My interpretation has always been that the house of the rising sun is like giving in to your temptations. The imagery of the lyrics is about gambling, alcoholism and prostitution, but in modern times I think a lot of people have their own personal house of the rising sun. This song is such a banger. When I feel down on myself like I’m stuck and not living up to who I could be, I play this song. Motivates me every single time. The lyrics, vocals, the consistent guitar, and that boy goin crazy on the keyboard. Special track right here.
@OK Sceez - This is a folk song, based on gospel. The "House" is a den of ill repute. The Animals made this song commercially popular, but it is a "Cover tune" and not the first cover recorded, understand. The lyrics changed by way of what that house "housed"; Gambling, drinking, prostitution, but the point/meaning/lesson of the song never changed.
Eric Burdon the singer, done a lot of other stuff, also featuring Chas chandler on Bass, who went on to manage the great Jimmy Hendrix. This was my first favourite song when i was about 7, in 1964
You know Jimi Hendrix started out playing broom. This is a very old folk song over a hundred years old. These lads are the sons of coal miners from Newcastle, England. They have many great, classic rock songs. Love your good-time personality.
They were so great, they needed nothing more than a room to walk around in. So simple yet a powerful song, video and message. The House of the Rising Sun is a house of witch craft, voodoo. Stay out and his eyes burn that message in.
There are a lot of interpretations (not least because "The House of the Rising Sun" was a popular name IRL for a lot of different vices) but based on the lyrics of the song I think it is referring to a gambling den. The second verse talks about his father being "a gambling man, down in New Orleans" and goes on to describe what the "gambling man" needs (a suitcase and a trunk) and what he likes (when he's "on a drunk" i. e. on a bender). Then he says he's going back to New Orleans "to wear that ball and chain". It sounds like he became a gambling man like his father and is addicted to it. It is a mainstay of instruction on writing that everything you include has a purpose. This would apply to lyrics as well - the inclusion of a description of the "gambling man" and the lack of a description of other vices would suggest that is the point of the song.
Damn dude, even though you weren't sure what it was ultimately about you totally got the energy and the vibe of it. Something is often said about this video is that Eric Burdon was so young back then but not only his look but his voice and his attitude and his subject matter just indicated a man considerably older with a lot more experience. He was a phenomenon for sure. They have got a ton of great songs. Check out, we got to get out of this place. And yeah you may have heard the chorus but man the verses are what makes this song pop.
Just to amplify the point made in a previous comment, the bass guitar is a bloke name of Chas Chandler. He had decided to move into artist management when he heard a pick-up band at a New York nightclub play the song "Hey Joe". Chandler had heard a folk version of the song just before leaving London for his final Animals tour and he was so blown away by the version he heard that night that he just had to introduce himself to the guitar player. That guitar player was Jimi Hendrix and the rest is history.
Other songs by the Animals: It's My Life 1965 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 1965 We Gotta Get Out of This Place 1965 (very popular during the Vietnam war as the soldiers wanted to go home so bad.
The truth about this song and the story told in it is... it is a cover - albeight a very good one. The band and vocalist are all great performers... but they also repeatedly did covers but then claimed them as originals. The original song as best can be found was about a "poor girl" not a "poor boy" who ran away from home to follow a gambler she thought she was in love with. He took her to New Orleans and for lack of anywhere else to go or any money they moved into a cheap hotel together there. Then he left her there one morning to go gambling by himself and never returned - leaving her to pay the room fees and without anywhere to go or any money. The story goes that the girl took up employment there as a "maid". However, this hotel was known to the locals as the House of the Rising Sun because it did most of its business at night aka it was a brothel posing as a hotel, and the girls employed as maids were all known to really be for nightly sale. The original song is somewhat in question as it is hard to get early day recordings for one reason or another. But possibly the earliest known version "A Life Wasted in the Rising Sun" circa 1917 ish was a cautionary folk song telling daughters not to run away from home because of how it ruined a girl's life / chances of having a respectable family. It was a warning not to go away from your family seeking a life for yourself because you would find only a dead end job no one respected and endless heartache with your days spent forced to entertain an endless line of sailors, salesman, and gamblers. I would list the woman who sang that 1917ish song but it is unknown to me, and in fact it is hard today to prove this version even existed anymore as we have no hard evidence such as performance billings or old phonograph recordings. I suspect this lack of proof is actually why most musical historians will cite Ashley and Forester instead as its creators. After the undocumented 1917 release, the song entered a quiet decade where nothing else was done with it. Then in 1925 the song resurged when a writer, Gordon I believe, published the lyrics in a weekly article about old songs for Adventure magazine. The lyrics published kept to the female narrative and pronouns. While it is hard to prove the existence of the 1917 song, we can prove that in 1925 its lyrics were used as an example of "old songs" which lends some bit of proof to the possibility. However, after the publishing of the article this song went underground once more for a few years. Then the song had a slight change and was covered by Ashley and Forester in the early 1930s I think under the title "Rising Sun Blues" where the narrative gender was flipped to male and became less about prostitution and more about gambling. Most historians now point to this being the song origin despite older rumors and the 1925 article. Over the next twenty or so years it had about 10 or so more covers - of which the most notable by Nina Simone which was released just two years prior to the Animals version. The 'reason' why this is the most notable version is that The Animals made a career out of repeatedly covering Nina's songs and plagiarizing them by claiming they came up with the songs themselves when interviewed. Which is very sad. If this band had just admitted to being a cover band I could respect them for their beautiful voice and instrumental play. Hell, I may have even been tempted to call them the greatest of all time cover bands. But instead they took song after song that Nina did, claimed to put them all together themselves, and inevitably made more money off it than she did - which to me feels like the ultimate racial slap in the face.
Lead singer is Eric Burdon. Later on in life he was with group " War " in the 70's and it was a banger band for a quick minute. Check 'em out sometime.
I recently watched a documentary about this song and I heard a snippet of the original from the 1930's. Apparently there were a lot of brothels and/or saloons in the mid west called The Rising Sun or House of the Rising Sun.
"House of the Rising Sun" is a buffet?! Darlin', I laughed so hard I sprayed coffee everywhere...I'm a new subscriber & I binge-watched yr channel for 8 hrs, you're a natural entertainer...pretty sure your beautiful little girl is following in your footsteps. Keep it going plz!
'House of the Rising Sun' is a reference to a prison. At least that's what we were told in the 60s when this came out. He's going back to wear that ball and chain...
I'm not all the way through it and you probably figure it out by the end or people have probably already said but yeah it's just a house of ill repute. It's a brothel with also a saloon to it if it were old in times. It is a whorehouse but a whole lot of drinking going on and a whole lot of gambling going on. It's an age-old tradition it is a den of iniquity, laugh. And it's at once sad and intense. Especially when he grew up seeing all the surround him as a little boy and when he grows up he wants to break free of that but somehow it gets to him and he admits defeat and that's why he's got one foot on the platform and one foot on the train and he's going back down there to where that ball and chain just like his daddy did.
I had always heard the house of the rising sun was an opium/heroin den in New Orleans that existed for decades. Would fit nicely in the New Orleans portrayed in the recent Interview with the Vampire series with Louie running the establishment. Really a fabulous performance by Jacob in that role, just 🔥 on the screen.
"I'm in for a doozy!" Lol you Crack me up and your very sweet at the same time..how about one more from the sixties called Duke of Earl by Gene Chandler...you will love it!💞✌️..I think the house of the rising sun was a prostitute house..not sure though
All lot of covers to this song out there, this ones great, agree with other comments that you should check out Spill The Wine..............but my favorite cover is what I'll call the "guitar" version done by Frijid Pink in 1970..........Feel it!
Probably one of the meanest keyboards I've ever heard throughout an entire song. Love this song but I've always hated this and all the other cheesy vids from the 60s and 70s like it.
The great voice of Eric Burdon....still at it at 81 :)
@@michaelasay8587 Yep, it's true.
Eric Burdon's voice is a force of nature.
So nice to see great reactions from such young men and women. E
Yes that voice!!
They only had enough money for one recording, and they did it in one take!!
A signing voice is an instrument in itself
My interpretation has always been that the house of the rising sun is like giving in to your temptations. The imagery of the lyrics is about gambling, alcoholism and prostitution, but in modern times I think a lot of people have their own personal house of the rising sun.
This song is such a banger. When I feel down on myself like I’m stuck and not living up to who I could be, I play this song. Motivates me every single time. The lyrics, vocals, the consistent guitar, and that boy goin crazy on the keyboard. Special track right here.
Facts💯
Burdon (lead singer) was like 17 when they recorded this.
@OK Sceez - This is a folk song, based on gospel. The "House" is a den of ill repute. The Animals made this song commercially popular, but it is a "Cover tune" and not the first cover recorded, understand. The lyrics changed by way of what that house "housed"; Gambling, drinking, prostitution, but the point/meaning/lesson of the song never changed.
Good song man its actually my ringtone. I get alot of comments on it when it goes off in public.
Eric Burdon the singer, done a lot of other stuff, also featuring Chas chandler on Bass, who went on to manage the great Jimmy Hendrix. This was my first favourite song when i was about 7, in 1964
Ooh! I was seven in 64! What month were you born? I was born in June of that year! Have a Merry Christmas!
@@wendyryder2708 Jan for me.
all time classic! ♥
You know Jimi Hendrix started out playing broom. This is a very old folk song over a hundred years old. These lads are the sons of coal miners from Newcastle, England. They have many great, classic rock songs. Love your good-time personality.
They were so great, they needed nothing more than a room to walk around in. So simple yet a powerful song, video and message. The House of the Rising Sun is a house of witch craft, voodoo. Stay out and his eyes burn that message in.
I never ever tire of hearing this passionate, haunting song sung by Eric Burdon. Check out some others by them, they were fabulous
There are a lot of interpretations (not least because "The House of the Rising Sun" was a popular name IRL for a lot of different vices) but based on the lyrics of the song I think it is referring to a gambling den. The second verse talks about his father being "a gambling man, down in New Orleans" and goes on to describe what the "gambling man" needs (a suitcase and a trunk) and what he likes (when he's "on a drunk" i. e. on a bender). Then he says he's going back to New Orleans "to wear that ball and chain". It sounds like he became a gambling man like his father and is addicted to it.
It is a mainstay of instruction on writing that everything you include has a purpose. This would apply to lyrics as well - the inclusion of a description of the "gambling man" and the lack of a description of other vices would suggest that is the point of the song.
Damn dude, even though you weren't sure what it was ultimately about you totally got the energy and the vibe of it. Something is often said about this video is that Eric Burdon was so young back then but not only his look but his voice and his attitude and his subject matter just indicated a man considerably older with a lot more experience. He was a phenomenon for sure. They have got a ton of great songs. Check out, we got to get out of this place. And yeah you may have heard the chorus but man the verses are what makes this song pop.
The storytelling is top notch. One of my all-time favorite songs ❤
Just to amplify the point made in a previous comment, the bass guitar is a bloke name of Chas Chandler. He had decided to move into artist management when he heard a pick-up band at a New York nightclub play the song "Hey Joe". Chandler had heard a folk version of the song just before leaving London for his final Animals tour and he was so blown away by the version he heard that night that he just had to introduce himself to the guitar player. That guitar player was Jimi Hendrix and the rest is history.
The House of the Rising Sun = Brothel, now a bed and breakfast
Eric amazing, Great reaction
Other songs by the Animals:
It's My Life 1965
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 1965
We Gotta Get Out of This Place 1965 (very popular during the Vietnam war as the soldiers wanted to go home so bad.
English Rock band! Sound so American. Still have original vinyl. Used babysitting money to buy it when it came out!
The truth about this song and the story told in it is... it is a cover - albeight a very good one. The band and vocalist are all great performers... but they also repeatedly did covers but then claimed them as originals.
The original song as best can be found was about a "poor girl" not a "poor boy" who ran away from home to follow a gambler she thought she was in love with. He took her to New Orleans and for lack of anywhere else to go or any money they moved into a cheap hotel together there. Then he left her there one morning to go gambling by himself and never returned - leaving her to pay the room fees and without anywhere to go or any money. The story goes that the girl took up employment there as a "maid". However, this hotel was known to the locals as the House of the Rising Sun because it did most of its business at night aka it was a brothel posing as a hotel, and the girls employed as maids were all known to really be for nightly sale. The original song is somewhat in question as it is hard to get early day recordings for one reason or another. But possibly the earliest known version "A Life Wasted in the Rising Sun" circa 1917 ish was a cautionary folk song telling daughters not to run away from home because of how it ruined a girl's life / chances of having a respectable family. It was a warning not to go away from your family seeking a life for yourself because you would find only a dead end job no one respected and endless heartache with your days spent forced to entertain an endless line of sailors, salesman, and gamblers.
I would list the woman who sang that 1917ish song but it is unknown to me, and in fact it is hard today to prove this version even existed anymore as we have no hard evidence such as performance billings or old phonograph recordings. I suspect this lack of proof is actually why most musical historians will cite Ashley and Forester instead as its creators.
After the undocumented 1917 release, the song entered a quiet decade where nothing else was done with it. Then in 1925 the song resurged when a writer, Gordon I believe, published the lyrics in a weekly article about old songs for Adventure magazine. The lyrics published kept to the female narrative and pronouns. While it is hard to prove the existence of the 1917 song, we can prove that in 1925 its lyrics were used as an example of "old songs" which lends some bit of proof to the possibility. However, after the publishing of the article this song went underground once more for a few years.
Then the song had a slight change and was covered by Ashley and Forester in the early 1930s I think under the title "Rising Sun Blues" where the narrative gender was flipped to male and became less about prostitution and more about gambling. Most historians now point to this being the song origin despite older rumors and the 1925 article. Over the next twenty or so years it had about 10 or so more covers - of which the most notable by Nina Simone which was released just two years prior to the Animals version.
The 'reason' why this is the most notable version is that The Animals made a career out of repeatedly covering Nina's songs and plagiarizing them by claiming they came up with the songs themselves when interviewed.
Which is very sad. If this band had just admitted to being a cover band I could respect them for their beautiful voice and instrumental play. Hell, I may have even been tempted to call them the greatest of all time cover bands. But instead they took song after song that Nina did, claimed to put them all together themselves, and inevitably made more money off it than she did - which to me feels like the ultimate racial slap in the face.
You have to check out Eric Burden with War " Spill The Wine ".
Fantastic reaction to a fantastic blues song. Probably the most powerful performance I've ever heard. Superb atmospheric video.
You’d love Eric with the band “War”…”Spill That Wine” long version live! th-cam.com/video/4-Xs7NK-7B8/w-d-xo.html
Lead singer is Eric Burdon. Later on in life he was with group " War " in the 70's and it was a banger band for a quick minute. Check 'em out sometime.
I recently watched a documentary about this song and I heard a snippet of the original from the 1930's. Apparently there were a lot of brothels and/or saloons in the mid west called The Rising Sun or House of the Rising Sun.
The bass player they said in another reaction he brought jimmi Hendricks to the US back then .
YAAASSSSSS 🥰
Man, “at first it sounded like a buffet” had me laughing my ass off. I get it. But had never thought of it that way.
Great reactions my mate.
"House of the Rising Sun" is a buffet?! Darlin', I laughed so hard I sprayed coffee everywhere...I'm a new subscriber & I binge-watched yr channel for 8 hrs, you're a natural entertainer...pretty sure your beautiful little girl is following in your footsteps. Keep it going plz!
So manny good videos being dropped.. I can’t keep up.❤
I saw the Animals in 1966 at the Ponytail Club Up North in Michigan.
Your grandparents were born when this song came out. I was 10
Fantastic song!
,House of rising sun' was a jail in New Orleans
So great song that even my piano cover sounds good!! 🎹😉💥
'House of the Rising Sun' is a reference to a prison. At least that's what we were told in the 60s when this came out. He's going back to wear that ball and chain...
Cmon wit it maiiin🙏☝️🤘✌️
I'm not all the way through it and you probably figure it out by the end or people have probably already said but yeah it's just a house of ill repute. It's a brothel with also a saloon to it if it were old in times. It is a whorehouse but a whole lot of drinking going on and a whole lot of gambling going on. It's an age-old tradition it is a den of iniquity, laugh. And it's at once sad and intense.
Especially when he grew up seeing all the surround him as a little boy and when he grows up he wants to break free of that but somehow it gets to him and he admits defeat and that's why he's got one foot on the platform and one foot on the train and he's going back down there to where that ball and chain just like his daddy did.
I had always heard the house of the rising sun was an opium/heroin den in New Orleans that existed for decades. Would fit nicely in the New Orleans portrayed in the recent Interview with the Vampire series with Louie running the establishment. Really a fabulous performance by Jacob in that role, just 🔥 on the screen.
House 0f the rising sun was a whole house
The house of the rising sun was a brothel
the singer is eric burdon
"I'm in for a doozy!" Lol you Crack me up and your very sweet at the same time..how about one more from the sixties called Duke of Earl by Gene Chandler...you will love it!💞✌️..I think the house of the rising sun was a prostitute house..not sure though
Yes, it was. 😉
House of witch craft.
A buffet 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Also whaaaaaaaaahhhhhh
Bro... You GOTTA do the "five finger death punch" version of this!!! ADHD overload.. Lol
The bass player Chas Chandler discovered Jimi Hendrix.
☮️💙💙💙🔥🔥
All lot of covers to this song out there, this ones great, agree with other comments that you should check out Spill The Wine..............but my favorite cover is what I'll call the "guitar" version done by Frijid Pink in 1970..........Feel it!
House of the rising Sun house of ill repute
Adell rolling in the south
At first it sounded like a buffet. Rofl
Can you react to santeria by sublime
Probably one of the meanest keyboards I've ever heard throughout an entire song. Love this song but I've always hated this and all the other cheesy vids from the 60s and 70s like it.
Listen learn mate 😅
You should learn guitar, start a rock band!😁😁
U should of done DROWING POOL ( BODIES) or PEARL JAM. (JEREMY ) 🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏🙏🤗and. 🖕bullies and haters