We've Gotta Get Out of This Place
1965 · Columbia EMI DB 7639 · UK: England
- Artist
- The Animals
- Title
- We've Gotta Get Out of This Place
- Release
- We've Gotta Get Out of This Place / I Can't Believe It
- Year
- 1965
- Label
- Columbia # EMI DB 7639
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- UK: England
- Songwriter
- B.Man-Weil
- Genre
- Rock · R&B · Blues Rock
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
The Animals, led by Eric Burdon, formed in 1962 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, UK. The song "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place" (Columbia (EMI) # DB 7639) was very popular amongst US forces in Vietnam - as the veteran streetmouse said, it was one of those songs that "expressed emotions, desires, daily activities", as well as being "just a whole lot of fun to listen to".1 The song frequently played on the American Forces Network radio in Vietnam.2 Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil actually wrote the song with the industrial, working class North of England in mind. Note this group also released the war-related song Sky Pilot (Part One) / Sky Pilot (Part Two) (1968).Sources1Rate Your Music: Still On Vn Time Always Will Be↩2Wikipedia: American Forces Vietnam Network↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: In this dirty old part of the city where the sun refused to shine / People tell me, there ain't no use in tryin'... / We gotta get out of this place! / If it's the last thing we ever do... / We gotta get out of this place
About the artist
English rock band formed in the early 1960s in Newcastle upon Tyne, England ('We Gotta Get Out of This Place'). [Source: Wikipedia]