The Animals – We Gotta Get Out of This Place 😎 ‘We Gotta Get Out of This Place’ is a rock song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and recorded as a 1965 hit single by the Animals. The song reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart on August 14, 1965. The following month, it reached number 13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, its highest placement there. Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil were husband and wife (and future Hall of Fame) songwriters associated with the 1960s Brill Building scene in New Y