Work Song - Eric Burdon and the Animals

Rare - the Work Song by Eric Burdon and the Animals, from UK Radio sometime in 1966.

From the Australian CD 'Road Runners! Eric Burdon and the Animals', a collection of live recordings. Available as an import on Amazon, Play.com and many other sites.

Tracks on CD:

[From UK Radio, 1966]
1. Heartbreak Hotel
2. The Work Song
3. Corrina Corrina
4. Jailhouse Rock

[From German TV, 1967]
5. Roadrunner

[Monterey Pop Festival, 1967]
6. Gin House Blues
7. Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)

[Festival Hall, Melbourne, Australia, 1967]
8. Shake Rattle and Roll
9. When I Was Young
10.See See Rider
11.All Night Long [listed as Rock Me Baby on CD cover]
12/13.Tobacco Road/So Long

[London, 1967]
14.Inside Looking Out
15.Maudie

[Stockholm, 1968]
16.Yes I'm Experienced
17.San Francisco Nights
18.Monterey
19.Paint it Black

Performed by Eric Burdon (vocals), and *probably* by:
Keyboards: Barry Jenkins
Guitar: Hilton Valentine
Bass Guitar: Chas Chandler
Drums: Barry Jenkins

Category:

Music

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• Eric
• Burdon
• Animals
• Work
• Song
• Roadrunners
• 1966

[asorls1]

This is Dve Rowberry on Organ. From the summer of 1965. It has a similiar sound to his Mike Cotton work on I have my Eye on You from the same year. It is on You Tube too look for it.

[OldCoelacanth]

@asorls1 Hi there Asorls - found it.  Yes Dave Rowberry's sound is very similar on that.

[asorls1]

@OldCoelacanth Loook also for I Don't Want to Know, another great Mike Cotton sound song, with some great organ by Rowberry, and composed by him. It was also covered by the Mugwumps with Cass Elliot. I never heard any of the Mike Cotton Sound music until there was You tube.

[OldCoelacanth]

@asorls1 Youtube is amazing. I never knew about the blues until I came on here looking for 60s music.

[div3s]

Every time I hear this band they blow me away.

[magusmagic]

Thanks OCC, heaven to my ears. The Animals never recorded 'Work Song' as a single or album track so this is a cherished recording. Those BBC radio sessions were really quite something..

[MrChillin65]

wow, what a voice.

[hammerogod]

Eric Victor Burdon the Reigning King of Mersey Blues and the inventor of a whole new genre ---> Psycadelifunk ... No matter what era or style E.B. always boiled it down to it's most basic and most interesting elements ... Eric you are truly one of my life-long Idols (perhaps the only one who is still creating and living out the R&R dream)

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

Love it.

Thanks.

George Vreeland Hill

[RasMajnouni]

they had so much talent!!!I was a wee lad hearing them on the AM transistor.Alan Price the great organist became an actor in films later.

[kemicchew]

Alan Price Was the first to leave.....that's why the animals broke up.....ericburdon formed a entier new line up with just an origanal guitarist

[BlackMonk66]

I think you meant to say John Steele was the drummer. That's definitely the line-up for tracks 5-7, but 1-4 might have been done when Alan Price was still in the band and from the track listings, it looks like the later tracks were with the New Animals.