We Gotta Get Out of This Place

"We've Gotta Get Out of This Place"
"We've Gotta Get Out of This Place"
Single by the Animals
B-side	"I Can't Believe It"
Released	16 July 1965
Recorded	15 June 1965
Genre	Blues rock
Length	3:17
Label	Columbia Graphophone (UK), MGM (US)
Songwriter(s)	Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil
Producer(s)	Mickie Most
The Animals singles chronology

"We Gotta Get Out of This Place", occasionally written "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place",^[1] is a rock song written by American songwriters Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and recorded as a 1965 hit single by English band the Animals. It has become an iconic song of its type and was immensely popular with United States Armed Forces G.I.s during the Vietnam War.^[2]

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.

In 2011, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.^[3]

^ Spelling on original Columbia Graphophone by 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^{[permanent dead link]}) as do the large majority of music references sources and album labels.
^ "Behind the Song Lyrics: 'We Gotta Get Out of This Place,' The Animals". American Songwriter. 9 March 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
^ https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award#w

[1] Spelling on original Columbia Graphophone by 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^{[permanent dead link]}) as do the large majority of music references sources and album labels.

[2] "Behind the Song Lyrics: 'We Gotta Get Out of This Place,' The Animals". American Songwriter. 9 March 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.

[3] ttps://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award#w

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