Daniel Joseph "Danny" McCulloch (18 July 1945 – 29 January 2015) was an English musician best known as the bassist of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Eric Burdon and The Animals.

Despite a common surname, he was not a relation of either Henry McCullough (who did work under original Animal Chas Chandler's management) or Jimmy McCulloch, both members of the 1970s band Wings.

McCulloch and drummer Derek Sirmon next joined Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages[1] and stayed until May 1963.

[1] The reconstituted group released three albums and a series of hit singles, including "San Franciscan Nights", "Monterey" and "Sky Pilot".

In 1971, McCulloch was the bassist on the solo album of Reg King, former lead singer of The Action.

[citation needed] In 1992, McCulloch joined as the bass player and a vocalist of a reconstituted Animals, including Vic Briggs and drummer Barry Jenkins.

[8][9] The material received mixed reviews, including some involving confusion and inaccurate assumptions that Eric Burdon was singing on the album.

With musician and music promoter Gerry Chapman, McCulloch had formed McCulloch Chapman Music, which marketed to K-Tel International what were represented to be new recordings by original artists, such as Mott The Hoople, "The New Animals", Paper Lace and The Byrds.

In 1998, further to a complaint by Ian Hunter's management, K-Tel admitted guilt to two charges under the Trade Descriptions Act of Great Britain and was accordingly fined.

The false Mott The Hoople recordings had been licensed to other companies by McCulloch Chapman Music, resulting in multiple releases of the misrepresented content, including All The Young Dudes (Denmark Digimode, 1996; Ireland, Eagle Rock Pegasus, 1997),[14] Dudes (UK Going for a Song, 1997)) and The Magic Collection (Holland ARC MEC, 1997)[16][15] Some of the false Mott The Hoople releases included historic cover pictures of the band or band members.