Eric Burdon and the Animals - Love Is (1968 British Psychedelia)

Love Is is a double album by Eric Burdon and The Animals which was released in 1968 in both the United Kingdom and United States. It was the last album released before The Animals' second dissolution in 1969.

This album captured the only studio work of Animal and future Police guitarist Andy Summers; he later wrote that this recording of Traffic's "Coloured Rain" contained "one of the longest guitar solos ever recorded until this point ... a 'soaring hymn to ecstacy' style solo that is so long that I find it impossible to play in a full trance state and still come out at the right place, so Zoot [Money] stands in the studio, counting the whole way, and at bar 189 he gives me the cue out." Supposedly this solo earned Summers a "slight legendary reputation.

"River Deep - Mountain High" is a 1966 single by Ike & Tina Turner. Considered by producer Phil Spector to be his best work, "River Deep - Mountain High" was commercially unsuccessful upon its original release in the US but was a huge hit in the UK peaking at #3. It was re-released in 1969, and has since become one of Tina Turner's signature songs.

A year after the single's initial release, Harry Nilsson (who had worked with Spector as a songwriter early in his career) released a cover version of the song on his first RCA Victor album, 1967's Pandemonium Shadow Show.

Deep Purple recorded a 10 minute cover version for their 1968 album The Book of Taliesyn, and released a single edit in the US reaching #53 in early 1969.

The Turners' "River Deep - Mountain High" was re-released in 1969 to a more receptive public, and since then has gained the recognition Spector wanted from the record. Several cover versions have been done since, including some by Tina Turner herself without Ike Turner, a cover by Erasure, and a live cover by CÈline Dion on the Late Show with David Letterman, which resulted in a studio version for her Falling into You album. The most successful cover was a 1970 duet between the post-Diana Ross Supremes and The Four Tops. Produced by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the single was one of several recordings that paired the two Motown groups. The Supremes/Four Tops cover, included on the 1970 LP The Magnificent 7, peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971, making it the highest-charting version of the song in the United States.

Australian punk band The Saints did a wilder version on their One Two Three Four EP, which is also included in the All Times Through Paradise box set. Another Australian band, The Easybeats did a cover.

The Flamin' Groovies also covered the song in the early 70's, which can be found on their compilation Grease."

The Bob Seger System also did an extended cover version off of their album Mongrel. Also Jimmy Barnes did a cover of this song on his early 90's album Soul Deep. His delivery is very powerful and soulful much like Tina's 1960's version.

The Animals have also a cover of this song, in the 1968 album Love Is and on their 1969 compilation The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and The Animals.

01. "River Deep, Mountain High" - 7:23
02. "I'm an Animal" - 5:34
03. "I'm Dying (Or Am I?)" - 4:28
04. "Ring of Fire" - 4:58
05. "Coloured Rain" - 9:38
06. "To Love Somebody" - 6:55
07. "As the Years Go Passing By" - 10:13
08. "Gemini the Madman" - 17:23
09. "River Deep, Mountain High"[Single Version]

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