The Animals "Retrospective" 2004

...The Animals were founded in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Northeast England in 1963. Their roots lay in the Alan Price Rhythm & Blues Combo, who had in turn evolved out of two other popular Newcastle groups, the Kansas City Five and the Kontours...
...The Combo featured Alan Price on keyboards and vocals, Hilton Valentine on guitar, Bryan "Chas" Chandler on bass, and John Steel on drums. Eric Burdon, who had sung in the Kansas City Five, had left Newcastle for London when Price quit the Five in favor of the Kontours, but when he came back home, he joined Price's new Combo as lead vocalist. The group's powerful style soon earned them an audience, and they adopted a new name, the Animals. (Depending on who tells the story, the name came either from their ferocious on-stage attitude or a tip of the hat to a good friend nicknamed "Animal.") In the fall of 1963, the newly branded Animals headed to a small recording studio and cut a four-song EP of Rhythm & Blues standards that faithfully documented their live sound. A copy of the disc made its way to Giorgio Gomelsky, who was managing a like-minded R&B outfit called the Yardbirds, and he encouraged the band to relocate to London and pursue a larger audience...to be continued... - Biography by Mark Demin
trax:
01 The House Of The Rising Sun 02 I'm Crying 03 Baby Let Me Take You Home 04 Gonna Send You Back To Walker 05 Boom Boom 06 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 07 Bring It On Home To Me 08 We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place [Single Version]. 09 It's My Life 10 Don't Bring Me Down 11 See See Rider 12 Inside - Looking Out 13 Hey Gyp 14 Help Me Girl 15 When I Was Young 16 A Girl Named Sandoz 17 San Franciscan Nights 18 Monterey 19 Anything 20 Sky Pilot 21 White Houses 22 Spill The Wine [Radio Edit]