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"Baby Let Me Take You Home / Gonna Send You Back to Walker" Released: March 1964 (UK) / Aug 1964 (US)
"House of the Rising Sun" Released: 19 June 1964 (UK) / 8 Aug 1964 (US)
The Animals is the self-titled American debut album from 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)"[1] that typified the group. The album featured many R&B standards, written by the likes of Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and John Lee Hooker, as well as the classic #1 hit 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.