Yep. Absolutely love the sound of it. I always wanted one when playing in bands in the late 80s but could afford so had a sort of weird knock-off farfisa that I found in a second hand music shop in Leigh, Greater Manchester.
In 1964 I was in the US Navy and this song was played everywhere and all the time. It was a huge hit! When we could get Liberty we'd hang out a particular restaurant and play the heck out of this on the Juke Boxes and drink coffee and talk to the girls. Ah, memories. Still like this at my current age of 77!
A LOT of artists have done this song.... but The Animals' version is the STANDARD they get measured by due to the obvious vocals as well as clarity of music.
They were the first cover it in this manner and I believe one of the first in decades. There are two types of folk rock and this was considered the first rock song about a folk song.
The issue, as I see it, is that music today is over produced. People sing with their head, too often try to impress by performing vocal gymnastics with their voice, and try to mimic/copy a rigid formula. Everyone ends up sounding the same. Back in the day, people just sang from the heart and let their emotions, personality, and feelings come across fully. It's a far more authentic and raw approach and why older music resonates so strongly. It's not pretentious.
Oh, they did not just sing from the heart. They had spent a lot of time learning their craft in church fêtes, pubs, and clubs - how to work an audience, project their voice with the low grade microphones and PA systems of the time. And we remember the best. There was also a lot of formulaic junk where a pretty boy provided a face for some good session musicians. There is technique today. There is also technology to 'improve' people who can't sing, and all they have is emotion (real or faked)
While all that is true there is another dimension that is rarely, if ever, discussed. Music is an expression of the social conditions of the time it is sung. The era between the 1940s and the end of the 1980s was The Cold War, which saw the existential threat of nuclear doom. Countries were balancing modernisation, revolutions, traditions, and rapid technological development, and rapidly rising populations. The tensions in societies from all this led to creativity in music, movie, and books that began to relax with the end of that era. Stability replaced creativity somewhat from the 1990s to now.
@@dennismulhall3057 According to that, during the pandemics peak and the start of the war in ukraine better music would have been made. (Many existential uncertanties for many people especially artists during the pandemics peak, and a general uncertainty and fear of Putin launching a nuke when his war started to not go as planned.) Also during the early 90's central and southern european music should have experienced a peak in creativity. (There was a war starting in 91's many seem to forget that it happened. I don't, and my country wasn't even actively involved. But there were bullet holes in buildings on our side of the border, AAA guns were dug in outside my village and tanks were protecting the border.) I think it's less stability as that has taken over, but more like general uninterest of music labels and musicians in topics other than their own life, partying, being famous... The last person i remember who made a famous "protest song" against something was P!nks "dear Mr. President" aimed for GW Bush. So when Trump became president i waited for another song, but there came none. From nobody. Just one example of why i think artists lost interest in everything outside their own lifes. Another thing: all the time producers and people in deciding positions tried to "use a prooven formula" so promoting something that sounds like something that was successfull once. And sometimes they promoted something different. As they didn't have the technological means to make it happen all the time. Nowadays the technological means exist, and they get heavily used. Not because they need to all the time, but because they think they have to. (There's a british guy here on YT who has shown that Michael Buble's record company us using a form of autotune on his songs (even though there's no need for it, he has prooven that he can sing well enough without). And even Queen songs aren't protected from that happening. Songs of them have been "remastered" and sent through an autotune algorythm. It actually makes it sound less good in my ears, but young folk who haven't heard it in a different form...
I just can not believe that, considering they are strolling around playing electric guitars with no power cords attached, which did not exist back then.
I was at the show when the animals first played this, it was my 13th birthday, the crowd went wild, as did I, they played it 3 times as an encore, the band we’re supporting Chuck Berry, my greatest night ever at shows, even this song eclipses me seeing the Beatles. That show was on 31st January 1964
The Bass Guitar was an 'Epiphone Rivoli.' Epiphone was part of "Gibson," and Gibson had an identical model called the EB2. I had an Epiphone back in the day. The guy playing it in this video is Chas Chandler, who became the manager to Jimi Hendrix.
Love Eric Burdon & The Animals. They were part of the British Invasion along with The Beatles, Rolling Stones & others. People are always shocked that Eric has such a different unique deeper voice. The Animals had a lot of great hits in the 60's such as "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", "Baby Let Me Take You Home", "I'm Crying", "Boom Boom", "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", "Bring It On Home to Me", "It's My Life", "Don't Bring Me Down", "See See Rider", "Monterey", "Sky Pilot" etc. Eric later joined the funk rock band "War" & they had a few hits "Spill the Wine" & "Tobacco Road".
Love your reaction! The guy who played the organ was Alan Price and he played a Vox Continental. The Continental was popular in the 60's and 70's especially with garage and new wave bands. It was used by the Beatles, The Animals, The Doors and Iron Butterfly to name a few..
Such an iconic song of the 60's. Eric Burden's voice is also iconic and distinct as the lead singer. That emotion in his voice and the eeriness of the music just gives you a mental picture of New Orleans, of which I really need to go back to. Even though I live fairly close, I've not been able to go very often.
So many great bands from the 60's: "The Mamas & the Papas", "The Byrds", "The Doors", "The Beach Boys", "Steppenwolf", "The Lovin’ Spoonful", "The Guess Who", and so many more
Eric Burdon was the singer. He was 23 years old at the time. This song was recorded in one take, and went straight to number 1 on the charts all over the world. That is a Vox Organ. In 2008, he was ranked 57th in Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time"
The bassist was Chas Chandler, he saw a young guitarist in New York City that showed a lot of promise so he took him to England and became his manager. That guitarist was Jimi Hendrix.
Many of the older rock drummers used the traditional grip when playing as their training in their youth was often in marching bands. The organ is made by Vox. They were one of the leading manufacturers of electronic organs at the time. They also make amplifiers.
Just imagine going into the studio back then, the whole band sets up they start the recorder and they play, every song we ever heard recorded back them was a one take group session with no after recording touch up on a computer, all tuning had to be done prior to recording
So many of my guitar books when I was learning to play, when the subject of arpeggios came up, this was a song mentioned over and over for an example I learned the chord progression and practiced for hours, 6 strings down, 3 strings up... over and over. So simple, but it sounds great.
The simplistic harmony, the tortured vocals and of course the epic organ play presaged the Doors by a couple of years. Such an incredibly creative time for musicians. [Edit] Eff everyone and their opinions! You’re authentically Millie and that’s why we’re here. You’re the nexus of a certain energy. LOL No pressure.
The main thing about the Animals was how much Eric Burdon's voice was really an extra instrument. Led Zep used this too, it was actually a common thing for a lot of British music right through the 60's into the early 80's - think Kate Bush, or Christine McVie, or Phil Collins, or Bruce Dickinson, and it flowed into a lot of Aussie/NZ music of the era like Cold Chisel/Jimmy Barnes, John Farnham, Kater Ceberano, Tim Finn, et al.. 60's Britpop was a much more powerful wave than Sounds of the mirror and the razor blade of the 1990's revival. Don't get me wrong I love a bit of britpop revival but the original had a lot more guts, and a war to protest about.
It was 1964, I was 14 or 15 , and all pop records were about two to two and a half minutes long. This came along, well over four and a half minutes, it was wonderful. I remember in the school playground the following morning, how we all raved about it… I’ve loved it ever since.
Everybody used to learn this song as a beginning guitar player. It was great exercise in changing chords. Repetition helped solidify fast finger chord changing for a beginner. Love the organ player, he is so underappreciated today, a great player. He's playing a VOX portable organ I believe. I love your use of the word "authenticity," you nailed it exactly! The animals were very rhythm and blues based band...I always thought they were a tighter band than the Rolling Stones, and Eric Burden's voice was so unique.
It makes me happy to see you excited to hear songs from the past. 40 years ago, my Dad was shocked that I liked many of the songs that I did, many that were older than him. Peace, Love!!
Yep, that song has been sick for almost 60 years now. Great tune, Eric Burdon was one of the best. That bass player, Chas Chandler, helped jump star Jimi Hendrix career by getting him to England and putting together the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He was involved with his first 2 albums. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
The song is much older than that. Dave van Ronk planned to record it but couldn't because it would like he was copying Dylan, who stole the idea from him (Dylan wrote about this in Chronicles). Then Animals did it such that Dylan had to drop it because it would look like he was copying Animals.
Thank you for sharing this stunning performance. The 50s, 60s and 70s were musicality unique timeless performances that have carried over for generations. It shows that these extraordinary performances of the day are truly timeless.
One of my all-time favorite bands and this rendition of the song is the best imo. They have several songs I think you'll appreciate. Thanks for the reaction!✌
My favourite song of all time; I first heard it when I was like 5 years old while I was upstairs and my parents were having a party downstairs. I was obviously supposed to be in bed but I sat at the top of the stairs and rocked out for the first time in my life lol
The instrument is a music synthesizer. One of my friends back in high school had one. It was amazing being a teenager back then with all the music we were able listen to. The Animals were among the best.
I kept waiting for The Doors ❤ I think the instrument you're referring to is the organ. I find it to sometimes have a specific tone that's different than the piano. The doors also feature the organ in their music 😄
In the old days, studio time was very expensive. You had to have great talent just to get your music recorded. Not like today where anyone with a PC and the software can record music, original or copied!
Good point, triggered a thought. Brian Wilson rightly credited with genius level innovation with Pet Sounds, especially Good Vibrations, where he had Wrecking Crew session musicians more or less record individual notes then edited and spliced it all into the song and credited to Beach Boys as a band. But the long term is now anyone can do it in their room with laptop or tablet without having any ability to play an instrument or even, thanks to technology, sing.
Thanks for your reaction, Millie. No one hates you because you can't remember some things, we all have our own memory fails from time to time, there is no shame in that. Let the haters hate and go ahead & do your own things. The thing with music from the 1960's was that nothing has been done yet, so things were open to experimentation--bands could try anything, because everything was new. Have a nice day & see you next time.
That's Alan Price on the keyboards who went on to have a fabulously successful solo career after The Animals. Here he's playing a Vox Continental Organ (I think).
Eric Burdon still performing and I recently read that he was the Walrus in the Beatles song. Alan Price a great organ player, last saw him with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. Chas Chandler went into management, spotted Jimi Hendrix in New York and brought him to England, put together the backing band of Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding - rest is history
Honestly, I think that in certain popular genres there is a focus on finding musicians who look good on stage and sound decent enough. If they have the look the studio wants any shortcomings in actual talent can be fixed up in the studio.
To sing this song faithfully to the original is a real task, because of the amount of belting you have to do. I was prepared to do it, and could, but some nearby neighbors were not keen about the volume of my singing. But that’s how the song goes.
The "Keyboard" is a VOX Continental Organ! "You name 'em" Ok! Here are a few of my fave unknown/underrated(at this time) bands The Dovers - She's Gone The JuJus - I'm Really Sorry The Mockingbirds - You Stole My Love The Squires - Going All The Way The Remains - Don't Look Back The Sonics - Cinderella Los Saicos - Ana ...
The Vox Continental is a Combo Organ. These were designed to replace large console organs that bands, or combos, could more easily move around to use on stage. Farfisa was another popular brand. Also, any instrument with a keyboard is a keyboard. From then on classified as piano, organ, synthesizer, electronic keyboard, clavinet, harpsichord, etc.
I think the thing is, we remember the music that stand out, sometimes it takes a bit of time to discover but in the long term, we will remember some music from our times like we see see the Animals, but like you said maybe we don't know who they are now, but artist are always creating good stuff, every era has made magic, and it's wonderful to discover the stuff that hits from whatever era.
The Vox contintal Organ--played by Alan Price--------Bass-Epiphone Rivioli-played by Chas Chandler -manager of Jimi Hendrix-Hilton Valentine playing arpeggio's on a Gretsch Tenn.
As a teen in Newcastle I used to go to The Club A'gogo where the Alan Price Rythm and Blues Combo played, they were so wild on stage they were nicknamed The Animals and a legend was born.
Not only one take... from an interview that the Professor of Rock did with Eric Burdon (Lead vocals), they were in the middle of opening for Chuck Berry on tour in England. They had Sundays off, so they booked time in studio, loaded up all their equipment after a gig, took a train to London, unloaded all their equipment (liberating a railwayman's barrow), hauled it in the early morning hours in London to the studio, set up their equipment, did one sound-check, one run-through, one take, loaded up the equipment, took a taxi back to the train station, loaded the train, and left for the next gig on Chuck's tour in Southhampton.
House of the Rising Sun was originally a folk song about a woman who worked in a brothel. The Animals re-wrote it to be about a man. Great tune. If you like this type of raw performance, here are some more to listen to: Piece of My Heart by Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin (or just about any other Janis Joplin song) Going Up the Country by Canned Heat Mony Mony by Tommy James and the Shondells Time Has Come Today by The Chambers Brothers (particularly the eleven minute version) Bottle of Wine by The FIreballs Up on Cripple Creek by The Band Money (That's What I Want) by Barrett Strong
🇨🇦 Every once in a while a musical renaissance occurs, and fresh new music and talent appears ! It happened with the Classical Masters, like Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Liszt ! Before WWII, it was Big Bands and Crooners ! After that war, our parents had felt the need for peace and change, so they slowly gave us our freedom ! From this freedom came another music, and new artists ! Mixing dance, jazz, blues and even some Classical ! This new music was created in the 60's, 70's and 80's, and has been the influence of most music since ! Even today's music still relies on the riffs of Rock and Roll !
This arrangement is generally taken to be a Bob Dylan creation.... except he apparently took it from Dave Van Ronk, another folk singer from the early 1960s. Dylan supposedly called him to say he had recorded it and was about to release it. Dave wasn't happy, since he had just recorded it himself, and knew people were gonna think he'd copied Dylan, when it was the other way around.
A group from "back in the day" 😉 you didn't mention was the Yardbirds. Artists such as Jimmy page, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck played for the band. They are worth checking out. My parents listened to them and I was also subjected to the sounds of the Animals, rolling stones and the Beatles
This is the name of that keyboard ... It's called The Continental. Used in the 1960s & 1970s. • The Animals • The Doors • The Beatles • Iron Butterfly Were just a few bands that used this instrument.
The keyboard is a British Vox Continental , but yeah the sound is usually associated with a Fender Rhodes. I think the bass is a Jack Cassidy model Epiphone.
You have a point that there are a lot of good bands out there today that are just not getting mainstream attentions. As an a guy in my mid 60s, I remember all that music and still listen to it regularly but I also listen to new artists. Right now it seems the Blues Rock genre has a lot of great artists, many are women. Currently bands like Larkin Poe, Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown, Markus King, Dea Matrona, The Ally Venable Band, The Laura Cox Band, The Warning, The Answer and Rival Sons are among my current favorites and they all play more traditional style hard rock or blues rock and some put a modern twist on it. You are right though, they don't get mainstream attention.
@@gordowg1wg145 Larkin Poe just played near me, as did The Warning and Ally Venable. I didn’t see any of them, but I should have. I did see Ally Venable last summer though. The rising Irish rockers Dea Matrona are the ones I really want to see when they come to the US. I’ve been following them since seeing their videos of them busking on the streets of Belfast.
5:01 "One foot on the platform, the other foot on the train. I'm goin' back to New Orleans, to wear that ball and chain", is so poignant. We make those choices all the time! The first time I heard this, it was sung by a young woman who changed the meaning of the lyrics without changing the lyrics. It wasn't about gambling. It's universal. It's always about selling your soul.
"House of the Rising Sun" was said to have been known by American miners in 1905. The oldest published version of the lyrics is that printed by Robert Winslow Gordon in 1925, in a column titled "Old Songs That Men Have Sung" in Adventure magazine.
A lot of other Animals songs have a chorus, where the rest of the band just shouts without any harmonies. This one just has the lead vocalist throughout--it's so much better.
I've seen the Animals in concert. Also The Zombies, The Rolling Stones and, yes, even The Monkees. They were all great. However, there is some "new" stuff that is also great. I've been obsessed with Wolf Alice for a while now. They can do it all, from punk to garage rock to ballads and everything in between. Also, Fontaines DC is very, very good. It's out there. You just have to find it, which is half the fun.
the keyboard, a Vox continental had a spinning speaker, Leslie speaker, like a Hammond organ to give a wobbly sound. You can run a guitar through it, like on Houchy Coouchy
I am glad young kids still discover the old classics. I was born in '75 so this was before my time as well, but I also discovered it around your age. in the 90s (I assume you are 20something)
Chas Chandler, was an English musician, record producer and manager, best known as the original bassist in The Animals, he managed the band Slade, and Jimi Hendrix.
This song can be traced back into the 1930s', author unknown. It had been covered numerous times with not much success until The Animals put their touch on it.
Those musicians were probably all classicly trained and proved themselves in Hotels and Function centres firstly. The Record Industry was owned by older men in suits and they had to be different and proven quality as well. Recording equipment was limited and expensive too so clarity had to come through in limited studio time
At this point in rock music history, 1964 and for the rest of that decade, most bands like the Animals, etc., where not in it just for the money. They were actually trying to be creative and loved their music. Music became more commercialized and bands started to produce "product," instead of music, in the 1970s
Here's what I found. Hope this helps: "If you mean the definitive version by the Animals, with Eric Burdon on vocals, the organist was Alan Price and he played a Hammond organ , though he was also known to use a Vox." I also found this: "What kind of bass guitar did Chas Chandler play? Chas Chandler - Gibson EB-2 Bass Guitar."
I remember my mom saying while these guys were on Ed Sullivan show ( and I quote her). YOU will not have long hair like that. I look back and just smile and shake my head because the music revolution was just getting underway in America and we ROCKED
That is a Rhodes electric piano. This was before pro tools, before auto tune and pitch correct, and the technology had just gotten to 4-track recording. There was no piecing of songs together in the booth, it was always played live in the studio by all the membes.
The Beatles did this tune, during “Let it Be” when they played some of their favorite covers, and worked on their new tunes in Jan’1969. When John Lennon gets to “-and you’re one” he snarls an extra “you’re one alright!” Seek out the Blues of Leadbelly, and the folk version by Bob Dylan. Both were The Animals learned the tune. Newcastle, Uk a shipbuilding city, and port on the North Sea - other fine musicians like Dire Straits, Sting, Joe Jackson, and the second singer of AC-DC, Brian Johnson.
If you must need to know 😘. The Vox Continental is a transistorised combo organ that was manufactured between 1962 and 1971 by the British musical equipment manufacturer Vox. It was designed for touring musicians and as an alternative to the heavy Hammond organ.
My humble opinion ... the British Invasion changed music instantly. Before you had music producers who employed a staff that wrote lyrics, a staff that wrote music, a staff that produced music and a stable of artist to choose from. The music industry was a business. Then the Beatles hit Ed Sullivan and it built a fire that created garage bands all over the US. These kids wrote music that gave people a voice. They protested the war and fought for civil rights. They wept about lost loves and delighted in a new love found. And to do this, all you needed was a bass, drums, rhythm and lead guitar and someone to sing. It was a great time to be a teenager. To me, music devolved when disco hit. Since then, the passion has been lost and replaced by auto tuning and electro bedazzlement. Sure ... some great songs still trickle out, but week after week, the mid-60s top 40 was just crazy. I'm glad I was just about a teenager when that Sunday night Ed Sullivan introduced us to the Beatles. Thrilled I was there to enjoy all the amazing music that came next.
Eric's voice made this song timeless. Alan's solo on that Vox Continental organ made it legendary.
yeah man i looooooooooooooove that organ
vox , Hammond different.
And I liked Valentine's rythum guitar riffs, top notch.
His voice contrasted with his expressionless face hammer the tragic story home
The keyboard played by Alan Price was a Vox Continental.
Vox Continental ORGAN !
The Price of Fame 😉
Yep. Absolutely love the sound of it. I always wanted one when playing in bands in the late 80s but could afford so had a sort of weird knock-off farfisa that I found in a second hand music shop in Leigh, Greater Manchester.
With key colors reversed! THAT was cool !!!
I think Paul Shaffer played one on Late Night.
In 1964 I was in the US Navy and this song was played everywhere and all the time. It was a huge hit! When we could get Liberty we'd hang out a particular restaurant and play the heck out of this on the Juke Boxes and drink coffee and talk to the girls. Ah, memories. Still like this at my current age of 77!
GO NAVY! ⚓⛵⚓🥰🇩🇪🇨🇭🇺🇲🌊💙🌊💙🌊💙
A LOT of artists have done this song.... but The Animals' version is the STANDARD they get measured by due to the obvious vocals as well as clarity of music.
They were the first cover it in this manner and I believe one of the first in decades. There are two types of folk rock and this was considered the first rock song about a folk song.
The issue, as I see it, is that music today is over produced. People sing with their head, too often try to impress by performing vocal gymnastics with their voice, and try to mimic/copy a rigid formula. Everyone ends up sounding the same. Back in the day, people just sang from the heart and let their emotions, personality, and feelings come across fully. It's a far more authentic and raw approach and why older music resonates so strongly. It's not pretentious.
Oh, they did not just sing from the heart. They had spent a lot of time learning their craft in church fêtes, pubs, and clubs - how to work an audience, project their voice with the low grade microphones and PA systems of the time. And we remember the best. There was also a lot of formulaic junk where a pretty boy provided a face for some good session musicians. There is technique today. There is also technology to 'improve' people who can't sing, and all they have is emotion (real or faked)
Several articles on how auto tuning has taken the "feeling" out of music.
There's also the fact that old musicians used to spend all their time learning their craft. That's literally all they did.
While all that is true there is another dimension that is rarely, if ever, discussed.
Music is an expression of the social conditions of the time it is sung. The era between the 1940s and the end of the 1980s was The Cold War, which saw the existential threat of nuclear doom.
Countries were balancing modernisation, revolutions, traditions, and rapid technological development, and rapidly rising populations.
The tensions in societies from all this led to creativity in music, movie, and books that began to relax with the end of that era.
Stability replaced creativity somewhat from the 1990s to now.
@@dennismulhall3057 According to that, during the pandemics peak and the start of the war in ukraine better music would have been made.
(Many existential uncertanties for many people especially artists during the pandemics peak, and a general uncertainty and fear of Putin launching a nuke when his war started to not go as planned.)
Also during the early 90's central and southern european music should have experienced a peak in creativity. (There was a war starting in 91's many seem to forget that it happened. I don't, and my country wasn't even actively involved. But there were bullet holes in buildings on our side of the border, AAA guns were dug in outside my village and tanks were protecting the border.)
I think it's less stability as that has taken over, but more like general uninterest of music labels and musicians in topics other than their own life, partying, being famous...
The last person i remember who made a famous "protest song" against something was P!nks "dear Mr. President" aimed for GW Bush. So when Trump became president i waited for another song, but there came none. From nobody.
Just one example of why i think artists lost interest in everything outside their own lifes.
Another thing: all the time producers and people in deciding positions tried to "use a prooven formula" so promoting something that sounds like something that was successfull once. And sometimes they promoted something different. As they didn't have the technological means to make it happen all the time.
Nowadays the technological means exist, and they get heavily used. Not because they need to all the time, but because they think they have to.
(There's a british guy here on YT who has shown that Michael Buble's record company us using a form of autotune on his songs (even though there's no need for it, he has prooven that he can sing well enough without). And even Queen songs aren't protected from that happening. Songs of them have been "remastered" and sent through an autotune algorythm. It actually makes it sound less good in my ears, but young folk who haven't heard it in a different form...
This track was recorded in one take!!!! No over-dubs or any modern drop-ins
They had talent
All what you said + after travelling a few hundred miles in a van . Got out of the Van and straight into the studio . PURE GOLD .
You are aware that they didn't use the sound from the video recording, aren't you? I mean the electric guitars aren't even plugged into anything.
@@disobedientdolphin yeah I do know that .
I just can not believe that, considering they are strolling around playing electric guitars with no power cords attached, which did not exist back then.
I was at the show when the animals first played this, it was my 13th birthday, the crowd went wild, as did I, they played it 3 times as an encore, the band we’re supporting Chuck Berry, my greatest night ever at shows, even this song eclipses me seeing the Beatles. That show was on 31st January 1964
You KNOW a singer is great when they make you believe that the singer has lived that song.
Well put.
The Bass Guitar was an 'Epiphone Rivoli.' Epiphone was part of "Gibson," and Gibson had an identical model called the EB2. I had an Epiphone back in the day. The guy playing it in this video is Chas Chandler, who became the manager to Jimi Hendrix.
Love Eric Burdon & The Animals. They were part of the British Invasion along with The Beatles, Rolling Stones & others. People are always shocked that Eric has such a different unique deeper voice. The Animals had a lot of great hits in the 60's such as "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", "Baby Let Me Take You Home", "I'm Crying", "Boom Boom", "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", "Bring It On Home to Me", "It's My Life", "Don't Bring Me Down", "See See Rider", "Monterey", "Sky Pilot" etc. Eric later joined the funk rock band "War" & they had a few hits "Spill the Wine" & "Tobacco Road".
Don't let me be misunderstood is a fantastic song, quite possibly my favourite by the Animals
Love your reaction! The guy who played the organ was Alan Price and he played a Vox Continental. The Continental was popular in the 60's and 70's especially with garage and new wave bands. It was used by the Beatles, The Animals, The Doors and Iron Butterfly to name a few..
"The" Iron Butterfly. (Someone stop me...)
*Fun fact:* The bass player, Chas Chandler, went on to manage Jimi Hendrix.
Such an iconic song of the 60's. Eric Burden's voice is also iconic and distinct as the lead singer. That emotion in his voice and the eeriness of the music just gives you a mental picture of New Orleans, of which I really need to go back to. Even though I live fairly close, I've not been able to go very often.
Haven't been in more than 20 years unfortunately. No place quite like it.
Great reaction, Millie... you're right... bands were just being themselves. They had a message and wanted to share it.
So many great bands from the 60's: "The Mamas & the Papas", "The Byrds", "The Doors", "The Beach Boys", "Steppenwolf", "The Lovin’ Spoonful", "The Guess Who", and so many more
The Moody Blues, The Buckinghams, The Mama's and The Papa's, The Brothers Gibb, The Grassroots, The Carpenters, The Eagles.
You two must be American's, no Mention of The Beatles The Rolling Stones The Who The Kinks. Too many to discuss.
I am. Some were already mentioned. Those are great bands too!
@@paulrt3 Good Evening, hope you are well, my two favourite American group's from that era were The Byrd's and The Turtle's.
All bullsyes!
The bassist, Chas Chandler went on to manage Jimi Hendrix and the group Slade.
He basically got Jimi started as a headliner instead of a backing musician.
Discovered him playing in New York. Persuaded him to relocate to UK found a backer and the rest is history.
Eric Burdon was the singer. He was 23 years old at the time. This song was recorded in one take, and went straight to number 1 on the charts all over the world. That is a Vox Organ.
In 2008, he was ranked 57th in Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time"
Seems super low on the charts for that power😒 I'm curious who came higher.
I agree! I love his voice!
That is at least 40 places too effing low.
The bassist was Chas Chandler, he saw a young guitarist in New York City that showed a lot of promise so he took him to England and became his manager. That guitarist was Jimi Hendrix.
Many of the older rock drummers used the traditional grip when playing as their training in their youth was often in marching bands. The organ is made by Vox. They were one of the leading manufacturers of electronic organs at the time. They also make amplifiers.
Just imagine going into the studio back then, the whole band sets up they start the recorder and they play, every song we ever heard recorded back them was a one take group session with no after recording touch up on a computer, all tuning had to be done prior to recording
So many of my guitar books when I was learning to play, when the subject of arpeggios came up, this was a song mentioned over and over for an example
I learned the chord progression and practiced for hours, 6 strings down, 3 strings up... over and over. So simple, but it sounds great.
takes tremendous skill to tap the cymbals so lightly for that long
The simplistic harmony, the tortured vocals and of course the epic organ play presaged the Doors by a couple of years. Such an incredibly creative time for musicians.
[Edit] Eff everyone and their opinions! You’re authentically Millie and that’s why we’re here. You’re the nexus of a certain energy. LOL No pressure.
Thanks for bringing back this great song and amazing performance!!
The main thing about the Animals was how much Eric Burdon's voice was really an extra instrument. Led Zep used this too, it was actually a common thing for a lot of British music right through the 60's into the early 80's - think Kate Bush, or Christine McVie, or Phil Collins, or Bruce Dickinson, and it flowed into a lot of Aussie/NZ music of the era like Cold Chisel/Jimmy Barnes, John Farnham, Kater Ceberano, Tim Finn, et al..
60's Britpop was a much more powerful wave than Sounds of the mirror and the razor blade of the 1990's revival.
Don't get me wrong I love a bit of britpop revival but the original had a lot more guts, and a war to protest about.
Hi Millie, great reaction. The keyboard was a Vox Continental. I think the bass guitar was an Epiphone Rivoli.
It was 1964, I was 14 or 15 , and all pop records were about two to two and a half minutes long. This came along, well over four and a half minutes, it was wonderful. I remember in the school playground the following morning, how we all raved about it… I’ve loved it ever since.
Everybody used to learn this song as a beginning guitar player. It was great exercise in changing chords. Repetition helped solidify fast finger chord changing for a beginner. Love the organ player, he is so underappreciated today, a great player. He's playing a VOX portable organ I believe. I love your use of the word "authenticity," you nailed it exactly! The animals were very rhythm and blues based band...I always thought they were a tighter band than the Rolling Stones, and Eric Burden's voice was so unique.
It makes me happy to see you excited to hear songs from the past. 40 years ago, my Dad was shocked that I liked many of the songs that I did, many that were older than him. Peace, Love!!
Yep, that song has been sick for almost 60 years now. Great tune, Eric Burdon was one of the best. That bass player, Chas Chandler, helped jump star Jimi Hendrix career by getting him to England and putting together the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He was involved with his first 2 albums. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
The song is much older than that. Dave van Ronk planned to record it but couldn't because it would like he was copying Dylan, who stole the idea from him (Dylan wrote about this in Chronicles). Then Animals did it such that Dylan had to drop it because it would look like he was copying Animals.
Thank you for sharing this stunning performance. The 50s, 60s and 70s were musicality unique timeless performances that have carried over for generations. It shows that these extraordinary performances of the day are truly timeless.
The Animals is one of the bands I discovered from my fathers album collection..... love them.
One of my all-time favorite bands and this rendition of the song is the best imo. They have several songs I think you'll appreciate.
Thanks for the reaction!✌
My favourite song of all time; I first heard it when I was like 5 years old while I was upstairs and my parents were having a party downstairs. I was obviously supposed to be in bed but I sat at the top of the stairs and rocked out for the first time in my life lol
It's amazing - truly one of my all time favourites too, aged 50+
The instrument is a music synthesizer. One of my friends back in high school had one. It was amazing being a teenager back then with all the music we were able listen to. The Animals were among the best.
I kept waiting for The Doors ❤
I think the instrument you're referring to is the organ. I find it to sometimes have a specific tone that's different than the piano.
The doors also feature the organ in their music 😄
Before the advent of synth keyboards, the most prominent keys were the Vox Continental, the Farfisa Mini-Compact, and the Hammond B3.
In the old days, studio time was very expensive. You had to have great talent just to get your music recorded. Not like today where anyone with a PC and the software can record music, original or copied!
Good point, triggered a thought. Brian Wilson rightly credited with genius level innovation with Pet Sounds, especially Good Vibrations, where he had Wrecking Crew session musicians more or less record individual notes then edited and spliced it all into the song and credited to Beach Boys as a band. But the long term is now anyone can do it in their room with laptop or tablet without having any ability to play an instrument or even, thanks to technology, sing.
As someone in their seventies now, and having grown up with this, I can assure that what they actually had in those days was true talent!
Thanks for your reaction, Millie. No one hates you because you can't remember some things, we all have our own memory fails from time to time, there is no shame in that. Let the haters hate and go ahead & do your own things. The thing with music from the 1960's was that nothing has been done yet, so things were open to experimentation--bands could try anything, because everything was new. Have a nice day & see you next time.
Millie, thank you for enjoying these songs on so many different levels. It makes your videos that much more enjoyable to watch and to listen to!
So many great bands when we were young. Way more individualism in the cast of singers across the board. Eric Burden's voice was a prime example!
The instrument that Alan Price was playing is an Electric Organ there were many different makes and types, a popular one was made by Hammond.
The 60s has alot of great music
VIVA LOS ANIMALS
My uncle's in Mexico R.I.P 🇲🇽🌷🌷
use to play these Albums in the late 79s .
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That's Alan Price on the keyboards who went on to have a fabulously successful solo career after The Animals. Here he's playing a Vox Continental Organ (I think).
Eric Burdon still performing and I recently read that he was the Walrus in the Beatles song. Alan Price a great organ player, last saw him with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. Chas Chandler went into management, spotted Jimi Hendrix in New York and brought him to England, put together the backing band of Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding - rest is history
No, Eric Burdon was the egg-man.
Honestly, I think that in certain popular genres there is a focus on finding musicians who look good on stage and sound decent enough. If they have the look the studio wants any shortcomings in actual talent can be fixed up in the studio.
Righteous Brothers ,Unchained Melody ,Live 60s ,will blow your mind!!!
To sing this song faithfully to the original is a real task, because of the amount of belting you have to do. I was prepared to do it, and could, but some nearby neighbors were not keen about the volume of my singing. But that’s how the song goes.
Music back in the day was people just trying to have a voice, but no dub overs, voice enhancement, just real live music 🎵🎶
The "Keyboard" is a VOX Continental Organ!
"You name 'em"
Ok!
Here are a few of my fave unknown/underrated(at this time) bands
The Dovers - She's Gone
The JuJus - I'm Really Sorry
The Mockingbirds - You Stole My Love
The Squires - Going All The Way
The Remains - Don't Look Back
The Sonics - Cinderella
Los Saicos - Ana
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05:27 "So much attitude." NAILED IT. Subbed, Millie.
The bass player for The Animals, Chas Chandler, discovered Jimi Hendrix playing in a nightclub in New York and convinced him to come to England.
The Vox Continental is a Combo Organ. These were designed to replace large console organs that bands, or combos, could more easily move around to use on stage. Farfisa was another popular brand. Also, any instrument with a keyboard is a keyboard. From then on classified as piano, organ, synthesizer, electronic keyboard, clavinet, harpsichord, etc.
I think the thing is, we remember the music that stand out, sometimes it takes a bit of time to discover but in the long term, we will remember some music from our times like we see see the Animals, but like you said maybe we don't know who they are now, but artist are always creating good stuff, every era has made magic, and it's wonderful to discover the stuff that hits from whatever era.
The Vox contintal Organ--played by Alan Price--------Bass-Epiphone Rivioli-played by Chas Chandler -manager of Jimi Hendrix-Hilton Valentine playing arpeggio's on a Gretsch Tenn.
Back in the day this was the first song most people learned to play on guitar.
Millie, Glad to see you back. Don't be a stranger especially with your vintage rock reactions. Best wishes from Florida.
Awwww thank you 😊 💜
As a teen in Newcastle I used to go to The Club A'gogo where the Alan Price Rythm and Blues Combo played, they were so wild on stage they were nicknamed The Animals and a legend was born.
Not only one take... from an interview that the Professor of Rock did with Eric Burdon (Lead vocals), they were in the middle of opening for Chuck Berry on tour in England. They had Sundays off, so they booked time in studio, loaded up all their equipment after a gig, took a train to London, unloaded all their equipment (liberating a railwayman's barrow), hauled it in the early morning hours in London to the studio, set up their equipment, did one sound-check, one run-through, one take, loaded up the equipment, took a taxi back to the train station, loaded the train, and left for the next gig on Chuck's tour in Southhampton.
House of the Rising Sun was originally a folk song about a woman who worked in a brothel. The Animals re-wrote it to be about a man. Great tune.
If you like this type of raw performance, here are some more to listen to:
Piece of My Heart by Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin (or just about any other Janis Joplin song)
Going Up the Country by Canned Heat
Mony Mony by Tommy James and the Shondells
Time Has Come Today by The Chambers Brothers (particularly the eleven minute version)
Bottle of Wine by The FIreballs
Up on Cripple Creek by The Band
Money (That's What I Want) by Barrett Strong
Growing up in those days, the music was so experimental and it was wonderful.
🇨🇦 Every once in a while a musical renaissance occurs, and fresh new music and talent appears !
It happened with the Classical Masters, like Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Liszt !
Before WWII, it was Big Bands and Crooners !
After that war, our parents had felt the need for peace and change, so they slowly gave us our freedom ! From this freedom came another music, and new artists ! Mixing dance, jazz, blues and even some Classical ! This new music was created in the 60's, 70's and 80's, and has been the influence of most music since ! Even today's music still relies on the riffs of Rock and Roll !
This arrangement is generally taken to be a Bob Dylan creation.... except he apparently took it from Dave Van Ronk, another folk singer from the early 1960s. Dylan supposedly called him to say he had recorded it and was about to release it. Dave wasn't happy, since he had just recorded it himself, and knew people were gonna think he'd copied Dylan, when it was the other way around.
A group from "back in the day" 😉 you didn't mention was the Yardbirds. Artists such as Jimmy page, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck played for the band. They are worth checking out. My parents listened to them and I was also subjected to the sounds of the Animals, rolling stones and the Beatles
This is the name of that keyboard ...
It's called The Continental.
Used in the 1960s & 1970s.
• The Animals
• The Doors
• The Beatles
• Iron Butterfly
Were just a few bands that used this instrument.
The keyboard is a British Vox Continental , but yeah the sound is usually associated with a Fender Rhodes. I think the bass is a Jack Cassidy model Epiphone.
I first heard this in 1964. It was a "Wow!!!" moment. Then, and every time I hear this I think to the 1962 film "Walk on the Wild Side"
Coolest thing is this song was recorded in one take. They nailed it first time in the studio. Flipping Amazing.
Yeah! Spill The Wine! Eric Burden introducing War. Also, a great band.
You have a point that there are a lot of good bands out there today that are just not getting mainstream attentions. As an a guy in my mid 60s, I remember all that music and still listen to it regularly but I also listen to new artists. Right now it seems the Blues Rock genre has a lot of great artists, many are women. Currently bands like Larkin Poe, Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown, Markus King, Dea Matrona, The Ally Venable Band, The Laura Cox Band, The Warning, The Answer and Rival Sons are among my current favorites and they all play more traditional style hard rock or blues rock and some put a modern twist on it. You are right though, they don't get mainstream attention.
Larkin Poe recently toured here, NZ, and were interviewed on our National radio station - unfortunately, i couldn't make a show.
@@gordowg1wg145 Larkin Poe just played near me, as did The Warning and Ally Venable. I didn’t see any of them, but I should have. I did see Ally Venable last summer though. The rising Irish rockers Dea Matrona are the ones I really want to see when they come to the US. I’ve been following them since seeing their videos of them busking on the streets of Belfast.
5:01 "One foot on the platform, the other foot on the train. I'm goin' back to New Orleans, to wear that ball and chain", is so poignant. We make those choices all the time! The first time I heard this, it was sung by a young woman who changed the meaning of the lyrics without changing the lyrics. It wasn't about gambling. It's universal. It's always about selling your soul.
"House of the Rising Sun" was said to have been known by American miners in 1905. The oldest published version of the lyrics is that printed by Robert Winslow Gordon in 1925, in a column titled "Old Songs That Men Have Sung" in Adventure magazine.
A lot of other Animals songs have a chorus, where the rest of the band just shouts without any harmonies. This one just has the lead vocalist throughout--it's so much better.
I've seen the Animals in concert. Also The Zombies, The Rolling Stones and, yes, even The Monkees. They were all great. However, there is some "new" stuff that is also great. I've been obsessed with Wolf Alice for a while now. They can do it all, from punk to garage rock to ballads and everything in between. Also, Fontaines DC is very, very good. It's out there. You just have to find it, which is half the fun.
the keyboard, a Vox continental had a spinning speaker, Leslie speaker, like a Hammond organ to give a wobbly sound. You can run a guitar through it, like on Houchy Coouchy
I am glad young kids still discover the old classics. I was born in '75 so this was before my time as well, but I also discovered it around your age. in the 90s (I assume you are 20something)
Yesssss 💜💜💜
Did you notice, only one of them cracks a smile during the entire song. He cant hold it in any longer, he is having to good of a time!
The ending of Casino plays this song. Perfect for the scene. Thanks for reacting to a classic ❤
Chas Chandler, was an English musician, record producer and manager, best known as the original bassist in The Animals, he managed the band Slade, and Jimi Hendrix.
Love these facts 💜
This song can be traced back into the 1930s', author unknown. It had been covered numerous times with not much success until The Animals put their touch on it.
The way Eric's gaze holds the camera is electrifying! o_O
You didn’t sound snobbish at all - you’re spitting straight facts! New subscriber from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 👍🏼
The rasp is in his voice when he want to get it out, its like what many clean metal singers struggles to have. And He got both!
Those musicians were probably all classicly trained and proved themselves in Hotels and Function centres firstly. The Record Industry was owned by older men in suits and they had to be different and proven quality as well. Recording equipment was limited and expensive too so clarity had to come through in limited studio time
At this point in rock music history, 1964 and for the rest of that decade, most bands like the Animals, etc., where not in it just for the money. They were actually trying to be creative and loved their music. Music became more commercialized and bands started to produce "product," instead of music, in the 1970s
Here's what I found. Hope this helps:
"If you mean the definitive version by the Animals, with Eric Burdon on vocals, the organist was Alan Price and he played a Hammond organ , though he was also known to use a Vox."
I also found this:
"What kind of bass guitar did Chas Chandler play?
Chas Chandler - Gibson EB-2 Bass Guitar."
I remember my mom saying while these guys were on Ed Sullivan show ( and I quote her). YOU will not have long hair like that. I look back and just smile and shake my head because the music revolution was just getting underway in America and we ROCKED
There were so many great rock bands in the UK back then. I am 73 and remember it well.
That is a Rhodes electric piano. This was before pro tools, before auto tune and pitch correct, and the technology had just gotten to 4-track recording. There was no piecing of songs together in the booth, it was always played live in the studio by all the membes.
Sorry that is a Hammond organ. The rhodes came a few years later.
The Beatles did this tune, during “Let it Be” when they played some of their favorite covers, and worked on their new tunes in Jan’1969. When John Lennon gets to “-and you’re one” he snarls an extra “you’re one alright!”
Seek out the Blues of Leadbelly, and the folk version by Bob Dylan. Both were The Animals learned the tune.
Newcastle, Uk a shipbuilding city, and port on the North Sea - other fine musicians like Dire Straits, Sting, Joe Jackson, and the second singer of AC-DC, Brian Johnson.
A youtuber 'Leo Moracchioli' makes heavy metal versions of many popular songs, his version of House of the Rising Sun absolutely rocks.
If you haven't figured out yet that bass was a Gibson EB 2 Sunburst. Made from 1967-1970 I think. You can still find them online.
If you must need to know
😘. The Vox Continental is a transistorised combo organ that was manufactured between 1962 and 1971 by the British musical equipment manufacturer Vox. It was designed for touring musicians and as an alternative to the heavy Hammond organ.
My humble opinion ... the British Invasion changed music instantly. Before you had music producers who employed a staff that wrote lyrics, a staff that wrote music, a staff that produced music and a stable of artist to choose from. The music industry was a business.
Then the Beatles hit Ed Sullivan and it built a fire that created garage bands all over the US. These kids wrote music that gave people a voice. They protested the war and fought for civil rights. They wept about lost loves and delighted in a new love found. And to do this, all you needed was a bass, drums, rhythm and lead guitar and someone to sing. It was a great time to be a teenager.
To me, music devolved when disco hit. Since then, the passion has been lost and replaced by auto tuning and electro bedazzlement. Sure ... some great songs still trickle out, but week after week, the mid-60s top 40 was just crazy. I'm glad I was just about a teenager when that Sunday night Ed Sullivan introduced us to the Beatles. Thrilled I was there to enjoy all the amazing music that came next.
This was one of my all time favourite songs to sings in karaoke.
I was 19 when this was released. I worked in a bank in the City of London opposite a pub called the Rising Sun. 59 years zoomed past just like that.
The Base player bought Jimi Hendrix to the UK and helped him form the Experience. He then went on to be their manager
Stumbled across your channel, its sic!...you have a real passion for music ❤