"Good Times" is a song recorded by Eric Burdon & The Animals and released on the 1967 album Winds of Change

Winds of Change (Eric Burdon & The Animals album)

Winds of Change is an album released in 1967 by Eric Burdon & The Animals.The original band, The Animals, broke up in 1966 and this band was entirely new except for lead singer Eric Burdon and drummer Barry Jenkins, who joined the original lineup when John Steel left in February 1966...

, with music and lyrics by Eric Burdon

Eric Burdon

Eric Victor Burdon is an English singer-songwriter best known as a founding member and vocalist of rock band The Animals, and the funk rock band War and for his aggressive stage performance...

, John Weider

John Weider

John Weider is a rock musician who plays guitar, bass, and violin. He is best known as the bass player for the British band, Family from 1969 to 1971.-Biography:...

, Vic Briggs

Vic Briggs

Victor Harvey Briggs III is a former blues and rock musician, best known as the lead guitarist with Eric Burdon and The Animals during the 1966-1968 period...

, Danny McCulloch

Danny McCulloch

Daniel Joseph 'Danny' McCulloch is an English musician, best known for having been the bassist of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Eric Burdon & The Animals....

 and Barry Jenkins

Barry Jenkins

Colin Ernest "Barry" Jenkins is an English musician, who is best known for being a drummer for The Animals during both of that 1960s group's incarnations....

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The lyrics tell the story of someone who regrets having wasted too much time doing useless things. Musically, the song has a dark and depressed feeling with a light-hearted break just before the final verse, but the depressive and melancholic undertone regains power in the end.

The single reached number 20 on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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. It was the B-side to "San Franciscan Nights

San Franciscan Nights

"San Franciscan Nights" is a 1967 song performed by Eric Burdon and The Animals, with words and music by the group's members, Eric Burdon, Vic Briggs, John Weider, Barry Jenkins, and Danny McCulloch...

" in the U.S. The B-side "Ain't that So" was the soundtrack of the film Stranger in the House

Stranger in the House (1967 film)

Stranger In The House is a 1967 crime drama directed and written by Pierre Rouve , produced by Anatole de Grunwald, and starring James Mason, Geraldine Chaplin, and Bobby Darin. The movie is also known as Cop-Out and is a remake of the 1942 French film Strangers in the House...

(1967). Every band member, except Burdon, appeared at the premiere.

In 1987 it was released as a single again, while it was the soundtrack to the movie "Die Katze" starring Götz George

Götz George

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. The version reached #53 in Germany

Germany

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Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne

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 covered the song for his album Under Cover, 2005.

It was also featured on Burdon's live album "The Official Live Bootleg #2" (2000) by Eric Burdon's I band.