LYRICS There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy And God, I know I'm one My mother was a tailor She sewed my new blue jeans My father was a gamblin' man Down in New Orleans Now the only thing a gambler needs Is a suitcase and a trunk And the only time he's satisfied Is when he's all drunk Oh mother, tell your children Not to do what I have done Spend your lives in sin and misery In the House of the Rising Sun Well, I got one foot on the platform The other foot on the train I'm goin' back to New Orleans To wear that ball and chain Well, there is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy And God, I know I'm one
it's a story of a man who took the wrong path in life in a sin city in new orleans. the place was called house of the rising sun where there was gambling, brothels, etc. if you noticed in the last verse he was "going back to new orleans on a train...to wear the ball and chain" - meaning he was being sent to jail for a crime.
@@dubzer0649 The singer Eric Burdon at the time was 23. This was also done in one take. The Animals were very, VERY heavily influenced by Black Rock & Roll, early R&B and Chicago Blues. Sam Cooke, John Lee Hooker and Fats Domino were just a few of the many, many influences. In fact, they once described themselves as "Five white boys from Newcastle trying to sound Black". Try "Boom Boom" and "I'm Mad Again" by these guys. You'll definitely hear the R&B influence.
There was an explosion of British talent in the 60’s. Eric Burden had the most amazing blues and soul voice and was only a babe of 23 I believe when he performed this in one take! No swanky technology back then either to enhance the results. The House of the Rising Sun was a brothel.
The song was written back in the 1800s. At that time bordello were common in the south and the west. There was gambling drinking and prostitution. The lead singer was Eric burden and the organ player was Allen price. I consider them to be the best that the Era of the 60s had to offer.
hi Dub, the house of the rising sun , was a gambling den / brothel , in new orleans, so this young man followed in his dads footsteps, went bad hanging in the house of the rising sun , left N. O. , and the long arm of the law found him, he was taken back to N.O. by the law and shackled with a ball and chain , went to prison , check it out, this was how many prisoners were treated if they were a high risk bad boy, ciao 4 now
This is one of those songs man. I loved it when I was 3, I love it now, I’ll love it when I’m dying, I loved it the first time I heard it and I’ll love it the last time I ever hear it
The song was picked up and made into a #1 hit by The Animals in 1964. But as to the original writer? It seems many people made various contributions to this song over the past few centuries, musically and lyrically, making it what it is today. The version we're familiar with is a story about a brothel in New Orleans named after Madame Marianne Le Soleil Levant, which is French for "Rising Sun." The brothel opened in 1862 when Union Troops occupied the town and closed in 1874 when the town received too many complaints by neighbors. Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is an English singer-songwriter and actor. He is regarded as one of the British Invasion's most distinctive singers with his deep, powerful blues-rock voice. Alan Price (born 19 April 1942) is an English musician, who was the original keyboardist for the British band The Animals, and who is also known for his subsequent solo work. They were dubbed "animals" reportedly because of their wild stage act, and the name stuck. In a 2013 interview, Eric Burdon denied this, stating it came from a gang of friends with whom they used to hang out, one of whom was "Animal" Hogg, and the name was intended as a kind of tribute to him. Other hits: "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", "It's My Life", "Don't Bring Me Down", "I'm Crying", "See See Rider", and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood". The band balanced tough, rock-edged pop singles against rhythm and blues-oriented album material and were part of the British Invasion of the US.
Ahh ok now it makes sense Thanks for the history on this I knew I could count on you to know my friend. Really helps me get to know these bands so keep the detailed comments coming Enjoy the rest of your night
The story about The House of the Rising Sun….a brothel in New Orleans run by Madame Marianne Le Soleil Levant…her last name is the French version of “The Rising Sun”…..it operated in the mid 1800’s for a short while….the song is an American traditional folk song……yes…The Animals were babies😂……Eric was 23 years old….. an amazing band….Eric had the voice of a 50 year old……Alan Price…brilliant on the keys….they had some great hits…check them out…Chas Chandler….their bass player did the world a favour…he discovered Jimi Hendrix in a club in New York….he brought him to London…put him up in a hotel and managed him…the rest is history……speaking of amazing young British singers….you have to check out…Steve Winwood and his band “Spencer Davis”….17 years old….he will knock your socks off🤩
The origins of the song are not known, but it’s about a brothel. Eric Burden said they sang it from a man’s point if view because it would have caused an uproar & stations would’ve refused to play it. They see asked why they called themselves The Animals. Eric deadpanned, “because we are animals”.
The Animals knocked the Beatles of the number 1spot , the song is a reference to a Brothel and a Gambling house, the vocalist Eric Burdon 23 years old at this time!
it's a story of a man who took the wrong path in life in a sin city in new orleans. the place was called house of the rising sun where there was gambling, brothels, etc. if any of you noticed in the last verse he was "going back to new orleans on a train...to wear the ball and chain" - meaning he was being sent to jail for a crime.
This is from the film Pop Gear (1965) which is why the quality looks so good. It features different British Invasion bands and was used to promote them to US audiences.
It's an old folk song. Eric was 23 when he sang this. He was in love with New Orleans before he left England. The song is about a brothel. They were in their early 20's. Alan Price was the organist. He received all the royalties from the song due to shoddy management and his name being the only one on the record. Eric Burdon fell in love with blues because he lived in a poor port town and he had access to American records. He would imagine the river in his town as the Mississippi river. This guy lived a shitty life. Pollution from coal mining, no money. He felt the pain blues singers felt. It became his style.
Sadly they disintegrated as a group too quickly but Eric Burden sang with that great funk group WAR, the keyboard player Alan Price went on to create many blues classics and the bass player Chas Chandler went on to manage Jimi Hendirx. A great Newcastle band (north-east England).
@@dubzer0649 My Husband was a professional musician at the age of 10, his family had a Sunday Morning Gospel show on WSUN radio in Tampa, Fl, in the 60's. He started out on an upright bass! Music doesn't know age. You're born with it!
Our beautiful Geordie boys, Eric, lead singer had chronic asthma and struggled. The bass player, Chas, discovered Jimi Hendrix in a club in New York and brought him to London…the rest is history 💕 ps The Rising Sun is a pub on the coast road at North Shields 💕
The song's origins are said to originate in England as a folk song of unclear origin though it's believed to be some few hundred years or more. The writer is unknown, and it has many more lyrics than what are given here. The Rising Sun is a pub or pub/Brothel hence the references to "spend their lives in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun."
The image quality looks good because it was shot on film instead of video. Film back then was equivalent to 4K today, but video back in the 60s and 70s was about that same as 240 lines of resolution.
It's an old blues song. A lot of early British bands rediscovered a lot of these earlier songs and revamped them.This song is either about a gambling house or a house of ill repute. Not sure which They look to be in their early 20's at that time. Back then most of the artists in rock bands started out really early learning instruments and played a lot of venues. As in the guys from the band Rush all of them started playing instruments at the age of 13. They were in bands through their teenage years and played high school events until they were old enough to play in bars. That was the reality of most bands back then. You worked your butt off to get ahead. Eric Burton who is the lead singer for the Animals has a voice that sounded much older than his years. ✌🇨🇦
Newcastle Upon Tyne which is close to the border with Scotland is where he grew up. A gritty, urban, port city working class area with factories, longshoremen from the docks, railway working and lorry driving. He said he learned his love of music from the delivery of records and material from the United States. "All black delivery of soul, jazz and blues artists I loved and tried to incorporate into my song repertoire." He named a *lot* of older black blues/soul artists even Lead Belly. He referred to it as a "white" ghetto with the poor housing and slums and low opportunities for jobs. Referring to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones he remarked that England isn't *that* big and the only main city was London. They'd go into a club and they would be in one corner and the Beatles and Stones the other two corners.
The Animals were a really popular band. But when Eric Burdon left the band he later joined another band called "WAR" and there's a really good video of him singing the song "SPILL THE WINE" you might would like to see. However, the Animals put out several other songs, which were really good as well. Such as; "DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD," "WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE," "SEE SEE RIDER"
Eric ... looks like he's twelve, is twenty-three and sings likes he's forty !! Two possible stories ... The House was a brothel OR the house was a jail.
I do know the singer was 23 in this video.... The song is about a brothel in New Orleans. "The House Of The Rising Sun" was named after its occupant Madame Marianne LeSoleil Levant (which means "Rising Sun" in French) and was open for business from 1862 (occupation by Union troops) until 1874, when it was closed due to complaints by neighbors.
I think it's Alan Price on piano. A lot of UK bands in the 60's were covering old American little known blues songs, this being one of them. Rolling Stones did Little Red Rooster. As we'd never heard anything like it in the UK, they became hits here.
@@Gort-Marvin0Martian A Vox Continental, to be precise... very 60s, a lot of bands got them because they were so portable, great for lugging around to gigs/on tour, unlike the massive old Hammond organs. No vast teams of roadies back then!
@@papercup2517 A roadie. Ah yes I did that one summer in my junior year of high school. I specialized in setting up the drum kit. Then they discovered that I could sing "The Letter" by the Box Tops and they would invite me to sing that at their various gigs. Very cool and a lot of fun.
@@Gort-Marvin0Martian That was certainly a popular song in its time; I imagine it went down well with audiences. Was that the ONLY song you could sing?! No-one let you try anything else? :-/ Sounds like a great summer, anyway. Happy memories!
@@papercup2517 When I was very young I sung in my church choir. The director tried to explain tremolo to a 8yo ! LOL I just couldn't figure out how to do it. But no, I think the band just had me do that single tune because it played to the audience having a roadie come up and sing. Since I'm not shy it wasn't that difficult. LOL
they were all in early 20s. it was very common anytime from the 50s 60s 70s for bands to be made up of teenagers or very young adults. the talent was different back then
Eric used to get records from American sailors when he lived in Newcastle in the north east of England when he was a kid , so blues became his musical path. The origins of the song goes back hundreds of years to English folk songs. over the years the songs lyrics have changed so nobody really knows exactly where or when it comes from. Also note the tall guitarist is Chaz Chandler - the geezer who discovered and managed Hendrix.
Another good one wth Eric Burden singing lead is “Spill the Wine” when he was part of the band *War.* (another rabbit hole 🐇 🕳 !) Be sure to do the live version - bet you’ll love it! 👏🏼🔥❤️
The song is an old folk song that was supposed to have been written pre 1905. There are many versions of this song over the years but the most successful version was recorded by the Animals in 1964.
The video was so clear because it was shot on film for like a music variety style film shown in the theaters. Had different acts. Movie theaters had more than just films back in the day, shorts, news reels, stuff in between the movies.
Eric Burdon was 23 at the time the song was recorded--he's still out there --a great blues singer-and it was alan Price on the vox organ -don't you know the sound difference between a piano and an organ-??
Eric Burdon was 23, Hilton Valentine the guitarist was about 21 (the youngest), Chas Chandler the bass guitarist was the oldest at about 26, John Steel the drummer was about 24 and Alan Price the keyboardist was somewhere around that age too. But actually, thinking about it, the recording was from 1964 and those were their ages, but this was a 1965 film (lipsynching to the original recording). This was recorded in one take, about 30 minutes early in teh morning in London while on tour with Chuck Berry. They were in NY in 1966 appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show when they met a young back up guitarist named Jimmy James. Chas Chandler went to hear his band play in Greenwich Village and became his manager and took him to England. Of course that was Jimi Hendrix. Hilton Valentine supposedly came up with the name The Experience, Jimi and Eric Burdon were very close (His first wife left him for Jimi and one of Jimi's girlfriends left him for Eric Burdon. Jimi jammed with Eric Burdon and War the night before he died, and Eric was called in to clean up the scene the next morning after Jimi was discovered dead. So there.
@@dubzer0649 clear because it was filmed and not videotape. Mimed from their one take recording.This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made. TH-cam has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title it Go Go Mania and add a few intro segments to satisfy the US audience. A TH-cam search for Pop Gear Go Go Mania shows the segments : th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania The intro by TCM explains the background of the film. While some of these segments were likely to be shown on US Colour TV much later , the source would originally be this high quality film. Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too, In 1964 images not recorded on film would be much lower quality videotape, not the notable quality images used here. Especially with the inferior US NTSC standards often called Never The Same Colour. So lucky the film was made instead of relying on low standard video tape recordings that were usually taped over anyway to save tape cost money or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in TH-cam postings these days. These films mainly used mimed performances as the vast majority of theatre audiences wanted to hear the music performance as they knew it from the records. Hope this helps people who have the colorized and vidoetape theories that usually pop up.
This video is from a British TV show from the 60’s called “Pop Gear”, that is why it is so “clear” and polished. Great performance by Eric Burden (23 yrs old). This is a traditional blues song from the late 1800’s or early 1900’s, but the Animals rendition is a classic.
He's 22 in this,remember in the 60's this song was shocking like the Exorcist. And remember this is a British Band .pretty good for British to know what New Orleans is all about,when America is not their turf.I like to request their other song "When I was Young" equally as good as "House of the risen sun"
The story of the song is hundreds of years old (some might say) and it has sooo many variations.. - The house of the rising Sun - you should check it The Animals have the most recognizable one and gained international fame when they launched it :)
They beat the Beatles up by getting on the first spot in chart! unfortunately the two guitarists have already passed away (Valentine on the base and Chazz). This song NEVER gets old, I keep listening to it a hundred times a day. They are amaziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!
And may I add that when this song came out I was just a 14 year old teenage girl and loved it even back then. This song never gets old; I still listen to it on a daily regular basis! The lead singer, Eric Burdon was just 23 year old. They started out in 1963 and broke up in 1966 I suppose! They are AWESOME man! ;)
The story behind this song is that House of the Rising Sun used to be a saloon of some sort where gambling and prostitution went on. That house still exists in New Orleans and it has gone through too many managements/businesses over the years. Some say it used to be a hotel and not a hostel!! So I guess it's up to us to figure out what it really used to be!
Eric Burdon, the lead singer was in his early 20's at the time this was made and all of them are from the North of England. Song is about the multi-generational cycle of gambling in impoverised families of New Orleans in the early 1900's. The POV of the singer is of a gambling addict that has followed in the footsteps of his father. 'The House of the Rising Sun' is a gambling den. The song is based on an earlier song from the US sung by a woman or group of women, hence the focus on New Orleans, and is sung from a different point of view (usually of a woman working at the House of the Rising Sun).
Great reaction, absolutely love this 57 year old version, absolute banger. As a side note, the bassist, Chas Chandler found a little known artist called Jimmy James, persuaded him to come to England and managed him for a few years...who is Jimmy James you say? the one and only Jimmy Hendrix....My favourite part of this video though is Hilton Valentine cracking up with laughter....I read that he had seen Alan Price being pushed to the front still sitting at his organ and thought it looked funny, and would confuse the hell out of people how he was now at the front of the stage lol
These British groups were influenced by American blues and they used the blues to create new forms of music. Read up on the "British Invasion" to learn how that black man's music, with the help of millions of white kids, became an international phenomena. React to "Hobo Blues" by John Lee Hooker (live) thank you thumbs up!
The song goes back to the 1860s, originally sung from a woman's point of view being caught in the life in a brothel. Eric Burdon, the singer, changed it to a man's point of view, since he ws singing it.
The depth, fidelity, and warmth of the recordings of this age is due to the tech at the time. Lots of vacuum tubes and high grade tapes or vinyl records.
I still have 60's vintage (tube designed) Amateur Radio transcievers (transmitter/receiver) in my garage. The audio quality of tube designed equipment is superior to solid state design. Tube designed equipment is much easier to understand than solid state/logic design, at least for me.
Lol you enjoyed that. Such a womderful old classic. This was on a TV show. This is back when Elvis was on TV they were not aloud to move their hips lol. Hence the suits 2..... You could check oit five finger Death punch tribute to this. They are metal. The video is amazing like a mini Movie.... Just amazing. ( few cuz words just in case that matters to you) Cheers Wow, so before its time.
The song is about a women's prison / brothel that was in New Orleans. The front gate was a big wooden double door gate and it had artwork of the rising Sun painted.on it. Thus came the nickname - The House Of The Riding Sun -.
One thing you could do to differentiate yourself from other reaction vids is to also review the artist later in life . Eric is still around and you can catch some of his guest appearances singing the rising sun .....Lover boy and Mike Reno still around and his voice 50 years later still great ....I guess you could do a how do they sound now segment or where are they now .....
Why is this so clear? The answer is it was filmed for theatre release rather than inferior video tape. Mimed from their one take recording.This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made. TH-cam has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title it Go Go Mania and add a few intro segments to satisfy the US audience. A TH-cam search for Pop Gear Go Go Mania shows the segments : th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania The intro by TCM explains the background of the film. While some of these segments were likely to be shown on US Colour TV much later , the source would originally be this high quality film. Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too, In 1964 images not recorded on film would be much lower quality videotape, not the notable quality images used here. Especially with the inferior US NTSC standards often called Never The Same Colour. So lucky the film was made instead of relying on low standard video tape recordings that were usually taped over anyway to save tape cost money or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in TH-cam postings these days. These films mainly used mimed performances as the vast majority of theatre audiences wanted to hear the music performance as they knew it from the records. Hope this helps people who have the colorized and vidoetape theories that usually pop up.
Ah makes sense thanks for all the background information on the animals I love reading these long comments and learning. Also thanks for watching I appreciate you
All of them were in their early twenties. This house is said to be a brothel where a whole lot of drinking, gambling and prostitution went on throughout the years. It was completely shut down after just 12 years of being in business; due to the neighbors' complaints!
Given your interest learning more here is lead singer Eric Burdon interviewed recently about the background story to how the Animals developed and recorded the song. Very interesting. th-cam.com/video/N8bKL4nO9xE/w-d-xo.html Includes another different black and white version with screaming fans as a background.
It’s about a gambling addiction. How a gambling addiction is a “ball and a chai.” How it ruins your life. The singer here had a very rough childhood growing up in the UK by the shipyards in a rough neighborhood.
Clear because of film for theatre release not the junk videotape of 1964. Mimed from their one take recording.This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made. TH-cam has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title it Go Go Mania and add a few intro segments to satisfy the US audience. A TH-cam search for Pop Gear Go Go Mania shows the segments : th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania The intro by TCM explains the background of the film. While some of these segments were likely to be shown on US Colour TV much later , the source would originally be this high quality film. Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too, In 1964 images not recorded on film would be much lower quality videotape, not the notable quality images used here. Especially with the inferior US NTSC standards often called Never The Same Colour. So lucky the film was made instead of relying on low standard video tape recordings that were usually taped over anyway to save tape cost money or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in TH-cam postings these days. These films mainly used mimed performances as the vast majority of theatre audiences wanted to hear the music performance as they knew it from the records. Hope this helps people who have the colorized and vidoetape theories that usually pop up.
@@dubzer0649 oh absolutely brother my dad was born in 57 my mom in 60 me in 84 I grew up listening to what they did they had 8-track tapes and records. Groups like that there voices was so natural in the 60's 70's and 80's was unreal. That song beat the beatles and became number one. The Gentry's has a song called keep on dancing in 1965 that became number one. There is a guy in that band his name is Jimmy heart guess what he became a manager of the heart foundation The honky tonk Man Greg the hammer Valentine The nasty boys in wwf/ wwe. Also had the righteous Brothers and the birds and other bands that had natural voices back then that could really sing one person that can come close in singing like that would be kid rock. Because he started in early 90's again it was amazing back then.
The reason they are walking is it is a funeral procession, like the old ones in New Orleans. THE FUNERAL IS HIS, he is going back to Orleans to a brothel (Rising Sun) and alcohol addiction (Ball and Chain), like his father had done. He is somber in the video because he is dead inside. He has 1 foot on the platform, and 1 foot on the train, going back to New Orleans. The song is haunting and sad because he is lost, he isn't coming back.
I used to play this song on my guitar in the mid 1960s when I was a teenager. This is a folk song with the earliest known recording of this going back to the 1930s thought it is probably much older than that. In my folk song fake book that I had in the 60s there were at least 20 verses to this song. Anyway, they did not write this song, it was just a cool song so they recorded it. (I don't know if that is why they recorded the song, it just seems a likely reason).
As to why this video looks so clear, it was probably recorded on film as opposed to tape. 35mm film has been around since before 1900 and is roughly equivalent (film grain is different from pixels but can sort of be approximated in a similar way) to 5k.
They were in their early 20's. The song was a very old folk song. Originally it was about a young woman, ensnared into prostitution in the Brothel, known as the Rising Sun. over the years the lyrics changed . Now about a Young man, in a Gambling/ illegal drinking den.
One of the reasons all of the rockers of that era are young is because rock-and-roll was baby boomer music. Do the math. The soldiers came home in 1945 and started having babies by 1946. This is 1964. Pretty much the oldest they could be is early 20s.
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LYRICS
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know I'm one
My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans
Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's all drunk
Oh mother, tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun
Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain
Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know I'm one
it's a story of a man who took the wrong path in life in a sin city in new orleans. the place was called house of the rising sun where there was gambling, brothels, etc. if you noticed in the last verse he was "going back to new orleans on a train...to wear the ball and chain" - meaning he was being sent to jail for a crime.
That's a really old song.
Doc Watson did it.
Ralph Stanley did it.
Beautiful. Just beautiful..
You're listening to the great Eric Burdon. He was 23 at the time of that classic. A once in a lifetime voice!
Baby Boomer here! Our music in the 1969's and 1970's was fantastic! 🥰🥰
The lead singer, Eric Burdon, who is now a great grandfather will be 80 years old this month. He still performs to this day. Incredible talent!
They are super talented for being so young
Lead singer was 23.
@@dubzer0649 The singer Eric Burdon at the time was 23. This was also done in one take. The Animals were very, VERY heavily influenced by Black Rock & Roll, early R&B and Chicago Blues. Sam Cooke, John Lee Hooker and Fats Domino were just a few of the many, many influences. In fact, they once described themselves as "Five white boys from Newcastle trying to sound Black". Try "Boom Boom" and "I'm Mad Again" by these guys. You'll definitely hear the R&B influence.
@@josephcox178 by black rock and roll????? 🤨🤨🤨🤨 More like the blues sound of black artists.
@josephcox178 Eric was also in the band WAR for a short time. If you didn't know.
I'm 70...have adored this thru the decades.
There was an explosion of British talent in the 60’s. Eric Burden had the most amazing blues and soul voice and was only a babe of 23 I believe when he performed this in one take! No swanky technology back then either to enhance the results. The House of the Rising Sun was a brothel.
The guy on the organ is the outstanding talented Alan Price. Great, great song! 😊👍
The guy on the keyboard is Alan Price.
Thanks for the information
They were babies. Super talented ones. Love them.
It is amazing that they can be that young and sound so old.
The song was written back in the 1800s. At that time bordello were common in the south and the west. There was gambling drinking and prostitution. The lead singer was Eric burden and the organ player was Allen price. I consider them to be the best that the Era of the 60s had to offer.
hi Dub, the house of the rising sun , was a gambling den / brothel , in new orleans, so this young man followed in his dads footsteps, went bad hanging in the house of the rising sun , left N. O. , and the long arm of the law found him, he was taken back to N.O. by the law and shackled with a ball and chain , went to prison , check it out, this was how many prisoners were treated if they were a high risk bad boy, ciao 4 now
Hey Phil, thanks for the information on this song
They are such a cool group and I was surprised at how young they were
The man o the Organ is the legendary Alan Price
Burdon had huge voice fr lil guy! They did this video in ONE take!!
This is one of those songs man. I loved it when I was 3, I love it now, I’ll love it when I’m dying, I loved it the first time I heard it and I’ll love it the last time I ever hear it
great comment
The song was picked up and made into a #1 hit by The Animals in 1964. But as to the original writer? It seems many people made various contributions to this song over the past few centuries, musically and lyrically, making it what it is today. The version we're familiar with is a story about a brothel in New Orleans named after Madame Marianne Le Soleil Levant, which is French for "Rising Sun." The brothel opened in 1862 when Union Troops occupied the town and closed in 1874 when the town received too many complaints by neighbors. Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is an English singer-songwriter and actor. He is regarded as one of the British Invasion's most distinctive singers with his deep, powerful blues-rock voice. Alan Price (born 19 April 1942) is an English musician, who was the original keyboardist for the British band The Animals, and who is also known for his subsequent solo work. They were dubbed "animals" reportedly because of their wild stage act, and the name stuck. In a 2013 interview, Eric Burdon denied this, stating it came from a gang of friends with whom they used to hang out, one of whom was "Animal" Hogg, and the name was intended as a kind of tribute to him. Other hits: "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", "It's My Life", "Don't Bring Me Down", "I'm Crying", "See See Rider", and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood". The band balanced tough, rock-edged pop singles against rhythm and blues-oriented album material and were part of the British Invasion of the US.
Ahh ok now it makes sense Thanks for the history on this I knew I could count on you to know my friend. Really helps me get to know these bands so keep the detailed comments coming
Enjoy the rest of your night
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This what what you call TALENT...
The story about The House of the Rising Sun….a brothel in New Orleans run by Madame Marianne Le Soleil Levant…her last name is the French version of “The Rising Sun”…..it operated in the mid 1800’s for a short while….the song is an American traditional folk song……yes…The Animals were babies😂……Eric was 23 years old….. an amazing band….Eric had the voice of a 50 year old……Alan Price…brilliant on the keys….they had some great hits…check them out…Chas Chandler….their bass player did the world a favour…he discovered Jimi Hendrix in a club in New York….he brought him to London…put him up in a hotel and managed him…the rest is history……speaking of amazing young British singers….you have to check out…Steve Winwood and his band “Spencer Davis”….17 years old….he will knock your socks off🤩
The origins of the song are not known, but it’s about a brothel. Eric Burden said they sang it from a man’s point if view because it would have caused an uproar & stations would’ve refused to play it. They see asked why they called themselves The Animals. Eric deadpanned, “because we are animals”.
Thanks for that information it’s appreciated
Not deadpan lol 😂😂😂
He's deadpan in this video too lol 😂
The Animals knocked the Beatles of the number 1spot , the song is a reference to a Brothel and a Gambling house, the vocalist Eric Burdon 23 years old at this time!
Hey now! I was born in 64. Its not like dinosaurs were roaming the streets. 😆
I was born in 55. Graduated in 73. No dinosaurs then either
The singer, Eric Burdon, was 23 years old at the time. The whole group were in their 20’s.
So young but so much talent
I like bands who play their own instruments. There's more depth to it.
Eric Burdon (lead singer) was just 23 year old when this song was released, yup....he is plure talent!
They are a British group but they sing like they were born and raised in New Orleans! 🤔🤔🤯🤯🤯🥰🥰🥰🥰🇩🇪🇨🇭🇺🇲💙💙
it's a story of a man who took the wrong path in life in a sin city in new orleans. the place was called house of the rising sun where there was gambling, brothels, etc. if any of you noticed in the last verse he was "going back to new orleans on a train...to wear the ball and chain" - meaning he was being sent to jail for a crime.
This is from the film Pop Gear (1965) which is why the quality looks so good. It features different British Invasion bands and was used to promote them to US audiences.
Yep, movie film quality. Was expensive to do.
Eric Burden was 23 when he sang this!! EPIC ANIMALS ALWAYS!!
They were all young in those days. The Animals is the name. They did this song in one take.
This is an old old folk song sang for at least 200 years. The animals heard it and made an awesome cover of it after hearing the Bob Dylan version.
Oh ok thanks for the information
And Nina Simone
I think they knocked the Beatles out of the #1 spot with this song.
Piano player was a genius!!
It's an old folk song. Eric was 23 when he sang this. He was in love with New Orleans before he left England. The song is about a brothel. They were in their early 20's. Alan Price was the organist. He received all the royalties from the song due to shoddy management and his name being the only one on the record. Eric Burdon fell in love with blues because he lived in a poor port town and he had access to American records. He would imagine the river in his town as the Mississippi river. This guy lived a shitty life. Pollution from coal mining, no money. He felt the pain blues singers felt. It became his style.
Man they were so young here wow
@@dubzer0649 Yeah they were. He is 80 now and still sings. He sounds like Chris Cornell now.
Poor port town? The steel capital of Europe wasn’t that poor
@@alisonpickard7274 I'm going by what he said.
Sadly they disintegrated as a group too quickly but Eric Burden sang with that great funk group WAR, the keyboard player Alan Price went on to create many blues classics and the bass player Chas Chandler went on to manage Jimi Hendirx. A great Newcastle band (north-east England).
The keyboard player's name is Alan Price and he is AWESOME!
They were an English Band, but made this song to attract the attention of the American audience
Oh ok they are awesome and so young but so talented at the same time
Eric Burdon was only 23 when he sang this song and sounded like he was 53.
They were so young but so much talent
@@dubzer0649 My Husband was a professional musician at the age of 10, his family had a Sunday Morning Gospel show on WSUN radio in Tampa, Fl, in the 60's. He started out on an upright bass! Music doesn't know age. You're born with it!
Our beautiful Geordie boys, Eric, lead singer had chronic asthma and struggled. The bass player, Chas, discovered Jimi Hendrix in a club in New York and brought him to London…the rest is history 💕 ps The Rising Sun is a pub on the coast road at North Shields 💕
The song's origins are said to originate in England as a folk song of unclear origin though it's believed to be some few hundred years or more. The writer is unknown, and it has many more lyrics than what are given here. The Rising Sun is a pub or pub/Brothel hence the references to "spend their lives in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun."
Thank you for the information I appreciate you
The image quality looks good because it was shot on film instead of video. Film back then was equivalent to 4K today, but video back in the 60s and 70s was about that same as 240 lines of resolution.
Oh ok now that makes sense
Thanks for the information
And the video was uploaded in 480p. Imagine it in 4K.
Trivia: The lead singer's name is Eric Burdon. Eric Burdon was the lead singer in the song, Spill The Wine by WAR.
The base guitarist discovered Jimmy Hendrix
It's an old blues song. A lot of early British bands rediscovered a lot of these earlier songs and revamped them.This song is either about a gambling house or a house of ill repute. Not sure which They look to be in their early 20's at that time. Back then most of the artists in rock bands started out really early learning instruments and played a lot of venues. As in the guys from the band Rush all of them started playing instruments at the age of 13. They were in bands through their teenage years and played high school events until they were old enough to play in bars. That was the reality of most bands back then. You worked your butt off to get ahead. Eric Burton who is the lead singer for the Animals has a voice that sounded much older than his years. ✌🇨🇦
Thanks for information I was surely wondering like these boys young but man they got talent
Newcastle Upon Tyne which is close to the border with Scotland is where he grew up. A gritty, urban, port city working class area with factories, longshoremen from the docks, railway working and lorry driving. He said he learned his love of music from the delivery of records and material from the United States. "All black delivery of soul, jazz and blues artists I loved and tried to incorporate into my song repertoire." He named a *lot* of older black blues/soul artists even Lead Belly.
He referred to it as a "white" ghetto with the poor housing and slums and low opportunities for jobs.
Referring to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones he remarked that England isn't *that* big and the only main city was London. They'd go into a club and they would be in one corner and the Beatles and Stones the other two corners.
The song is about a brothel in New Orleans,
It's about a brothel in New Orleans where he spent his time and it ruined his life.
The Guy on Keyboards is Alan Price, he became a successful artist on his own
The lead singer knows he's a sinner, but the guitarist is just grinning away - love it.
Thanks for watching
The Animals were a really popular band. But when Eric Burdon left the band he later joined another band called "WAR" and there's a really good video of him singing the song "SPILL THE WINE" you might would like to see. However, the Animals put out several other songs, which were really good as well. Such as; "DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD," "WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE," "SEE SEE RIDER"
Thanks for the info love learning about these bands
Eric ... looks like he's twelve, is twenty-three and sings likes he's forty !!
Two possible stories ... The House was a brothel OR the house was a jail.
I do know the singer was 23 in this video....
The song is about a brothel in New Orleans. "The House Of The Rising Sun" was named after its occupant Madame Marianne LeSoleil Levant (which means "Rising Sun" in French) and was open for business from 1862 (occupation by Union troops) until 1874, when it was closed due to complaints by neighbors.
The I think base guitarist is Chaz Chandler. He is the guy who get her Jimi Hendrix over to London UK.
Yer he managed him.
No other voice like his!
I think it's Alan Price on piano. A lot of UK bands in the 60's were covering old American little known blues songs, this being one of them. Rolling Stones did Little Red Rooster. As we'd never heard anything like it in the UK, they became hits here.
It's not a piano. It's a VOX electric organ
@@Gort-Marvin0Martian A Vox Continental, to be precise... very 60s, a lot of bands got them because they were so portable, great for lugging around to gigs/on tour, unlike the massive old Hammond organs. No vast teams of roadies back then!
@@papercup2517 A roadie. Ah yes I did that one summer in my junior year of high school. I specialized in setting up the drum kit. Then they discovered that I could sing "The Letter" by the Box Tops and they would invite me to sing that at their various gigs. Very cool and a lot of fun.
@@Gort-Marvin0Martian That was certainly a popular song in its time; I imagine it went down well with audiences. Was that the ONLY song you could sing?! No-one let you try anything else? :-/
Sounds like a great summer, anyway. Happy memories!
@@papercup2517 When I was very young I sung in my church choir. The director tried to explain tremolo to a 8yo ! LOL I just couldn't figure out how to do it. But no, I think the band just had me do that single tune because it played to the audience having a roadie come up and sing. Since I'm not shy it wasn't that difficult. LOL
Song is about a brothel in New Orleans in the 1860-1870s during the civil war.
Wow didn’t know it was that deep thanks for the info
they were all in early 20s. it was very common anytime from the 50s 60s 70s for bands to be made up of teenagers or very young adults. the talent was different back then
Oh ok man that’s young but look at the talent mad respect for them
Eric used to get records from American sailors when he lived in Newcastle in the north east of England when he was a kid , so blues became his musical path. The origins of the song goes back hundreds of years to English folk songs. over the years the songs lyrics have changed so nobody really knows exactly where or when it comes from. Also note the tall guitarist is Chaz Chandler - the geezer who discovered and managed Hendrix.
The bass player sold all his guitars to get Jimi Hendrix started in England. He became his manager.
That is awesome
Another good one wth Eric Burden singing lead is “Spill the Wine” when he was part of the band *War.* (another rabbit hole 🐇 🕳 !)
Be sure to do the live version - bet you’ll love it! 👏🏼🔥❤️
Ok I’ll def do the live version
Thanks for watching my friend
@@dubzer0649 I misspelled his last name - it’s Eric Burdon 🙃 Here’s the link for you. th-cam.com/video/3i0DMbCKnAg/w-d-xo.html
The song is an old folk song that was supposed to have been written pre 1905. There are many versions of this song over the years but the most successful version was recorded by the Animals in 1964.
Hey thank for watching and for the background information on this song. I really enjoyed it
a good song is "Don't let me be misunderstood"
Ok I’ll be doing that Forsure
I like that jam too. "Don't let Me be misunderstood"🎶🎶🎶
It is on the same film
The video was so clear because it was shot on film for like a music variety style film shown in the theaters. Had different acts. Movie theaters had more than just films back in the day, shorts, news reels, stuff in between the movies.
Ah ok makes sense
Thanks for answering my question
Eric Burdon was 23 at the time the song was recorded--he's still out there --a great blues singer-and it was alan Price on the vox organ -don't you know the sound difference between a piano and an organ-??
Wow so young and so much talent
Eric Burdon was 23, Hilton Valentine the guitarist was about 21 (the youngest), Chas Chandler the bass guitarist was the oldest at about 26, John Steel the drummer was about 24 and Alan Price the keyboardist was somewhere around that age too. But actually, thinking about it, the recording was from 1964 and those were their ages, but this was a 1965 film (lipsynching to the original recording). This was recorded in one take, about 30 minutes early in teh morning in London while on tour with Chuck Berry. They were in NY in 1966 appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show when they met a young back up guitarist named Jimmy James. Chas Chandler went to hear his band play in Greenwich Village and became his manager and took him to England. Of course that was Jimi Hendrix. Hilton Valentine supposedly came up with the name The Experience, Jimi and Eric Burdon were very close (His first wife left him for Jimi and one of Jimi's girlfriends left him for Eric Burdon. Jimi jammed with Eric Burdon and War the night before he died, and Eric was called in to clean up the scene the next morning after Jimi was discovered dead.
So there.
Thank you so much for the background and information. I love reading this mess detailed responses. These boys were so young
And Hilton Valentine just died this year.
Check out the live version of please don't let me be misunderstood from the ed Sullivan show. No lip singing.
Check Eric Bradon, the lead singer in the band War...he sings Drink the wine take that pearl. Great song.
Ok I’ll def check it out
Thanks for watching
The video was remastered a few years back & that’s why it’s like HD. I wanna say they where all mid twenties at the time.
Oh ok got ya, I’m like why is it so clear lol
@@dubzer0649 clear because it was filmed and not videotape.
Mimed from their one take recording.This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made.
TH-cam has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title it Go Go Mania and add a few intro segments to satisfy the US audience.
A TH-cam search for Pop Gear Go Go Mania shows the segments :
th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania
The intro by TCM explains the background of the film. While some of these segments were likely to be shown on US Colour TV much later , the source would originally be this high quality film.
Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too,
In 1964 images not recorded on film would be much lower quality videotape, not the notable quality images used here. Especially with the inferior US NTSC standards often called Never The Same Colour.
So lucky the film was made instead of relying on low standard video tape recordings that were usually taped over anyway to save tape cost money or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in TH-cam postings these days.
These films mainly used mimed performances as the vast majority of theatre audiences wanted to hear the music performance as they knew it from the records.
Hope this helps people who have the colorized and vidoetape theories that usually pop up.
This video is from a British TV show from the 60’s called “Pop Gear”, that is why it is so “clear” and polished. Great performance by Eric Burden (23 yrs old). This is a traditional blues song from the late 1800’s or early 1900’s, but the Animals rendition is a classic.
The particular show has nothing to do with it. The medium it was recorded on does. This is most likely 35mm film as opposed to tape.
Appreciate, this was done in one take! Makes it even more impressive!
He's 22 in this,remember in the 60's this song was shocking like the Exorcist. And remember this is a British Band .pretty good for British to know what New Orleans is all about,when America is not their turf.I like to request their other song "When I was Young" equally as good as "House of the risen sun"
Wow so young. Thanks for the comment I appreciate it
The story of the song is hundreds of years old (some might say) and it has sooo many variations.. - The house of the rising Sun - you should check it
The Animals have the most recognizable one and gained international fame when they launched it :)
They beat the Beatles up by getting on the first spot in chart! unfortunately the two guitarists have already passed away (Valentine on the base and Chazz). This song NEVER gets old, I keep listening to it a hundred times a day. They are amaziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!
Chaz is on bass, not Hilton.
The best part is this was done in one take. No autotune just pure talent.
Bloke on the piano was Alan Price
Thanks for the information, these guys are awesome
And may I add that when this song came out I was just a 14 year old teenage girl and loved it even back then. This song never gets old; I still listen to it on a daily regular basis! The lead singer, Eric Burdon was just 23 year old. They started out in 1963 and broke up in 1966 I suppose! They are AWESOME man! ;)
It's good to be in the same boat with you!!
The story behind this song is that House of the Rising Sun used to be a saloon of some sort where gambling and prostitution went on. That house still exists in New Orleans and it has gone through too many managements/businesses over the years. Some say it used to be a hotel and not a hostel!! So I guess it's up to us to figure out what it really used to be!
Eric Burdon, the lead singer was in his early 20's at the time this was made and all of them are from the North of England. Song is about the multi-generational cycle of gambling in impoverised families of New Orleans in the early 1900's. The POV of the singer is of a gambling addict that has followed in the footsteps of his father. 'The House of the Rising Sun' is a gambling den. The song is based on an earlier song from the US sung by a woman or group of women, hence the focus on New Orleans, and is sung from a different point of view (usually of a woman working at the House of the Rising Sun).
Crazy how they were so talented and young
Def enjoyed this one
Thanks for watching
Great reaction, absolutely love this 57 year old version, absolute banger. As a side note, the bassist, Chas Chandler found a little known artist called Jimmy James, persuaded him to come to England and managed him for a few years...who is Jimmy James you say? the one and only Jimmy Hendrix....My favourite part of this video though is Hilton Valentine cracking up with laughter....I read that he had seen Alan Price being pushed to the front still sitting at his organ and thought it looked funny, and would confuse the hell out of people how he was now at the front of the stage lol
Hey thanks for watching and commenting. I really like this Band so far so thanks for the information more of them to come
Greetings from the big easy.. glad to join and digging the reactions
Greetings thanks for being here I appreciate you
💨💨🍄👁👁🍄 another one of my favorite. My dad loves to play lead guitar with his group in New Orleans.
The tall guitar player is Chas Chandler. He is the one who discovered Jimi Hendrix. He also became his manager.
These British groups were influenced by American blues and they used the blues to create new forms of music. Read up on the "British Invasion" to learn how that black man's music, with the help of millions of white kids, became an international phenomena. React to "Hobo Blues" by John Lee Hooker (live) thank you thumbs up!
Black white green blue . Music is music loved by the world
The song goes back to the 1860s, originally sung from a woman's point of view being caught in the life in a brothel. Eric Burdon, the singer, changed it to a man's point of view, since he ws singing it.
Oh ok didn’t know that information thanks for letting me know. I really enjoyed this song and these boys were super young
the lyrics were changed to get radio air play -you could not sing about a whore house in 1964
The depth, fidelity, and warmth of the recordings of this age is due to the tech at the time. Lots of vacuum tubes and high grade tapes or vinyl records.
Thanks for watching this one I really enjoyed
I still have 60's vintage (tube designed) Amateur Radio transcievers (transmitter/receiver) in my garage. The audio quality of tube designed equipment is superior to solid state design. Tube designed equipment is much easier to understand than solid state/logic design, at least for me.
Lol you enjoyed that. Such a womderful old classic. This was on a TV show. This is back when Elvis was on TV they were not aloud to move their hips lol. Hence the suits 2.....
You could check oit five finger Death punch tribute to this. They are metal. The video is amazing like a mini
Movie.... Just amazing.
( few cuz words just in case that matters to you) Cheers
Wow, so before its time.
The song is about a women's prison / brothel that was in New Orleans. The front gate was a big wooden double door gate and it had artwork of the rising Sun painted.on it. Thus came the nickname - The House Of The Riding Sun -.
Songs like this is what we need today. Their lasting through the years. How long will the songs of today last? My guess, not as long as this one.
Yea I hear you on that
Music was just different back then no lie
Eric burden was the lead singer and Alan price played the organ. I believe they were the best at what they did in the 60s era.
These guys are a vibe
Check out the live ed Sullivan performance of its my life. You'll like it.
Wasn’t born yet. But heard this song many times. I like it
Yes this song is good
One thing you could do to differentiate yourself from other reaction vids is to also review the artist later in life . Eric is still around and you can catch some of his guest appearances singing the rising sun .....Lover boy and Mike Reno still around and his voice 50 years later still great ....I guess you could do a how do they sound now segment or where are they now .....
Forsure I’ll consider that
Thanks for the advice I appreciate you
Why is this so clear? The answer is it was filmed for theatre release rather than inferior video tape.
Mimed from their one take recording.This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made.
TH-cam has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title it Go Go Mania and add a few intro segments to satisfy the US audience.
A TH-cam search for Pop Gear Go Go Mania shows the segments :
th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania
The intro by TCM explains the background of the film. While some of these segments were likely to be shown on US Colour TV much later , the source would originally be this high quality film.
Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too,
In 1964 images not recorded on film would be much lower quality videotape, not the notable quality images used here. Especially with the inferior US NTSC standards often called Never The Same Colour.
So lucky the film was made instead of relying on low standard video tape recordings that were usually taped over anyway to save tape cost money or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in TH-cam postings these days.
These films mainly used mimed performances as the vast majority of theatre audiences wanted to hear the music performance as they knew it from the records.
Hope this helps people who have the colorized and vidoetape theories that usually pop up.
Ah makes sense thanks for all the background information on the animals I love reading these long comments and learning.
Also thanks for watching I appreciate you
All of them were in their early twenties. This house is said to be a brothel where a whole lot of drinking, gambling and prostitution went on throughout the years. It was completely shut down after just 12 years of being in business; due to the neighbors' complaints!
Given your interest learning more here is lead singer Eric Burdon interviewed recently about the background story to how the Animals developed and recorded the song. Very interesting.
th-cam.com/video/N8bKL4nO9xE/w-d-xo.html
Includes another different black and white version with screaming fans as a background.
Awesome 👏 thanks so much I’ll def check this out
It’s about a gambling addiction. How a gambling addiction is a “ball and a chai.” How it ruins your life. The singer here had a very rough childhood growing up in the UK by the shipyards in a rough neighborhood.
Great reaction for a great song. Frist time I heard this was on an AM radio station. I did not know there has a video from back then ang was in COLOR.
Yea surprising that it was so clear
Clear because of film for theatre release not the junk videotape of 1964.
Mimed from their one take recording.This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made.
TH-cam has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title it Go Go Mania and add a few intro segments to satisfy the US audience.
A TH-cam search for Pop Gear Go Go Mania shows the segments :
th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania
The intro by TCM explains the background of the film. While some of these segments were likely to be shown on US Colour TV much later , the source would originally be this high quality film.
Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too,
In 1964 images not recorded on film would be much lower quality videotape, not the notable quality images used here. Especially with the inferior US NTSC standards often called Never The Same Colour.
So lucky the film was made instead of relying on low standard video tape recordings that were usually taped over anyway to save tape cost money or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in TH-cam postings these days.
These films mainly used mimed performances as the vast majority of theatre audiences wanted to hear the music performance as they knew it from the records.
Hope this helps people who have the colorized and vidoetape theories that usually pop up.
Possibly the best band "teamwork" - every body putting forth powerful performances only ADDS to Eric Burdon's superlative VOCAL!
Lead singer was 23 Eric Burdon he's now 79 years old
Wow they were so young
@@dubzer0649 oh absolutely brother my dad was born in 57 my mom in 60 me in 84 I grew up listening to what they did they had 8-track tapes and records. Groups like that there voices was so natural in the 60's 70's and 80's was unreal. That song beat the beatles and became number one. The Gentry's has a song called keep on dancing in 1965 that became number one. There is a guy in that band his name is Jimmy heart guess what he became a manager of the heart foundation The honky tonk Man Greg the hammer Valentine The nasty boys in wwf/ wwe. Also had the righteous Brothers and the birds and other bands that had natural voices back then that could really sing one person that can come close in singing like that would be kid rock. Because he started in early 90's again it was amazing back then.
It's not a piano, it's an organ!
The reason they are walking is it is a funeral procession, like the old ones in New Orleans. THE FUNERAL IS HIS, he is going back to Orleans to a brothel (Rising Sun) and alcohol addiction (Ball and Chain), like his father had done. He is somber in the video because he is dead inside. He has 1 foot on the platform, and 1 foot on the train, going back to New Orleans. The song is haunting and sad because he is lost, he isn't coming back.
I used to play this song on my guitar in the mid 1960s when I was a teenager. This is a folk song with the earliest known recording of this going back to the 1930s thought it is probably much older than that. In my folk song fake book that I had in the 60s there were at least 20 verses to this song. Anyway, they did not write this song, it was just a cool song so they recorded it. (I don't know if that is why they recorded the song, it just seems a likely reason).
That’s awesome I would of love to hear you play
I loved the Animals
As to why this video looks so clear, it was probably recorded on film as opposed to tape. 35mm film has been around since before 1900 and is roughly equivalent (film grain is different from pixels but can sort of be approximated in a similar way) to 5k.
They were in their early 20's. The song was a very old folk song. Originally it was about a young woman, ensnared into prostitution in the Brothel, known as the Rising Sun. over the years the lyrics changed . Now about a Young man, in a Gambling/ illegal drinking den.
One of the reasons all of the rockers of that era are young is because rock-and-roll was baby boomer music. Do the math. The soldiers came home in 1945 and started having babies by 1946. This is 1964. Pretty much the oldest they could be is early 20s.
Oh ok that makes sense
It’s an old blues song. About a brothel or gambling hall. I’ve got a version by Nina Simone that’s good also. This one’s perfect though.