![]() ![]() It reached #14 on the Canadian RPM Singles chart. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 5th, 1964, "Boom Boom" by the Animals entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart eventually it peaked at #43 and stayed on the Top 100 for 7 weeks.But the Hooker original-you gotta listen to it! Man the dude Burdon could wail piercing high notes! I got the 45 rpm single (MGM Records) cause I jusst had to have his version of the song too. Then in the British Invasion of rock, I heard the song again, but a slightly altered version by The Animals (with Eric Burdon's lead vocals). My fascination with the Blues began that year with Hooker and other blues artists. While other teens were listening to Twist songs on radio by Chubby Checker, I was groovin' to Hooker's BOOM BOOM and other songs. I recall when BOOM BOOM hit the radio airwaves on blues stations in 1962. When I was a teen, I used to listen to R&B and Blues radio stations from Louisiana and Arkansas at late night. Rocky from Tulsa, OkWhat a song!! I'm a fan of John Lee Hooker from way back.When Boom Boom was played, they brought down the house!! It is a blues song, but it is an "all out rocker!!" About ten or 12 years ago, Eric Burdon reunited with the Animals for a U.S. Mercy! This version still can "raise the dead" if ya know what I mean. Last year (2013), ABKCO Records released a "Best of The Animals" CD with digitally remastered songs, to include Boom Boom. And I am not sure, but think Boom Boom was on it too. Hooker did a double album with Canned Heat in the Seventies I really loved too. What a blues master! It's unfortunate that VeeJay Records in Chicago folded up and cheated so many of its artists (the Four Seasons included!) of royalties and other monies due them. Then later, I learned it was written & recorded by Hooker. Not many of us kids paid much attention to the Billboard charts back then. In this area back in '64 I recall it was on our local rock charts Top Ten. You can hear the song playing as artillery explodes! I first hear this song as the Animals' version from 1964 when I was in high school. Rotunda from Tulsa, OkWhen the James Bond movie "Skyfall" came out last year, The Animals' version of "Boom Boom" was in the soundtrack near the movie's end-when Bond is holed-up in that huge old house awaiting the final confrontation with villains.Torty from TucsonI thought the Animals stole the tune for this song from Spinal Tap's song Gimme Some Money, but not only do I find out that Hooker wrote this well before Spinal Tap, the Animals actually recorded it a year before Spinal Tap's song.Hooker passed away on June 21st, 2001 at the age of 83. Writer(s): HANNER JAKE, CHURTON JOHN, HANNER CASEY DIANELyrics powered by Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 20th 1962, "Boom Boom" by John Lee Hooker entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #100 eight weeks later on July 15th, 1962 it would peak at #60. It's not like the first time, but it won't be the last time. My heart goes, it still goes: boom boom boom baby. My heart it flutters and then It's not like the first time, but it won't be the last time. ![]() Then sixteen words said to me by someone new. ![]() Sixteen longer months without thoughts of you. And for the next five seconds it's hard to breathe. Now fifteen paces you stand across the room. Fifteen months since I've had a thought of you. My heart finally starts to beat Fourteen days since you've looked me in the eye And fourteen seconds without a word goes by, My heart a thu-uh-umping It's not like the first time, but it won't be the last time. Thirteen words you said to me, then I knew Those thirteen words would have me fallin for you. ![]()
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