We are young for only 10yrs…I found out when I was 32 and had a client who was 16 and looked very much grown up. You don’t have to be young to be beautiful - I have been trying to tell my mom this forever.
_'he sounds 50 years old'_ 🤣 eric burden was 23 at the time of this song... a wonderful blues song from old time black american tradition you'll be pleased to know eric is still going at the grand old age of 82.. a fine son of my hometown of newcastle...
It was not a blues song from Black culture. The song was first collected in Appalachia in the 1930s, but probably has its roots in traditional English folk song.
@CRAZYHORSE19682003 if you genuinely believe that sound has anything to do with English folk music, I have a really awesome bean you might be interested in buying. It may have been a folk song at one point, but that arrangement, like the Animals signature sound, is born of blues and soul - black music.
@@cg558 LOL Still trying to steal other peoples culture I see lol. Music from Appalachia often called bluegrass has a history that LONG predates black music. The origin of bluegrass music can be traced to the people who came to America in the 1600s from Ireland, Scotland, and England and brought with them basic styles of music that are generally considered to be the roots of modern bluegrass music. The funny thing is black culture is not even black culture, it is just a copy of poor white English culture. You need to educate yourself. Here is a great video from Thomas Sowell on the origins of black culture. th-cam.com/video/FT4NQ9D0M6w/w-d-xo.html
I’m an old woman now, and I still get goose bumps listening to this song!! The Animals were way ahead of their time!!CRAZY TALENT!! Yeah man you’ll listen to this song for the rest of your life, hauntingly beautiful!!
My father is 72. Poor boy from a little village in Poland. He built his own electric guitar when he was 18 and this was the first song he learned to play. He is a genius and legend to me ❤❤❤
I am a 75 year old English man. It was this type of music that was part of the British music invasion of the States in the 1960's and 1970's. We sent the Beatles and the Rollin Stones in first but we followed up with bands like the Animals. For a good 15 years British bands ruled the States.
I'm at 75-year-old grandma. This is the music we grew up on. This time frame was when the Beatles still wore suits, and our boyfriends and older brothers were being sent to Vietnam.
We had an after business gathering on site at Fenwick department store in Newcastle upon tyne when I was a teenager. It was always music and dancing. At the time the club Agogo was the major night club for music and at the time and the Animals played there in the same format as this recording. They often played at our sessions in the store. As I was for a time the secretary for these gatherings it was my job to book and pay them. We paid them in old money . £2. 50 shillings. Worked out at 50shillings each. Best time for music early 60's
We 'old folks' lived through an amazing era, that can never be duplicated. This song is the heart and soul of the 60s. Yet, this song is timeless. It has no end.
im 43 but i grew up on this and more as well since i was exposed to all music from literally infancy on up. rock n roll, motown, jazz, funk, classical, reggae, blues, soul, rnb, country and more.
We didn't live through quite as much as the "Great Generation" like my parents, but it has been more than enough. We are the ones who helped build the foundations and governments of the current world, for better and/or worse.
This comes from the era when musicians had to actually be able to sing and play their instruments. No auto tune, track cleaning software, music sampling to fill in with. It was just the musicians and the engineer working the recording equipment. In my opinion some of the greatest music ever was made during the late sixties thru the mid seventies.
It has become a cliche that old people think the only artists who could "actually sing" and "actually play" are the ones they listened to back when they were young and happy. I'm 75 and I feel sad that so many people my age think that way when there is so much evidence to the contrary. So many great musicians and singers now in so many genres of music and so many of them influenced by those who came before.
The songs of those 60s and 70s will forever be played in generation after generation while many of these songs played now will be long forgotten. That is happening right now, you are literally looking at it happen in real time.
@@donaldmarlow488And the majority of the songs from 60s and 70s are already forgotten. Because they were anchored to that age. There will always be some artists and songs from each time period that successfully cross that timeline and live on for future generations.
@@donaldmarlow488A few gems will always be remembered, but like every generation before yours, most songs will be forgotten. New generations will remember their songs, just like the older generations remembered theirs as you were listening to your music.
They were inducted into The Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame 20 years ago, appear regularly in Top X songs/bands of all time, and many modern groups cite them as key and major influences. Struggling to know what more you want!
im 43 but i grew up on this and more as well i was exposed to all music from literally infancy on up. rock n roll, motown, jazz, funk, classical, reggae, blues, soul, rnb, country etc.
Eric Burdon and the Animals remain forever one of the primal rock's greats. Straight up real, no auto-tune, no slick studio tricks, just raw talent fueled by genuine emotion.
It was Burton's bandmate and The Animals bass player Chas Chandler who saw Hendrix (then performing as "Jimmy James" at Cafe Wha? In Greenich Village in New York City) and financed Jimi's relocation to Britain (with the help of Michael Jeffery), recruited bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, renamed the band Jimi Hendrix Experience, and managed them to worldwide fame through their first two albums. I love these kind of connections, and rock music is full of them that we never knew about at the time!
I'm a 69-year-old white guy. This is the music my generation grew up with. As moving as this song is, your intelligent and thoughtful review touched me. Warm regards, Polo.
@ I think you’re over analyzing it. The guys who made rock had no such designs. They heard something they liked and made it their own. Just like every generation has done for millennia.
20 years ago I went to an outdoor concert to see the Animals. No sign of Eric just some old guy sitting on a stool.....and then he starts singing. Oh shit! It's Eric and the voice is still in the 1960s.
@@janicetaylor7516 back in the day.. when I was young.. some journalist described going in to interview them for the first time.. knew nothing about them.. was appalled..said they looked ragged, dirty and rough, compared to the beatles.. then they started singing.
This song was recorded in one take. They drove from their home in Northern England to London, got their instruments out, went in a studio, recorded it and left. Studio rentals are expensive. If you are unknown, you hit it and get out. "I've got one foot on the platform, the other foot on the train. I'm going back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain". Anybody who has ever been addicted to anything or fallen off a diet knows that feeling - the addition being stronger than you. Eric Burdon's voice was amazing.
@@LorraineHinchliffe-vg5cb There is a recording of a young woman in Appalachia singing it a cappella in the 1930s. The song is an old folk song that goes way, way back. A few of the words have changed over time.
@@eugenioespinoza3285 Nope - older. I can't find the one of the girl in Appalachia but this one is from 1933. th-cam.com/video/147kS8O59Qs/w-d-xo.html&start_radio=1
House of the Rising Sun is a song so old no one knows who wrote it. It has been covered by many artists over the years, but this version is by far the most memorable. It is my favorite song from the day. I am 67 and still a blues rocker in my heart.
Huddy Leadbetter? ("Leadbelly") I think contributed a lot to its evolution. Enjoy researching the history of this song, the young girl being led astray to work at the house of Madame Soleil Avant in New Orleans.
@@BarbaraC147 I'm 80 and I still love this song. I remember dancing to it and didn't want the song to end. And yes, I still wear tie-dye clothes when I can find them.
I am 72 and grew up in England, I went to see The Animals live as a teenager. WOW!! This brought back memories, I loved the song almost 60 years ago and love it still. ❤
I grew up in England , I was four when they made this song. Never thought I would say this but darn wish I had been born earlier to see them live. As it was, I saw David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust when I was a preteen girl. So maybe I was born at the right time. 😍😍
Me too! Saw the Stones and Beatles too, we had the best music and the best fashions! My besty and I apparently saw Pink Floyd at the Crystal palace, but I can't remember it 😭. I'm 75 this year.
I am 76 now and I was dating a guy in 1964 when this came out. My absolute favorite song of all time. When I hear it played, I stop everything I am doing, turn the volume up as high as it will go and dance.
Understandable, Miss Nancy. You grew up in a great era of music. I'm currently the age you where when the song came out and I really wish songs coming out now were as good as they were back then. ❤
Best thing about this music, you had to actually be able to sing and play. No synthesizing, no voice over, no fake, just 100% real true talent. This is the era of the real deal.
We wouldn’t have any music today if you had too have talent. Back then you had to have talent, find band mates that had talent, get it all together and then get picked up by a recording studio. When they say paying dues they meant it.
The 'guy on the organ' is none other than keyboard player and singer extraordinaire, Alan Price. The song goes way back in time, and The Animals brought it bang up to date in the 60s. I loved it when I was a kid in the 60s and still love it now that I'm over 70. It's one of those tracks that stays in your soul and DNA.
yeah. The 'House of the Rising Sun' opened in 1821 and burned down two months later. In the mid 2000s they discovered the original foundations. The original song has about six or so extra verses
Nobody knows who wrote the song and it could date back to old English folk from centuries ago. It bears some resemblance to a 1953 English song but no direct correlation can be found. Eric Burden always said I’d have made a fortune if I wrote it
I always felt Alan price was under appreciated. He did have his own band for a while, The Alan Price Set. Maybe I'm a bit too young at 67(!) but I don't really remember him being much on telly. "I say Yeah Yeah" is the only song I remember them having commercial success with. Very much a fringe memory of my childhood.
well thats true, but the mics were a bit rubbish back then..... so it cuts the louder notes and gives it that distinct distortion effect.... (also the reason higher female voices sounded a bit off)
I am 65 years old and have herd this song billions of times, but i never tire of it. It still has the same affect on me as day one. The power in his voice is palpable. This is what my age group grew up with just lots of brilliant musicians. Glad you enjoyed lots more like that.
I love the fact that young people look at the oldies like me but then they hear bands like this and then react to what we loved. There’s loads more for you to listen to and no AI in any of it.
Oh gosh, my girlfriend and I were so moved when we heard this for the first time. We got chills and felt like screaming. 73 years old and still loving this song.
@joannholmes8726 when they performed these BIG songs, on stage they were quite unexpectedly small, and among the youngest of the BRITISH GROUPS. I loved this music, and also: "We gotta' Get Outta' This Place". -- every time I decide to move !!!
Eric Burdon was twenty-three when he sang this song. This was in the 1960's at the beginning of the UK invasion. Alan Price played the organ. Glad you enjoyed this iconic track.
Eric Burden looks twelve and sounds 60. The reason Alan Price was not looking solemn like the others was because he was pushing his little Hammond organ along to keep up with the others and was trying not to laugh
When I was young and cute, instead of 76 and not so cute, this was like a bomb going off on the car radio. The Animals were thought of as the dirty, dangerous boys of boy bands. A real sharp edge. We LOVED them! We Boomers hear music like this and say, "You're welcome!"
This was a traditional folk song, commercially recorded by the Animals. I remember them and the song very well from my youth. The Animals were awesome then and now. I'm 73 and agree with the sentiment that there is nothing today nearly as good as music in the 60's. Never stop rocking.
They were preforming at a bar, found out they got to use a recording studio - packed up their instruments, got on a city bus to the studio (with their instruments) - went in set-up, did the song in one take, they were only in the studio 15 minutes. Then went to their next gig. Eric was 23 or 24 at the time.
I was born in 1958, so I was just a kid when I first heard this song. Fell in love with it immediately! Haven't heard it for a while. Such a kick to watch it heard for the first time! I love everything about it. I'm 66 now, a "boomer". I lived through some of the best music ever made! We were so lucky! Real talent!
I had been told he was 16.He had been singing HOTRS since he was 16 he said. * He claimed that recording the piece took him only 15 minutes as, to him, singing the song that he had already been singing since age 16 was simply routine. I guess he just record it with the Animals until he was 23 then.
This was released in 1964. I was only 3 yrd old, but I remember them being on tv many times as I was growing up throughout the years. Maybe they were on the .Dick Clark show? Or Ed Sullivan show? Or maybe I just heard them on the radio -- wherever it was, I loved them! Thanks for doing this reaction video! I loved watching you discover them. :)
In 1963 The Animals heard a version of this old American folk song on a Bob Dylan album and new immediately it was just perfect to be played as a blues/rock song. They spent a year perfecting it around the clubs and dance halls of Newcastle, North East England, before recording it in the summer of 1964. It was a huge hit worldwide. Incidentally, the first time Dylan heard The Animal's version, he was in his car and had to pull over, at that moment he realised he would never be able to sing the song again, because if he did, people would assume he was just covering an Animals song.
Dylan actually stole the version he did from folkie friend Von Ronk who told Dylan he was going to record it and Dylan beat him to record it. It was recorded by many people including Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seaver. It had become a popular song sung by working miners around the turn of the century (1900) and may have roots from an old English bar song referring to a bar/house of prostitution.
@@jamesmyatt354granted the rising sun is a common pub name over here though I’m sure it ever used for a brothel when they semi-legal plus the fact The city of New Orleans is mentioned in the song so that’s where I always thought where it was ( and considering the reputation of the city not surprising )
Much props to dude. Calling it an organ instead of a keyboard, actually respecting the talent they had, and just having a great ear, in general. Possibly the best Hammond solo ever, though.
Born in Newcastle England. He had a rough early life. He's now 81 yrs old. He's included in the 100 greatest singers of all time at number 57. It's so cool now,- imagine at the time!!!
The Animals not only introduced the incredible voice of Eric Burdon to the world, it also had the future star Alan Price on Hammond Organ and Chas Chandler - who went on to become the manager of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, making Hendrix a world star.
Chas Chandler was also behind the building of The Sage in Gateshead in NE England. It was his wish to encourage new young musicians. My son was fortunate enough to be one of those musicians & played his first stadium gig at The Sage as a teenager with his first band. Hey Joe & Along the Watchtower were among the songs they played.
I was lucky enough to be a new teenager when this band started. Pre teen when the Beatles started. Cream, Hendrix, Crosby Stills and Nash. SO many others! These great musicians shaped my life. It was a truly magical time for music...and I am grateful to have experienced the music scene in it's inception. And very grateful that the next generations can appreciate it!
My wife was raised in the Soviet Union and was 19 when the USSR disintegrated. She cam to the US in 2004 and this was one of the first songs she wanted to me to find after we got married. Apparently, this was a hot bootleg song in the USSR.
Every time this song comes on, my mom talks about how they played at every dance she went to. I love the look in her eyes remembering. I can tell she is remembering being a teenager. And she remembers dancing to this song. She looks happy.
You must hear The Animals sing, "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", "Don't Bring Me Down", San Francisco Nights", and their version of, "CC Rider", truely amazing! By the way, House of the Rising Sun was done as early as 1933, by Tom Clarence Ashley & Gwen Foster. You can find their version on You Tube. Still rocking at 75!
Many of the Brittish groups loved the American blues and old ballads. This song was originally played in American Appalachia and South on back porches in the 1930's and before. ,.... Janis Joplin sang Bessie Smith and Big Momma Thornton, The Rolling Stones sang Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf......... Bob Dylan and others sang "dust bowl and dirty thirties of Woody Gutherie". Imagine a whole generation who became teenagers about 1960.... had their children in the 1970's and loved their music, too and were, and are still, rocking on. In the words of Severus Snape... "Always".
A self-taught musician, Alan Price is the keyboard player. Price was a founding member of the Tyneside group the Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo, which was later renamed the Animals. His organ playing on songs by the Animals, such as "The House of the Rising Sun", "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", and "Bring It On Home to Me" was a key element in the group's success. As a member of the Animals, he appeared on numerous television shows including Ready Steady Go!, The Ed Sullivan Show, Hullabaloo, and Top of the Pops. Price left the band in 1965 because of personal and musical differences, as well as his fear of flying while on tour. Still with us!
We may be old but our music will never not be appreciated!! The performers had talent and as an added bonus you could hear and understand the lyrics! Love this song and the group!!
I saw Eric Burden perform at Royal Albert Hall just 10 years ago. His voice was still amazing. The song is based on an old American Roots music song, so you may have heard it before, arranged differently. It was first “collected” in the 1930s in Appalachia but might have been based on an older folk song from England. The Animals version was at the start of early British blue-eyed soul genre.
'Older song from England' is quite an understatement. Parts of the song can be traced back to a 15th (or 16th, can't remember) century ballad. My local classic rock radio station plays a live version quite often (from a concert end 00's), Eric sounds just awesome, I can't not turn it up to full volume so that everyone around me can enjoy it until they find the station themselves.
I grew up with music like this in the U.K. The singer is Eric Burdon, keyboards is Alan Price, and this track still gives me goosebumps! Another goodie, in my opinion, is ‘She’s Not There’, by The Zombies 🥰
Zombies were one of my favorites as well. Some seriously real music in the 60s-70s. Today, it's all slick studio production, auto-tune, backing tracks and posers pretending to be real.
There will never be another decade that had the music of the 60's . Best music ever, great lyrics and melodies....and you can actually understand the words.
@@pawwalker3492 They say if you can remember the 60's you weren't there. They're wrong. I played on Oggie shore (probably at the same time as Paul McCartney but wouldn't have known). Went to the Cavern many times. Followed my team to the FA cup final at Wembley twice.
@@chrisjen4704 - WOW! And we all remember the 60's very well. Even though I was just a mere child 😁🙄😏 Great music and fashion, when people finally took the stick out of their butts and became who we should be! Glad you have such excellent memories. Happy we have such great recordings/videos to enjoy 💖 My spouse was at Woodstock. He remembers _some_ of it! I had tickets but Mother wouldn't let me go 😑
Every generation says that about their music. The difference is (including Gen x) the younger generations listen to and appreciate all music. Just listen to the man making this reaction.
This was my older brother’s favorite song, it was one of the first songs he learned to play on his guitar. I still remember sitting on his bedroom floor listening to him sing and play this song. He’s been gone nearly 30 years and whenever I hear this song I can still hear him.
@lornaackerman7022, hi, your comment touched me and when I went to comment imagine my surprise, we have the same last name (I mean, it's not unheard of but it's not common either). Anyway, my older brother who was 7 years older introduced me to a lot of the great music of that era, your comment brought it all back. I'm sad for you your brother is gone but you have sweet memories so that's nice, yes? Take care.
The organist Alan Price went on to have his own solo career and was big in the UK in his own right during the 70's. The song is based on an old folk tune, and covered by many people including Bob Dylan, but this is by far the best.
I am so glad that the younger generation are discovering all the wonderful music that we listened to in our youth that still resonates with us. A lot of our music still continues to be timeless ❤️❤️🎵🎵🎵
This is one of the most powerful songs of its era. Their rendition cannot be matched. Can you imagine a twenty-three year old pulling that off? Wow, just wow.
Hell, I'm 74 now, and this song brings a lump to my throat, and tears to my eyes. The music is impeccably done. The lyrics reach right down into one's gut, and pulls it right up to the mouth. The lyrics are clear. They sang in tune. The solo section flawless. The instrument playing is flawless. Any oldie would resonate with the warning, truths, and experience the song emits. One of the very best songs of all time.
I'm sure when you were young, the older generations were saying the exact same thing about the music you listened to. There will always be great songs, no matter the generation.
I am a young person and I agree the old music is better. There is something to be said about old people always thinking their times were better, but in this case I got to hand it to them.
@@Artist00011 What a nice comment. And thank you America for giving us Rock n’ Roll in the first place or we’d never have had the musical inspiration necessary to take the genre to this standard.
Right but it was the goal of British bands to make it in America. Both sides of the pond. Gave us David Bowie for one The Stones etc and I love the cranberries, Ireland. But hey we gave you Lynyrd Skynyrd and my fav Janis Joplin the best of all time
No matter how old I get I never tire of seeing someone experience this song, which I grew up with, for the very first time. Dude, it still gives me tingles and I remember when it first hit the airwaves.
That organ absolutely sings, what a tremendous bit of art. Eric Burdon's voice is also just wild, can't help but have tingles when he goes for the big moments.
Eric Burdon has a voice thats almost physically intimidating! Hes always been one of the most powerful singers, and just gets better with age. Hes also a really nice guy.
The great Eric Burdon and the Animals.I met Eric at a custom car show in Wichita,Kansas in the '90's,got a chance to talk to him for a while after his performance.He was selling cds of his,and took the time to just talk to me like we were old friends,what a very nice man.This is a great song,thanks Polo!
So cool that you met him. I presume he was friendly. I saw him in Phoenix circa 1970 when he had that hit song with War, “Sky Pilot”. When they played that song the fog-machine completely filled the exhibition hall.
This was an era when you actually needed talent to become famous. No jumping around, no half-naked females, no 4 letter words, no talk of killing people or having sex, just talent.
SO TRUE! I'M FROM THAT ERA, SO I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT! I REMEMBER SEEING THE ANIMALS ON DICK CLARK'S "WHERE THE ACTION IS" THIS BAND WAS COLD! LOVE IT!!!
Well, killing people ... Jimmy Hendrix alone shot a girl down by the river and ran tire tracks all over another girl's back. The Beatles didn't care if Maxwell's Silver Hammer came down upon peoples' heads. Donovan's Mad John was pretty scary. Johnny Cash killed a man in Reno just to watch him die, and the Sky Pilot had many thoughts and prayers for his men up there flying bravely, dying often. I'm sure the Stones didn't have a clean record, but I'm tired now.
Interestingly, when I was 14 in the U.S., I heard that song on the radio (1000 times). Could not hear enough. Not knowing him, listening to the song, I pictured Eric Burdon in a leather biker's jacket with tatoos -- some really rough dudes playing "The House of the Rising Son." I was shocked to see these nice guys all dressed up in suits. Blew my entire image to pieces. To me it was a mismatch.
I remember singing along to a remake of 'Behind Blue Eyes' (by some unknown band) to the radio, while riding in the car with my youngest son, who looked over and said, 'Wow Mom, I didn't know you liked my kind of music. I gave him a WHO CD for Christmas that year. Ain't nothing like the original.
I don’t believe it is an original, but NOBODY sings this like Eric Burden!! “Lord, donIt let me be misunderstood” is another great song by them. Raw video. No auto tune or vocal enhancements. Just great music!!❤❤❤
@@loismoreau9304And that was based on many earlier recordings, which were based on folk songs passed around from person to person and community to community for literal CENTURIES. Its history is amazing and is often a prime example of the transition from folk to blues to rock used in musicology/history of music classes. I'm going to try to find one of Alan Lomax's SUPER early recordings that he collected from Appalachian communities for Polo to check out.
Another top Animals song/video is We Gotta Get Out Of This Place. Bruce Springsteen says that song is the inspiration behind every song he's ever written. Eric Burdon is one of a kind.
You my friend have played the most amazing song produced in 1964... I was around 14 years old when I first heard this and Eric has the most haunting voice... The bloke on the keyboard is Alan Price and he was simply a brilliant musician... they are 83 and 82 respectively... thank you for reminding me of my youth... ❤
Eric Burdens dad was a Geordie miner in Newcastle area who worked in the ‘Rising Sun’ mine. Eric was set to become a miner himself but the Animals’ success changed that.
I moved to SF when I was 17. Two weeks later I went to The Family Dog at the beach to see Quicksilver Messenger Service. Somehow we had seats on stage; someone knew someone. And the surprise guest was Eric Burdon and the Animals. He sang this song not ten feet from me. I cannot tell you how happy I was to be in SF, with my friends having this experience. It still brings me to tears and I’m 74 now.
I, with two buddies, went to the first Monterrey Pop Music Festival. All the big acts were sold out (Hendrix, Big Brother etc). So we just enjoyed the carnival like atmosphere. At night we slept with our sleeping bags at a nearby football field with hundreds of others. There was a flat bed truck with a band playing to entertain us. A bit later Eric Burdon and the Animals got on the flat bed and played for us. What a thrill.
England ......Thank You !!!! Giving me great music to listen to when I was a little girl in the late 60's and 70's. It helped me out in difficult times growing up.
The Animals and The Kinks are two great bands that still get overlooked today. Animals singer, Eric Burdon also sang w WAR on their first album and the track Spill The Wine, Magic Mountain, etc. WAR is another band that is massively underrated. The Animals bassist, Chas, managed Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Burdon W WAR's first tour was w Jimi H.
This may be the most iconic rock song of all time. The tune is about 500 years old, an old English melody. Usually sung from the perspective of a young woman. This can be played anywhere anytime and the reaction is the same from the crowd : “I LOVE this song “. Eric Burden, God bless you.
I can't express how your reaction to this song made my evening. That isolated organ/solo performance of the Rising Son is seldom expresed in today's music. I'm glad you referred to it over and over.
Eric Burden and the animals were among the very best young blues artists that resurrected the careers of the forgotten American blues legends. This is simply one of the best covers ever. The British invasion changed the music scene on both sides of the pond
I'm 70.. when Eric burdon sang... nobody nobody sounded like him..he was beforeafter..his time..he sent a message in this song.. there's no beauty in degradation..he always sounded like he knew what he was talking about..I hope he landed well
Hi, my generation grew up with these bands… the 1960/70’s were beautiful days of music and talent. There are so so many brilliant British groups from that era who we only ever hear now on “Gold”… if I could go back and live those days again I’d be gone in a flash… So glad you enjoyed the Animals and the “60’s look”…👍🏻🇺🇸🇬🇧
I'm 68 but when I listen to our music, I'm 16 and beautiful again!💘
If you like listening to this song, then you are beautiful.
Oh! Me too! Absolutely loved/love this! ❤❤❤
You are always beautiful in Gods eyes.
We are young for only 10yrs…I found out when I was 32 and had a client who was 16 and looked very much grown up. You don’t have to be young to be beautiful - I have been trying to tell my mom this forever.
I feel the same why, music is magical that way .
It’s not the original version, however it’s the BEST VERSION ❤❤❤️❤️❤️❤️
It is the original
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It’s not… however it feels as if it is :)
@@tannakilber6798 No, Woody Guthrie and Led Belly recorded it too, and it can be traced even further back
@@nicolevanklaveren1610 confused, you first commented that it was the OG.
Thanks for that
_'he sounds 50 years old'_ 🤣
eric burden was 23 at the time of this song... a wonderful blues song from old time black american tradition
you'll be pleased to know eric is still going at the grand old age of 82..
a fine son of my hometown of newcastle...
It was not a blues song from Black culture. The song was first collected in Appalachia in the 1930s, but probably has its roots in traditional English folk song.
Eric burden doesn't get the respect he deserves. Probably because of the rolling stones and the Beatles were so big around that time.
Nina Simone has a gorgeous version too
@CRAZYHORSE19682003 if you genuinely believe that sound has anything to do with English folk music, I have a really awesome bean you might be interested in buying. It may have been a folk song at one point, but that arrangement, like the Animals signature sound, is born of blues and soul - black music.
@@cg558 LOL Still trying to steal other peoples culture I see lol. Music from Appalachia often called bluegrass has a history that LONG predates black music. The origin of bluegrass music can be traced to the people who came to America in the 1600s from Ireland, Scotland, and England and brought with them basic styles of music that are generally considered to be the roots of modern bluegrass music.
The funny thing is black culture is not even black culture, it is just a copy of poor white English culture. You need to educate yourself. Here is a great video from Thomas Sowell on the origins of black culture. th-cam.com/video/FT4NQ9D0M6w/w-d-xo.html
🎶"Oh Lord, Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"🎶~Animals
Sky Pilot
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One of my all time favorites@@Sandorah7Reynolds
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I also love "We Gotta Get out of This Place". Eric Burden is in his 80s.
I’m an old woman now, and I still get goose bumps listening to this song!! The Animals were way ahead of their time!!CRAZY TALENT!! Yeah man you’ll listen to this song for the rest of your life, hauntingly beautiful!!
Same here. It always gives me goosebumps.
70 is golden
Totally agree.
Me too ❤
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My father is 72. Poor boy from a little village in Poland. He built his own electric guitar when he was 18 and this was the first song he learned to play. He is a genius and legend to me ❤❤❤
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Such a sweet post!.❤
Yep. Even though I never learned to play guitar - I learned this song, just so I could sing it by the campfire ❤️
There was about a 30 year stretch, when that was the first song all the guitar players learned, myself included!
I am a 75 year old English man. It was this type of music that was part of the British music invasion of the States in the 1960's and 1970's. We sent the Beatles and the Rollin Stones in first but we followed up with bands like the Animals. For a good 15 years British bands ruled the States.
Thanks for Eric Clapton he was my first concert
Yes they did…..
They certainly did! I loved Petula Clark's, Downtown, and would listen to my small transistor radio at night hoping they'd play it before I dozed off.
And thank you we will never forget !!!
The British invasion, yes--by way of blues and rock-and-roll traditions courtesy of African-Americans.
I;m really enjoying this Comments section. All these people in their 70's still rockin' it. I'm 81 and loving it.
Hey Hey, My My
Rock & Roll WILL NEVER DIE!
There's more to the picture than meets the eye...
I’m “only” 60, but I cut my teeth on the best musical era of all time! My favorite period is 60s - 80s
@@lisa.user-xm7kz2tb6x Happy Birthday! 🎂🥳🎈
@@SailBale007 Yup yup yup!
I'm 85 but still dance and have a memory like one of those big grey animals.
I'm at 75-year-old grandma. This is the music we grew up on. This time frame was when the Beatles still wore suits, and our boyfriends and older brothers were being sent to Vietnam.
My daddy was killed on his first flight (he was an Air Force pilot). I was 8yo. I grew up for real on this and blues like Muddy Waters
Pretty sure this song is at least 2 to 3 times your age.
This arrangement is new, but this song goes back a long, long way.
We had an after business gathering on site at Fenwick department store in Newcastle upon tyne when I was a teenager. It was always music and dancing. At the time the club Agogo was the major night club for music and at the time and the Animals played there in the same format as this recording. They often played at our sessions in the store. As I was for a time the secretary for these gatherings it was my job to book and pay them. We paid them in old money . £2. 50 shillings. Worked out at 50shillings each. Best time for music early 60's
Yes. We did.
Right there with you sister. Peace
We 'old folks' lived through an amazing era, that can never be duplicated. This song is the heart and soul of the 60s. Yet, this song is timeless. It has no end.
im 43 but i grew up on this and more as well since i was exposed to all music from literally infancy on up. rock n roll, motown, jazz, funk, classical, reggae, blues, soul, rnb, country and more.
@@Shannonbarnesdr1 You must have had great parents who loved great music.
We didn't live through quite as much as the "Great Generation" like my parents, but it has been more than enough. We are the ones who helped build the foundations and governments of the current world, for better and/or worse.
One of my faves of all time. I'm 66 and 1/2.
We were privileged to be young through this era.
This comes from the era when musicians had to actually be able to sing and play their instruments. No auto tune, track cleaning software, music sampling to fill in with. It was just the musicians and the engineer working the recording equipment. In my opinion some of the greatest music ever was made during the late sixties thru the mid seventies.
It has become a cliche that old people think the only artists who could "actually sing" and "actually play" are the ones they listened to back when they were young and happy. I'm 75 and I feel sad that so many people my age think that way when there is so much evidence to the contrary. So many great musicians and singers now in so many genres of music and so many of them influenced by those who came before.
So true. It’s sad 😢there will never ever be a genre/age whatever you want to call it. I miss it so much.
The songs of those 60s and 70s will forever be played in generation after generation while many of these songs played now will be long forgotten. That is happening right now, you are literally looking at it happen in real time.
@@donaldmarlow488And the majority of the songs from 60s and 70s are already forgotten. Because they were anchored to that age. There will always be some artists and songs from each time period that successfully cross that timeline and live on for future generations.
@@donaldmarlow488A few gems will always be remembered, but like every generation before yours, most songs will be forgotten. New generations will remember their songs, just like the older generations remembered theirs as you were listening to your music.
The guy on the keyboard, Alan Price, lived next door to my mother when they were children. I love this song.
Alan Price /Georgie Fame.
The Animals don’t get enough credit. Timeless music.
The Animals were named the
" 3rd greatest rock band in the world"
...2nd: The Rolling Stones ...
1st: The Beatles
They were inducted into The Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame 20 years ago, appear regularly in Top X songs/bands of all time, and many modern groups cite them as key and major influences.
Struggling to know what more you want!
I saw the reunion band, they were flawless.
Epic!! ❤❤
@@221b-Maker-Street they don’t get nearly as much credit as the Beatles and the Stones.
This is the music us 65+ year olds grew up on. We were blessed to have so many great musicians. Eric Burden was an icon.
im 43 but i grew up on this and more as well i was exposed to all music from literally infancy on up. rock n roll, motown, jazz, funk, classical, reggae, blues, soul, rnb, country etc.
Classic song. Love it .
Eric Burdon and the Animals remain forever one of the primal rock's greats. Straight up real, no auto-tune, no slick studio tricks, just raw talent fueled by genuine emotion.
Eric Burdon over 50 yrs later th-cam.com/users/shortsoZSMpL5W2I4?feature=share
He also convinced Jimi Hendrix to go to England where he actually became famous.
They don't call it classic rock for nothing.
It was Burton's bandmate and The Animals bass player Chas Chandler who saw Hendrix (then performing as "Jimmy James" at Cafe Wha? In Greenich Village in New York City) and financed Jimi's relocation to Britain (with the help of Michael Jeffery), recruited bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, renamed the band Jimi Hendrix Experience, and managed them to worldwide fame through their first two albums. I love these kind of connections, and rock music is full of them that we never knew about at the time!
I totally agree, and he is ono of the most unerrated artist
I'm a 69-year-old white guy. This is the music my generation grew up with. As moving as this song is, your intelligent and thoughtful review touched me. Warm regards, Polo.
Brits made black music for white people. I was into blues thanks to groups like the Animals, The Ones and John Mayall
@ I think you’re over analyzing it. The guys who made rock had no such designs. They heard something they liked and made it their own. Just like every generation has done for millennia.
He's 81 and is still active. Frickin' national treasure he is.
Yes Eric is. Some days I feel like I'm barely able to walk the same planet as he does. What a god. He's a legend.
20 years ago I went to an outdoor concert to see the Animals. No sign of Eric just some old guy sitting on a stool.....and then he starts singing. Oh shit! It's Eric and the voice is still in the 1960s.
Eric Burdon had this really mean look about him which was quite a turn-on in a time of Mod fashion. 😊
@@janicetaylor7516 back in the day.. when I was young.. some journalist described going in to interview them for the first time.. knew nothing about them.. was appalled..said they looked ragged, dirty and rough, compared to the beatles.. then they started singing.
@@sallyjopatriot yes! I liked them much more than the Beatles. Great times......😊
This song was recorded in one take. They drove from their home in Northern England to London, got their instruments out, went in a studio, recorded it and left. Studio rentals are expensive. If you are unknown, you hit it and get out. "I've got one foot on the platform, the other foot on the train. I'm going back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain". Anybody who has ever been addicted to anything or fallen off a diet knows that feeling - the addition being stronger than you. Eric Burdon's voice was amazing.
And did you know that the lyrics to this song were found in the pocket of an unknown homeless man, back in the 40s? It was a poem in his pocket.
@@LorraineHinchliffe-vg5cb There is a recording of a young woman in Appalachia singing it a cappella in the 1930s. The song is an old folk song that goes way, way back. A few of the words have changed over time.
Nina Simone
@@eugenioespinoza3285 Nope - older. I can't find the one of the girl in Appalachia but this one is from 1933. th-cam.com/video/147kS8O59Qs/w-d-xo.html&start_radio=1
Thanks guys for all this info… recorded in one take… an old poem…
House of the Rising Sun is a song so old no one knows who wrote it. It has been covered by many artists over the years, but this version is by far the most memorable. It is my favorite song from the day. I am 67 and still a blues rocker in my heart.
Huddy Leadbetter? ("Leadbelly") I think contributed a lot to its evolution. Enjoy researching the history of this song, the young girl being led astray to work at the house of Madame Soleil Avant in New Orleans.
This song goes back to 1933 sung by Appalachian Artist Clarence Tom Ashley and Gwen Foster. The Animals recorded it in 1964
Yeah but it was an old folk song that exist before they recorded. It was call the Rising Sun Blues.
@@normatroutman4040it goes further back than that
@@Resgerr do tell please I love music history
I Grew Up In The 60’s On This Music….Unforgettable.
Me too!
I'm a 79 year old woman and that song still gives me chills.
Once a hippy, always a hippy.
Yep. Especially since we all knew those poor souls….still wear my tye dye.
Me too. And I'm only 67. I think I was 11 or 12 when it came out.
66 here. @@BarbaraC147
@@BarbaraC147 I'm 80 and I still love this song. I remember dancing to it and didn't want the song to end. And yes, I still wear tie-dye clothes when I can find them.
I am 72 and grew up in England, I went to see The Animals live as a teenager. WOW!! This brought back memories, I loved the song almost 60 years ago and love it still. ❤
So did I see them at the local town hall in 1964. Fantastic group!!!!
I grew up in England , I was four when they made this song. Never thought I would say this but darn wish I had been born earlier to see them live. As it was, I saw David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust when I was a preteen girl. So maybe I was born at the right time. 😍😍
Me too! Saw the Stones and Beatles too, we had the best music and the best fashions! My besty and I apparently saw Pink Floyd at the Crystal palace, but I can't remember it 😭. I'm 75 this year.
What a great song! Glad you liked it!
Lucky you!
I am 76 now and I was dating a guy in 1964 when this came out. My absolute favorite song of all time. When I hear it played, I stop everything I am doing, turn the volume up as high as it will go and dance.
So, did you keep him?
Yes I did.@@Deejaay83urj38
Understandable, Miss Nancy. You grew up in a great era of music. I'm currently the age you where when the song came out and I really wish songs coming out now were as good as they were back then. ❤
Thank you love@@gracieluke
…dance like the wind….
Back in the day, you had your voice, not flashy light , nothing but your talent.
No auto-tune back then.
Best thing about this music, you had to actually be able to sing and play. No synthesizing, no voice over, no fake, just 100% real true talent. This is the era of the real deal.
Weird, grandpas from that time used to say the same thing about all that noise the youngsters made and called music.
AMEN
So very happy that you had the opportunity to hear this. I am 63 and our generation has the best music. A lot of it still plays today.
@@castrinecubique983 because those grandpas listened to the Big Band Music
We wouldn’t have any music today if you had too have talent. Back then you had to have talent, find band mates that had talent, get it all together and then get picked up by a recording studio. When they say paying dues they meant it.
The 'guy on the organ' is none other than keyboard player and singer extraordinaire, Alan Price. The song goes way back in time, and The Animals brought it bang up to date in the 60s. I loved it when I was a kid in the 60s and still love it now that I'm over 70. It's one of those tracks that stays in your soul and DNA.
I have loved this song and still do and I am now 77.
Read an artical yrs.ago 1st know recoins was back in the 30s.If not mistaking by à young
girl in Apilaicians.
yeah. The 'House of the Rising Sun' opened in 1821 and burned down two months later. In the mid 2000s they discovered the original foundations. The original song has about six or so extra verses
Nobody knows who wrote the song and it could date back to old English folk from centuries ago. It bears some resemblance to a 1953 English song but no direct correlation can be found. Eric Burden always said I’d have made a fortune if I wrote it
I always felt Alan price was under appreciated. He did have his own band for a while, The Alan Price Set. Maybe I'm a bit too young at 67(!) but I don't really remember him being much on telly. "I say Yeah Yeah" is the only song I remember them having commercial success with. Very much a fringe memory of my childhood.
No autotune just pure talent. I grew up listening to this music. Thank you for bringing my memories back. Keep listening.
Back then you had to have real talent nowadays everybody’s a singer even if they can’t sing I think that’s where we’ve lost some of the soul in music
@@amythystmoon864 i totally agree. I love the music when the bands had real talent.
Animals. We gotta get out of this place. Welcome to the 60’s. We had a lot of great music.
No Pro Tools in the studio. Just professional musicians.
@@chunkyd5880 that’s why the sound quality is so superior
I can’t help but love when the younger generations find the music if my generation. ❤❤❤❤❤
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place shows off Eric's voice to perfection.
That was always my favorite!
My favorite too!
No auto anything... These artists are really playing the instruments and singing without autotune... Straight up talent!!!
well thats true, but the mics were a bit rubbish back then..... so it cuts the louder notes and gives it that distinct distortion effect.... (also the reason higher female voices sounded a bit off)
I am 65 years old and have herd this song billions of times, but i never tire of it. It still has the same affect on me as day one. The power in his voice is palpable. This is what my age group grew up with just lots of brilliant musicians. Glad you enjoyed lots more like that.
His voice is one of the most distinctive I have ever heard.
Eric Burdon over 50 yrs later th-cam.com/users/shortsoZSMpL5W2I4?feature=share
I love the fact that young people look at the oldies like me but then they hear bands like this and then react to what we loved. There’s loads more for you to listen to and no AI in any of it.
Oh gosh, my girlfriend and I were so moved when we heard this for the first time. We got chills and felt like screaming. 73 years old and still loving this song.
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57 and my skin still crawls. Saw them at Ontario Place in Toronto. My eyes are leaking just thinking of those days. People were people, no bs. Peace.
Yes! These guys look like so young!
@joannholmes8726 when they performed these BIG songs, on stage they were quite unexpectedly small, and among the youngest of the BRITISH GROUPS.
I loved this music, and also: "We gotta' Get Outta' This Place". -- every time I decide to move !!!
Eric Burdon was twenty-three when he sang this song. This was in the 1960's at the beginning of the UK invasion. Alan Price played the organ. Glad you enjoyed this iconic track.
Eric Burden looks twelve and sounds 60. The reason Alan Price was not looking solemn like the others was because he was pushing his little Hammond organ along to keep up with the others and was trying not to laugh
@@joannasimmonds3706 that's a Vox Continental, not a Hammond.
@@monkmchorning sorry, I thought they were all Hammonds. Sounds great anyway 😃
I have loved this song since I was young and I am now 77. 😊
Hilton WAS laughing.
When I was young and cute, instead of 76 and not so cute, this was like a bomb going off on the car radio. The Animals were thought of as the dirty, dangerous boys of boy bands. A real sharp edge. We LOVED them! We Boomers hear music like this and say, "You're welcome!"
ANOTHER GREAT SONG FROM THE ANIMALS IS " WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE "
ALSO GREAT SONGS WERE " BRING IT ON HOME TO ME " AND ONE OF THEIR FIRST HITS " I'M CRYING "
Get out of this place.... Vietnam theme song
Definitely ,one of the favorits of those in beautiful sunny soeast Asia ( otherwise known as Nam )
It's great to be a boomer. We had the music!!!
My sister has a T-Shirt thats says "I might be older but thats cool, we had the best bands"
In about 1000 years, they will call our generation - „The Golden Generation“ 😎🤗
And thanks for raising GenX with it! We're passing it along to GenZ
@@genesisfinley8511 you're welcome 😉✌
Agree..We did have the best music!!
This was a traditional folk song, commercially recorded by the Animals. I remember them and the song very well from my youth. The Animals were awesome then and now. I'm 73 and agree with the sentiment that there is nothing today nearly as good as music in the 60's. Never stop rocking.
They were preforming at a bar, found out they got to use a recording studio - packed up their instruments, got on a city bus to the studio (with their instruments) - went in set-up, did the song in one take, they were only in the studio 15 minutes. Then went to their next gig. Eric was 23 or 24 at the time.
That is so cool 🙂👍🆒💥
I think Eric Burdon was more like 19 or 20?
Heard this before and its effn amazing. Thanks for the post and reminding me...had forgotten this.
Lightning in a bottle from a clear sky. A generation was defined. The future altered forever.
Damn they did this song in one take?
Now that's talent!
I'm sure other singers would have to do a million takes to sound this good. 😖
I was born in 1958, so I was just a kid when I first heard this song. Fell in love with it immediately! Haven't heard it for a while. Such a kick to watch it heard for the first time! I love everything about it. I'm 66 now, a "boomer". I lived through some of the best music ever made! We were so lucky! Real talent!
BTW the album track was recorded in one take! Seriously, that's talent.
They drove several hours, unloaded and set up their instruments. Played the song once, packed up, and drove home
Amazing! I didn't know that! Makes it even more impressive, if that's really possible.
Damn straight!
The singer there, Eric Burdon, is what's called in the UK, a blues shouter. The voice isn't what you expect but is a GREAT blues voice.
Does shouter refer to being surprised? Blues the type of music?
Old song from early 1900's .based in new Orleans, supposedly about house of iIl repute. ,covered many times,none better than this.
What gets me every time is Eric’s deadpan delivery yet so powerful!
Btw, I heard he was 17 when he sang this….just incredible.
Wait WHAT? 17?
Hell - wasn't but looking into the Jr High classrooms and remember it better than my multiplication tables.
He was axctually 16.
It was recorded on May 18,1964. Eric was born on May 11, 1941. That’s 23
I had been told he was 16.He had been singing HOTRS since he was 16 he said.
* He claimed that recording the piece took him only 15 minutes as, to him, singing the song that he had already been singing since age 16 was simply routine.
I guess he just record it with the Animals until he was 23 then.
This was released in 1964. I was only 3 yrd old, but I remember them being on tv many times as I was growing up throughout the years. Maybe they were on the .Dick Clark show? Or Ed Sullivan show? Or maybe I just heard them on the radio -- wherever it was, I loved them! Thanks for doing this reaction video! I loved watching you discover them. :)
In 1963 The Animals heard a version of this old American folk song on a Bob Dylan album and new immediately it was just perfect to be played as a blues/rock song. They spent a year perfecting it around the clubs and dance halls of Newcastle, North East England, before recording it in the summer of 1964. It was a huge hit worldwide.
Incidentally, the first time Dylan heard The Animal's version, he was in his car and had to pull over, at that moment he realised he would never be able to sing the song again, because if he did, people would assume he was just covering an Animals song.
Sounds like this could be the moment Dylan said “That’s it! I’m going electric!” 😄
And Dylan heard it from folk in the south. It's a very old song.
No one knows the origin but it has been around for a long long time.
I think it was Lead Belly
Dylan actually stole the version he did from folkie friend Von Ronk who told Dylan he was going to record it and Dylan beat him to record it. It was recorded by many people including Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seaver. It had become a popular song sung by working miners around the turn of the century (1900) and may have roots from an old English bar song referring to a bar/house of prostitution.
@@jamesmyatt354granted the rising sun is a common pub name over here though I’m sure it ever used for a brothel when they semi-legal plus the fact The city of New Orleans is mentioned in the song so that’s where I always thought where it was ( and considering the reputation of the city not surprising )
Eric’s voice was granite ..one of the best songs in history
You gotta hear Eric singing “Spill the Wine” with WAR. He’s an amazing soul singer.
Yes! and what lucinda said.
Came here to point out Spill my Wine as one of his other songs. Dude has chops
YAAAASSS!!! So right!!! Is a must🤯
Yes, agreed. Spill the Wine is a must.
Yes, that is a voice and a half!
Much props to dude. Calling it an organ instead of a keyboard, actually respecting the talent they had, and just having a great ear, in general. Possibly the best Hammond solo ever, though.
Yes, that's why I come back to his channel, he responds with depth sincerity and respect.
@@ramyhuber8392 couldn't have said it better myself, my friend!
Born in Newcastle England. He had a rough early life. He's now 81 yrs old. He's included in the 100 greatest singers of all time at number 57. It's so cool now,- imagine at the time!!!
Eric is only at 57??? No way.
The Animals not only introduced the incredible voice of Eric Burdon to the world, it also had the future star Alan Price on Hammond Organ and Chas Chandler - who went on to become the manager of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, making Hendrix a world star.
Chas Chandler was also behind the building of The Sage in Gateshead in NE England.
It was his wish to encourage new young musicians. My son was fortunate enough to be one of those musicians & played his first stadium gig at The Sage as a teenager with his first band. Hey Joe & Along the Watchtower were among the songs they played.
VOX organ from the UK.
I was lucky enough to be a new teenager when this band started. Pre teen when the Beatles started. Cream, Hendrix, Crosby Stills and Nash. SO many others! These great musicians shaped my life. It was a truly magical time for music...and I am grateful to have experienced the music scene in it's inception. And very grateful that the next generations can appreciate it!
It was the best of times.
I remember sneaking down the streets at 6 to hear the Beatles....patents didn’t want their kids to listen to them
me too..
My wife was raised in the Soviet Union and was 19 when the USSR disintegrated. She cam to the US in 2004 and this was one of the first songs she wanted to me to find after we got married. Apparently, this was a hot bootleg song in the USSR.
Every time this song comes on, my mom talks about how they played at every dance she went to. I love the look in her eyes remembering. I can tell she is remembering being a teenager. And she remembers dancing to this song. She looks happy.
You must hear The Animals sing, "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", "Don't Bring Me Down", San Francisco Nights", and their version of, "CC Rider", truely amazing! By the way, House of the Rising Sun was done as early as 1933, by Tom Clarence Ashley & Gwen Foster. You can find their version on You Tube. Still rocking at 75!
Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood is my fave.
Also, "We gotta get out of this place."
@@lanya47 YYYYEEEESSSS! My personal favourite! So full of emotion and raw desperation!
Let's be real... ALL of their songs are 🔥🔥🔥. ✌🏾❤️🤘🏾
Was done even earlier, the first recording of the song was by a woman
Many of the Brittish groups loved the American blues and old ballads. This song was originally played in American Appalachia and South on back porches in the 1930's and before. ,.... Janis Joplin sang Bessie Smith and Big Momma Thornton, The Rolling Stones sang Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf......... Bob Dylan and others sang "dust bowl and dirty thirties of Woody Gutherie". Imagine a whole generation who became teenagers about 1960.... had their children in the 1970's and loved their music, too and were, and are still, rocking on. In the words of Severus Snape... "Always".
The early artists you referenced were doing the re version of it
A self-taught musician, Alan Price is the keyboard player. Price was a founding member of the Tyneside group the Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo, which was later renamed the Animals. His organ playing on songs by the Animals, such as "The House of the Rising Sun", "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", and "Bring It On Home to Me" was a key element in the group's success.
As a member of the Animals, he appeared on numerous television shows including Ready Steady Go!, The Ed Sullivan Show, Hullabaloo, and Top of the Pops. Price left the band in 1965 because of personal and musical differences, as well as his fear of flying while on tour. Still with us!
We may be old but our music will never not be appreciated!! The performers had talent and as an added bonus you could hear and understand the lyrics! Love this song and the group!!
Boomers baby
I saw Eric Burden perform at Royal Albert Hall just 10 years ago. His voice was still amazing. The song is based on an old American Roots music song, so you may have heard it before, arranged differently. It was first “collected” in the 1930s in Appalachia but might have been based on an older folk song from England. The Animals version was at the start of early British blue-eyed soul genre.
Thank you for this informative comment. 😊
'Older song from England' is quite an understatement. Parts of the song can be traced back to a 15th (or 16th, can't remember) century ballad. My local classic rock radio station plays a live version quite often (from a concert end 00's), Eric sounds just awesome, I can't not turn it up to full volume so that everyone around me can enjoy it until they find the station themselves.
I grew up with music like this in the U.K. The singer is Eric Burdon, keyboards is Alan Price, and this track still gives me goosebumps! Another goodie, in my opinion, is ‘She’s Not There’, by The Zombies 🥰
5/30/2023 Zombies and Animals! One reminds me of the other, too. Both haunting…
Zombies were one of my favorites as well. Some seriously real music in the 60s-70s. Today, it's all slick studio production, auto-tune, backing tracks and posers pretending to be real.
Yes the Zombies! Brilliant!
Yes, another great song!
My dad was impressed with the Zombies. Said they sounded professional like they'd had musical training. But that was the Time of the Season album.
I'm an old lady and I'm enjoying watching you listening and diggiing this music ,,,which is great stuff.
There will never be another decade that had the music of the 60's . Best music ever, great lyrics and melodies....and you can actually understand the words.
As a teenager in 60's Liverpool, I concur wholeheartedly
@@chrisjen4704 - what a time ... to be alive!
@@pawwalker3492 They say if you can remember the 60's you weren't there. They're wrong. I played on Oggie shore (probably at the same time as Paul McCartney but wouldn't have known). Went to the Cavern many times. Followed my team to the FA cup final at Wembley twice.
@@chrisjen4704 - WOW! And we all remember the 60's very well. Even though I was just a mere child 😁🙄😏
Great music and fashion, when people finally took the stick out of their butts and became who we should be!
Glad you have such excellent memories. Happy we have such great recordings/videos to enjoy 💖
My spouse was at Woodstock. He remembers _some_ of it! I had tickets but Mother wouldn't let me go 😑
Every generation says that about their music.
The difference is (including Gen x) the younger generations listen to and appreciate all music.
Just listen to the man making this reaction.
This is one of the songs that defined and transformed the 1960s.
I would have to agree. It was revolutionary.... the vocal, the instrumentals...The power of the music!
@@mbrights3158 agree, and the first pop single to chart 5hat was nearly 5 minutes long.
This was my older brother’s favorite song, it was one of the first songs he learned to play on his guitar. I still remember sitting on his bedroom floor listening to him sing and play this song. He’s been gone nearly 30 years and whenever I hear this song I can still hear him.
@lornaackerman7022, hi, your comment touched me and when I went to comment imagine my surprise, we have the same last name (I mean, it's not unheard of but it's not common either). Anyway, my older brother who was 7 years older introduced me to a lot of the great music of that era, your comment brought it all back. I'm sad for you your brother is gone but you have sweet memories so that's nice, yes? Take care.
Perfect pitch. No one playing melody and he is right on the money.
The organist Alan Price went on to have his own solo career and was big in the UK in his own right during the 70's. The song is based on an old folk tune, and covered by many people including Bob Dylan, but this is by far the best.
I love Alan Price!
Me too! I also loved that these guys are all Geordie's (from Newcastle in the North East)
The Alan Price Set's version of "I Put a Spell on You" is the absolute best version.
He had a nice bit in O Lucky Man, one of my favourite movies, and did the soundtrack too.
I am 73 years old and I can remember when this song came out. It still makes the hair on my arms stand up when I hear it. Thank You for playing it
I am so glad that the younger generation are discovering all the wonderful music that we listened to in our youth that still resonates with us. A lot of our music still continues to be timeless ❤️❤️🎵🎵🎵
@@verabeert6059 TH-cam has been great for spreading great musical performances to anyone willing to click on it!
This is one of the most powerful songs of its era. Their rendition cannot be matched. Can you imagine a twenty-three year old pulling that off? Wow, just wow.
Hell, I'm 74 now, and this song brings a lump to my throat, and tears to my eyes.
The music is impeccably done. The lyrics reach right down into one's gut, and pulls it right up to the mouth.
The lyrics are clear. They sang in tune. The solo section flawless. The instrument playing is flawless.
Any oldie would resonate with the warning, truths, and experience the song emits.
One of the very best songs of all time.
I am so glad that I grew up on this music. It is timeless and true!
Yep, and my eldest grandson has discovered it now, they were the best of times
My first track I ever heard on my uncles old 8 track. Still my all time favourite track.
I am very sad when the younger generation has no idea what real music is. This is a timeless classic, the message is still current.
I'm sure when you were young, the older generations were saying the exact same thing about the music you listened to.
There will always be great songs, no matter the generation.
I am a young person and I agree the old music is better. There is something to be said about old people always thinking their times were better, but in this case I got to hand it to them.
Hear! Hear!👍
Well, at least they are discovering it now.
Try checking out Ren, mind-blowing new music. There's great music in every generation
I'm 71 and I always loved Eric Burdens voice and the whole band.
Brings me back to the 60s.
That's for real,,
Makes me proud to be British. In the 60’s and the 80’s we rocked the world.
@@Artist00011 What a nice comment. And thank you America for giving us Rock n’ Roll in the first place or we’d never have had the musical inspiration necessary to take the genre to this standard.
as an american, the brits have us on music
Right but it was the goal of British bands to make it in America. Both sides of the pond. Gave us David Bowie for one The Stones etc and I love the cranberries, Ireland. But hey we gave you Lynyrd Skynyrd and my fav Janis Joplin the best of all time
Not sure of that first one. J.J. well known here but dare I say it- not as celebrated here as on that side of the pond. @@tammyjohnson8924
I reckon that the gr8 American pop icons were Elvis ( of course), Little Richard, the Beach Boys and Patsy Cline.@@tammyjohnson8924
No matter how old I get I never tire of seeing someone experience this song, which I grew up with, for the very first time. Dude, it still gives me tingles and I remember when it first hit the airwaves.
That organ absolutely sings, what a tremendous bit of art. Eric Burdon's voice is also just wild, can't help but have tingles when he goes for the big moments.
This song, and voice still wallops my gut at 68 years old. Man, he could sing!
Eric Burdon has a voice thats almost physically intimidating! Hes always been one of the most powerful singers, and just gets better with age. Hes also a really nice guy.
The great Eric Burdon and the Animals.I met Eric at a custom car show in Wichita,Kansas in the '90's,got a chance to talk to him for a while after his performance.He was selling cds of his,and took the time to just talk to me like we were old friends,what a very nice man.This is a great song,thanks Polo!
So cool that you met him. I presume he was friendly. I saw him in Phoenix circa 1970 when he had that hit song with War, “Sky Pilot”. When they played that song the fog-machine completely filled the exhibition hall.
I'm glad you had such a good experience with him. I met him at Vet Fest in Maryland and found him to be very rude and entitled.
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This was an era when you actually needed talent to become famous. No jumping around, no half-naked females, no 4 letter words, no talk of killing people or having sex, just talent.
a nice suit and a Hammond didn't hurt though 😉
SO TRUE! I'M FROM THAT ERA, SO I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT! I REMEMBER SEEING THE ANIMALS ON DICK CLARK'S "WHERE THE ACTION IS" THIS BAND WAS COLD! LOVE IT!!!
Well, killing people ... Jimmy Hendrix alone shot a girl down by the river and ran tire tracks all over another girl's back.
The Beatles didn't care if Maxwell's Silver Hammer came down upon peoples' heads.
Donovan's Mad John was pretty scary. Johnny Cash killed a man in Reno just to watch him die, and the Sky Pilot had many thoughts and prayers for his men up there flying bravely, dying often.
I'm sure the Stones didn't have a clean record, but I'm tired now.
You realize this is a song about a whorehouse, right?
Interestingly, when I was 14 in the U.S., I heard that song on the radio (1000 times). Could not hear enough. Not knowing him, listening to the song, I pictured Eric Burdon in a leather biker's jacket with tatoos -- some really rough dudes playing "The House of the Rising Son." I was shocked to see these nice guys all dressed up in suits. Blew my entire image to pieces. To me it was a mismatch.
This song has always been hauntingly beautiful. One of my old favorites.
I am 68 and this song and performance still gives me chills. Love seeing younger people discovering some of the music of my youth.
I think you need to be that age in order even to experience musical chills
I got goosebumps listening to this just now. This song was the first thing I learned on piano 💖 (self taught) when I was 15.
I remember singing along to a remake of 'Behind Blue Eyes' (by some unknown band) to the radio, while riding in the car with my youngest son, who looked over and said, 'Wow Mom, I didn't know you liked my kind of music. I gave him a WHO CD for Christmas that year. Ain't nothing like the original.
I don’t believe it is an original, but NOBODY sings this like Eric Burden!! “Lord, donIt let me be misunderstood” is another great song by them. Raw video. No auto tune or vocal enhancements. Just great music!!❤❤❤
Roy Acuff released it in !938
Yes. That was great!
@@loismoreau9304And that was based on many earlier recordings, which were based on folk songs passed around from person to person and community to community for literal CENTURIES. Its history is amazing and is often a prime example of the transition from folk to blues to rock used in musicology/history of music classes. I'm going to try to find one of Alan Lomax's SUPER early recordings that he collected from Appalachian communities for Polo to check out.
“When I was young” is another of their great songs.
ORIGINAL: Tom Clarence Ashley & Gwen Foster - *Rising Sun Blues (House Of The Rising Sun, 1933)*
Another top Animals song/video is We Gotta Get Out Of This Place. Bruce Springsteen says that song is the inspiration behind every song he's ever written. Eric Burdon is one of a kind.
Great song!
@@GERBILLOGIC Australian band The Angels did the best cover of this song I have ever heard. You need to hear it.
Yes!! I lovvve that song❤️
You my friend have played the most amazing song produced in 1964... I was around 14 years old when I first heard this and Eric has the most haunting voice... The bloke on the keyboard is Alan Price and he was simply a brilliant musician... they are 83 and 82 respectively... thank you for reminding me of my youth... ❤
Eric Burdens dad was a Geordie miner in Newcastle area who worked in the ‘Rising Sun’ mine. Eric was set to become a miner himself but the Animals’ success changed that.
This song goes back to the 1800's.
One of the earliest surviving recordings is of Ledbelly playing guitar and his wife singing.
It is public domain.
Lead Belly was born in Mooringsport Louisiana, about a 20-30 minute drive north of Shreveport on LA HWY1, about 2 hours north of where I grew up.
Did not know that😊
The earliest recording is of Clarence Ashley and Gwen Foster of Appalachia, recorded in 1933.
The melody is actually medieval! That's crazy!
I moved to SF when I was 17. Two weeks later I went to The Family Dog at the beach to see Quicksilver Messenger Service. Somehow we had seats on stage; someone knew someone. And the surprise guest was Eric Burdon and the Animals. He sang this song not ten feet from me. I cannot tell you how happy I was to be in SF, with my friends having this experience. It still brings me to tears and I’m 74 now.
I, with two buddies, went to the first Monterrey Pop Music Festival. All the big acts were sold out (Hendrix, Big Brother etc). So we just enjoyed the carnival like atmosphere. At night we slept with our sleeping bags at a nearby football field with hundreds of others. There was a flat bed truck with a band playing to entertain us. A bit later Eric Burdon and the Animals got on the flat bed and played for us. What a thrill.
@@elaineen1 no one remembers Big Brother and the Holding Company, just Janis. But they were a good band.
.I "ran away" to SF when I was 17 ran out of money got .. My friend and I cleaned up the Family Dog after this concert and made enough to get home.
@@paulconn7849 wow! I’ve never heard from someone else who was there!! Amazing!
England ......Thank You !!!! Giving me great music to listen to when I was a little girl in the late 60's and 70's. It helped me out in difficult times growing up.
The Animals and The Kinks are two great bands that still get overlooked today. Animals singer, Eric Burdon also sang w WAR on their first album and the track Spill The Wine, Magic Mountain, etc. WAR is another band that is massively underrated. The Animals bassist, Chas, managed Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Burdon W WAR's first tour was w Jimi H.
This may be the most iconic rock song of all time. The tune is about 500 years old, an old English melody. Usually sung from the perspective of a young woman. This can be played anywhere anytime and the reaction is the same from the crowd : “I LOVE this song “. Eric Burden, God bless you.
Never get sick of this song. Gives me the chills all the time. Eric Burdon is an awesome singer
I am 81 and that is stillmy favourite song of all time.
Love your reaction, young one. We gladly leave this magic in the arms of your generation to treasure
I can't express how your reaction to this song made my evening. That isolated organ/solo performance of the Rising Son is seldom expresed in today's music. I'm glad you referred to it over and over.
Eric Burden and the animals were among the very best young blues artists that resurrected the careers of the forgotten American blues legends. This is simply one of the best covers ever. The British invasion changed the music scene on both sides of the pond
Almost everything of and with Eric Burdon (lead singer) is amazing.
Can’t beat 60s music no gimmicks pure talent 🇬🇧
I'm 70.. when Eric burdon sang... nobody nobody sounded like him..he was beforeafter..his time..he sent a message in this song.. there's no beauty in degradation..he always sounded like he knew what he was talking about..I hope he landed well
Eric probably didn't have a good childhood.
Hi, my generation grew up with these bands… the 1960/70’s were beautiful days of music and talent. There are so so many brilliant British groups from that era who we only ever hear now on “Gold”… if I could go back and live those days again I’d be gone in a flash… So glad you enjoyed the Animals and the “60’s look”…👍🏻🇺🇸🇬🇧
Alan Price the pianist went on in his own right to record solo, loved them, I am 65 now, but this will unlike me, never get old!! 💙💙😋😋