Monterey (song)
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| “Monterey” | |||||
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| Single by Eric Burdon & The Animals | |||||
| B-side | "Ain't That So" (USA), "Anything" (UK) | ||||
| Released | November 1967 (USA) May 1968 (UK) |
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| Format | 7" single | ||||
| Recorded | 1967 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Label | MGM | ||||
| Writer(s) | Burdon, Briggs, Weider, Jenkins, McCulloch | ||||
| Producer | Tom Wilson | ||||
| Eric Burdon & The Animals singles chronology | |||||
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"Monterey" is a 1967 song by Eric Burdon & The Animals, with music and lyrics by the group's members, Eric Burdon, John Weider, Vic Briggs, Danny McCulloch, and Barry Jenkins.
Other than lead singer Burdon and recent drummer holdover Jenkins, the band that recorded and released "Monterey" was an entirely separate the mid-1960a band known as The Animals. Burdon transformed himself from a hard-driving bluesman to his own version of psychedelia. The new Burdon and band appeared at the famed 1967 Monterey Pop Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California at the peak of the Summer of Love; they followed Johnny Rivers onstage and were introduced by Chet Helms. In his book, Monterey Pop, Joel Selvin wrote that, at the festival, "Burdon did nothing short of reinvent himself in front of the audience."
The song "Monterey" was subsequently written in tribute to the group's experiences at the festival, and proved to be one of the new band's biggest hits. The lyric told the story of the event, how "the people came and listened," and others gave away flowers, "down in Monterey." The lyrics describe the musicians who played at the festival, including The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Ravi Shankar, The Grateful Dead, Hugh Masakela, and Jimi Hendrix, as "young gods" with music "born of love" and "religion was being born." The band described a scene at which "children danced night and day," and "even the cops grooved with us." "Prince Jones" referred to Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, who was the MC at the big event. Before the ending of the song, Burdon quoted a line from the Byrd's song "Renaissance Man" with the line "I think that Maybe I'm Dreamin'"
Released as a single in 1967, the song reached number 15 on the U.S. pop singles chart. It did not appear as a hit in the UK, where the image of the festival was not as strong. It was included in the new band's 1969 U.S.-only compilation, The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and The Animals.
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