The Animals – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (Cover)

I thought i would give this Animals number a try, a blast from the past…a real good beat to this one. -Kenny Some information on the track: WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE – Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil were husband and wife (and future Hall of Fame) songwriters associated with the 1960s Brill Building scene in New York City.[2] “We Gotta Get out of This Place” was written and recorded as a demo by Mann and Weil, with Mann singing and playing piano. It was intended for The Righteous Brothers (for whom they had written the epic hit “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin'”), and indeed the demo almost sounds like a Righteous Brothers recording, with the piano supplying the easily-recognized bass line and both a pop and blue-eyed soul feeling accompanying the foreboding lyrics.[3] But then Mann gained a recording contract for himself, and his label Redbird Records wanted him to release it instead. Meanwhile, record executive Allen Klein had heard it and given the demo to Mickie Most, the producer for The Animals. Most already had a call out to Brill Building songwriters for material for the group’s next recording session (the Animals hits “It’s My Life” and “Don’t Bring Me Down” came from the same call[4]), and The Animals recorded it before Mann could.[3] In The Animals’ rendition, the lyrics were slightly reordered and reworded from the demo, and opened with what seemed to be a reference to their industrial, working class Northern England origins: In this dirty old part of the …
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