"House of the Rising Sun" is one of those "traditional" songs whose origins are lost to antiquity. This arrangement by the keyboard player, Alan Price, has become the most recognizable and best selling version ever recorded. The lead singer is Eric Burden who is one of the great voices of the British Invasion of the early 1960's. "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" is an Animals song you might consider doing a reaction to. In an interesting side note, the bass player is a bloke named Chas Chandler and when the Animals original lineup underwent major changes in 1966 Chandler took up artist management. Just before leaving London for the US he happened to hear a song called "Hey Joe" at a club. I don't know who was playing it but Chandler fell in love with it and decided that when he got back to England he'd find a band to record that song. He was about to embark on his last US tour with the Animals and also happened to be dating an American woman who lived in New York so we arrived in NYC a few days early. He and his girlfriend went down to Cafe Wha? in New York's Greenwich Village one evening and the band started playing :Hey Joe", the very song he had heard just before leaving for the USA. He decided it must be fate and introduced himself to the guitarist and frontman and asked him if he'd like to go to England and record that song with him. The guitarist was none other than Jimi Hendrix. When Chandler got him to England he introduced Jimi to Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchel and they formed The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The rest, as they say, is history.
It's funny, you should say that there is a gal now. I can't quite place my finger on it once I think of it. I'll throw it out there. But this is actually an old folk song. There are words to it and what the animals did is just chose. A particular verse out of it's like you are my sunshine. And then you have the my sunshine, and then you have the second verse because you are my sunshine. It's actually quite a long song if you listen to the entire song and that's what they did here. So they just chose what they wanted out of the song and they didn't magnificently, just like who's the the ball? Do the disturbed and redoing Simon & Garfunkel so. There we go, and also you've got to give it to Eric because you don't hear him. Take a breath when I took music lessons this woman. Well, I'm old, but her husband tot opera singers in the 1800s. Anyhow, you're not supposed to be able to hear someone take a breath. I'm trying to remember the other artist. When he's singing. Uh, disturb will do that. He'll move his face away from the Mike so that he can get that breath. So you don't hear him taking that breath these teachers? It's extremely insulting or it used to be I should say
I didn't see it in the comments, but the guitarist, Hilton Valentine, just passed away on January 29th. This is one of the greatest rock riffs of all time. White boys from ENGLAND cranking out hard Blues, and KILLING IT....RIP Mr. Valentine.
@@757optim I confirm. I have learned to play maybe 4 things on the guitar and that riff was one of them. I sucked horribly. But I did learn the F chord.
Eric does a fine "drawl," avoiding any hint of his British accent. He mimics southern speaking characteristics, such as "New Aw-lee-uns," "rahzin' sun," "tay-luh" (tailor)., and many others.
I prefer reactors like you that get into the music and vocals. I don’t watch reactions to see someone try to figure out the meaning of the song without even commenting on how it sounded. Keep up the great work ✌️
This is from 1964....way ahead of the times. The song is about a brothel. The bass player ended up being Hendrix's manager. You should check out Spill the Wine (Eric Burdon and War).
The Animals are a Blues Rock group that were of the "British Invasion" of the mid-1960s, and were contemporaries with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, and The Yardbirds. They had several hit songs, such as ""Please Don''t Let Me Be Misunderstood", ""It's My Life", "We've Got To Get Out Of This Place", and "See See Rider". Later in the decade, lead singer Eric Burdon left The Animals, and teamed up with the US Funk band, War, in 1970. Eric Burdon And War had a hit song, entitled "Spill The Wine", and they gave a legendary TV performance on the West German music program, "Beat Club", and that TV performance is available for viewing here on TH-cam. I highly recommend that you react to "Spill The Wine".
Hilton Valentine, guitarist and author of the famous riff, blew the serious atmosphere because, off camera, Alan Price and his cute portable Vox Continental keyboard were being bodily moved, as he continued to play, to the spot at the front of the set for the final shot. Hilton got the giggles and you see him here trying then giving up stifling them, while Eric Burdon, the singer, continues scowling intensely into the camera, unaware his lead guitarist was falling apart behind him...
THANK YOU FOR YOU REACTION! The Animals were before my time, but the first time I heard House Of The Rising Son, I was mesmerised - the guitars, that unbelievable organ, BUT where does Eric Burton get that amazing voice - just WOW! I will never tire of listening to this song💖 It can only be described as MASTERPIECE!
This is absolutely legendary. The sheer power of this song is something you kinda don't expect to see this far back. Eric absolutely SCREAMS through that deadpan expression and you feel it. I sometimes wonder if he lived this himself.
Fact. The bass player is the guy who saw the talent in Jimi Hendrix and got him signed. CHAS CHANDLER. The lead singer was with Hendrix the night he died ERIC BURDON. Eric Burdon also sang lead vocals on a song by the band War. Spill the wine.
Sky pilot, is a masterpice from Eric Burdon and The New Animals. But this is the original Animals try Bright lights Big city, its my life , when the crows flies, Lonley avenu, the most song they record was so great
I had to look it up. "Texas Alexander's The Rising Sun" is sometimes mentioned as the first recording of this song 1928. There's a 1933 version on the internet. A lot of the bands from the British Invasion brought blues back into the light. They reminded us of people like Muddy Waters. You would like just about anything from the Yardbirds (not the Byrds - totally different group). Also you might look into people from Chess Records, such as Chuck Berry and Howlin' Wolf.
That tallish guy playing the bass is Chas Chandler. After The Animals broke up, he became a manager/producer type guy. He brought Jimi Hendrix to England to launch Jimi's career.
The main reason they are mostly serious is because this song is about addiction. The House of the Rising Sun is a "house of ill repute" or a brothel. Alcohol drugs prostitution gambling. So when he says " One foot on the platform the other foot on the train, I'm goin back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain" is a metaphor for succumbing to addiction.
It`s about Brothe, called the "Rising Sun". you need to listen to it again and again, you will get it. "Don`t Let Me be Missunderstood", "We Gotta Get Out Of this Place", "Don`t Bring Me Down", "Spill That Wine", and more
Eric burdon vocal.Chas chandler bass.Hilton Valentine guitar.john steel drums.Alan price keyboard.Chas died several years ago.Hilton died Jan 29 2021.Eric still performs. Check out winds of change album from 1968.
Fun fact. Chas Chandler (the tall bass player) discovered Jimi Hendrix and left Animals to manage him. Eric Burdon (the singer) became great friends with Jimi. Eric's wife of one year left him for Jimi. New subscriber here.
Going back to that era, or just after, please check out the Doors' "Light My Fire," To me, its the perfect, classic rock song, *never* gets old, and is the BEST. Also, "Like a Rolling Stone." Both are unforgetable once youve heard them.
Haha my dad used to play this on his guitar all the time 😂 It’s about ... hmmm ... how do I say this ... 🤔 ... a little ho-house 🤷♀️😂 Great review 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎸💞
Apparently, The Animals had some free time between two gigs on the same day. They went into the studio after the first gig and cut this track...first take...and went on to the next gig.
Ah the 70’s! Grew up with the best. Summers were great with all of the garage bands playing. We would hear the sounds early Saturday mornings and if you had a harmonica, a cymbal, guitar, or bongos off you’d go to sit in with someone! Your band instruments also were neat to bring. Just loved the sounds and yes do more Animals.
"The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans; many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the British rock band the Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and also in the US and France. As a traditional folk song recorded by an electric rock band, it has been described as the "first folk rock hit". The song was first collected in Appalachia in the 1930s, but probably has its roots in traditional English folk song.
A song that withstands 57 years and people still want to hear it, feel it, examine it. Amazing. It remains a mystery of the real meaning and if it’s real or fictional. Google says: The phrase "House of the Rising Sun" is often understood as a euphemism for a brothel, but it is not known whether the house described in the lyrics was an actual or a fictitious place. One theory is that the song is about a woman who killed her father, an alcoholic gambler who had beaten his wife. Therefore, the House of the Rising Sun may be a jailhouse, from which one would be the first person to see the sunrise (an idea supported by the lyric mentioning "a ball and chain", though that phrase has been slang for marital relationships for at least as long as the song has been in print). Because women often sang the song, another theory is that the House of the Rising Sun was where prostitutes were detained while being treated for syphilis. Since cures with mercury were ineffective, going back was very unlikely.
I’ve been watching a ton of reactors do this song and you’re the first I’ve heard mention the expression on the guitar player’s face. It just looks like he’s having so much fun and, even though the director told them to look serious, he just couldn’t help himself. I’ve always loved it.
Always adored this song, I grew up on it, although it came out way before my time. and Eric's voice is something else. As is the keyboard playing, They have some more songs just as amazing as this one, I'd love for you to react to: The Animals songs: * Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood * Hit the Road Jack * I Put a Spell on You * It's My Life * Many Rivers to Cross * River Deep - Mountain High * We Gotta Get Out of This Place * When I Was Young
There's a video where The Animal's are performing "The Letter" for a TV show and they joke around so bad, making faces, trying not to laugh and the guy on the keyboard put his hands out to show their not really playing 😂 I love it
They were singing very old songs and putting their musical flavor to it. It's about a father hanging out too much at the brothel called the House of the Rising Sun. Some rockers of that era mastered putting their music behind their poetry alas the Doors
@@ffjsb using somebody's else's creativity is stealing even if they have permission. Obviously those that use other people's music have no creativity or talent themselves. These artists from the past for most part have talent and put in long hours honing their craft. Not like today where stealing other people's creativity because they have no talent themselves and calling it their own. Rap is the worst for that. Then there is the autotune fluff that is out there. Today's "music" Is pathetic.
@@debbieplato5107 I have to agree but unfortunately, that's the digital age we live in but originality and quality always outlast the bullshit music in the long run.
Cool calm talent....no fancy fx or overdubbing...the voice...the instruments and nowhere to hide!! Love the Animals 🥰 Sometimes there’s no need to totally ‘understand’ the words...who cares!!! Lol it’s the whole ‘feel’ it gives that’s most important 🤟🏽
When this was made in ‘64 tracks were usually 2 to 2.5 minutes long. This was amazing! In the school playground the day after it came out, we were talking about this.... so good!
Yes you should do more specifically these two: "It's My Life" and "Don't Let Me be Misunderstood". Also here's one your sure to like: "Dirty Water" by The Standells "Well I love that dirty water!! Awwww Boston your my home!! Yea you the number one place" lol great lyrics in this song
A: HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN has roots as far back as the 17th century and was based on a British folk melody. The melody can be linked with "Lord Barnard and Little Musgrove" among other traditional tunes. The "rising sun" has for years been a symbol for brothels in British and American ballads and sung mostly by both black and white Southern musicians. Bluesman Texas Alexander first recorded it in 1928 and in 1937 the lyrics were finally written down as the song was being sung by a miner's daughter, Georgia Turner, in Middlesborough, Kentucky. The lyrics were then adapted to a male point of view and made popular by singer Josh White. Roy Acuff commercially recorded the song on Nov 3, 1938; then Bob Dylan recorded a version (it's been said THIS was the song that encouraged Dylan to switch from acoustic to electric guitar). Then the song was picked up and made into a #1 hit by The Animals in 1964. But as to the original writer? It seems many people made various contributions to this song over the past few centuries, musically and lyrically, making it what it is today. The version we're familiar with is a story about a brothel in New Orleans named after Madame Marianne Le Soleil Levant, which is French for "Rising Sun." The brothel opened in 1862 when Union Troops occupied the town and closed in 1874 when the town received too many complaints by neighbors.
Originally the Alan Price Set - he was the keyboard player. They got a reputation for being wild at their gigs and someone said "the guys are animals" so the name stuck. Chas Chandler was also responsible for creating Deep Purple.
1964. The year my parents got married. This song was way ahead of its time. The bassist discovered Jimi Hendrix Check out the group WAR. Eric Burdon is the leader of that group too. Spill the Wine.
BizMatik, when I was sixteen some people started a weekend club for us kids called the House Of The Rising Sun. Did you know that Eric Burdon was a good friend of Jimi Hendix and that Eric said Jimmy told him that men in black suites came to visit him. Then Jimi was dead, If you like Eric Burdon, try 'Spill The Wine.' or 'San Francisco'.
This is a very old folk song and it has gone through a bunch of changes as old folk songs will. It began in England. After being brought to the Southern Appalachians by English immigrants the location of the house was changed to New Orleans. Then it was taken back to England and recorded by The Animals.
They all look so goobery, yet the sounds coming from them are, as YOU said, PURE FIRE! 🔥🔥🔥 Keep in mind, they, and others like them were called “long hairs” by the older people of the day! And they said it with disdain too! Long hairs! 🤣🤣🤣
Dont sweat it. The "meaning" of a song is much less important than how it is expressed and conveyed musically..if you want obscure lyrics and superb music, try "And You and I" by Yes, a progressive art rock classic...
Clark Kent, aka Superman "It finally hit me after seeing this video so many times. They're mimicking a New Orleans-style death march, where the traditional funerals have the marchers single-filing down the street playing their instruments in a somber-looking procession. One beat at a time."
Hilton Valentine said in an interview published three months before he passed away: "I was laughing because it felt strange that we kept having to walk around in circles miming to it. I caught a glimpse of us in the monitor, and that was it for me. I had to laugh!"
I was 15 when Rising Sun was in the UK charts. We were all like, wow! The miming in the video is pretty crap, but we were used to that; live performances on TV were a real rarity. Jimi Burleigh, below, knows his stuff! No-one knows for sure, but the most likely guesses are that the Rising Sun was either a brothel or a women's prison in New Orleans; in the earliest recorded versions, it's "many a poor girl". The Animals, like most of the bands in the British Invasion, were steeped in blues, soul and Motown. They exported those genres back to The States in a format which White radio stations could play. Yeah, I know... Listen to the bassline, it doesn't change all the way through. They'd reinvented a 400-yo form called the passacaglia or chaconne (yes, really! - a classical composer told me that), in which the bassline is the fixed point and everything else moves around it. They never did anything else as good - but then, who has? It's still one of my all-time top-3 singles (usually #1).
Couple of fun facts... The bassist discovered Jimi Hendrix and took him to England and historic fame. Also something nobody seems to notice is the reversed colors of the organ keys. A small but cool thing.
The bass player of this band Chas Chandler is the guy who helped a then Jimmy James become Jimi Hendrix and paid for his flight back to London with him, paid for his lodgings and overheads and then together helped recruit an English bass player and drummer to formed The Jimi Hendrix Experience. He paid for space for the band to practice and innovate and got their first gigs and invited every star he knew to these early gigs but still couldn't get the band a record contract so Chandler stuck his neck out and paid for the bands first single to be Hey Joe and also produced it. He also paid for large batch of singles of the song to be made. Luckily it was a major UK hit a and the band got their record contract and Hendrix became a star. Chandler managed and produced most of Hendrix's music, it was even his idea for Hendrix to set his guitar on fire as a stage stunt.
If nobody's commented yet, this is an old American folk song--the "house of the rising sun" is interpreted as a casino or brothel, usually depending on whether the singer is a man or woman, resp. It's about addiction--at the end of the song, the singer says how he's "going back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain". It's a metaphor--the "ball and chain" is his gambling addiction. He's going back to New Orleans to be a prisoner of his addiction.
I read that this is a Folk song from the 1850's bout a young GIRL---being snared into prostitution, at the Rising Sun, a brothel etc. the words have been changed many times, to suite tastes of the day. Since the 1920's the lyrics changed to what we hear now, more or less, but this arrangement is modern.
I’ve always heard it was an old traditional song about either a gambling hall or brothel in New Orleans. Regardless it’s about vice and sin. It’s very simple after you hear you hear it a few times.
This could apply to other "reactions to classics": Somewhere near age 70, Eric Burdon continues to perform (COVID interruptions ofc) and there are a dozen YT vids of him singing this - still rockin - still great - as a "senior" to live crowd tears and acclaim. Would be a worth a watch, for both those who savor the reactions, and those that have a reaction they wish to share.
This song is about a brothel and gambling house in New Orleans. A house that never sleeps (rising sun). And a man who inherited his ball and chain (vices) from his father. It’s a very old song so this is a cover. The original lyrics said it’s been the ruin of many poor girls. But they changed it to poor boys for this version.
"House of the Rising Sun" is one of those "traditional" songs whose origins are lost to antiquity. This arrangement by the keyboard player, Alan Price, has become the most recognizable and best selling version ever recorded. The lead singer is Eric Burden who is one of the great voices of the British Invasion of the early 1960's. "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" is an Animals song you might consider doing a reaction to.
In an interesting side note, the bass player is a bloke named Chas Chandler and when the Animals original lineup underwent major changes in 1966 Chandler took up artist management. Just before leaving London for the US he happened to hear a song called "Hey Joe" at a club. I don't know who was playing it but Chandler fell in love with it and decided that when he got back to England he'd find a band to record that song. He was about to embark on his last US tour with the Animals and also happened to be dating an American woman who lived in New York so we arrived in NYC a few days early. He and his girlfriend went down to Cafe Wha? in New York's Greenwich Village one evening and the band started playing :Hey Joe", the very song he had heard just before leaving for the USA. He decided it must be fate and introduced himself to the guitarist and frontman and asked him if he'd like to go to England and record that song with him. The guitarist was none other than Jimi Hendrix. When Chandler got him to England he introduced Jimi to Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchel and they formed The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The rest, as they say, is history.
The arrangement was from the keyboardist!
Very interesting 👌
It's funny, you should say that there is a gal now. I can't quite place my finger on it once I think of it. I'll throw it out there. But this is actually an old folk song. There are words to it and what the animals did is just chose. A particular verse out of it's like you are my sunshine. And then you have the my sunshine, and then you have the second verse because you are my sunshine. It's actually quite a long song if you listen to the entire song and that's what they did here. So they just chose what they wanted out of the song and they didn't magnificently, just like who's the the ball? Do the disturbed and redoing Simon & Garfunkel so. There we go, and also you've got to give it to Eric because you don't hear him. Take a breath when I took music lessons this woman. Well, I'm old, but her husband tot opera singers in the 1800s. Anyhow, you're not supposed to be able to hear someone take a breath. I'm trying to remember the other artist. When he's singing. Uh, disturb will do that. He'll move his face away from the Mike so that he can get that breath. So you don't hear him taking that breath these teachers? It's extremely insulting or it used to be I should say
I love Eric Burdon's voice here, he looks so young yet sounds so experienced, lol.
23 yrs old
I didn't see it in the comments, but the guitarist, Hilton Valentine, just passed away on January 29th. This is one of the greatest rock riffs of all time. White boys from ENGLAND cranking out hard Blues, and KILLING IT....RIP Mr. Valentine.
Every kid with a guitar, whether in a garage band or not, learned that riff. RIP Mr. Valentine, indeed.
@@757optim I confirm. I have learned to play maybe 4 things on the guitar and that riff was one of them. I sucked horribly. But I did learn the F chord.
Oh God is he passed away really, is smile in the clip is into my mind always time 😢😢❤❤
Agreed. The introduction to this song was pretty much mandatory if you were learning guitar in the sixties, and rightly so.
Eric does a fine "drawl," avoiding any hint of his British accent. He mimics southern speaking characteristics, such as "New Aw-lee-uns," "rahzin' sun," "tay-luh" (tailor)., and many others.
They don't make music like this anymore! Pure talent all around. Especially Eric Burdon and that unassuming voice
I prefer reactors like you that get into the music and vocals. I don’t watch reactions to see someone try to figure out the meaning of the song without even commenting on how it sounded. Keep up the great work ✌️
I agree!
Me too!
This is from 1964....way ahead of the times. The song is about a brothel. The bass player ended up being Hendrix's manager. You should check out Spill the Wine (Eric Burdon and War).
Eric Burdon's wife left him for Jimi after they became great friends!
Brothel lol...
Eric Burdon is in my top 5 all time male vocalists.
Yup
Agree. One of my all time favorites.
He's my #1 all-time fave singer!!
Finally you react to this blast from the past. Animals have other great hits. "Sky Pilot", "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" are a couple.
Eric Burdon one of the great voices of the 60`s
One of the greats of all time my friend. Spill the Wine, Bring it On Home, Roberta, the guy is good.
Looking like 14 and sounding like 40👍❤️
Without doubt along with Steve Winwood
my fav is still the late Mike Smith
The Animals are a Blues Rock group that were of the "British Invasion" of the mid-1960s, and were contemporaries with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, and The Yardbirds. They had several hit songs, such as ""Please Don''t Let Me Be Misunderstood", ""It's My Life", "We've Got To Get Out Of This Place", and "See See Rider". Later in the decade, lead singer Eric Burdon left The Animals, and teamed up with the US Funk band, War, in 1970. Eric Burdon And War had a hit song, entitled "Spill The Wine", and they gave a legendary TV performance on the West German music program, "Beat Club", and that TV performance is available for viewing here on TH-cam. I highly recommend that you react to "Spill The Wine".
Love that song
Good tune
Sky Pilot
We Gotta Get out of this Place and Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood are a couple of other great Animals songs. Eric Burdon is a phenomenal singer.
I was living in London at the time, listened and saw Eric Clapton, The Animals, Rolling Stones at local clubs, it was great
Hilton Valentine, guitarist and author of the famous riff, blew the serious atmosphere because, off camera, Alan Price and his cute portable Vox Continental keyboard were being bodily moved, as he continued to play, to the spot at the front of the set for the final shot. Hilton got the giggles and you see him here trying then giving up stifling them, while Eric Burdon, the singer, continues scowling intensely into the camera, unaware his lead guitarist was falling apart behind him...
Yeah the Zombies were competition for the Animals with songs like “She’s not there” and “Time of the season.”
Great list: a friendly addition would be Bus Stop by the Hollies
@@danielmchenry1000 I really like the Hollies as well.
It's an old Blues song about wasting your life in a brothel - "the house of the rising sun". It's a cautionary tale.
Not exactly
THANK YOU FOR YOU REACTION! The Animals were before my time, but the first time I heard House Of The Rising Son, I was mesmerised - the guitars, that unbelievable organ, BUT where does Eric Burton get that amazing voice - just WOW! I will never tire of listening to this song💖 It can only be described as MASTERPIECE!
This is absolutely legendary. The sheer power of this song is something you kinda don't expect to see this far back. Eric absolutely SCREAMS through that deadpan expression and you feel it. I sometimes wonder if he lived this himself.
The kid smiling at the end, the guitarist, just left us a few days ago...
Bands were told they had to lip sync back then for studio recordings and they hated it because they could certainly sing and play their instruments
Hilton Valentine , the guitarist, just passed away a couple of weeks ago. Jan 31st I believe. RIP!
Yes, the keyboardist is 🔥but I love the fella keeping time & chewing gum !
RIP to the badass guitar player Hilton Valentine and his badass arpeggio!!
Hilton worked out the opening riff, the organist Alan Price didn’t want to use it, but luckily was outvoted by the rest of the band.
The bass player Chas Chandler was the one that got Jimi Hendrix started in his solo career. He managed him for awhile.
Fact. The bass player is the guy who saw the talent in Jimi Hendrix and got him signed. CHAS CHANDLER. The lead singer was with Hendrix the night he died ERIC BURDON. Eric Burdon also sang lead vocals on a song by the band War. Spill the wine.
Dude, most of the best songs from the 60’s and 70’s I never knew what the hell they were saying. They were just great songs. Just listen to the music.
I was SURPRISED to learn, that the singer also sings...SPILL THE WINE...years later
Eric Burdon and War.
Check out their tunes - " San Franciscan Night " and " When I was Young ". Two fantastic songs.
Sky pilot, is a masterpice from Eric Burdon and The New Animals. But this is the original Animals try Bright lights Big city, its my life , when the crows flies, Lonley avenu, the most song they record was so great
I had to look it up. "Texas Alexander's The Rising Sun" is sometimes mentioned as the first recording of this song 1928. There's a 1933 version on the internet. A lot of the bands from the British Invasion brought blues back into the light. They reminded us of people like Muddy Waters. You would like just about anything from the Yardbirds (not the Byrds - totally different group). Also you might look into people from Chess Records, such as Chuck Berry and Howlin' Wolf.
That tallish guy playing the bass is Chas Chandler. After The Animals broke up, he became a manager/producer type guy. He brought Jimi Hendrix to England to launch Jimi's career.
The main reason they are mostly serious is because this song is about addiction. The House of the Rising Sun is a "house of ill repute" or a brothel. Alcohol drugs prostitution gambling. So when he says " One foot on the platform the other foot on the train, I'm goin back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain" is a metaphor for succumbing to addiction.
Everybody who learned to play the guitar in the 60's learned this lick.
And smoke on the water!!! 👍
#Facts 🤷🏿♀️🎸🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
@@timbillings6884 👍🎸
It`s about Brothe, called the "Rising Sun". you need to listen to it again and again, you will get it.
"Don`t Let Me be Missunderstood", "We Gotta Get Out Of this Place", "Don`t Bring Me Down", "Spill That Wine", and more
Eric burdon vocal.Chas chandler bass.Hilton Valentine guitar.john steel drums.Alan price keyboard.Chas died several years ago.Hilton died Jan 29 2021.Eric still performs. Check out winds of change album from 1968.
The guy on the keyboards became a force of nature all by himself.
Fun fact. Chas Chandler (the tall bass player) discovered Jimi Hendrix and left Animals to manage him. Eric Burdon (the singer) became great friends with Jimi. Eric's wife of one year left him for Jimi. New subscriber here.
Going back to that era, or just after, please check out the Doors' "Light My Fire," To me, its the perfect, classic rock song, *never* gets old, and is the BEST. Also, "Like a Rolling Stone." Both are unforgetable once youve heard them.
One of the greatest songs ever love the Animals I was a teen back then. Thank you Biz
Haha my dad used to play this on his guitar all the time 😂 It’s about ... hmmm ... how do I say this ... 🤔 ... a little ho-house 🤷♀️😂 Great review 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎸💞
The reason they couldn't stop smiling was because they thought lip syncing for a video was silly.
I thought it was because they were moving the piano man into position for the last shot?
Apparently, The Animals had some free time between two gigs on the same day. They went into the studio after the first gig and cut this track...first take...and went on to the next gig.
Ah the 70’s! Grew up with the best. Summers were great with all of the garage bands playing. We would hear the sounds early Saturday mornings and if you had a harmonica, a cymbal, guitar, or bongos off you’d go to sit in with someone! Your band instruments also were neat to bring. Just loved the sounds and yes do more Animals.
This is 60s
ok 60’s and 70’s! Great times
"The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans; many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the British rock band the Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and also in the US and France. As a traditional folk song recorded by an electric rock band, it has been described as the "first folk rock hit".
The song was first collected in Appalachia in the 1930s, but probably has its roots in traditional English folk song.
The Animals did a cover of the classic "C. C. Rider" (renamed by them "See See Rider"), that I liked, and I've never seen it reacted to by YT reactor.
That was by Eric Burdon & the New Animals, as the original band had broken up
@@theseeker4642 ... thanks for the info. 😎
A song that withstands 57 years and people still want to hear it, feel it, examine it. Amazing.
It remains a mystery of the real meaning and if it’s real or fictional. Google says: The phrase "House of the Rising Sun" is often understood as a euphemism for a brothel, but it is not known whether the house described in the lyrics was an actual or a fictitious place. One theory is that the song is about a woman who killed her father, an alcoholic gambler who had beaten his wife. Therefore, the House of the Rising Sun may be a jailhouse, from which one would be the first person to see the sunrise (an idea supported by the lyric mentioning "a ball and chain", though that phrase has been slang for marital relationships for at least as long as the song has been in print). Because women often sang the song, another theory is that the House of the Rising Sun was where prostitutes were detained while being treated for syphilis. Since cures with mercury were ineffective, going back was very unlikely.
It’s over a century old
Don't over think it. It's about a brothel and gambling house. LMAO
I so love watching your reactions...so emotional, so real. peace!!!!
I’ve been watching a ton of reactors do this song and you’re the first I’ve heard mention the expression on the guitar player’s face. It just looks like he’s having so much fun and, even though the director told them to look serious, he just couldn’t help himself. I’ve always loved it.
Always adored this song, I grew up on it, although it came out way before my time. and Eric's voice is something else. As is the keyboard playing,
They have some more songs just as amazing as this one, I'd love for you to react to:
The Animals songs:
* Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
* Hit the Road Jack
* I Put a Spell on You
* It's My Life
* Many Rivers to Cross
* River Deep - Mountain High
* We Gotta Get Out of This Place
* When I Was Young
The keyboard player is Alan Price; he formed his group The Alan Price Set. They had quite a few hits. I saw them live in Cambridge about 1966ish
There's a video where The Animal's are performing "The Letter" for a TV show and they joke around so bad, making faces, trying not to laugh and the guy on the keyboard put his hands out to show their not really playing 😂 I love it
Recorded in one take...took about ten minutes in the studio.
Good group as well. Eric’s vocals are great
Man, it's just fun watching you discovering it.
They were singing very old songs and putting their musical flavor to it.
It's about a father hanging out too much at the brothel called the House of the Rising Sun.
Some rockers of that era mastered putting their music behind their poetry alas the Doors
I love how it's called "sampling" I call it what it really is.....stealing.
It's NOT stealing when you give credit and get PERMISSION.
@@ffjsb using somebody's else's creativity is stealing even if they have permission. Obviously those that use other people's music have no creativity or talent themselves. These artists from the past for most part have talent and put in long hours honing their craft. Not like today where stealing other people's creativity because they have no talent themselves and calling it their own. Rap is the worst for that. Then there is the autotune fluff that is out there. Today's "music" Is pathetic.
@@debbieplato5107 I have to agree but unfortunately, that's the digital age we live in but originality and quality always outlast the bullshit music in the long run.
Totally agree. Used by people with less talent. Midgets standing on the shoulders of giants.
Thanks Big Time Debbie for that Real Life Distinction 100%
The Animals, part of the British invasion in music. Eric Burdon, great vocals and one of the most popular karaoke songs
Cool calm talent....no fancy fx or overdubbing...the voice...the instruments and nowhere to hide!!
Love the Animals 🥰
Sometimes there’s no need to totally ‘understand’ the words...who cares!!! Lol it’s the whole ‘feel’ it gives that’s most important 🤟🏽
He ended up following in his father's footsteps
Now he is warning all parents too teach their children right so they will not end up like him
Remember...its 1964! The cinematographer was dope.
When this was made in ‘64 tracks were usually 2 to 2.5 minutes long. This was amazing! In the school playground the day after it came out, we were talking about this.... so good!
He was smiling because during their performance they moved the keyboard from the back to the front and he didn’t miss a note.😊
Love when bands have uniforms.
You have spoiled me - watching your reactions, with such intensity is really great - keep on going on !!!
That guitarist behind the singer just recently died. The House is a bordello and a young man losing his innocence.
Yes you should do more specifically these two: "It's My Life" and "Don't Let Me be Misunderstood". Also here's one your sure to like: "Dirty Water" by The Standells "Well I love that dirty water!! Awwww Boston your my home!! Yea you the number one place" lol great lyrics in this song
Going to check that out myself right now!
Funny how the older you get that sometimes you forget a song or a group. Just listened to Dirty Water. Was great.
A: HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN has roots as far back as the 17th century and was based on a British folk melody. The melody can be linked with "Lord Barnard and Little Musgrove" among other traditional tunes. The "rising sun" has for years been a symbol for brothels in British and American ballads and sung mostly by both black and white Southern musicians. Bluesman Texas Alexander first recorded it in 1928 and in 1937 the lyrics were finally written down as the song was being sung by a miner's daughter, Georgia Turner, in Middlesborough, Kentucky. The lyrics were then adapted to a male point of view and made popular by singer Josh White. Roy Acuff commercially recorded the song on Nov 3, 1938; then Bob Dylan recorded a version (it's been said THIS was the song that encouraged Dylan to switch from acoustic to electric guitar). Then the song was picked up and made into a #1 hit by The Animals in 1964. But as to the original writer? It seems many people made various contributions to this song over the past few centuries, musically and lyrically, making it what it is today. The version we're familiar with is a story about a brothel in New Orleans named after Madame Marianne Le Soleil Levant, which is French for "Rising Sun." The brothel opened in 1862 when Union Troops occupied the town and closed in 1874 when the town received too many complaints by neighbors.
"My mother was a tailor, and so were my blue jeans."
Wicked reaction/review bredda!! Love it!
Thank you
It's about a knocking shop in N.O. Tune apparently was 18th century English folk tune but had lyrics added to it much later by American blues singer.
That tall guitar player,,,, discovered Jimmy Hindrex..
Originally the Alan Price Set - he was the keyboard player. They got a reputation for being wild at their gigs and someone said "the guys are animals" so the name stuck. Chas Chandler was also responsible for creating Deep Purple.
love playing this song on guitar
This was done in one 15 minute take. 🔥❤️☮️👵🏼
Price & Burdon and great guitars make this an unforgettable SUPER CHARGED MASTERPIECE!
Music back in the day was pure, the artist were so talented
The organ player is Alan Price who also had a successful career with his own records and as a jazz musician.
1964. The year my parents got married. This song was way ahead of its time. The bassist discovered Jimi Hendrix Check out the group WAR. Eric Burdon is the leader of that group too. Spill the Wine.
BizMatik, when I was sixteen some people started a weekend club for us kids called the House Of The Rising Sun. Did you know that Eric Burdon was a good friend of Jimi Hendix and that Eric said Jimmy told him that men in black suites came to visit him. Then Jimi was dead, If you like Eric Burdon, try 'Spill The Wine.' or 'San Francisco'.
This is a very old folk song and it has gone through a bunch of changes as old folk songs will. It began in England. After being brought to the Southern Appalachians by English immigrants the location of the house was changed to New Orleans. Then it was taken back to England and recorded by The Animals.
I noticed that about the second guy also, you know he just loved making music
They all look so goobery, yet the sounds coming from them are, as YOU said, PURE FIRE! 🔥🔥🔥 Keep in mind, they, and others like them were called “long hairs” by the older people of the day! And they said it with disdain too! Long hairs! 🤣🤣🤣
Oh yes this is the best Animals song...and the yong man smiling has passed...RIP Hilton Valentine
Dont sweat it. The "meaning" of a song is much less important than how it is expressed and conveyed musically..if you want obscure lyrics and superb music, try "And You and I" by Yes, a progressive art rock classic...
Clark Kent, aka Superman
"It finally hit me after seeing this video so many times. They're mimicking a New Orleans-style death march, where the traditional funerals have the marchers single-filing down the street playing their instruments in a somber-looking procession. One beat at a time."
He was smiling as he was laughing at the ridiculousness of the keyboard being dragged into position behind the camera to frame the final shot.
Hilton Valentine said in an interview published three months before he passed away:
"I was laughing because it felt strange that we kept having to walk around in circles miming to it. I caught a glimpse of us in the monitor, and that was it for me. I had to laugh!"
I was 15 when Rising Sun was in the UK charts. We were all like, wow! The miming in the video is pretty crap, but we were used to that; live performances on TV were a real rarity.
Jimi Burleigh, below, knows his stuff!
No-one knows for sure, but the most likely guesses are that the Rising Sun was either a brothel or a women's prison in New Orleans; in the earliest recorded versions, it's "many a poor girl".
The Animals, like most of the bands in the British Invasion, were steeped in blues, soul and Motown. They exported those genres back to The States in a format which White radio stations could play. Yeah, I know...
Listen to the bassline, it doesn't change all the way through. They'd reinvented a 400-yo form called the passacaglia or chaconne (yes, really! - a classical composer told me that), in which the bassline is the fixed point and everything else moves around it.
They never did anything else as good - but then, who has? It's still one of my all-time top-3 singles (usually #1).
Couple of fun facts... The bassist discovered Jimi Hendrix and took him to England and historic fame.
Also something nobody seems to notice is the reversed colors of the organ keys. A small but cool thing.
The bass player of this band Chas Chandler is the guy who helped a then Jimmy James become Jimi Hendrix and paid for his flight back to London with him, paid for his lodgings and overheads and then together helped recruit an English bass player and drummer to formed The Jimi Hendrix Experience. He paid for space for the band to practice and innovate and got their first gigs and invited every star he knew to these early gigs but still couldn't get the band a record contract so Chandler stuck his neck out and paid for the bands first single to be Hey Joe and also produced it. He also paid for large batch of singles of the song to be made. Luckily it was a major UK hit a and the band got their record contract and Hendrix became a star. Chandler managed and produced most of Hendrix's music, it was even his idea for Hendrix to set his guitar on fire as a stage stunt.
If nobody's commented yet, this is an old American folk song--the "house of the rising sun" is interpreted as a casino or brothel, usually depending on whether the singer is a man or woman, resp. It's about addiction--at the end of the song, the singer says how he's "going back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain". It's a metaphor--the "ball and chain" is his gambling addiction. He's going back to New Orleans to be a prisoner of his addiction.
There is a story behind this song, its like hotel california - its talking about a specific place or time
the animals bass player is chas chandler. he's the guy who brought jimi hendrix to england and started jimi's career.
Hilton was grinning at the stagehands moving the keyboardist to stage front. Probably some flailing around we will never see.
Casino's violent ending always comes to mind with this song
I read that this is a Folk song from the 1850's bout a young GIRL---being snared into prostitution, at the Rising Sun, a brothel etc. the words have been changed many times, to suite tastes of the day. Since the 1920's the lyrics changed to what we hear now, more or less, but this arrangement is modern.
I’ve always heard it was an old traditional song about either a gambling hall or brothel in New Orleans. Regardless it’s about vice and sin. It’s very simple after you hear you hear it a few times.
This could apply to other "reactions to classics": Somewhere near age 70, Eric Burdon continues to perform (COVID interruptions ofc) and there are a dozen YT vids of him singing this - still rockin - still great - as a "senior" to live crowd tears and acclaim. Would be a worth a watch, for both those who savor the reactions, and those that have a reaction they wish to share.
Eric Burdon has performed live with many bands over the years. You should check him out. He also made sooo many records! So much talent.
This song is about a brothel and gambling house in New Orleans. A house that never sleeps (rising sun). And a man who inherited his ball and chain (vices) from his father. It’s a very old song so this is a cover. The original lyrics said it’s been the ruin of many poor girls. But they changed it to poor boys for this version.
This was n the days when it was all live. Could not wait for Friday nights after work to get down the local working mens club....great times.
What a voice he did great stuff with war too