was still there for this performance. What he was likely refering to is the fact that Ed Sullivan's god damn sound engineers did not mic the fucking bass in this!
Burdon didn’t have to dance and jump around for the audience’s entertainment. His magnificent voice just did the job!!
But he did move just a bit when he got into his music. He has it in his soul.
What you are saying is just a cop out attitude, because English people can't dance and are terrible dancers... English people could not dance, because they did not have rhythm like Black people, but they damn sure love to copy Black singing voices, and now they are trying to do the Black style of dance now and still can dance...White people like criticize, complain, and copy, alway in this order, only when they can copy Black Americans is acceptable... Y'all hated rap music too...
Wow this performance is even more dynamic than when they sang "I'm crying" !
Great performance such a powerful band that tend to get overlooked but they are still in the top ten of all time and along with the Yardbirds are the original Rave Up artists.
They were more Soul than Rock. It took me decades to recognise how good this band was.
I seen Eric Burdon about 30 + years ago what a rock legend I was fortunate to be apart of that concert
Hilton's little cap!!! 🙏💞 aGghh I LOVE THE ANIMALS!! one of my favorite original songs of theirs!!
I like his cap too, lol ! And The Animals is my favorite band !
This song is mindblowing. I love it too
One of the most underrated rock/blues groups!
Of course someone had to make this trite cliched and meaningless comment. Someone always does about every band.
@@shadowbear66 The internet is binary. Things are either underrated or overrated. Those are your only choices!
They were NOT underrated!!!!
@@Callipygous1975 what absolute irrelevant nonsense
The under rated bands are the ones you never heard of .
This is fantastic
Fantastic!!!!!
In the early 2000s I was at Fort Lewis for Perioperative training. They had a college channel up there and one night it was all Animals. DJ said I have locked and blocked the door and Im playing the Animals all night. Man it was an event.
Eric forever! Love! ❤❤❤
Clapton 😄
@@maximvolodkin6809Burdon❤
Oh wow!! This was fantastic! And best of all live! I couldn't stay seated. Had to get grooving!😸😎
This is a really good song, and it was lit covered by Grand Funk Railroad who did a really really good version of it
Up there with MC-5's Rob Tyner, Eric Burden (sp?) has got to be one of Rock history's woefully underappreciated lead vocalists and frontmen!!
I feel blessed as I got to see them back in 1983 playing at Toronto's CNE bandshell to an audience of about 12000 persons. They had a new album out by the name of Ark and that was the tour name and they played new and old songs. The band composed of all five of the original members and they absolutely rocked!
Loved the Organ player, top notch. His playing on their first hit House of the Rising Sun was genius.
Not the same keyboardists. This is Dave Rowberry who joined the band in the summer of 1965. Alan Price left the band at that time
カッコ良い!🎼
この曲も好きだけど、ベタだけど『朝日のあたる家』が大好き!名曲
What an amazing band The Animals were, especially live. Eric Burdon is one of Rock music best and most powerful vocalists.
"Even we got no bass, everything is gonna be all right" 🤣
3:15 "Even we got no bass, everything is gonna be all right"
As usual, this rocks so hard, the entire world must hear it. Wow!
Fantastic! So good!
When first heard the Animals in 1966, I was hooked since. Eric and his soulful voice and Ed on Guitar. Wow!
One of my fav Animals jams
Amazing. Brilliant. Thank you for the sound quality, too.
「孤独の叫び」良いねぇ🎉レコードシングル盤を所持してます。若かりしエリック。何を歌ってもエリックバートン😂今はブライアンオーガーと共だそうらしいね、彼のレコードも所持してますよ❤
I was eight years old. Those were the days!
Okay youngster 🙂
Wow! Grand Funk Railroad made it awesome.
Ed let them actually perform ---- unlike most of the other TV producers back in the day that faked everything with lip synch rubbish.
Badass song
My favourite song by The Animals
One of the banks Ed Sullivan had back on his show multiple times; no wondering why.
Great live performance!
So good. They’re really ahead of their time
When was their time?
@@Callipygous1975 are you being sarcastic?
@@lfh1973 No, I am calling you out on an empty cliche. I guess you have no answer.
@@Callipygous1975 This was recorded late 1965. Sounds ahead of that time. Borders on the upcoming psychedelic era. Eric left soon after this and pushed the envelope even further with the New Animals who were the first rock band to have a violin player. Definitely ahead of their time.
Eric and the boys were pushing the envelope for mid sixties American television with that lyric, "and when my time is up, you'll be my reefer." In the context of the song, the word "reefer" could well be the slang term for a walk-in refridgerator, but I'm sure that the alternate definition was not lost on them or their target audience. Love the fact that they snuck this by the censors!
Thanks for posting!
I always thought he says RE-Birth
Actually, the lyric is "Reaper". - *I've changed my mind!* Upon further listening, I think it is Re-Birth. He gets out of jail and is reborn. The song has murky origins based in blues songs and, apparently, revised lyrics were written at some point. I mean "rebirth" is not a common word in old traditional songs.
@@Callipygous1975 Grand Funk Railroad changed "rebirth" to "reefer" years later and it became the well known version on the Internet... which is stupid because this song was loosely based on a prison work chant by C. B. and Axe Gang from the 30s, 40s, it's not a stoner anthem.
Burdon is singing "rebirth," the original version of the lyrics.
John Steel left the animals on February 1966, so this is one of the last live shows before Barry Jenkins arrived to the band.
Excelente!!
Fantastic!! 👍🙏👍🙏👍🙏👍🙏
Гениально 👍
By later in 1966, lead singer Eric Burdon had formed a new set of Animals. I don't know how many of the 1964-65 hitmaking lineup were still in the group as of this TV appearance. I do know that drummer John Steel and organist Alan Price were gone by mid-1966, with Price forming a new group, the Alan Price Set, who had a minor hit with Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You". Axe men Chas Chandler and Hilton Valentine were gone by later in the year, when I first heard a song by the new Animals, "Help Me Girl". (The Outsiders, of "Time Won't Let Me" fame, also put out a version of "Help Me Girl" around the same time.)
Good to know
For help me girl Eric Burdon used studio musicians.. When I was Young was with the new Animals.
outsiders were awesome
Four out of the five originals members can be seen on stage here (Eric Burdon, Chas Chandler, John Steel, Hilton Valentine). Alan Price had left.
In the UK, The Alan Price Set had a number of hits, among them 'Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo' (1966), 'Simon Smith & The Amazing Dancing Bear' (1967), 'The House That Jack Built' (1967), 'Don't Stop The Carnival' (1968). He also charted as a solo artist with 'The Jarrow Song' (1974) and - together with Georgie Fame - with 'Rosetta' (1971).
@@hanno-erdmanntietz8424 Who's the organist here?
Heavier than Stones....
I love The Animals
One of their best!
Meu coração acelerou só de ouvi-lo. Luv u, Eric!
An incredible performance by the Animals on live TV...too bad Ed Sullivan's sound engineers didn't mic the bass guitar....
He sings about it - you can hear the buzz/hum - perhaps a broken connection in the cable or the bass.
@@DonnTarris "Even though we ain't got no bass, it's gonna be alright"
Absolutely bloody brilliant 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😎
素晴らしい歌と演奏です
Grand funk railroad's rendition blows this out of the water,,but I love Eric burdon and the animals, loved him in war also !!
They sure do! I heard and saw Grand Funk and Mark Farner 2X's. What a band!!
I still listen to them to this day.
The animals' studio version blows Grand Funks out of the water
If it weren't for Eric Burdon and the Animals creating this masterpiece, Grand funk railroad version would not exist. Grand funk railroad version of the song most likely would have been band back in 1966 from the Ed Sullivan Show or ask to alter the word "reefer"
Banda fantástica,sempre gostei deles
Wow, fantastic. I'd only heard the Grand Funk version before. Was Chas Chandlers' bass even plugged in, never hear a sound?
A buzz/hum can be heard, like a bad connection, right from the start of the song - it was obvious that everyone on stage knew the bass wasn't there, Eric even worked that into the lyric ;-)
Gorgeous
Muito boa essa banda sou mito fa dos caras 🇧🇷
Ааааааа Кааааааайййййффффф ДаааВвввваааааййййй. 💪💪💪💪👍👍👍👍👍
Always loved the Animals, Eric’s voice is amazing! I remember when House of the Rising Sun was released summer ‘64 & hearing it on Alan Freeman’s legendary radio show ‘Pick Of The Pops’… at almost four & a half minutes long it made for compelling listening! ❤
I've always loved The Animals and Mr. Burdons voice was one of my idols within " Rock" music....superb live interpretation. Also the other musicians were great and have made some important music history on their own as the bass player Chas Chandler discovered the genius of Jimi Hendrix and made him justifiedly famous worldwide , Alan Price was an outstanding organ player and composer who has arranged the immortal version of House Of The Rising Sun ...and so on.
❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
He did a superb job with vocals on The Tell-tale Heart on the Alan Parsons Project's debut album. As of 2024, he's still kicking (ass).
❤️👏👏👏🙌
Beautiful suits
I bet they hated having to wear them
@@recordguy4321 not their choice?
@@patrickgueguin792 of course, management made that decision...when they appeared a few months later to perform Don't Bring me Down, they looked a lot cooler with their white turtleneck shirts
Красавчики!!!
Burdon-Chandler compisition
Great organ playing by Dave Rowberry
The lyric is 'my rebirth' not 'my reaper'.
Можно слушать бесконечно , душа поёт ! Браво !!!
Great video, but those suits make dizzy. Thank you.
Had an edge on the stones at least till mid 1965 in my opinion
Wow, I had only heard (and loved) the Grand Funk Railroad version….
Hard to match Grand Funks energy on this song ...but major props to the Animals for rockin this song years before GFR.
Well the Animals wrote it...@@jbrobinson2728
The Doors are the poor man's version of The Animals.
Edgy! And cool as hell!
Рок 🎸 навсегда
Brillante Rock and Rolk,música del corazón entendidos por todos tipos,"Muy firme"
IMO the Animals better than the Rolling Stones, a tighter band, a very tight band, at the time...and the organ player was a "killer" on the keys. Very R and B based, really am extremely skilled band, and Burton's vocals in the R and B style were the top of the mountain, lots of power and emotion. the evidence usual here a the tape of this performance and others.
There was an earlier comment; The Animals were ahead of their time"... well I agree, because I thought that Grand Funk and Mark Farner wrote and played this song...I guess not! Love this version as well.
The lead singer is wayyy..before his time
Grand Funk Railroad covering this song is the best thing that ever happened to it.
No way is the cover better than the original…you’re entitled to your opinion no matter that it is wrong.😉
@@nibsvkh This is not always the case, depending on the song and artists. For example, I much prefer "See You in September" by the Happenings over the original by the Tempos. That said, I have never heard the song in this video by Grand Funk, but if it's anything like the other songs I've heard by them, I would likely prefer the Animals' version.
@@nibsvkh TOTALLY AGREE! ..GFR ruined this
I loved both versions. But if I had to pick between the two, I would give the edge to the Animals.
DAMMMM I was BORN Dec 7 1966
Супер 😍👍🎉🎊
Клёво!!