Baby Let Me Take You Home

About Baby Let Me Take You Home

"Baby Let Me Take You Home", a song credited to Bert Russell (a.k.a. Bert Berns) and Wes Farrell, was The Animals' debut single, released in 1964. In the UK, it reached #21 on the pop singles chart. In the U. S. its B-side, "Gonna Send You Back to Walker" (retitled "to Georgia"), was released but was not a significant hit, placing only at #57 on the pop singles chart. American soul singer Hoagy Lands previously recorded the song in 1964 as "Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand", released on Atlantic 2217. The song is an arrangement of Eric Von Schmidt's rendering of "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" as covered by Bob Dylan, on his first, self-titled, album. The Animals' version opens with striking unaccompanied guitar arpeggios, inserts a middle section with spoken words over an organ riff and closes with a frantic double-time coda. The result was a key influence on Dylan's change to electric music and to the folk-rock genre. In 2006, Eric Burdon, of The Animals, began to perform the song in a heavier version, on his concerts again, adding a short story how they came to it. more »

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1966

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Baby can I take you home
 Baby let me take you home
 I'll love you all my life
 You can bet I'll treat you right
 If you just let me take you home

 Baby can I dance with you
 Baby can I dance with you
 I'll do anything in this God-almighty world
 If you just let me dance with you

 Baby let me take you home
 Baby let me take you home
 I'll love you all my life
 You can bet I'll treat you right
 If you just let me take you home

 Well when I saw you baby
 I couldn't ignore you
 And I wanted you for my girl
 And when you said "Yeah!"
 I just couldn't care about
 Anybody else in this world
 You smiled at me
 Baby now I could see
 My life was planned out ahead
 You took my hand
 And it felt so good
 And this is what you said

 Baby won't you be my man
 Baby won't you be my man
 Yes I'll be your man
 And I'll do the best I can
 I want to be your man

 It's alright, it's alright!
 It's alright, it's alright!
 It's alright, it's alright!

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The Animals

The Animals were an English band of the 1960s, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne during the early part of the decade. The band relocated to London on finding fame in 1964. The Animals were known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature song and transatlantic No.1 hit single, "The House of the Rising Sun", as well as by hits such as "We Gotta Get out of This Place", "It's My Life", and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood". The band balanced tough, rock-edged pop singles against rhythm and blues-oriented album material. They were known in the US as part of the British Invasion. more »

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