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She's Like the Wind
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"She's Like the Wind"
Single by Patrick Swayze
from the album Dirty Dancing Soundtrack
B-side
"Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs - Stay"
Released
1987
Format
7" single, 12" maxi,
CD single, Cassette single
Recorded
November 1986
Genre
Soft rock[1]
Length
3:49
Label
RCA
Songwriter(s)
Patrick Swayze, Stacy Widelitz
Producer(s)
Michael Lloyd
"She's Like the Wind" is a 1987 power ballad[2] from the film Dirty Dancing, performed by Patrick Swayze. Though Swayze is the primary vocalist on the single, it was billed as being performed by "Patrick Swayze featuring Wendy Fraser"; Fraser is heard throughout much of the song, specifically in the final chorus. The single reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Adult Contemporary chart.[3]
Contents
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1 Production
2 History
2.1 Music video
3 Releases
3.1 Track listing
4 Chart position
5 Lumidee
5.1 Background
5.2 Music video
5.3 Track listing
5.4 Charts
6 Other versions
7 References
Production[edit]
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Swayze and Stacy Widelitz co-wrote the song in 1984.
It was originally intended for the soundtrack of Grandview, U.S.A. and was meant to be about Jamie Lee Curtis' character in the film. However, the song was not used in that film. During production of Dirty Dancing in 1987, Swayze played the demo for producer Linda Gottlieb and director Emile Ardolino. They loved it and passed it on to Jimmy Ienner and Bob Feiden, the soundtrack's executive producers. It was recorded for the soundtrack in November 1986, with Michael Lloyd producing. The song, like the film in which it was featured, was a success, reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on Adult Contemporary, and was a hit around the world. It is still in circulation on radio. The soundtrack album was number one for 19 weeks.[when?]
History[edit]
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Swayze co-wrote and performed two tracks on the soundtrack to the film Road House (1989), plus he co-wrote and performed a duet with Larry Gatlin for the film Next of Kin (1989).
Music video[edit]
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The music video in black and white features clips from the movie Dirty Dancing. The video can be seen on the Ultimate Dirty Dancing DVD.
Releases[edit]
The song was released commercially on 7" vinyl in many countries, with a 3-track 12" maxi single and 2-track cassette also produced. CD singles were a relatively new format, however; a 2 and 3-track 5" CD and Japanese mini CD single were commercially released.
Track listing[edit]
7" vinyl single - US[4]
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
1. "She's Like the Wind" P. Swayze, S. Widelitz 3:49
2. "Stay" Maurice Williams 1:34
CD single - France[5]
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
1. "She's Like the Wind" P. Swayze, S. Widelitz 3:49
2. "Stay" Maurice Williams 1:34
Cassette single - US
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
1. "She's Like the Wind" P. Swayze, S. Widelitz 3:49
2. "Stay" Maurice Williams 1:34
Chart position[edit]
Chart (1988)
Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart[6] 6
Austrian Singles Chart[7] 15
Dutch Mega Top 100[7] 13
German Singles Chart[8] 14
Irish Singles Chart[9] 4
New Zealand Singles Chart[7] 27
Norwegian Singles Chart[7] 7
South African Singles Chart[10] 13
Swedish Singles Chart[7] 8
Swiss Singles Chart[7] 23
UK Singles Chart[11] 17
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[12] 3
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks 1
Chart (1992/93)
Peak
position
French SNEP Singles Chart[7] 7
Chart (2009)
Peak
position
Swiss Singles Chart[13] 67
Preceded by
"Seasons Change" by Exposé Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one single (Patrick Swayze version)
February 27, 1988 Succeeded by
"Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley
""She's Like The Wind""
Single by Lumidee featuring Tony Sunshine
from the album Unexpected
Released
April 3, 2007
Format
Digital download, CD single
Recorded
2006-2007
Label
TVT
Producer(s)
J. Marty, T.C. Love
Lumidee singles chronology
"Dance!"
(2006) ""She's Like The Wind""
(2007) "Crazy"
(2007)
"Dance!"
(2006) ""'She's Like The Wind"
(2007) "Crazy"
(2007)
Lumidee[edit]
"She's Like the Wind" is a cover recorded by American recording artists Lumidee and Tony Sunshine for Lumidee's second album, Unexpected (2007). It was released as the lead single from Unexpected in the U.S. and Europe on April 3, 2007.
Background[edit]
According to Lumidee, the idea to record a remake of Patrick Swayze's 1987 song "She's Like The Wind" was inspired by her European label when she recommended a collaboration with fellow New York recording artist Tony Sunshine.[14] She also said, "We'd been talking about working together but hadn't been able to. But he loved the idea of doing something with this song."[15]
Music video[edit]
The music video for this version was directed by Dayo.[16]
Track listing[edit]
"She's Like The Wind (Radio Edit)" - 4:17
"She's Like The Wind (Spanglish Version)" - 3:53
"She's Like The Wind (Instrumental)" - 4:18
"She's Like The Wind (A Capella)" - 4:15
Charts[edit]
Chart (2007)
Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[17] 14
Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)[18] 22
Denmark (Tracklisten)[19] 6
US Billboard Hot 100[20] 43
US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[21] 18
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[22] 75
Other versions[edit]
The song was later covered by Vibekingz featuring Maliq, Phonkillaz (2002), and Patrick Nuo, and in 2007 by Lumidee featuring Tony Sunshine, released on Lumidee's album Unexpected.
The Vibekingz version reached #2 on Germany's pop charts in 2006, and stayed in the top ten for two months. The version by Lumidee received widespread airplay in the United States, reaching the top 20. Tony Sunshine sings the original part by Swayze, while Lumidee raps with original verses related to the theme of the song.
A mashup song and video of "She's Like the Wind" with "Minimal" by Pet Shop Boys has been a featured video on YouTube.
Girls Aloud covered "She's Like the Wind" in the Dirty Dancing Medley on their The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits Tour; it was Kimberley Walsh's solo.
Ultrabeat covered the song on their 2008 album, Discolights: The Album.
Jan Wayne covered it on his album Back Again.
Performed as a tribute to Patrick Swayze on Season 9 Dancing with the Stars Result Show by Dmitry Chaplin and Chelsie Hightower.
John Sage covered the song as a single release in 2013.
Boston artist Michael Spaulding also covered the song for his new album released in 2013.
The song is briefly used in a scene of the 2009 movie (500) Days of Summer.
Swaytrick released their She's Like the Wind (Club Mixes) album in 2014. Besides the original Swaytrick versions the album features summery house remixes by The Moodshapers.
Urban Zouk Music Producer Jay Bee did a bootleg remix of the song in 2015.
Calum Scott performed a version used in the 2017 TV movie version of Dirty Dancing.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ McNelis, Tim. "Dancing in the Nostalgia Factory: Anachronistic Music in Dirty Dancing". In The Time of Our Lives: Dirty Dancing and Popular Culture. Eds. Yannis Tzioumakis & Siân Lincoln. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013. P. 250.
Jump up ^ Naish, Stephen Lee (28 April 2017). "Deconstructing Dirty Dancing". John Hunt Publishing – via Google Books.
Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 238.
Jump up ^ Patrick Swayze – She's Like The Wind 7" US vinyl single
Jump up ^ Patrick Swayze – She's Like The Wind CD single - France
Jump up ^ "She's Like the Wind" [1] (Retrieved October 5, 2016)
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "She's Like the Wind", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved January 12, 2009)
Jump up ^ German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved January 12, 2009)
Jump up ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved January 12, 2009)
Jump up ^ South African Singles Chart [2] (Retrieved 4 December 2013)
Jump up ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved January 12, 2009)
Jump up ^ Billboard allmusic.com (Retrieved January 12, 2009)
Jump up ^ Acahrts.us
Jump up ^ (Posted: March 26, 2007) Elena del Valle, Puerto Rican singer Lumidee launches second album in April 2007 hispanicmpr.com. Poyeen Publishing. Retrieved 10-31-2010.
Jump up ^ (Posted: March 24, 2007) Gail Mitchell, "R&B singer Lumidee rejects one-hit-wonder tag" reuters.com. Retrieved 1-31-2010.
Jump up ^ Lumidee, "She's Like The Wind" (Feat. Tony Sunshine) - Music videos BET.com. Retrieved 10-31-10.
Jump up ^ "Ultratop.be – Lumidee feat. Tony Sunshine – She's Like The Wind" (in Dutch). Ultratip.
Jump up ^ "Ultratop.be – Lumidee feat. Tony Sunshine – She's Like The Wind" (in French). Ultratip.
Jump up ^ "Danishcharts.com – Lumidee feat. Tony Sunshine – She's Like The Wind". Tracklisten.
Jump up ^ "Lumidee – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Lumidee.
Jump up ^ "Lumidee – Chart history" Billboard Pop Songs for Lumidee.
Jump up ^ "Lumidee – Chart history" Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for Lumidee.
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We Gotta Get out of This Place
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"We Gotta Get out of This Place"
Single by The Animals
B-side
"I Can't Believe It"
Released
July 1965 (UK)
August 1965 (U.S.)
Format
7" single
Recorded
15 June 1965
Genre
Rock
Length
3:17
Label
Columbia Graphophone (UK)
MGM (U.S.)
Songwriter(s)
Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil
Producer(s)
Mickie Most
The Animals singles chronology
"Bring It On Home to Me"
(1965) "We Gotta Get out of This Place"
(1965) "It's My Life"
(1965)
"Bring It On Home to Me"
(1965) "We Gotta Get out of This Place"
(1965) "It's My Life"
(1965)
"We Gotta Get out of This Place", occasionally written "We've Gotta Get out of This Place",[1] is a rock song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and recorded as a 1965 hit single by The Animals. It has become an iconic song of its type and was immensely popular with United States Armed Forces GIs during the Vietnam War.
In 2004 it was ranked number 233 on Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list; it is also in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.
Contents
1 History
1.1 The two versions
2 Impact
3 In popular culture
4 The Angels version
5 Track listing
6 Personnel
7 Other versions
8 Charts
9 References
10 External links
History[edit]
Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil were husband and wife (and future Hall of Fame) songwriters associated with the 1960s Brill Building scene in New York City.[2]
Mann and Weil wrote and recorded "We Gotta Get out of This Place" as a demo, with Mann singing and playing piano. It was intended for The Righteous Brothers, for whom they had written the number one hit "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"[3] but then Mann gained a recording contract for himself, and his label Red Bird Records wanted him to release it instead. Meanwhile, record executive Allen Klein had heard it and gave the demo to Mickie Most, The Animals' producer. Most already had a call out to Brill Building songwriters for material for the group's next recording session (The Animals hits "It's My Life" and "Don't Bring Me Down" came from the same call[4]), and The Animals recorded it before Mann could.[3]
In The Animals' rendition, the lyrics were slightly reordered and reworded from the demo and opened with a locational allusion – although different from that in the songwriters' minds – that was often taken as fitting the group's industrial, working class Newcastle-upon-Tyne origins:[5][6][7]
In this dirty old part of the city
Where the sun refused to shine
People tell me, there ain't no use in tryin'
Next came a verse about the singer's father in his deathbed after a lifetime of working his life away, followed by a call-and-response buildup, leading to the start of the chorus:
We gotta get out of this place!
If it's the last thing we ever do…
The arrangement featured a distinctive bass lead by group member Chas Chandler.[8] This was the first single not to be recorded by the original line-up, following as it did the departure of keyboard player Alan Price and his replacement by Dave Rowberry. It featured one of singer Eric Burdon's typically raw, fierce vocals.[9][10] Rolling Stone described the overall effect as a "harsh white-blues treatment from The Animals. As [Burdon] put it, 'Whatever suited our attitude, we just bent to our own shape.'"[11]
The song reached number 2 on the UK pop singles chart on August 14, 1965 (held out of the top slot by The Beatles' "Help!").[12] The following month, it reached number 13 on the U.S. pop singles chart, its highest placement there.[13] In Canada, the song also reached number 2, on September 20, 1965.[citation needed]
The two versions[edit]
The UK and US single releases were different versions from the same recording sessions. The take that EMI, The Animals' parent record company, sent to MGM Records, the group's American label, was mistakenly one that had not been selected for release elsewhere. The two versions are most easily differentiated by the lyric at the beginning of the second verse: in the US version the lyric is, "See my daddy in bed a-dyin'", while the UK version uses, "Watch my daddy in bed a-dyin'" (as a result of an error by the music labels, certain online retailers sell the UK version but incorrectly identify it as the US version).
In the US the song (in its "mistaken" take) was included on the album Animal Tracks, released in the fall 1965, and again on the popular compilation The Best of The Animals released in 1966 and re-released with an expanded track list on the ABKCO label in 1973. The song was not on any British Animals album during the group's lifetime.
Once Animals reissues began occurring during the compact disc era, Allen Klein, by now owner of ABKCO and the rights to this material, dictated that the "correct" British version be used on all reissues and compilations everywhere. Thus, as US radio stations converted from vinyl records to CDs, gradually only the British version became heard. Some collectors and fans in the US wrote letters of complaint to Goldmine magazine, saying they believed the US version featured an angrier and more powerful vocal from Burdon, and in any case wanted to hear the song in the form they had grown up with. The 2004 remastered SACD Retrospective compilation from ABKCO included the US version.
Impact[edit]
At the time, the title and simple emotional appeal of "We Gotta Get out of This Place" lent itself to some obvious self-identifications—for instance, it was a very popular number to be played at high school senior proms and graduation parties. In music writer Dave Marsh's view, it was one of a wave of songs in 1965, by artists such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan, that ushered in a new role for rock music as a vehicle for common perception and as a force for social consciousness.[14] Writer Craig Werner sees the song as reflecting the desire of people to take a hard look at their own lives and the community they come from.[10] Burdon later said, "The song became an anthem for different people – everybody at some time wants to get out of the situation they're in."[5]
The song was very popular with United States Armed Forces members stationed in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.[7] It was frequently requested of, and played by, American Forces Vietnam Network disc jockeys.[15] During 2006 two University of Wisconsin–Madison employees, one a Vietnam veteran, began an in-depth survey of hundreds of Vietnam veterans, and found that "We Gotta Get out of This Place" had resonated the strongest among all the music popular then: "We had absolute unanimity is this song being the touchstone. This was the Vietnam anthem. Every bad band that ever played in an armed forces club had to play this song."[16] Just such a band played the song in an episode ("USO Down", by Vietnam veteran Jim Beaver) of the American television series about the war, Tour of Duty, and the song is reprised in the episode's final scene.
"We Gotta Get out of This Place" was also used in Dennis Potter's 1965 television play Stand Up, Nigel Barton and the BBC's 1996 Newcastle-set Our Friends in the North, which partially took place in the 1960s. In America it was used as the title credits song in some episodes of the Vietnam War-set television series China Beach. It was then applied to the Bin Laden family, having to leave the United States in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, in Michael Moore's 2004 Fahrenheit 9/11. It also was featured in the soundtrack to the 1987 movie Hamburger Hill. It was used in a third-season episode of the 2000s television series Heroes. It was used as the theme song for 2002 BBC comedy TLC and the 2013 BBC series Privates. The song was also featured humorously in the Kong: Skull Island trailer[17]
In a 2012 keynote speech to an audience at the South by Southwest music festival, Bruce Springsteen performed an abbreviated version of The Animals' version on acoustic guitar and then said, "That's every song I've ever written. That's all of them. I'm not kidding, either. That’s 'Born to Run', 'Born in the U.S.A.'"[18]
In popular culture[edit]
The song's title and theme have become a common cultural phrase over the years.
It formed the basis for the title of academician Lawrence Grossberg's We Gotta Get out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (1992), detailing the conflict between American conservatism and rock culture. Similarly, it formed the title basis for Gerri Hirshey's 2002 account, We Gotta Get out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock.
It has also been used as the title of editorials by American Journalism Review[19] and other publications. The title was even used to name an art exhibit, curated by Stefan Kalmar at the Cubitt Gallery in London in 1997.
The Angels version[edit]
We Gotta Get Out of This Place is the twenty eighth single by Australian Hard rock band The Angels, released in 1986.[20][21] It is the third single to be released from The Angels eighth studio album Howling. The song peaked at number 7 on the ARIA Charts and number 13 on the Recorded Music NZ,[22][23]
"We Gotta Get Out Of This Place"
Single by The Angels
from the album Howling
Released
1986
Format
Vinyl, 7
Genre
Hard rock
Length
4:43
Label
Mushroom Records
Songwriter(s)
Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil
Producer(s)
Steve Brown
The Angels singles chronology
"Don't Waste My Time"
(1986) "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place"
(1986) "Can't Take Any More"
(1987)
"Don't Waste My Time"
(1986) "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
(1987) "Can't Take Any More"
(1987)
Track listing[edit]
We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) - 4:43
I Just Wanna Be With You (New Version) (Doc Neeson, John Brewster, Richard Brewster) - 3:54
Personnel[edit]
Bass, Vocals, Saxophone – Jim Hilbun
Drums – Brent Eccles
Lead Guitar – Rick Brewster
Lead Vocals – Doc Neeson
Rhythm Guitar – Bob Spencer
Production
Steve Brown (tracks: 1)
Ashley Howe (tracks: 2)
Other versions[edit]
"We Gotta Get out of This Place" has been recorded or performed in concert by numerous artists, including The Cryan' Shames (1966), The American Breed (1967), The Frost (1970), The Partridge Family (1972), Bruce Springsteen (performed only a handful of times in his career, but acknowledged by him as one of his primary influences in the 1970s[24]), Udo Lindenberg (in a German language adaption in the 1970s for which commercial success was small), Blue Öyster Cult (1978), Steve Bender (1978), Gilla (1979), Angelic Upstarts (1980), Gardens & Villa, Grand Funk Railroad (1981), David Johansen (1982, and a hit on album oriented rock radio and MTV as part of an Animals medley), Fear (1982), The Angels (1986), Richard Thompson (1988), Jello Biafra and D.O.A. (1989), Randy Stonehill (1990), Bon Jovi (1992, again as part of an Animals medley for an MTV special), Midnight Oil (1993, for MTV Unplugged), Space (1998), Southside Johnny (concerts in the 2000s), Overkill (2000), Widespread Panic (2005), Ann Wilson with Wynonna Judd (2007), Alice Cooper (2011), and many others.
In 1990 Eric Burdon joined Katrina and the Waves for a recording of it for use on China Beach. In 2000 Barry Mann revisited the song, performing it with Bryan Adams on Mann's retrospective solo album Soul & Inspiration. When Suzi Quatro was on a German tour in 2008 she came on stage and played bass on the song during an Eric Burdon concert at the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart. Burdon also performed it in 2010 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, when songwriters Mann and Weil were inducted.[25] Later in 2010, Mann and Weil were at The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles – to open a gallery for the Songwriter's Hall of Fame[26] – and performed their original version of the song, including previously-unheard lyrics like "What are we waiting for?" (which was supposed to occur before the familiar lyrics in the chorus).
Charts[edit]
Chart (1965)
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Canadian Singles Chart 2
German Singles Chart[27] 31
UK Singles Chart[12] 2
US Billboard Hot 100[13] 13
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Spelling on original Columbia Graphophone single release label used the "We've" form; the sleeve left out the "Of". However, song publisher BMI registers it as "We" (see BMI searchable database) as do the large majority of music references sources and album labels.
Jump up ^ "Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil". The Official Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil Web site. Archived from the original on 2007-03-21. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
^ Jump up to: a b Dale Kawashima. "Legendary Songwriting Duo Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil Talk About Their Classic Hits and New Projects". Songwriter Universe. Retrieved 2007-02-18. Demo audio stream at end of article.
Jump up ^ "Songwriter Carl D'Errico Interviewed by Mick Patrick". Spectropop. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
^ Jump up to: a b Terry Gross (2004-07-02) [2002]. "Former Animals Singer Eric Burdon". Fresh Air. NPR. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
Jump up ^ Gillett, Charlie (1996). The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll (2nd ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. p. 271. ISBN 0-306-80683-5.
^ Jump up to: a b Perone, James E. (2009). Mods, Rockers, and the Music of the British Invasion. ABC-CLIO. p. 129. ISBN 0275998606.
Jump up ^ Michael Heatley (2009). Jimi Hendrix Gear: The Guitars, Amps & Effects That Revolutionized Rock 'n' Roll. Voyageur Press. p. 60. ISBN 0760336393.
Jump up ^ Dan Aykroyd; Ben Manilla (2004). Elwood's Blues: Interviews With The Blues Legends & Stars. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 132. ISBN 0879308095.
^ Jump up to: a b Werner, Craig (1999). A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race, and the Soul of America. University of Michigan Press. pp. 87–88. ISBN 0-452-28065-6.
Jump up ^ "We Gotta Get out of This Place". Rolling Stone. 2004-12-09. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
^ Jump up to: a b "The Animals". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1994. Archived from the original on 2007-02-02. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
^ Jump up to: a b The Animals USA chart history, Billboard.com. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
Jump up ^ Marsh, Dave (1983). Before I Get Old: The Story of the Who. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 117–118. ISBN 0-312-07155-8.
Jump up ^ Will Higgins (2002-04-29). "'Nam deejays air their memories". The Indianapolis Star. Archived from the original on 2007-02-03. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
Jump up ^ Brian Mattmiller, "‘We Gotta Get out of This Place:’ Music, memory and the Vietnam War" Archived 2007-02-14 at the Wayback Machine., University of Wisconsin–Madison, February 16, 2006. Retrieved February 17, 2007.
Jump up ^ gradepoint (27 Feb 2017). "Kong: Skull Island - Rise of the King [Official Final Trailer]". Retrieved 2 Feb 2017 – via YouTube.
Jump up ^ Todd Martens (2012-03-15). "SXSW: Bruce Springsteen hits a lot of notes in keynote address". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
Jump up ^ Rem Rieder (March 1998). "We gotta get out of this place.(Editorial)". American Journalism Review. Archived from the original on 2007-12-23. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
Jump up ^ The Angels - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place at 45cat
Jump up ^ The Angels - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place at Discogs
Jump up ^ The Angels - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place at Australian Music Database
Jump up ^ The Angels - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place at Australian-Charts
Jump up ^ "Will Percy Interviews Bruce Springsteen". DoubleTake. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
Jump up ^ Greene, Andy (2010-03-16). "The Stooges, Genesis, Abba Join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at Historic 25th Induction Ceremony". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
Jump up ^ "Songwriters Hall of Fame Photo Archive". BMI. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
Jump up ^ "Chartverfolgung / The Animals / Single". Music Line (in German). Germany: Media Control Charts. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
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