When I Was Young
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"When I Was Young" is a song performed by The Animals in 1967. It was their first single, released on 8 April. It charted in Australia peaking #2 and stayed 4 weeks there. Later it was a hit charting #10 on the Canadian RPM chart, # 15 in the US and #7 in the Netherlands. The song was featured several times in German director Doris Dörrie's film Men... (German: Männer…), as well as in other motion pictures. The song has been covered by many punk rock and heavy metal bands.
Later it was used for a german TV commercial.
In the early 80s Burdon began to mention many stars who died at the end of the song.
"When I Was Young" was covered by many artists:
- Trek with Quintronic (1981)
- Riot (1982)
- Tina Turner (1984)
- Riblja Čorba (1992) - Serbian language version
- Ramones (1993)
- Poison 13 (1994)
- Golden Earring (1995)
- Ed Kuepper (2000)
- Inmates (2003)
- Eddie Fisher
- Several live albums by Eric Burdon
"When I Was Young" is also the starting verse of "The Logical Song" by Supertramp.
The B-Side "A Girl Named Sandoz" is named after the drug company that invented LSD. This song was covered by The Smashing Pumpkins, appearing on 1994's collection of B-Sides, Pisces Iscariot.
The B-Side "A Girl Named Sandoz" is named after the drug company that invented LSD. This song was covered by The Smashing Pumpkins, appearing on 1994's collection of B-Sides, Pisces Iscariot.
