Yes, the music was. However this film was mimed. So your comment might be misleading to a naive person. The guitars aren't plugged in, nor the keyboard, and even John Steel would struggle to be so quiet as to get that excellent balance. HTH. Best Wishes. ☮
@@gbulmeranyone who sees this should know it’s mimed…..promotional videos were not uncommon…..but it is true that the original recording that you’re hearing was laid down in one take and pressed
@@jamesmcnaughton6884 I assume you are posting to support my comment. So thank you for replying. I agree _"anyone who sees this _*__should_* know it’s mimed"._ However, I've seen reactions to it. A few reactors don't seem to realise it's mimed. Some commenters don't, and at least one seemed to think the film was the recording session for the audio!! Merry Christmas. 🎅 ☮
One of my all time favorites. I was born in 1965. My mother played piano and guitar and this was one of her favorites to play and sing. So many memories of her singing this while i was a kid in the 70s. 💙💙
No touch up -one take 1964 May-they played it live in the studio-flip side was'I'm Crying" a rocker written by Eric Burdon vocals & Alan Price-organ player
Chas Chandler, the bassist, went on to become Jimi Hendrix's manager, having discovered the relatively unknown guitarist in playing in a small NY club. He persuaded him to come to Britain where Jimi's career took off. Chas also recruited the other members of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience and later also managed Slade.
I've heard it 1000s of times and still enjoy it every time. I'm turning 70 but still love this music! I also really love Haley Reinhart's version that she did live on American Idol. I'll guess that Idol has strict copyrights but you might want to give it a private listen. If you like Haley, give a listen to her doing Creep with Post Modern Jukebox. An amazing performance.
That feeling you've got is because this is a song about misery. It's a blues song, baby! And that guitar (bass and lead), organ and vocal combo in particular, but not forgetting the drums, which holds it all together, just comes together so well to create a long-lasting classic.
American music critic Dave Marsh described the Animals' take on "The House of the Rising Sun" as "the first folk-rock hit", sounding "as if they'd connected the ancient tune to a live wire". Writer Ralph McLean of the BBC agreed that it was "arguably the first folk rock tune" and "a revolutionary single", after which "the face of modern music was changed forever."
I play this regularly on my acoustic guitar, straight forward 5 chord song , the hard part is replicating hilton valentines raking technique with a guitar pick which is much harder than you might think.
I just heard this twice live a few months ago. The Animals were on their farewell tour in Australia and I saw them in Sydney in February and then happened to be in Canberra couple of weeks later when they were there. So, went to listen to them again. Fabulous concerts! John Steel in the drums is the only original band member, but at the age of 83 he can still handle those sticks :)
Here’s another off the wall suggestion for you, Van Morrison. So many great songs to choose from but I’d recommend “Into the Mystic” or “Tupelo Honey” as a good starting point.
Alan Price the keyboard player got most of the royalties on this because he arranged it and his name was on the label. There was no royalties for composition because it is a traditional song with no known composer.incidentally none of the instruments were plugged in.😊
They all had a hand in arranging it-Hilton's guitar starts it off-Alan hated the song -he would not even play it at times-before they recorded it-- -but once it became a hit he took all the credit -he claims management forced him into the decision
the good old days of the organ playing a big role in rock. I guess the synthesizer kinda was the end of that. imagine how this one would have sounded if it was actually plugged in during the video
Been to New Orleans a couple of times (love the vibe and the jazz). There are numerous bars on Bourbon Street which have live music performers BUT they refuse to play this song
I think I do know what you mean. And I've heard this so many times over the course of my lifetime, but it's still always makes me a bit emotional. Everything about it.
An old song about a whore house in New Orleans from about a century ago. An old black song that speaks to the ruin of lives found there in the women, drugs, booze and gambling. In many cases those who visited such establishment soon found themselves in debt and if one did not pay up the encouragement to do so could be severe. The person singing this song obviously has fallen prey to those elements that inhabit those places and has used a gun to try to resolve his situation. Obviously it did not work out as he hoped and now is on his way back to New Orleans to stand trial and then work in the chain gangs as he serves his sentence. Those serving sentences on these work gangs had very miserable lives and many never made it to the end of their time.
Interesting interpretation, though I've always seen it differently. He's a junkie, and has accepted the fact that his life is ruined. He's going back to New Orleans to wear the "ball and chain" of addiction. I've listened to this song hundreds of times and just don't see anything in the song that points to him killing someone other than his own slow self-destruction.
One of the first songs learned by every garage band ever. One of the best versions out there. In that day, many songs were recorded in mono so all the instruments and the singer are recorded at the same "level" of intensity. In your words, they all occupy the same space
Vintage to say the least, the Animals are a seminal Rock Band and were amongst the British Invasion in 1964. The lead singer is the great Eric Burdon, a legend back in the day. Do Sky Pilot for more Animals magic. Enjoy! 🔥🎵🎹🎤🎸🎶🔥
"House of the Rising Sun" was said to have been known by American miners in 1905. The oldest published version of the lyrics is that printed by Robert Winslow Gordon in 1925 The oldest known recording of the song, under the title "Rising Sun Blues", is by Appalachian artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded it on September 6, 1933, The song has a long lineage with songs very similar in both the UK and France in the 1800's and may have crossed to America with the e early settlers.
A classic folk song turned into a rock anthem by the Animals, one of the best bands of the sixties! I like all of your reactions to the 60's songs, an era in which the songs were heartfelt by the young and not full of angst, anger, and bad language!
I loved your personal insights and reflections on the song's essence, Rere. Yes, it addresses the dual addictions of gambling and alcoholism -- treacherous habits invariably leading down a soulless path. But as a teenage listener back when this dropped, I was simply focusing on Eric's powerhouse vocals. How interesting to see in another comment here that he is still performing at age 83. Wicked cool! 😊
The Animals are a British band, and great songs you can try and find to listen too include: For Miss Caulker, I Believe To My Soul, RoadRunner, Worried Life Blues, How You've Changed, Hallelujah I Love Her So, Gonna Send You Back To Walker and many others.
I appreciate you listening to this for sure!!! I love All tastes of music for sure, I like slipknot and prodigy and Metallica, but I appreciate all music because my mum always played music throughout my life like beatles and Elvis just to name a few
Very much enjoying your journey. I appreciate that you are so open to the music I hold so close. It's all so connected to the past. Jazz, blues and even classical all combines to make the music we all love today. You might try Miles Davis. One of the great artist of our time. "It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play." Blue and Green is my personal favorite. If you want to try something amazing but different.
Recorded in one take, at night, in a strange (to them) studio, it went to number one in the U.S., Britain, France, Spain, and Finland, knocking the Beatles out of number one - and oh yes, founding the Folk Rock genre.
There wasn't room for "space" during that time period, and almost every song at that time had the same type of song construction. Songs had to be short in order to be played on the radio, which was the main way people got to hear them. It wasn't until the late 1960's and especially the early 1970's where artists could be more creative, experiment with long introductions, have long guitar solos, sudden tempo and rhythm. Rock music was still in an early stage in 1964, and this song was a new sound.
The actual source material for the song was the diary of a prostitute who worked in "The House of the Rising Sun". If you read the lyrics from the female perspective it really makes the song make sense. Going to a whore house would not ruin a young male, the sex worker on the other hand,,,,. "her mother was a tailor" they were desperately poor. "Her father was a gambler,," he abandoned his family and she felt the only way to make it out of that life was in "the house of the rising sun". At the end she "has one foot on the platform, the other foot on the train" meaning she was at kind of a crossroads and decided to go back to her nightmare of a job, all while pleading with her mother to tell her sisters not to do what she has done.
That sure is an interesting interpretation. There's just one problem with that ... the source you are referring to is about 60 or so years too late, as it has been suggested that the oldest version of it was sung in the 1860's by folks around the time of the civil war, and that there have been MANY variations of it, and both genders (men and women) as narrators. This has a lot to do with it being what's called, a "traditional song" ... passed down from generation to generation. It's the story, or to be more specific, the MORAL of the story that's the point and what's important, not specifics about any one person ... and that's as it should be. However, I DO appreciate the effort to inform, and your version is as good as anyone else's ... but it should be made clear that it is just "a possible origin ... that it's unknown".
In itself the song is lost in time when its true origins are. The clearest thing is that there was a brothel called Rising Sun back in the 1800s, and that there are many versions of it, the most appropriate one is that it seems to be from a woman's perspective.
The Animals were part of the British Invasion of America in the 60s.They were more blues than the other British groups of that era.Great reaction channel by the way. Keep up the good work 👍
This is 10th grade for me and I got to see them in Jan '71 when I started college. The Early Rock-a-Billy & Rock & Roll is very different from the stuff put out now days. It was before Auto-Tune, so the artists had to be good.
If you have an interest in history and metal - try Sabaton. 10+ albums of History taught with Metal. They also have Sabaton History Channel to amplify on the subjects of their songs.
FUN FACT: No one knows who wrote “House of the Rising Sun”. Because Eric Burdon and the Animals had such a massive hit with their recording of this song back in 1964, most people assume Eric Burdon wrote it. Fact is, no one knows who wrote it. Musicologists have tried to track down its origins but it's so old that its origins are lost in the murky mists of time. It may even go back all the way to 17th century England in a form that became known as "Broadside Ballads." If it did originate in England then it probably came to America via some ocean-going traveler who may have sung it here in the U.S. and then others picked it up and it slowly got passed around. Also, if it did originate in England, then someone had to have changed the location of the brothel from its location in England to New Orleans, probably to make the song more relevant to American audiences. That is all speculation, obviously, since no one knows for sure what the original lyrics were in that particular verse. Another interesting thing about the song is that in some versions it's about a man lamenting his experience in the brothel while in other versions it's a woman telling of her trials and tribulations at the brothel. I first heard it by folk singer, Joan Baez, a year or two before the Animals' released their version. In the Animals version the narrator is a man. In the Baez version the narrator is a woman. There is also a version of the song by the legendary folk singer, Huddie (Leadbelly) Leadbetter, that is so different (both melodically and lyrically) that it's barely recognizable as the same song. Another early rendition of the song was by Bob Dylan about 3 years before the Animals released their hit version. The oft-told story about Dylan "stealing" the song from folk/blues singer, Dave Van Ronk, is sort of true but also sort of not true. The "sort of true" part is that Dylan did first hear the song being performed by Van Ronk who wanted to record it. But Dylan included it on his own debut album (released in 1962) before Van Ronk got a chance to record it. The "sort of not true" part is that no one "owns" that song so you can't "steal" something that is not owned by anyone. And, as far as I'm aware, no one really knows where Van Ronk heard the song in the first place. Back in the '60s, a plethora of folk singers were all hanging around in coffee houses in New York's East Village where traditional folk songs were passed around and performed by anyone who wanted to sing them. People didn't have cell phones back then so there was no way to record a song on the spot. So, if some traveling folk-singer happened to hear a song somewhere and then moved on to another town and sang the song for another audience, the singer might not remember exactly how the lyrics went and would just make up new lyrics to fill in for the lyrics that he/she couldn't remember. This happened for decades (even hundreds of years in some cases) and that's why there are so many versions of old folk songs. Musicologists sometimes refer to this borrowing, changing, and adapting of a song as "the folk process".
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It was done in one take no frickin auto tune just pure talent.
Yes, the music was. However this film was mimed. So your comment might be misleading to a naive person. The guitars aren't plugged in, nor the keyboard, and even John Steel would struggle to be so quiet as to get that excellent balance. HTH.
Best Wishes. ☮
@@gbulmera VERY naive person 😅
@@gbulmeranyone who sees this should know it’s mimed…..promotional videos were not uncommon…..but it is true that the original recording that you’re hearing was laid down in one take and pressed
@@jamesmcnaughton6884 I assume you are posting to support my comment. So thank you for replying. I agree _"anyone who sees this _*__should_* know it’s mimed"._ However, I've seen reactions to it. A few reactors don't seem to realise it's mimed. Some commenters don't, and at least one seemed to think the film was the recording session for the audio!!
Merry Christmas. 🎅 ☮
One of my all time favorites. I was born in 1965. My mother played piano and guitar and this was one of her favorites to play and sing. So many memories of her singing this while i was a kid in the 70s. 💙💙
Eric Burdon was one hell of a singer. This is a monumental classic.
No touch up -one take 1964 May-they played it live in the studio-flip side was'I'm Crying" a rocker written by Eric Burdon vocals & Alan Price-organ player
A 20 year old Eric Burdon singing with the timbre of a 40yr old's wisdom & life experiences, amazing voice, still singing on tours @ 83 !! 🎶
He was 23 at the time
Chas Chandler, the bassist, went on to become Jimi Hendrix's manager, having discovered the relatively unknown guitarist in playing in a small NY club. He persuaded him to come to Britain where Jimi's career took off. Chas also recruited the other members of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience and later also managed Slade.
A great band great song, I love don't let me be misunderstood by the animals
I've heard it 1000s of times and still enjoy it every time. I'm turning 70 but still love this music! I also really love Haley Reinhart's version that she did live on American Idol. I'll guess that Idol has strict copyrights but you might want to give it a private listen. If you like Haley, give a listen to her doing Creep with Post Modern Jukebox. An amazing performance.
Another hit by these artists "We Gotta Get Out of this Place" is one you would really enjoy.
That feeling you've got is because this is a song about misery. It's a blues song, baby! And that guitar (bass and lead), organ and vocal combo in particular, but not forgetting the drums, which holds it all together, just comes together so well to create a long-lasting classic.
American music critic Dave Marsh described the Animals' take on "The House of the Rising Sun" as "the first folk-rock hit", sounding "as if they'd connected the ancient tune to a live wire". Writer Ralph McLean of the BBC agreed that it was "arguably the first folk rock tune" and "a revolutionary single", after which "the face of modern music was changed forever."
Perfect song . Great talent
I play this regularly on my acoustic guitar, straight forward 5 chord song , the hard part is replicating hilton valentines raking technique with a guitar pick which is much harder than you might think.
Banger! The lead singer, Eric Burdon, is also in a band u recently reacted to. War
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" is another great one by The Animals you might want to check out next!
I just heard this twice live a few months ago. The Animals were on their farewell tour in Australia and I saw them in Sydney in February and then happened to be in Canberra couple of weeks later when they were there. So, went to listen to them again. Fabulous concerts! John Steel in the drums is the only original band member, but at the age of 83 he can still handle those sticks :)
The Animals “When I Was Young” is haunting as well.
Here’s another off the wall suggestion for you, Van Morrison. So many great songs to choose from but I’d recommend “Into the Mystic” or “Tupelo Honey” as a good starting point.
One of the greatest rock songs ever written. Eric Burden is amazing.
Sorry, but it's a folk song written over 150 years ago, OK?
@@davisworth5114 and I wasn't referring to the original, OK?
Amazing song sung by Eric Burden. I love your thoughtful, in depth reaction to the song. Peace.
Alan Price the keyboard player got most of the royalties on this because he arranged it and his name was on the label. There was no royalties for composition because it is a traditional song with no known composer.incidentally none of the instruments were plugged in.😊
They all had a hand in arranging it-Hilton's guitar starts it off-Alan hated the song -he would not even play it at times-before they recorded it-- -but once it became a hit he took all the credit -he claims management forced him into the decision
the good old days of the organ playing a big role in rock.
I guess the synthesizer kinda was the end of that.
imagine how this one would have sounded if it was actually plugged in during the video
Been to New Orleans a couple of times (love the vibe and the jazz). There are numerous bars on Bourbon Street which have live music performers BUT they refuse to play this song
Much love and respect for you opening your ears and heart.😊
I think I do know what you mean. And I've heard this so many times over the course of my lifetime, but it's still always makes me a bit emotional. Everything about it.
Recorded 60 years ago and still sounds amazing
Down in Monterey is another great song.
i can remember my older sisters listening to this marvellous memories 👍👍
These English lads took the US by storm with their version of this song. For such a young guy, Eric Burden's voice is sensational
An old song about a whore house in New Orleans from about a century ago. An old black song that speaks to the ruin of lives found there in the women, drugs, booze and gambling. In many cases those who visited such establishment soon found themselves in debt and if one did not pay up the encouragement to do so could be severe. The person singing this song obviously has fallen prey to those elements that inhabit those places and has used a gun to try to resolve his situation. Obviously it did not work out as he hoped and now is on his way back to New Orleans to stand trial and then work in the chain gangs as he serves his sentence. Those serving sentences on these work gangs had very miserable lives and many never made it to the end of their time.
Well said.
Interesting interpretation, though I've always seen it differently. He's a junkie, and has accepted the fact that his life is ruined. He's going back to New Orleans to wear the "ball and chain" of addiction. I've listened to this song hundreds of times and just don't see anything in the song that points to him killing someone other than his own slow self-destruction.
The song was originally told from the point of view of a woman who ruined her life by working in a brothel.
The British Invasion. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" was another one I really liked. Eric Burdon seemed to be a craggy old man even as a teenager!
🇨🇦 Another recommendation is "I'm not in Love" by 10CC or maybe "True" by Spandau Ballet ! 🇨🇦
One of the first songs learned by every garage band ever. One of the best versions out there. In that day, many songs were recorded in mono so all the instruments and the singer are recorded at the same "level" of intensity. In your words, they all occupy the same space
Vintage to say the least, the Animals are a seminal Rock Band and were amongst the British Invasion in 1964. The lead singer is the great Eric Burdon, a legend back in the day. Do Sky Pilot for more Animals magic. Enjoy! 🔥🎵🎹🎤🎸🎶🔥
If you are liking the 60’s and 70’s give “stairway to heaven” by Led Zeppelin and “don’t stop believing” by Journey live in Houston
Fantastic song from back in my youth days.
👍👍An awesomely awesome performance. Love it. 🖖❤
"House of the Rising Sun" was said to have been known by American miners in 1905. The oldest published version of the lyrics is that printed by Robert Winslow Gordon in 1925 The oldest known recording of the song, under the title "Rising Sun Blues", is by Appalachian artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded it on September 6, 1933, The song has a long lineage with songs very similar in both the UK and France in the 1800's and may have crossed to America with the e early settlers.
you need to listen to the Electric Light Orchestra, Tight Rope or One Summer Dream if you like orchestra and rock.
I am 62 and i still love this song.
all time classic!
A classic folk song turned into a rock anthem by the Animals, one of the best bands of the sixties! I like all of your reactions to the 60's songs, an era in which the songs were heartfelt by the young and not full of angst, anger, and bad language!
Many versions out there. This is probably the biggest hit.
Great song excellent reaction later beautiful.❤️😎🇺🇸
60 yrs ago. Like yesterday...😎
I loved your personal insights and reflections on the song's essence, Rere. Yes, it addresses the dual addictions of gambling and alcoholism -- treacherous habits invariably leading down a soulless path. But as a teenage listener back when this dropped, I was simply focusing on Eric's powerhouse vocals. How interesting to see in another comment here that he is still performing at age 83. Wicked cool! 😊
Hay just for fun did anyone notice the Magic Guitars, no connection to sound system and the Lip sink was not quite right either!
The Animals are a British band, and great songs you can try and find to listen too include: For Miss Caulker, I Believe To My Soul, RoadRunner, Worried Life Blues, How You've Changed, Hallelujah I Love Her So, Gonna Send You Back To Walker and many others.
Try the song "Riders On The Storm" by The Doors.
Very haunting
His voice is magical
I appreciate you listening to this for sure!!! I love All tastes of music for sure, I like slipknot and prodigy and Metallica, but I appreciate all music because my mum always played music throughout my life like beatles and Elvis just to name a few
Very much enjoying your journey. I appreciate that you are so open to the music I hold so close. It's all so connected to the past. Jazz, blues and even classical all combines to make the music we all love today. You might try Miles Davis. One of the great artist of our time. "It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play." Blue and Green is my personal favorite. If you want to try something amazing but different.
Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit. Psychedelic rock. 72M views
Check out that hi tech equipment ... lol And I can't believe I had that haircut back the ... Ha!!!
The Bass player Chas Chandler was Jimi Hendrixes manager and Discovered him.
Glad you are getting into some qty music RND. You can't really go wrong with The Animals.
Before computer aided music. Just pure sounds.😊
The whole song driven by the great Alan Price on keyboard. Brilliant!
Recorded in one take, at night, in a strange (to them) studio, it went to number one in the U.S., Britain, France, Spain, and Finland, knocking the Beatles out of number one - and oh yes, founding the Folk Rock genre.
its an old us song frm v 1800s, revisioned by v animals, stela vocal frm eric n v guiatrs n organ so gd. modern classic, so mnay frm v 60s n 70s
It's good to see you and your brother get off the ground. I remember you guys getting 30 views. Stuck with it. 👍💙
The song itself is traditional, going way back to 1930 in the US but probably has its roots in traditional English folk song.
There wasn't room for "space" during that time period, and almost every song at that time had the same type of song construction. Songs had to be short in order to be played on the radio, which was the main way people got to hear them. It wasn't until the late 1960's and especially the early 1970's where artists could be more creative, experiment with long introductions, have long guitar solos, sudden tempo and rhythm. Rock music was still in an early stage in 1964, and this song was a new sound.
The actual source material for the song was the diary of a prostitute who worked in "The House of the Rising Sun". If you read the lyrics from the female perspective it really makes the song make sense. Going to a whore house would not ruin a young male, the sex worker on the other hand,,,,. "her mother was a tailor" they were desperately poor. "Her father was a gambler,," he abandoned his family and she felt the only way to make it out of that life was in "the house of the rising sun". At the end she "has one foot on the platform, the other foot on the train" meaning she was at kind of a crossroads and decided to go back to her nightmare of a job, all while pleading with her mother to tell her sisters not to do what she has done.
Thanks for that, every day a school day.
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How about the line "... and God I know I'm one" in that case? 🤔
That sure is an interesting interpretation. There's just one problem with that ... the source you are referring to is about 60 or so years too late, as it has been suggested that the oldest version of it was sung in the 1860's by folks around the time of the civil war, and that there have been MANY variations of it, and both genders (men and women) as narrators.
This has a lot to do with it being what's called, a "traditional song" ... passed down from generation to generation. It's the story, or to be more specific, the MORAL of the story that's the point and what's important, not specifics about any one person ... and that's as it should be. However, I DO appreciate the effort to inform, and your version is as good as anyone else's ... but it should be made clear that it is just "a possible origin ... that it's unknown".
Interesting. Hadn't heard this before.
@@StevesFunhouse this is my understanding as well
In itself the song is lost in time when its true origins are. The clearest thing is that there was a brothel called Rising Sun back in the 1800s, and that there are many versions of it, the most appropriate one is that it seems to be from a woman's perspective.
Eric Burdon & War - Spill the Wine
Burton was 23 when they did this song.
The Animals were part of the British Invasion of America in the 60s.They were more blues than the other British groups of that era.Great reaction channel by the way. Keep up the good work 👍
one of the unique voices of rock. and the clip, even by today's standards, is very well filmed!
This is 10th grade for me and I got to see them in Jan '71 when I started college. The Early Rock-a-Billy & Rock & Roll is very different from the stuff put out now days. It was before Auto-Tune, so the artists had to be good.
You should react to Meatloaf "Paradise By The Dashboard Lights". It is a very theatrical performance. Meatloaf died from Covid back in 2020.
To me it's about someone coming to terms with their vices.
This is a true classic and can teach your children not to take their frustrations out on the bottle
Checkout the Animals ( It’s All Over Now Baby Blue) and amazing music video and song ! Thanks 🙏
Love your reactions!
I think songs were expected to be relatively short in those days. Hence, perhaps, the lack of ‘space’ that you noted.
From the 60s try Steppenwolf's The Pusher or Born to be Wild 🙂
Disturbed- The sound of Silence. Official video
You probably didn't expect that voice coming from such a baby faced young man.
Minimal equipment, no autotune.... just some talent!!!
Led Zeppelin- whole lotta love
Vocals are hauntingly beautiful! Try reacting to ODE TO BILLY JOE BY BOBBY GENTRY! IT'S ANOTHER HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL VOCAL PERFORMANCE
Best song about a brothel in Louisiana, IMO... 😂
The comments have some great song/music suggestions!
If you have an interest in history and metal - try Sabaton. 10+ albums of History taught with Metal. They also have Sabaton History Channel to amplify on the subjects of their songs.
FUN FACT:
No one knows who wrote “House of the Rising Sun”.
Because Eric Burdon and the Animals had such a massive hit with their recording of this song back in 1964, most people assume Eric Burdon wrote it. Fact is, no one knows who wrote it.
Musicologists have tried to track down its origins but it's so old that its origins are lost in the murky mists of time. It may even go back all the way to 17th century England in a form that became known as "Broadside Ballads." If it did originate in England then it probably came to America via some ocean-going traveler who may have sung it here in the U.S. and then others picked it up and it slowly got passed around. Also, if it did originate in England, then someone had to have changed the location of the brothel from its location in England to New Orleans, probably to make the song more relevant to American audiences. That is all speculation, obviously, since no one knows for sure what the original lyrics were in that particular verse.
Another interesting thing about the song is that in some versions it's about a man lamenting his experience in the brothel while in other versions it's a woman telling of her trials and tribulations at the brothel. I first heard it by folk singer, Joan Baez, a year or two before the Animals' released their version. In the Animals version the narrator is a man. In the Baez version the narrator is a woman.
There is also a version of the song by the legendary folk singer, Huddie (Leadbelly) Leadbetter, that is so different (both melodically and lyrically) that it's barely recognizable as the same song.
Another early rendition of the song was by Bob Dylan about 3 years before the Animals released their hit version. The oft-told story about Dylan "stealing" the song from folk/blues singer, Dave Van Ronk, is sort of true but also sort of not true. The "sort of true" part is that Dylan did first hear the song being performed by Van Ronk who wanted to record it. But Dylan included it on his own debut album (released in 1962) before Van Ronk got a chance to record it. The "sort of not true" part is that no one "owns" that song so you can't "steal" something that is not owned by anyone. And, as far as I'm aware, no one really knows where Van Ronk heard the song in the first place.
Back in the '60s, a plethora of folk singers were all hanging around in coffee houses in New York's East Village where traditional folk songs were passed around and performed by anyone who wanted to sing them. People didn't have cell phones back then so there was no way to record a song on the spot. So, if some traveling folk-singer happened to hear a song somewhere and then moved on to another town and sang the song for another audience, the singer might not remember exactly how the lyrics went and would just make up new lyrics to fill in for the lyrics that he/she couldn't remember. This happened for decades (even hundreds of years in some cases) and that's why there are so many versions of old folk songs. Musicologists sometimes refer to this borrowing, changing, and adapting of a song as "the folk process".
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its based on much older versions of folk songs
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A briant song and a great singer
For a young English man, he sings "New Oh-Leenz" really well.
You should've heard it in 1964 on AM radio. It was different at that time.
Iconic
Bob Dylan made my favorite version of this song
In 1964 there was a bunch of silly pop songs. House of the Rising Sun is pure blues power.
Check out "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place "!
Aerosmith- Dream on
Van Halen- Ain't talkin bout love
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Welcome to the world of rock
Welcome to the stuff I grew up on!
The Doors- L.A. Woman