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| Released | September 1964 | |||
| Recorded | 22 January – 31 July 1964 | |||
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| Length | 32:41 | |||
| Label | MGM | |||
| Producer | Mickie Most | |||
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The Animals is the American debut studio album by the British Invasion group, the Animals. Released in late summer 1964, the album introduced the States to the "drawling, dirty R&B sound (with the emphasis on the B)"[2] that typified the group.
The album includes several R&B standards, written by the likes of Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and John Lee Hooker, as well as the number one single "House of the Rising Sun", here presented in its truncated-for-radio form (it would be restored to full length on the February 1966 compilation The Best of the Animals, and later CD and digital reissues of The Animals would feature the full-length recording).
The British album The Animals was released a month later, the group's debut album there albeit with substantially differing contents.
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| Uncut | [3] |
- ^ Breihan, Tom (28 June 2018). "The Number Ones: The Animals' "The House Of The Rising Sun"". Stereogum. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
But most of the Animals' self-titled debut album is the sort of blues-rock that you only make when you're way too into the idea of authenticity.
- ^ The Animals (US) – Review
- ^ Huxley, Peter (February 1998). "Sixties". Uncut. No. 9. p. 86.