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6 unusual facts about The Animals


Donn Landee

Landee recorded "Sky Pilot" in this room for Eric Burdon and The Animals and created the phase effect used in the song "The Big Hurt." Landee then worked at Sunwest Studios as an engineer in 1968, where he later became manager before moving on to Amigo Studios under Lee Herschberg.

Johnnie Mae Matthews

In 1963 Reel issued "I Don't Want Your Love", a duet that paired Matthews and Timmy Shaw, her longtime songwriting collaborator who is best known for his 1964 solo effort "Gonna Send You Back to Walking", a song which was later recorded by The Animals and a few other artists.

Mike Starrs

Starrs toured Europe and the United States with Colosseum II in 1975-76, and also had a spell with a version of The Animals.

Newcastle City Hall

The Animals reunited and performed there for a one-off performance in 1968, after lead vocalist Eric Burdon disbanded them and formed a new version of the band.

The Animals' Christmas

The Animals' Christmas tells the story of the Nativity of Jesus from the perspective of the animals present.

The O'Rahilly

O'Rahilly's family for many years owned the port of Greenore in County Louth not far from the present day border with Northern Ireland, while his grandson Ronan O'Rahilly achieved some fame during the 1960s as the founder of the offshore radio station Radio Caroline, and was also involved in the production of some films and the promotion of several recording artists including Georgie Fame and The Animals.


Bad Days

It reached #20 in the UK charts and includes a cover of "We Gotta Get out of This Place" by The Animals, as well as the songs "Bad Days" and "The Unluckiest Man in the World".

Blazer

Another mod band, Small Faces, and other bands liked by mods — such as The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Kinks, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, The Animals, The Yardbirds, The Moody Blues and The Troggs — had band members wearing striped blazers/boating jackets or later, brightly coloured blazers with wide white or other light edging.

Cactus World News

After leaving Cactus World News, Sheehy went on to record and tour with Ronnie Wood, Bo Diddley, Robert Palmer, Michelle Shocked, Eric Burdon and The Animals, Carl Carlton, Hinterland, Dave-Id Busarus and Hothouse Flowers (appearing on both Born and Live).

Clark Datchler

He subsequently released the singles "I Don’t Want You" and "Things Can’t Get Any Worse", both produced by Mickie Most (Calvin Hayes' father and producer of The Animals, Donovan and Kim Wilde).

Deena Payne

She used to tour with ex-Animals keyboard player Alan Price as a backing singer and she was a member of the novelty girl band Cats U.K., who scored a UK top 30 hit with "Luton Airport" in October 1979.

Epiphone Rivoli

Notable users of the Epiphone Rivoli in the 1960s include Chip Hawkes (The Tremeloes), Chas Chandler (The Animals, John Entwistle (The Who), Tony Jackson (The Searchers), Karl Green (Herman's Hermits), Paul Samwell-Smith and Jimmy Page (The Yardbirds), Peter Birrell (Freddie and the Dreamers), and Scott Walker (The Walker Brothers).

Funky Junction

Three others were loosely improvised instrumentals; "Dan" – a version of "Londonderry Air" or "Danny Boy" by Bell in a Jimi Hendrix style; "Rising Sun" – a cover of "The House of the Rising Sun" made popular by The Animals; and the original composition "Palamatoon".

Jody Miller

She also continued to have hits with cover versions of pop hits like "House of the Rising Sun", a hit for The Animals, "Reflections" (different from the Diana Ross and the Supremes hit), and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", an Aretha Franklin hit.

Martin Gerschwitz

In late 1999, he was asked to be the keyboardist for Eric Burdon & the New Animals, after Neal Morse and Ryo Okumoto (both Spock's Beard) left the band.

The Most of Animals

The Most of Animals or The Most of The Animals is the title of a number of different compilation albums by Newcastle upon Tyne blues rock group The Animals.

The Spike Drivers

The band was showcased at many clubs in the New York area with the high point occurring when they opened for Eric Burdon and the Animals at the Rheingold Central Park Music Festival in 1966.

The Yellow Payges

The Yellow Payges - now comprising Hortter (lead vocals, harmonica), Ham (lead guitar), Barnes (bass) and Gorman (drums) - continued to release singles, and played the Hollywood Bowl as support to Eric Burdon and the Animals, the Rascals and Tommy James and the Shondells.

Trial by Fire: Greatest and Latest

The song "The House of the Rising Sun" on this album came about originally because BTO played at an outdoor concert in Sturgis, South Dakota for a biker event with Eric Burdon of The Animals also on the bill.


see also

1805 in New Zealand

Mid-September – Te Pahi and four of his sons board the Venus intending to thank in person both Acting Commandant Piper at Norfolk Island and Governor King for the animals they have been sent.

African Cats

The families of the animals in African Cats were filmed on the Maasai Mara National Reserve, a major game region in southwestern Kenya.

African Safari Wildlife Park

The park is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), and considers itself to be one of the leaders in conservation efforts for the animals it supports.

Alameda East Veterinary Hospital

E-Vet Interns, a series that aired in 2007, focusing on the lives of veterinary interns at Alameda East and the animals they treat

Babylon's Ark

How he raided bombed palaces and ruined hotels for food and supplies to keep the animals and staff fed, and rescued Lions, Cheetah's and Ostriches from Uday Hussein's palace.

Bark Mitzvah

Blessing of the Animals: A Guide to Prayers & Ceremonies Celebrating Pets & Other Creatures. New York: Sterling.

Beefalo

After seeing thousands of cattle die in a Kansas blizzard in 1886, Charles "Buffalo" Jones, a co-founder of Garden City, Kansas, also worked to cross buffalo and cattle at a ranch near the future Grand Canyon National Park, with the hope the animals could survive the harsh winters.

Bladenboro, North Carolina

The animals had broken jaws and had been drained of blood in a fashion not unlike the supposed attacks of Chupacabra.

British White

The breed is hardy and thrifty, and the animals readily graze rough vegetation such as rushes, nettles or heather, and they keenly browse many trees and shrubs.

Captain Carrot

The superheroine magician, Zatanna, unaware of the animals' true nature, claims Rodney as a pet for her magic act.

Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques

Buried here too, is the pet lion of stage actress, feminist, and co-founder of the cemetery, Marguerite Durand and the pet of Camille Saint-Saëns, composer of Carnival of the Animals.

Citizens Lobbying for Animals in Zoos

Citizens Lobbying for Animals in Zoos (CLAZ) is community based organization lobbying to improve conditions for the animals in San Francisco Zoo.

Cloverdale Rodeo and Country Fair

The rodeo is an annual target of animal rights activists, who allege that bucking straps, electric prods, spurs and physical abuse are used to terrorize the animals into action.

Damizza

His love of music and burgeoning recognition with the rock and roll establishment has opened him to meeting and working with an ever-growing list of rock icons, among them Terry Reid and Eric Burdon of the Animals & War, drummer Phil Jones (longtime percussionist and drummer for Tom Petty) and bass player Rick "The Bass Player" Rosas of Neil Young/Joe Walsh fame.

Emergency Vets

First aired in 1998, it depicts the working and outside lives of the veterinarians at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital in Denver, Colorado, USA, plus the animals that they treat.

Feed the Animals

Feed the Animals is the fourth album by Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis), released on Illegal Art in 2008.

Figure Eight Island

In 2001 and 2002, the homeowners' association commissioned a survey of endangered plants and animals on the island, some of the animals of special interest were piping plovers, sea turtles, sea beach amaranth, and marine mammals.

Florida State Seminoles baseball

Before the home half of the 5th inning, a group of fans known as "The Animals of Section B", lead the Seminoles crowd in singing the Canadian national anthem, O Canada.

Freddy the Pig

Although the animals and humans do not age, the stories reflect the social conditions at the time of writing, for example, the books published during World War II have scrap drives and victory gardens.

Gilda Live

It included Roseanne Roseannadanna, Emily Litella, Candy Slice, Judy Miller, Lisa Loopner, Nadia Comăneci, and Rhonda Weiss, and many other skits and performances such as "Let's Talk Dirty To The Animals" (which was a little more risque than the original TV version, as this version was the only scene that got the film an R rating), "I Love To Be Unhappy", "Goodbye Saccharine" and "Honey (Touch Me With My Clothes On)".

Giza Zoo

The zoo also includes a suspension bridge designed by Gustave Eiffel that lets visitors view the animals from above.

Gregory Colbert

Elephants, whales, manatees, sacred ibis, cranes, eagles, gyrfalcons, Rhinoceros Hornbills, cheetahs, leopards, African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus), caracals, baboons, eland, meerkats, gibbons, orangutans, penguins, pandas, polar bears, lions, giant Pacific manta rays, and saltwater crocodiles are among the animals he has filmed and photographed.

Hall Hill Farm

The animals available for the public to see include llamas, wallabies and Highland cattle.

Hoswick

They then resisted the landowner, John Bruce Jnr of Sumburgh's claim for a third share of the profits which was customary under Udal Law (the catch was traditionally split three ways, one for the 'admiral', one for those who drove the whales ashore and one for the owner of the land on which the animals were beached)

If I Ran the Zoo

Some of the animals featured in "If I Ran the Zoo" have been featured in a segment of The Hoober-Bloob Highway, a 1975 CBS TV Special.

Jaguarundi

Their presence in Florida is said to have been the work of a writer who at some point imported the animals from their native habitat and released them near his hometown of Chiefland and in other locations across the state.

Løvejagten

The animals were filmed at the Copenhagen Zoo with the camera aimed downward to avoid any view of the enclosures.

Marvejols

The wolf park of Gévaudan: Over 100 wolves live in a semi-natural state in an area of hills above Marvejols, once renowned for the animals.

Mickey's Follies

The animals in the barnyard are watching a series of short song and dance numbers performed by other barnyard animals, similar to the Ziegfeld Follies of the day.

Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary

Films featuring the animals at Naankuse: • Beyond Borders - Angelina Jolie (vultures) • Flight of the Phoenix - Dennis Quaid and Giovanni Ribisi • Mr Bones - Leon Shoester • Saltering Desert (Bushman translating) • Hoofbeats (baboons, a cheetah and Bushman translating) • The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (baboons in Botswana) • The Magic Journey to Africa 3D (lion, cheetahs, caracals and baboons) • Bonny and Clyde (cheetah) • Black stallion (cheetah)

Nick Brandt

As American photography critic Vicki Goldberg writes: "Many pictures convey a rare sense of intimacy, as if Brandt knew the animals, had invited them to sit for his camera, and had a prime portraitist's intuition of character...as elegant as any arranged by Arnold Newman for his human high achievers".

Porndogs: The Adventures of Sadie

The animals are voiced by a number of famous celebrities including Marilyn Chambers, Ron Jeremy, Too $hort, Heidi Fleiss, Dustin Diamond, Paul Rodriguez, Tera Patrick, Evan Seinfeld, and Paul Ogata.

Powell St. John

Many musicians have recorded Powell’s songs, including Janis Joplin (Bye, Bye Baby), Boz Scaggs (I’ll Forever Sing), Tracy Nelson (Livin’ with the Animals), Roky Erickson (Right Track Now), Doug Sahm (You Don’t Know) & The Vietnam Veterans (Right Track Now).

Pumper Nic

Nic the hippo, is featured among the animals that escape from the Los Angeles Zoo during an earthquake that hits Los Angeles in the short animated Oscar winning film, Logorama (2009).

Return to Nim's Island

With her father, Jack Russo (Matthew Lillard) away on business Nim and Edmund must save the island from poachers trying to steal the animals and take them away to the mainland to sell them.

Ron Magill

He has also appeared on several documentaries for the Discovery Channel and the History Channel, and, during the 1980s, handled all the animals used on the Miami Vice television series.

San Luis Obispo Creek

North American beaver (Castor canadensis) have been thought to be non-native to San Luis Obispo Creek but Bolton recorded in "Anza's California Expeditions" that in April 1774, Father Cavaller of Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa gave Juan Bautista de Anza "thirty-odd beaver skins" along with other local gifts including fine Indian baskets and "the skins of eight bears, the animals for which the region was renowned".

Swami Keshwanand

By one account: "There was no vegetation left on the ground. There was no drop of water. All the animals died for want of fodder. People survived on grasses and the bark of "Khejri" trees. Even that also became scarce. There was nothing like governance. The ruling Samants were least bothered for the poor people....".

The Adventures of Blinky Bill

The animals he rescued were Ling Ling the Panda, Slippery the Seal, Yoyo the Monkey, Princess Penelope the Poodle, Leo the Lion and Tico Toucan (who originally works for the Circus Bros.) They went to Antarctica, the African Plains, China, the Amazon Rainforest, India and Paris.

The Ass in the Lion's Skin

About then there was also a false report that the animals had escaped from Central Park Zoo and were roaming the city.

The Rooise Broek and the Scheeken

As part of "Het Groene Woud, there is a wildlife crossing across the A2 between the Scheeken and further west located forest and nature of Velder and Mortelen which serves as an important link for the animals to cross between the different areas.

Thylacoleo

In 2002, eight remarkably complete skeletons of T. carnifex were discovered in a limestone cave under Nullarbor Plain, where the animals fell through a narrow opening in the plain above.

Virginia Zoological Park

Among the animals in this exhibit are Malayan tigers, oriental small-clawed otters, orangutans, siamangs, Northern white-cheeked gibbons, Malayan tapirs, binturongs, rhinoceros hornbills, fairy-bluebirds, azure-winged magpies, and chestnut-breasted malkoha.

Waiting for the Worms

Following the images of the fascist crowd, the screaming face and a fascist breaking a man's skull from "What Shall We Do Now?", a dog biting meat off a hook then consumed by a larger one (from the Animals tour), and the famous goose-stepping hammer sequence, we see Pink yell "Stop".

World Animal Day

Numerous churches throughout the world observe the Sunday closest to October 4 with a Blessing of the Animals.