Talk:Don't Bring Me Down (The Animals song)

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BetacommandBot 12:06, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Good start

But the article does not integrally treat the subject.

1.  Time and time again I come to Wikipedia to answer the most basic, most obvious question on a topic, and time and again, it's the one question it fails to answer. I consulted this article to find out whether The Animals' version of this song is the first ever recorded. Unbelievably, it fails to state that, yea or nay. At the risk of being obvious, add to the top of this article: This is / is not the first recorded version of this song.

2.  It says the song is the result of a call for songs by Mickie Most. What is a call for songs? A telephone call? To where? The Brill Bldg.? And, say, Goffin and King responded personally? Or to the music world in general, and a cigar-chomping, ex-Vaudeville agent in the Brill Bldg. heard about it and, say, put Goffin and King on the case?

The sentence also stops short with the words for songs. It's not a complete fact. Songs for whom? For The Animals? In fact, the way I first read it was: Most sent out a "call" to The Animals, for them to come up with some songs, and they obliged by, say, contacting Goffin and King. But that may not be what you mean.

3.  My 2nd question is unanswered as well: So what was Goffin and King's role in this song? Did they write it expressly for The Animals? Or was it already in their songbook? If the latter, how did it get to Most? Did they hear about his "call" and send it to him? Etc.

Jimlue (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:25, 26 April 2020 (UTC)