<P> The song reached number 2 on the UK pop singles chart on August 14, 1965 (held out of the top slot by The Beatles' "Help!"). The following month, it reached number 13 on the U.S. pop singles chart, its highest placement there . In Canada, the song also reached number 2, on September 20, 1965 . </P> <P> The UK and US single releases were different versions from the same recording sessions . The take that EMI, The Animals' parent record company, sent to MGM Records, the group's American label, was mistakenly one that had not been selected for release elsewhere . The two versions are most easily differentiated by the lyric at the beginning of the second verse: in the US version the lyric is, "See my daddy in bed a-dyin"', while the UK version uses, "Watch my daddy in bed a-dyin"' (as a result of an error by the music labels, certain online retailers sell the UK version but incorrectly identify it as the US version). </P> <P> In the US the song (in its "mistaken" take) was included on the album Animal Tracks, released in the fall 1965, and again on the popular compilation The Best of The Animals released in 1966 and re-released with an expanded track list on the ABKCO label in 1973 . The song was not on any British Animals album during the group's lifetime . </P> <P> Once Animals reissues began occurring during the compact disc era, Allen Klein, by now owner of ABKCO and the rights to this material, dictated that the "correct" British version be used on all reissues and compilations everywhere . Thus, as US radio stations converted from vinyl records to CDs, gradually only the British version became heard . Some collectors and fans in the US wrote letters of complaint to Goldmine magazine, saying they believed the US version featured an angrier and more powerful vocal from Burdon, and in any case wanted to hear the song in the form they had grown up with . The 2004 remastered SACD Retrospective compilation from ABKCO included the US version . </P>

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