"Don't Bring Me Down" was a song composed by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and recorded by The Animals in 1966."Don't Bring Me Down" was the third of The Animals' epic personalisations of Brill Building material, following the 1965 hits "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"" and "It's My Life". According to one account, all three came out one call in 1965 that The Animals' then producer, Mickie Most,...
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Ending our tour around Masons Yard, Dalmeny Court is where Eric Burdon had a flat in the mid-‘60s. Eric was lead singer in The Animals, a group who dealt a global Number One in 1964 with their first single, ‘House Of The Rising Sun’. They had original compositions as well (including the hilarious ‘Story Of Bo Diddley’) and starting in ’65 produced a string of fabulous hard hitting sing
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The go-go era didn't last all that long, maybe a few years, with its cultural apex in the '64-'65 zone. Maybe (I'm not pretending to be Wikipedia here) it kicked off with those Johnny Rivers albums "recorded at" (or so they would have you believe) the Whisky a Go Go in LA, where he set the template for the go-go sound: a stripped-down, party-vibe brand of rock'n'roll with a beat suitable for do...
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Hey moggers! I missed you! Still tough to find time to mog, but tonight the wife and kids are away, and I'm doing what any married man would do in that situation--staying home alone with the dog and watching TV! Earlier I caught an old episode of MTV Cribs featuring "rock Gods" (most weren't even demigods, but what can you do). Then I watched Cloverfield, which completely kicked my ass, and...
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1. King Curtis & the Kingpins, "Memphis Soul Stew." From Wikipedia's account of Curtis' funeral: "As the mourners filed in, Curtis' Kingpins played an hour long version of 'Soul Serenade' and a number of musicians got up to play. Jesse Jackson preached the service, and Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Cissy Houston, Brook Benton and Duane Allman were among those attending. Aretha sang the closin...
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| 1 House of the Rising Sun |
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| 2 I'm Crying |
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| 3 Baby Let Me Take You Home |
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| 4 Bring It on Home to Me |
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| 5 Roadrunner |
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