Hilton Valentine, Guitarist for The Animals, Dead at Age 77

R.I.P.

Incidentally, I used to listen to these two albums together everyday when I first got exposed to their music ages ago.

The Best of The Animals (Youtube Playlist)


The Shocking Blue (1970)

Spoiler: track list

Side A:
A1 Long And Lonesome Road 00:00
A2 Love Machine 02:47
A3 The Butterfly And I 06:07
A4 Venus 10:12
A5 California Here I Come 13:18
A6 Poor Boy 16:36

Side B:
B1 Mighty Joe 21:29
B2 Bool Weevil 24:37
B3 Acka Ragh 27:00
B4 love buzz 30:08
B5 I'm A Woman 33:53
B6 Send Me A Postcard 36:55

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I like that they stopped off at a studio during a tour, had to talk the producer into recording it...15 minutes and 1 take later it was ready to print.

I also learned today that Andy Griffith, yes that Andy Griffith, recorded a version of this in 1959.