Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

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Written by: Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus, Gloria Caldwell
Produced by: Mickie Most
Released: Jan. '65 on MGM
Charts: 10 weeks
Top spot: No. 15

The Animals' reworking of this song radically departed from Nina Simone's orchestrated downtempo version. "It was never considered pop material, but it somehow got passed on to us and we fell in love with it immediately," recalled Eric Burdon.

Appears on: Retrospective (ABKCO)

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