My father was that age at that time, this song hit him hard. This and the Shadows Apache were the two discs he bought early. And I admit, I got a lot of music from him, as a proud heritage. He had Dark Side of the Moon too, which is my all time fav. When I discovered that black disc, it himself changed my life...
This is a very old song. First recorded in 1922. The Animals didn’t write it. Ya a huge hit. Eric Burdon, at 24 sounded like he had already spent 40 years drinking whiskey and smoking. GREAT band!
@@paulhagger3895 both keyboardists played the organ in the 60s and ushered in the psychedelic movement. Both were blues based who incorporated other elements of music.. & Theyve also been compared by many rock historians.. and they were both very young musicians.
Having been born in 1950, I grew up with this music, beginning with Doo Wop, Buddy Holly, Elvis, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Animals, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Dave Clark Five, and then Motown. I was one lucky guy!
Mark Field 1951 for me. I consider myself one of the lucky ones to actually grow up with this real music and to have seen so many in concert including the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Temptations, Smoky Robinson, Four Tops, and so many more! To this day I am still listening and still going to concerts. ❤️🎵
I was born in ‘62 in Australia - my entire life I’ve said I was born 10 years too late and in the wrong country and probably the wrong race- I’m a blues & soul NUT and loved Marvin Gaye , Temptations, The Four Tops etc , MOTOWN and everything else!
"The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans. Basically a brothel\ opium den.
This song was made and written by a from N.O.called Led Belly who did a lot of time in prison when he wasn't on the road singing at night clubs, true story you can look it up if you wish
@@chrisdobbs9155 Please do your research first because I have that's what I do now I don't know how long it was when Led Belly wrote it because he was pretty old when the Animals got but it is an old Led Belly song
I heard this song for the first time when I was nine years old and have been singing it ever since. I sing it to my grandchildren. Eric Burdon had a voice like no one else.
"We gotta get out of this place" by Eric Burdon and the Animals. At one time, in a land far away, people got very rowdy if this was not the nights last song.
@@patriciasalvatore2394 Born in 61. My early years were spent listening to the Animals, the Association, CCR, the Beatles, Janis Joplin, and so on because my Dad liked them and others. I can’t remember when I last heard somebody refer to a transistor radio. I got one for Christmas one year and carried it everywhere.
Actually it was a French song brought to America by immigrants and was once about a girl in ruin. But yes even Andy Griffith, Bob Dylan and Dolly Parton all recorded versions of it and they started out pretty much singing folk music.
lelennyfox34 it’s not the only time a British band has made an old American folk/blues song well known internationally. Led Zeppelin did the same with When the Levee Breaks.
I tie this song to one of the best nights of my life. Eric Burden was touring with a backing band about ten years ago and played in my town. I was working on the camera crew that night. Thankfully I was the on stage camera guy providing close up shots of Eric and the band that were put up on the screens for the crowd. I was right between Eric and the keyboard player so I had the best spot anywhere for this song. It was so loud and powerful - practically a religious experience. Everything was shaking being surrounded by the music.
Eric Burden and the Animals!!! 1964...We'd never heard anything like this song!!! It blew us away!!!!!! And yes, it was a huge hit! I was a senior in high school, then!
@@Shootingstarcomics The full version of the song itself, yes.... but without the spoken intro and outro. They are only useful if one listens to the whole album, and thoroughly confusing to anyone else. However, they could possibly serve to pique curiosity toward doing that. Listening to the whole album, that is.... But must it be done on his very first exposure? Let him be surprised by that when it happens. ;-)
The guys were from Newcastle upon Tyne area of UK. My uncle was their Road Manager and played rhythm guitar on this song (uncredited). A song close to my heart. Eric Burdon has an amazing strong voice.
Spill The Wine by Eric Burdon and War was Eric's last Top 40 hit and was the first hit by War, of which many more came later. Try the songs - Me And Baby Brother and Low Rider by War after hearing Spill The Wine.
Yes, in NYC, Chandler was told by his Girlfriend to check out this great guitar player in the village, who by the way was already tryin' to find a way out the band he was in. An english ex-bass player who was already looking for new talent to manage? GUESS WHAT?! HISTORY MADE AGAIN! THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME MAN!
In 1964, Hendrix was playing in The Isley Brothers Band, then in 1965, Hendrix joined Joey Dee & The Starliters. In 1966, he was discovered by Keith Richards' girlfriend, Linda Keith. She introduced him to Chas Chandler.
This hit #1, the first non-Beatles #1 hit during the British Invasion. This is an interesting because it's mash-up of a live Ed Sullivan show (they sang the 2-minute "radio" version) and a lip-synched video from another TV show. The actual live clip is really amazing. My favorite part of the video is Hilton Valentine's psycho-killer grin at the end.
I remember when this came out. I read that it was written by Robert Gordon in 1925 but Eric Burdon and The Animals made it famous in 1964. They were a great band. Yes, it was definitely a hit.
I hope this doesn't upset anyone, or start a flame war, but I'm a 53 year old man, heard this song all my life, but it wasn't until about 1 or 2 years ago that I learned Eric Burton was white. He had such a great range and passionate voice, or like he lived a life of whisky and Marlboros. So much depth and soul, it was eye opening, that voice coming from that relatively small guy. Incredible !!
If memory serves, the earliest surviving recording is by Leadbelly, a Blues singer from the 1920s. This was likely a song sung in the early to mid 1800s originally on plantations by slaves, and the soulful melody and lyrics only increase that likelihood - especially given the lyrics before censors got in the way of things. A youtube video containing the Leadbelly recording is available.
@@danielbooth3459 I think you are mistaken as to it being sung by plantation slaves as the tune goes back further than slavery in America to the 16th century in England, about a bawdy house. It was also sung by miners in the American Appalachia in the early 1900's so it was not likely once a slave song.
@@imkluu if it can be traced back to the 1600s, then it could easily have been sung by slaves in the 18th and 19th century. However, I was not aware it could be traced back that far. Kudos on the research. On the other hand, I had heard about the miners. Regardless of the songs origins, it's an amazingly powerful song about regret and redemption. Leadbelly's soulful rendition is stripped down and bare, while The Animals' version is full to the brim with musical accompaniment that really makes you feel every nuanced emotion of the Speaker (as in poetry, not the singer/ writer, but the character) in the song.
They were originally from up my way in the north east of England (Newcastle) & my mother (god rest her soul) used to date the drummer but she finished with him a just before this song was released & they went on to be huge in the 60’s Jay, boy did she regret it lol…
This is one my all time favorite songs. There was something special about the singers back then. They had some of the best vocalists and songwriters of all time.
Pat Donnelly yess! I was not even born when this song was released and I was born in late 1967 and eventually heard this song sometime in the 70s. I was a kid but I still thought it was catchy. It’s been in a lot of The Vietnam war movies. The thing that freaked me out the most is this song has some of the best instrumentalists & after hearing this guy sing it several times and then I finally got to see him, I’m WTH?? He sounds like he’s a lot older than what he actually is.
Talking about a singing voice...this one can kill in a metaphorical way for sure. I am left speechless, as well as for the keyboard player. No one should assume that Musicians nowadays are better or even as good, they just have more technology at hand. The Animals probably lived die hard for their music between sunrise and dawn, no mobile phones, no twitter to distract them :-)
All these bands came out of Liverpool!!! 1964 was a great year for music. It was the year I was born. My dad bought a guitar and played this song over and over . The Righteous Brothers You've Lost That Loving Feeling came out that year. He Played that one over and over. I was small but I remember him playing these two songs .
I was born in 1964. This song epitomizes the 60s as far as I'm concerned. May I say, that i find you such an impressive young man. What impresses me is how open you are to the music of our generation. You recognize talent when you hear it. You talk about my generation using true musical instruments, and talent. It is true. Lastly I'd like to say that I stumbled upon your channel ( probably highlighted due to some algorithm), I was depressed. Your reactions pulled me out of despair. Thank you for what you do.
@@donnaregister6141 Boy, Donna, I don't see why not. Except for me now, some of their music is too dark. Morrison was an amazing singer and their music is driving and original: unique sound.
I grew up hearing The Animals singing this and several other song. Then TH-cam arrived and I saw them on old video clips I was shocked how young he looked. But they recorded this song in 1964....that made me three years old when it came out. :D
The organist is Alan Price, who went on to form a couple of bands of his own. He also teamed up with Georgie Fame, who was another great British Invasion performer in the 60s.
House of the Rising Sun is an American folk song, thought to be written by Georgia Turner and Bert Martin. This song tells of hard times in New Orleans. The most well known version was recorded by Eric Burdon and The Animals in 1964.
Eric Burdon also sang with War (Spill the Wine) and had a hand in bringing Jimi Hendrix back to the U.S. What a great voice. This song is 55 years old and can still command such a visceral reaction, awesome.
I love Eric Burdon...I've always considered him a "blues-belter...such a powerful voice. if you want to hear a very interesting song,please check out "Spill The Wine' done by Eric Burdon with the band,WAR...REALLY GOOD ONE.
1964, what a year that was! The Beatles opened the floodgates to America that year and the British Invasion was on. As huge as the Beatles became early on, being the pioneers of that genre, those other British groups, the Animals being one of them, were big too. They were able to capture some of the limelight bc they had music of their own to offer. Rollingstones had a song called TIME IS ON MY SIDE, which to this day, takes me back to a rainy morning in my freshmen yr of high school, as I'm scampering to my 2nd period class, clear across campus. Whoever had their little transistor radio on, running alongside me in the rain to her class, that song remains embedded in my memory even today. House of The Rising Sun became a hit but was relegated lesser status bc the Beatles owned the American airwaves then, song after song, album after album! Couldn't get enough of it!
This song was so great because of the misfortune of their organ player not getting to the studio when they were recording it. The studio organ player filled in but he could not read music so he played by ear. This resulted in the organ being played a half note behind the rest of the band and they were going to redo it until they heard how great it worked on this song so they released this version. after which they made sure to do i this way in concert.
When I was in high school, every kid learning to play guitar knew the chords to this song and it wasn't unusual to walk down the street and hear the song coming out of every third garage-and of course, we knew all the words!
1964 the Beatles had number 1 spot at the top of the charts for 41 weeks straight. This song by the Animals instantly became number 1 knocking the Beatles off the throne!
This song was a huge hit and we are still listening lol this song came out when I was 2 so I've heard it all my life . Your playing some really great oldies and I love it ,your doing a great job...♡
'House of the Rising Sun' is not about singer Eric Burdon's life. It's actually a very old folk song whose exact origins are uncertain. It is believed to have evolved from the influence of several centuries-old British broadside ballads in which the "House of the Rising Sun" was used as the name of brothel or sometimes a pub. The version we know now was said to have been known by American miners dating back to 1905. The first printed lyrics of the song appeared in 1925 and it sung from the perspective of a female, implying that she'd gotten caught up in a life of prostitution. The lyrics were later changed to a male perspective and seems to be about a man addicted to gambling. It was first recorded by Appalachian folk artists in 1933 and later by blues artists like Leadbelly and then popular folk artists like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez before it became a big hit for the Animals. Eric Burdon, the Animals' singer, is from Newcastle, England, and heard it performed in a pub by local folk singer. No one knows for sure whether the song is about prostitution, gambling, or jail, and historians debate whether the "Rising Sun" was ever a real place in New Orleans or not. It's since been recorded by many other artists, from Dolly Parton to Five Finger Death Punch. Lauren O'Connell does a very eerie version that was used in the American Horror Story soundtrack.
released in 1964. They made the video in one take, in 15 minutes. After they finished, they did a show. way ahead on their time. This song really is heart wrenching, it is embracing the darkness in ourselves. Very moving. I think the house of the rising sun is whatever your torment is, what prison we made for ourselves. Instead of breaking free of destruction, chaining ourselves to the misery of our the lives we created.
The original bass player in the video is Chas Chandler who famously took an unknown young African American who had been struggling as a backing guitarist to various club bands and who had already been rejected by a few major producers and paid for his flight back to London with him, paid for his lodgings and upkeep and then helped him form his own band and so he kelped audition a bass player Noel Redding and a drummer Mitch Mitchell and then after paying for space for them to practice then also got them their first gigs and paid for their recording time and for their first single out of his own pocket, using his friends in the music industry ensured the bands gigs in London were full of an A to Z of the British music scene, the single was 'Hey Joe' and it was a hit. Chandler had discovered and given Jimi Hendrix the help he needed and had helped create The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Chandler was Hendrix's manager for nearly all of his professional career and after Hey Joe he managed Hendrix to get a proper recording contract and saw to it that he avoided the many con men in the music industry at the time.
What I love about this song is that even though this was recorded in 1964 it sounds like it could have been recorded today. The music just leaps out at you. And it's crazy how at 24 Eric Burdon had that lived in old guys voice and sounded like he'd lived the life he was singing about. Nothing recorded today can compare to just a great song, sung and played wonderfully and recorded with out cmputers or auto tune.
Use to be my favorite song in the 60’s. Remember no auto tune or fancy gear. It was live & real. May want to try 3Dog Night, One is the loneliest Number. 🔥
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This is actually one of the best songs ever recorded.
The Italians liked it so much they made an Italian version
Agree
Agreed!
Your opinion
Yes it is.
Ah Eric Burdon. 24 years old, looking 16, and sounding like he’s 60 😁.
he was actually 17 when he recorded this
@@ameyer1970 The single was recorded in 1964 and he was born in 1941, which makes him 23.
@@carolineb3527 right, he was 23
Still sounds like he’s 60 🤣
Caitlin Seaton.... not everyone can sound like Justin Bieber, thankfully 😆
One of my favorite songs. I'm 75 and I've always loved their music.
Imagine hearing this at age 13 in 1964! My whole world flipped upside down. Am privileged to have lived thru the best music era ever - late '62-69!!
Judy Taaffe I was 13 too!!!
My father was that age at that time, this song hit him hard. This and the Shadows Apache were the two discs he bought early. And I admit, I got a lot of music from him, as a proud heritage. He had Dark Side of the Moon too, which is my all time fav. When I discovered that black disc, it himself changed my life...
Yes, yes you were. Born in 68. Missed it all.
Lucky you, 'cause the 80s were largely shite!
I was 11... this was the first band I ever saw live. They opened for Herman's Hermits. What a life-changing experience!
The Animals' version of The Rising Sun was lightning in a bottle. Everything was perfect.
Eric Burdon had a singing voice that could slaughter an audience
This band was ahead of its time. One of the best song ever
isn't it amazing what they where able to do with music back in the day before computers.
They had to actually have talent...much respect.
Beverly Barstad I agree
@@drgwhatsthetruth3783 actual talent not autotune
Isn't it amazing what they where able to do with music back in the day before computers?*
Yes.
Isn't it amazing what they where able to do with music back in the day before computers?*
Questions end with a question mark.
Fantastic song, fantastic musicians and fantastic voice- just brilliant!!
Eric Burdon had an impressive voice for someone so young
This is a very old song. First recorded in 1922. The Animals didn’t write it. Ya a huge hit. Eric Burdon, at 24 sounded like he had already spent 40 years drinking whiskey and smoking. GREAT band!
This song remains popular...it always will be. After all these years it still gives me the chills.
Shout out for Alan Price on Keyboards! Loved it.
The keyboards and vocal are what make this recording special I think
Alan price is like ray manzarek
@@valleyva4600 in what way?
@@paulhagger3895 both keyboardists played the organ in the 60s and ushered in the psychedelic movement. Both were blues based who incorporated other elements of music.. & Theyve also been compared by many rock historians.. and they were both very young musicians.
@@valleyva4600 Ray Manzarek was 28 when the first doors album was released.
First song I learned on the organ. They are from England. Good reaction.
This song gave me chills back in 1964 and it still rocks!!
Having been born in 1950, I grew up with this music, beginning with Doo Wop, Buddy Holly, Elvis, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Animals, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Dave Clark Five, and then Motown. I was one lucky guy!
Mark Field 1951 for me. I consider myself one of the lucky ones to actually grow up with this real music and to have seen so many in concert including the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Temptations, Smoky Robinson, Four Tops, and so many more! To this day I am still listening and still going to concerts. ❤️🎵
I was born in ‘62 in Australia - my entire life I’ve said I was born 10 years too late and in the wrong country and probably the wrong race- I’m a blues & soul NUT and loved Marvin Gaye , Temptations, The Four Tops etc , MOTOWN and everything else!
Motown, yeah they were so fantastic
Mark Field Me, too
"The House of the Rising Sun" is a
traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a
life gone wrong in New Orleans. Basically a brothel\ opium den.
Not only that, but Rising Sun Blues is itself a rework of a French folk song and it's true origins beyond that are unknown.
Don't forget it is also a "hidden" general term for sin and depravity. Rising sun->morning star->Satan. So basically about living in sin in general.
This song was made and written by a from N.O.called Led Belly who did a lot of time in prison when he wasn't on the road singing at night clubs, true story you can look it up if you wish
@@georgepowell3029 i promise you the song is much, much older than that.
@@chrisdobbs9155 Please do your research first because I have that's what I do now I don't know how long it was when Led Belly wrote it because he was pretty old when the Animals got but it is an old Led Belly song
The Animals were from Newcastle and on one of their songs, they refer to the Rolling Stones as coming from "The deep South !" Love it !
I heard this song for the first time when I was nine years old and have been singing it ever since. I sing it to my grandchildren. Eric Burdon had a voice like no one else.
This song is actually from the 1930s, if not earlier. This is still the best version of all time. Eric Burdon had the perfect voice for this.
Such a THUNDEROUS voice coming out of this man's mouth made him seem like he was TEN --FEET --TALL !
"We gotta get out of this place" by Eric Burdon and the Animals.
At one time, in a land far away, people got very rowdy if this was not the nights last song.
And....welcome home.
One of my favorite songs. Always loved the Animals.
We gotta get out of this place was the most requested song by the American troops during the Vietnam war.
@@shonagriffiths8907 - loved it Shona. My daughter's a Shona.
Super hit. My teen years. Procol Harum-try that. Whiter shade of Pale
Why don't u do a reaction video?
Great song
Great vocal by Eric Burdon. I was so young when I heard this recording. Loved it! Still think Burdon's vocal is on the greatest in music history ❤️
I remember when that was a new song and heard it on the radio the first time back then. Yeah, I'm that old. LOL
Born in 1952 myself. Heard all these on my transistor radio. Hardly ever knew what the singer looked like. Yep, I'm that old too. lol
@@patriciasalvatore2394 Born in 61. My early years were spent listening to the Animals, the Association, CCR, the Beatles, Janis Joplin, and so on because my Dad liked them and others. I can’t remember when I last heard somebody refer to a transistor radio. I got one for Christmas one year and carried it everywhere.
It's not his life he is singing about, author is unknown, VERY old american folk song.
It is a leadbelly song, lld blues song
Actually it was a French song brought to America by immigrants and was once about a girl in ruin. But yes even Andy Griffith, Bob Dylan and Dolly Parton all recorded versions of it and they started out pretty much singing folk music.
lelennyfox34 it’s not the only time a British band has made an old American folk/blues song well known internationally. Led Zeppelin did the same with When the Levee Breaks.
The lead singer has a badass voice!!! Listen to him sing Hold On I'm Coming.
This was a huge hit. It’s a morbid song about a guy with an alcoholic dad that lived a miserable life in this house.
First song I ever owned, aged 7, and I still have it. Great song
I tie this song to one of the best nights of my life. Eric Burden was touring with a backing band about ten years ago and played in my town.
I was working on the camera crew that night. Thankfully I was the on stage camera guy providing close up shots of Eric and the band that were put up on the screens for the crowd. I was right between Eric and the keyboard player so I had the best spot anywhere for this song. It was so loud and powerful - practically a religious experience. Everything was shaking being surrounded by the music.
Your enthusiasm is infectious! Thank you for reacting to this, it's always been one of my favorites.
Gotta do the Zombies. Time of The Season.
Love the zombies
totally!
She's Not There!
@@lucidloon both
You do the zombies!
He had swagger man, the singer Eric Burdon
Eric Burden and the Animals!!! 1964...We'd never heard anything like this song!!! It blew us away!!!!!! And yes, it was a huge hit! I was a senior in high school, then!
Eric Burden went on to a solo career in later years, check him out!
You need to hear "Nights In White Satin" by The Moody Blues.
The full version
Love that song 👍
@@Shootingstarcomics The full version of the song itself, yes.... but without the spoken intro and outro.
They are only useful if one listens to the whole album, and thoroughly confusing to anyone else. However, they could possibly serve to pique curiosity toward doing that. Listening to the whole album, that is.... But must it be done on his very first exposure? Let him be surprised by that when it happens. ;-)
White Satin are white satin sheets
@@me-pm6mx Pretty sure we all knew that, but thanks anyway. ;-)
Whoa that was the first record I bought when I was 14, my parents hated it!
The guys were from Newcastle upon Tyne area of UK. My uncle was their Road Manager and played rhythm guitar on this song (uncredited). A song close to my heart. Eric Burdon has an amazing strong voice.
Spill The Wine by Eric Burdon and War was Eric's last Top 40 hit and was the first hit by War, of which many more came later. Try the songs - Me And Baby Brother and Low Rider by War after hearing Spill The Wine.
THIS is the video of "Spill the Wine" to react to! th-cam.com/video/3i0DMbCKnAg/w-d-xo.html
Accept no substitutes. ;-)
That organ was well slayed!
Try Iron Butterfly “inna gadada vida” it’s long and shows how this instrument defined a genre .
The tall bass player, Chas Chandler, is the one who discovered Jimi Hendrix.
Yes, in NYC, Chandler was told by his Girlfriend to check out this great guitar player in the village, who by the way was already tryin' to find a way out the band he was in. An english ex-bass player who was already looking for new talent to manage? GUESS WHAT?! HISTORY MADE AGAIN! THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME MAN!
darryl guerrant : Actually the girl was Linda Keith and was Keith Richards girlfriend.
In 1964, Hendrix was playing in The Isley Brothers Band, then in 1965, Hendrix joined Joey Dee & The Starliters. In 1966, he was discovered by Keith Richards' girlfriend, Linda Keith. She introduced him to Chas Chandler.
@@drzarkov39 Yeah, it couldn't have happened without Linda. the Rolling Stones' manager wasn't that impressed with him. Good thing Chas was.
I met Chas and Eric briefly after a show at the tower theater in Philly. My one degree of separation from Jimi :)
An old soul, that one... his voice was WAY beyond his age! This song however, never gets old! It's been a favorite my whole life.
His name is Eric Burdon and he is actually English
Please do the Rolling Stones - Paint it black.
Yes!!!!!!
Yeaaa
Why don't you do It?
@@valleyva4600 , I don't have a TH-cam channel .
@@tammycenter8757 start one. Anyone can do it.. I'm starting one too.. You just have to believe in yourself
Best rock & roll song EVER!
Yes,, this was a MASSIVE HIT when it came out. And yes, that organ was the 2nd biggest instrument behind Eric’s voice!
This hit #1, the first non-Beatles #1 hit during the British Invasion. This is an interesting because it's mash-up of a live Ed Sullivan show (they sang the 2-minute "radio" version) and a lip-synched video from another TV show. The actual live clip is really amazing. My favorite part of the video is Hilton Valentine's psycho-killer grin at the end.
RIP Hilton Valentine. The legendary Animal's guitarist passed away a few days ago.
I remember when this came out. I read that it was written by Robert Gordon in 1925 but Eric Burdon and The Animals made it famous in 1964. They were a great band. Yes, it was definitely a hit.
I hope this doesn't upset anyone, or start a flame war, but I'm a 53 year old man, heard this song all my life, but it wasn't until about 1 or 2 years ago that I learned Eric Burton was white. He had such a great range and passionate voice, or like he lived a life of whisky and Marlboros. So much depth and soul, it was eye opening, that voice coming from that relatively small guy. Incredible !!
This song is actually a folk song from New Orleans. It's origin and original writer is unknown. Just a little fun fact for those who don't know
If memory serves, the earliest surviving recording is by Leadbelly, a Blues singer from the 1920s. This was likely a song sung in the early to mid 1800s originally on plantations by slaves, and the soulful melody and lyrics only increase that likelihood - especially given the lyrics before censors got in the way of things. A youtube video containing the Leadbelly recording is available.
@@danielbooth3459 I think you are mistaken as to it being sung by plantation slaves as the tune goes back further than slavery in America to the 16th century in England, about a bawdy house. It was also sung by miners in the American Appalachia in the early 1900's so it was not likely once a slave song.
@@imkluu if it can be traced back to the 1600s, then it could easily have been sung by slaves in the 18th and 19th century. However, I was not aware it could be traced back that far. Kudos on the research. On the other hand, I had heard about the miners. Regardless of the songs origins, it's an amazingly powerful song about regret and redemption. Leadbelly's soulful rendition is stripped down and bare, while The Animals' version is full to the brim with musical accompaniment that really makes you feel every nuanced emotion of the Speaker (as in poetry, not the singer/ writer, but the character) in the song.
They were originally from up my way in the north east of England (Newcastle) & my mother (god rest her soul) used to date the drummer but she finished with him a just before this song was released & they went on to be huge in the 60’s Jay, boy did she regret it lol…
Animals "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
This is one my all time favorite songs. There was something special about the singers back then. They had some of the best vocalists and songwriters of all time.
Alan Price (keyboards) became a solo artist singer-songwriter in his own right, and as a duo with Georgie Fame - and also became a movie actor.
Alan Price is an amazing organist and Eric Burdon has a great voice!
Great song....these guys were Soooo young at the time, yet so talented! I love your reactions!
Pat Donnelly yess! I was not even born when this song was released and I was born in late 1967 and eventually heard this song sometime in the 70s. I was a kid but I still thought it was catchy. It’s been in a lot of The Vietnam war movies. The thing that freaked me out the most is this song has some of the best instrumentalists & after hearing this guy sing it several times and then I finally got to see him, I’m WTH?? He sounds like he’s a lot older than what he actually is.
Talking about a singing voice...this one can kill in a metaphorical way for sure. I am left speechless, as well as for the keyboard player. No one should assume that Musicians nowadays are better or even as good, they just have more technology at hand. The Animals probably lived die hard for their music between sunrise and dawn, no mobile phones, no twitter to distract them :-)
All these bands came out of Liverpool!!! 1964 was a great year for music. It was the year I was born. My dad bought a guitar and played this song over and over . The Righteous Brothers You've Lost That Loving Feeling came out that year. He Played that one over and over. I was small but I remember him playing these two songs .
Very unique voice! Love the rhaspyness. All time classic here
Eric Burdon has the most powerful, bluesy voice you can even hear. No one could have sung this song any better.
Thank you, bro, please listen While my guitar gently weeps by the Beatles.
Greetings from Ukraine !
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a magnificent record. The Beatles in 1968 with Eric Clapton sitting in on solo guitar, everybody in peak form.
If you like bands with some great keyboard players, check out some Doors or Deep Purple. Both are great.
Best keyboard player of all time and arguably the most innovative ....Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake & Palmer (and formerly of The Nice)
Love The Doors... I got into them in the 80s when music turned mostly to shit lol.
Or Strawberry Alarm Clock
Yes , John LORD from Deep purple is a master of using Hammond organ, RIP
Matthew Drake Try Emerson,Lake & Palmer for the greatest keyboard player
The sixties and 70’s songs were usually short, when Queen brought out Bohemian Rhapsody it was a massive thing that it was around 6 minutes long!
I was knee-high to a grasshopper when this was realeased and didn't understand it, but I loved Eric Burdon's voice.
I was born in 1964. This song epitomizes the 60s as far as I'm concerned. May I say, that i find you such an impressive young man. What impresses me is how open you are to the music of our generation. You recognize talent when you hear it. You talk about my generation using true musical instruments, and talent. It is true.
Lastly I'd like to say that I stumbled upon your channel ( probably highlighted due to some algorithm), I was depressed. Your reactions pulled me out of despair. Thank you for what you do.
My brother loved to walk around this house and sing this song. Brings back memories. Thank you!!!
When I was a kid, this was the first song you tried to learn on the guitar.
This song was my children's lullaby when they were babies. Please do Eric Burdon and War "Spill the Wine" and "We Got To Get Out Of This Place".
Try the Doors: "Light My Fire" - you will dig it for sure.
No, there are MUCH better Doors songs.
@@ngc6603 it's one of their best songs, but they had many.
I am a Doors fan. I dont think most people will get into the Doors music.
@@donnaregister6141 Boy, Donna, I don't see why not. Except for me now, some of their music is too dark. Morrison was an amazing singer and their music is driving and original: unique sound.
Take it as it Comes is much better
I grew up hearing The Animals singing this and several other song. Then TH-cam arrived and I saw them on old video clips I was shocked how young he looked. But they recorded this song in 1964....that made me three years old when it came out. :D
I'm obsessed with this song since I recently discovered it thanks to your channel.
The organist is Alan Price, who went on to form a couple of bands of his own. He also teamed up with Georgie Fame, who was another great British Invasion performer in the 60s.
House of the Rising Sun is an American folk song, thought to be written by Georgia Turner and Bert Martin. This song tells of hard times in New Orleans. The most well known version was recorded by Eric Burdon and The Animals in 1964.
Eric Burdon also sang with War (Spill the Wine) and had a hand in bringing Jimi Hendrix back to the U.S. What a great voice. This song is 55 years old and can still command such a visceral reaction, awesome.
If you liked this you should like "we gotta get outta this place", a great Vietnam era anthem, also by the Animals.
One of my fav songs of all time
This song always makes my hairs stand on end.
I love Eric Burdon...I've always considered him a "blues-belter...such a powerful voice. if you want to hear a very interesting song,please check out "Spill The Wine' done by Eric Burdon with the band,WAR...REALLY GOOD ONE.
1964, what a year that was! The Beatles opened the floodgates to America that year and the British Invasion was on. As huge as the Beatles became early on, being the pioneers of that genre, those other British groups, the Animals being one of them, were big too. They were able to capture some of the limelight bc they had music of their own to offer. Rollingstones had a song called TIME IS ON MY SIDE, which to this day, takes me back to a rainy morning in my freshmen yr of high school, as I'm scampering to my 2nd period class, clear across campus. Whoever had their little transistor radio on, running alongside me in the rain to her class, that song remains embedded in my memory even today. House of The Rising Sun became a hit but was relegated lesser status bc the Beatles owned the American airwaves then, song after song, album after album! Couldn't get enough of it!
the house of the rising sun is a old folk song around early 1900's. But the British Eric Burden turned it into a hit.
This song was so great because of the misfortune of their organ player not getting to the studio when they were recording it. The studio organ player filled in but he could not read music so he played by ear. This resulted in the organ being played a half note behind the rest of the band and they were going to redo it until they heard how great it worked on this song so they released this version. after which they made sure to do i this way in concert.
When I was in high school, every kid learning to play guitar knew the chords to this song and it wasn't unusual to walk down the street and hear the song coming out of every third garage-and of course, we knew all the words!
1964 the Beatles had number 1 spot at the top of the charts for 41 weeks straight. This song by the Animals instantly became number 1 knocking the Beatles off the throne!
This song was a huge hit and we are still listening lol this song came out when I was 2 so I've heard it all my life . Your playing some really great oldies and I love it ,your doing a great job...♡
'House of the Rising Sun' is not about singer Eric Burdon's life. It's actually a very old folk song whose exact origins are uncertain. It is believed to have evolved from the influence of several centuries-old British broadside ballads in which the "House of the Rising Sun" was used as the name of brothel or sometimes a pub. The version we know now was said to have been known by American miners dating back to 1905. The first printed lyrics of the song appeared in 1925 and it sung from the perspective of a female, implying that she'd gotten caught up in a life of prostitution. The lyrics were later changed to a male perspective and seems to be about a man addicted to gambling. It was first recorded by Appalachian folk artists in 1933 and later by blues artists like Leadbelly and then popular folk artists like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez before it became a big hit for the Animals. Eric Burdon, the Animals' singer, is from Newcastle, England, and heard it performed in a pub by local folk singer. No one knows for sure whether the song is about prostitution, gambling, or jail, and historians debate whether the "Rising Sun" was ever a real place in New Orleans or not. It's since been recorded by many other artists, from Dolly Parton to Five Finger Death Punch. Lauren O'Connell does a very eerie version that was used in the American Horror Story soundtrack.
This is my favorite song. For some reason my mom sang this song to me every night when I need calming. One of my best memories of my mother.
released in 1964. They made the video in one take, in 15 minutes. After
they finished, they did a show. way ahead on their time. This song
really is heart wrenching, it is embracing the darkness in ourselves.
Very moving. I think the house of the rising sun is whatever your torment is,
what prison we made for ourselves. Instead of breaking free of destruction,
chaining ourselves to the misery of our the lives we created.
The original bass player in the video is Chas Chandler who famously took an unknown young African American who had been struggling as a backing guitarist to various club bands and who had already been rejected by a few major producers and paid for his flight back to London with him, paid for his lodgings and upkeep and then helped him form his own band and so he kelped audition a bass player Noel Redding and a drummer Mitch Mitchell and then after paying for space for them to practice then also got them their first gigs and paid for their recording time and for their first single out of his own pocket, using his friends in the music industry ensured the bands gigs in London were full of an A to Z of the British music scene, the single was 'Hey Joe' and it was a hit. Chandler had discovered and given Jimi Hendrix the help he needed and had helped create The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Chandler was Hendrix's manager for nearly all of his professional career and after Hey Joe he managed Hendrix to get a proper recording contract and saw to it that he avoided the many con men in the music industry at the time.
You need to listen to more of their music. I still listen to their greatest hits album on TH-cam while I am at work. Great stuff!
If it was a hit ? Oh Lord, it was a worldwide # 1 selling single. Surely one of the very biggest of 1964.
What I love about this song is that even though this was recorded in 1964 it sounds like it could have been recorded today. The music just leaps out at you. And it's crazy how at 24 Eric Burdon had that lived in old guys voice and sounded like he'd lived the life he was singing about. Nothing recorded today can compare to just a great song, sung and played wonderfully and recorded with out cmputers or auto tune.
Use to be my favorite song in the 60’s. Remember no auto tune or fancy gear. It was live & real. May want to try 3Dog Night, One is the loneliest Number. 🔥
teresa Anderson that song by three dog night is a really good song and my mom had that album.
3 Dog Night is awesome... one of my favorites back in the day.
He has 70 yr old eyes in that young face, like he's seen it all many times before.
One of Britain's most legendary bands imo
This song is so so pasionate... It make you paint a picture of what his life is about.. 💜💛
One of my favorite groups.
He's english. They were an english band from Newcastle in the North-East of England
It was a hit. I loved it when I was young. Now I am 65 but still like that song. Passionat and sad. Like my own life!
Some facts: Singer is Eric Burdon.Bass player became hendrix mgr. Eric was called and found Hendrix when he od'ed. They were close friends!
House of the Rising is an American folk song dating back to the 1933. Alan Price keyboard player for the Animals, adapted for the 60’s sound.