The organist is Alan Price - the bassist is one Chas Chandler who discovered and brought the one and only Jimi Hendrix to the world’s attention. The band were from Newcastle Upon Tyne a gritty British north eastern town.
the animals - 'better than the beatles' the kinks - 'better than the rolling stones' that smirk on the guitarist's face in the last shot; he felt like 'yeah, we're the best band in this film'.
This timeless masterpiece came out in mid 1964, topping the charts first in Great Britain, and later in the US. In regards to your question, The Beatles became world famous early in 1964, and The Animals attained fame with this song shortly afterwards. Both bands were part of what's known as The British Invasion, referring to the many great British rock bands that dominated the music scene in the US during the mid 1960's. These bands typically wore suits when performing, and had longish hair. Shortly afterwards their clothing radically changed, and their hair was much longer. They had a revolutionary effect on both music and culture (especially The Beatles). Great choice of song, and it was enjoyable watching it on your channel.
Love Eric Burdon & The Animals. They were part of the British Invasion along with The Beatles, Rolling Stones & others. People are always shocked that Eric has such a different unique deeper voice. The Animals had a lot of great hits in the 60's such as "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", "Baby Let Me Take You Home", "I'm Crying", "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", "Bring It On Home To Me", "It's My Life", "Don't Bring Me Down", "See See Rider", "Monterey", "Sky Pilot" etc. Eric later joined the funk rock band "War" & they had a few hits "Spill the Wine" & "Tobacco Road".
Wonderful music reaction! As others commented, they're from Newcastle UK. Eric Burden grew up in Walker, a rough gritty neighborhood of old brick row houses next to the shipbuilding yards and steel factories. Their life experiences shine as they sing about New Orleans where much port work was tough gritty manual labor too. Recommend another fantastic song by The Animals "We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place" (video from a movie appearance, studio version is better).
Everyone was cutting their hair like the Beatles, who came first, back then. I am a new subscriber and I am really enjoying your reactions. Keep it up! 😚PJ
Animals, Beatles, The Rolling Stones,The Zombies, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Who, and good many more were all from small towns around London, all playing locally. Largely, they were playing the music of the Mississippi Delta region in the States. Older Southern Blues men playing a genre of music that was cheifly overlooked by the AM radio stations of the time. We were being treated to Doo Wop and Soul, and crooners. Ironically enough, the Blues had to travel across the Atlantic and become cultivated by the British, travel back to America as "The British Invasion". We thought it originated there. We had never heard of Howlin' Wolf, or Bo Diddly, Muddy Waters. Thanks, Brits.
😇 The hair. The white blouse. How angelic. 💋 To react to a song about a whǿrɇhǿʉsɇ. 😈👍 Perfect juxtaposition. Personally, I also like reactions to known songs. Watching a version you haven't seen, noting things that are different or surprising. Still a legit reaction. ⚖👍
Alan Price , organist went on to have a great career, Eric Burden went on to form a band called War, which was very successful. Chas Chandler , bass player, became a very successful musicians agent. Unfortunately I don't know what happened with the drummer. 👍👍👍
I have seen a number of Black Reactors be blown away by his voice. They also couldn't believe that that that voice came out of him. We enjoyed a lot of great music from that era. I would recommend that you check out Patsy Cline. Pretty much any of her songs a very good.
Eric Burdon has a great voice. He had some great hits away from the Animals. Spill That Wine and Don't Let Me Be Understood are worth checking out. The bass player, Chas Chandler, went on to manage Jimi Hendrix. The Animals formed in 63 and the Beatles formed in 60
Absolute perfection, the drummer chewing gum is the coolest. Did you note that the guy in organ moved from the drummer to the place at the last notes? I guess that is why the guitarist starting to laugh. 🙂
You'll see lots of reactors say this song was a 1-take deal. But think about this: the instruments ARE NOT PLUGGED INTO ELECTRICAL OUTLETS! So that means this was a two-step process. In the recording studio, the band may have performed the song to their satisfaction in one take. hat happened next was to synch the walk-about with the previously recorded music. The walk-about, too, may have been done in one take (I doubt it as, as there's some timing needs), but overall, this video was a joint effort with at least two run-throughs. Be that as it may, yes, the organist had to physically carry his keyboard from the background to the foreground near the end; one reactor volunteered the fact that the drummer tripped half-way to the foreground and had to scramble to get all set up again before the camera focused on him for the ending!
Hi Ren, lovely reaction. I have mentioned them before so when you do get round to The Moody Blues, Nights in white Satin, there are 2 options, the live version from The Royal Albert Hall 1991, I think? (recommended), and there is the album version from Days of Future Passed (1967) can’t go wrong with any track from this album. There is a second part to the song that is not in the live version ❤
Put all the band members in a lineup and then try imagining any of the others singing this song... other than maybe Alan Price (on the organ). I just re-watched the video and imagined it was the bass player singing the song. Got me in a good mood for the rest of the day!
Great reaction! Eric has an amazing voice. He was later in a group called War that had several hits. A couple suggestions for songs you may want to listen to - Don't Fear the Reeper by Blue Oyster Cult; I'd Love To Change the World by Ten Years After; Bluest Blue by Alvin Lee. Love the channel!
The House of The Rising Sun was a brothel that was just outside of the city limits of New Orleans in a, technically, unincorporated area so it was 'outside' any city jurisdictions. This song was a staple of female jazz singers, so this song is supposed to be from a female perspective. Incidentally, it is from the brothels of New Orleans that we get Jazz music and the name Jazz. Well to do men of the Louisiana high society were almost expected to have a wife AND a mistress who they would call their Jessabelle. Due to the accent of Louisiana it would come out Jazzabele. Most brothels had in house bands that would play music, mainly so other patrons couldn't hear each other's...activities. These same men would go to the restaurants and clubs in New Orleans and ask to hear, "That Jazzy music" that they heard in the brothels. And thus, New Orleans "Dixie Land" jazz was born. Now, the details are MUCH more complicated but this will give you a VERY basic overview of the inception of Jazz.
The band members all look TOO GOOD to be performing THIS desperate3ly melancholy song. They should all also be wearing a Mick Jagger mask, an they should all be wearing a sleeveless T-shirt, with lots of tatoos, up and down each arm.
Always thought it would be fun to see how quickly and adeptly they relocated Alan and his organ during the shoot, because it sure doesn't look like he ended the song where he started!
When I heard this song in my youth, I thought it sounded like some madman howling at an organ. I know that he does very major belting on it. As such, my neighbors weren’t too keen when I went to try and sing it. Guess I was belting fairly good given their reaction, so I only did like one line of that. Oh, well.
Eric Burdon vocal Chas Chandler bass.hilton Valentine guitar john steel drums.alan price keyboard chas and Hilton are gone .alan left the group in 1966.
FUN FACT: No one knows who wrote “House of the Rising Sun”. Since 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".
There's a cool version of Amazing Grace sung to the tune of The House of the Rising Sun; kind of a redemption/cautionary tale double-shot. I don't think you've reacted to Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale. It's from the end of the 60's and more classical/symphonic (prog rock, back in the day.) This is an outstanding "modern" performance by the original vocalist and the Danish National Concert Orchestra and choir at Ledreborg Castle, Denmark in August 2006: th-cam.com/video/St6jyEFe5WM/w-d-xo.html.
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The organist is Alan Price - the bassist is one Chas Chandler who discovered and brought the one and only Jimi Hendrix to the world’s attention. The band were from Newcastle Upon Tyne a gritty British north eastern town.
For me the organ solo is the best I've ever heard. This guy's fingers just dance and float over the keys. It's just epic!
@@RonaldvanSteensel Floot?????????
Check out Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale; it'd be a pretty close race between the two for best organ solo.
@@joeturner1181 Both of you clearly went deaf in about 1970.
the animals - 'better than the beatles'
the kinks - 'better than the rolling stones'
that smirk on the guitarist's face in the last shot; he felt like 'yeah, we're the best band in this film'.
Eric Burdon was 23 when this was recorded .......amazing voice and Band , Thanks for reviewing this ❤ .......another memorable Song from my Childhood
This timeless masterpiece came out in mid 1964, topping the charts first in Great Britain, and later in the US. In regards to your question, The Beatles became world famous early in 1964, and The Animals attained fame with this song shortly afterwards. Both bands were part of what's known as The British Invasion, referring to the many great British rock bands that dominated the music scene in the US during the mid 1960's. These bands typically wore suits when performing, and had longish hair. Shortly afterwards their clothing radically changed, and their hair was much longer. They had a revolutionary effect on both music and culture (especially The Beatles). Great choice of song, and it was enjoyable watching it on your channel.
Love Eric Burdon & The Animals. They were part of the British Invasion along with The Beatles, Rolling Stones & others. People are always shocked that Eric has such a different unique deeper voice. The Animals had a lot of great hits in the 60's such as "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", "Baby Let Me Take You Home", "I'm Crying", "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", "Bring It On Home To Me", "It's My Life", "Don't Bring Me Down", "See See Rider", "Monterey", "Sky Pilot" etc. Eric later joined the funk rock band "War" & they had a few hits "Spill the Wine" & "Tobacco Road".
All these are great choices!
one of my favorite songs. animals are def a special band.
Wonderful music reaction!
As others commented, they're from Newcastle UK. Eric Burden grew up in Walker, a rough gritty neighborhood of old brick row houses next to the shipbuilding yards and steel factories. Their life experiences shine as they sing about New Orleans where much port work was tough gritty manual labor too.
Recommend another fantastic song by The Animals "We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place" (video from a movie appearance, studio version is better).
Absolutely wonderful 💎
This is pure raw talent. No auto tune. Love this song. Brings back memories. Love your reaction!
Thanks Anita. I love that one too.
Everyone was cutting their hair like the Beatles, who came first, back then. I am a new subscriber and I am really enjoying your reactions. Keep it up! 😚PJ
Thanks PJ!
Animals, Beatles, The Rolling Stones,The Zombies, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Who, and good many more were all from small towns around London, all playing locally. Largely, they were playing the music of the Mississippi Delta region in the States. Older Southern Blues men playing a genre of music that was cheifly overlooked by the AM radio stations of the time. We were being treated to Doo Wop and Soul, and crooners.
Ironically enough, the Blues had to travel across the Atlantic and become cultivated by the British, travel back to America as "The British Invasion". We thought it originated there. We had never heard of Howlin' Wolf, or Bo Diddly, Muddy Waters. Thanks, Brits.
Eric Burden is the best British blues singer. I believe he was19/20 when this was recorded.
The melody, the story a human tragedy the musicianship the voice of Eric and look at those uniforms!! and their vowed down at the end OH!
First song I learned to play right through, shine on you beautiful diamond 💎 greetings from Scotland 🏴✌️🌹
not only is the song great but that drummer... to keep time like he dose for the entire song keeping time with a crash symbal is awesome too....
Eric Burdon's vocals are incredible, and I'm told he can still sing like that.
Best band ever out of Newcastle England
😇 The hair. The white blouse. How angelic.
💋 To react to a song about a whǿrɇhǿʉsɇ.
😈👍 Perfect juxtaposition.
Personally, I also like reactions to known songs.
Watching a version you haven't seen, noting things that are different or surprising. Still a legit reaction. ⚖👍
🤣🤣🤣 Love this comment. Though I don't know how angelic I am...😆
Alan Price , organist went on to have a great career, Eric Burden went on to form a band called War, which was very successful. Chas Chandler , bass player, became a very successful musicians agent. Unfortunately I don't know what happened with the drummer. 👍👍👍
Try the Righteous Brothers' Unchained Melody on the Andy Williams show. It will blow your mind.
We all looked young back in the sixties……
I think you'll love Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones.
One of the 60's masterpieces, love your reactions.
I have seen a number of Black Reactors be blown away by his voice. They also couldn't believe that that that voice came out of him. We enjoyed a lot of great music from that era. I would recommend that you check out Patsy Cline. Pretty much any of her songs a very good.
Eric Burdon has a great voice. He had some great hits away from the Animals. Spill That Wine and Don't Let Me Be Understood are worth checking out.
The bass player, Chas Chandler, went on to manage Jimi Hendrix.
The Animals formed in 63 and the Beatles formed in 60
Eric is in his 80s now and still performing.
I love this Song ❤
Absolute perfection, the drummer chewing gum is the coolest. Did you note that the guy in organ moved from the drummer to the place at the last notes? I guess that is why the guitarist starting to laugh. 🙂
You'll see lots of reactors say this song was a 1-take deal. But think about this: the instruments ARE NOT PLUGGED INTO ELECTRICAL OUTLETS! So that means this was a two-step process. In the recording studio, the band may have performed the song to their satisfaction in one take. hat happened next was to synch the walk-about with the previously recorded music. The walk-about, too, may have been done in one take (I doubt it as, as there's some timing needs), but overall, this video was a joint effort with at least two run-throughs. Be that as it may, yes, the organist had to physically carry his keyboard from the background to the foreground near the end; one reactor volunteered the fact that the drummer tripped half-way to the foreground and had to scramble to get all set up again before the camera focused on him for the ending!
Hi Ren, lovely reaction. I have mentioned them before so when you do get round to The Moody Blues, Nights in white Satin, there are 2 options, the live version from The Royal Albert Hall 1991, I think? (recommended), and there is the album version from Days of Future Passed (1967) can’t go wrong with any track from this album. There is a second part to the song that is not in the live version ❤
I have added it to my list but keep suggesting it though. Persistence is rewarded here. Thanks
Put all the band members in a lineup and then try imagining any of the others singing this song... other than maybe Alan Price (on the organ). I just re-watched the video and imagined it was the bass player singing the song. Got me in a good mood for the rest of the day!
Great reaction! Eric has an amazing voice. He was later in a group called War that had several hits.
A couple suggestions for songs you may want to listen to -
Don't Fear the Reeper by Blue Oyster Cult; I'd Love To Change the World by Ten Years After; Bluest Blue by Alvin Lee.
Love the channel!
The Seekers - I'll Never Find Another You (HQ Stereo, 1964/'68). Australian folk group. Filmed at Abbey Road studios in London.
Thanks. I have added that to my list. Stay tuned and I'll see what I can do.
The House of The Rising Sun was a brothel that was just outside of the city limits of New Orleans in a, technically, unincorporated area so it was 'outside' any city jurisdictions. This song was a staple of female jazz singers, so this song is supposed to be from a female perspective.
Incidentally, it is from the brothels of New Orleans that we get Jazz music and the name Jazz. Well to do men of the Louisiana high society were almost expected to have a wife AND a mistress who they would call their Jessabelle. Due to the accent of Louisiana it would come out Jazzabele. Most brothels had in house bands that would play music, mainly so other patrons couldn't hear each other's...activities. These same men would go to the restaurants and clubs in New Orleans and ask to hear, "That Jazzy music" that they heard in the brothels. And thus, New Orleans "Dixie Land" jazz was born.
Now, the details are MUCH more complicated but this will give you a VERY basic overview of the inception of Jazz.
Awesome comment. Maybe the best comment I have got so far. Thanks for that!
Seen Eric many times. He still has those amazing pipes. They were part of the British Invasion.
🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸The most famous song ever written whose authorship is unknown🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
The band members all look TOO GOOD to be performing THIS desperate3ly melancholy song. They should all also be wearing a Mick Jagger mask, an they should all be wearing a sleeveless T-shirt, with lots of tatoos, up and down each arm.
Believe it or not this song was recorded in one take. They got into the studio, only had a short amount of time and knocked it out in one take.
Always thought it would be fun to see how quickly and adeptly they relocated Alan and his organ during the shoot, because it sure doesn't look like he ended the song where he started!
Huge thanks for this content.
Please react to Diana Ankudinova' s new performance.
At the "Miracle" show, Diana sang Sting's famous song - Desert Rose.
Vocal-acrobatic duet.
When I heard this song in my youth, I thought it sounded like some madman howling at an organ. I know that he does very major belting on it. As such, my neighbors weren’t too keen when I went to try and sing it. Guess I was belting fairly good given their reaction, so I only did like one line of that. Oh, well.
Great song and reaction
Thanks Stephen!
Beatles formed in 1960 and the Animals in 1962.
Thanks.
Eric Burdon vocal
Chas Chandler bass.hilton Valentine guitar john steel drums.alan price keyboard chas and Hilton are gone .alan left the group in 1966.
FUN FACT:
No one knows who wrote “House of the Rising Sun”.
Since 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".
Fun fact, the bass player later became Jimi Hendrix's manager.
Ooh. Good fun fact!
Listen to Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love.
Hello, for a little pange of chace, you might give " 7 + 7 = is " by Love. Thank you
Another 'boy' with man's voice was Rick Astley
😎👍🎶🎶 When you can , react to Skeeter Davis - The end of the world . 1962 .
Hope to see you react to Ren's latest "Money ties". You did a fabulous job as usual
Cheers. I'll add it to my list. LOVE REN!
There's a cool version of Amazing Grace sung to the tune of The House of the Rising Sun; kind of a redemption/cautionary tale double-shot.
I don't think you've reacted to Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale. It's from the end of the 60's and more classical/symphonic (prog rock, back in the day.) This is an outstanding "modern" performance by the original vocalist and the Danish National Concert Orchestra and choir at Ledreborg Castle, Denmark in August 2006: th-cam.com/video/St6jyEFe5WM/w-d-xo.html.
That one is on my list. Stay tuned and I'll see what I can do. 🍻
🤝👍👏🙏🫶🫵
This was lip synced, common on tv shows at the time. Notice the electric guitars have no cords
how about pink floyd
I have done a couple of Pink Floyd reactions...More are coming.... th-cam.com/video/HeljqqzDqJ8/w-d-xo.html
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