Saturday video break: Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

British Invasion time with Eric Burden and The Animals:

I’m guessing a lot of people are familiar with the Elvis Costello version. Here’s a somewhat stripped down live recording of it:

The version with which I am most familiar is the one I heard first, by Santa Esmerelda:

The 70s, man. It’s like a whole nother country. I’ve embedded a version of that before, as well as the epic ten-and-a-half-minute version. How could I resist doing it again?

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