The Animals with Eric Burdon released this song about 60 years ago and recorded it in one take. A different world of music and recording back in the day.
In 1964/65, when I was 15 years old, I auditioned as a singer for a local garage band. The first song that they requested that I sing was "House of the Rising Sun." I couldn't even come close to matching Eric Burdon's power or sensitivity. I didn't get into the band.
Many versions of this old blues/folk song since it was first recorded in the 1930s, but none I think better than the Animals. Damn! Eric Burden could sing!
It was interesting to me that you remarked about Eric Burdon’s stature and strength. I’ve been studying (for fun) the History of Britain from the Fifth Century onward and the many cultures (countries and races) who invaded, enslaved, raped, conquered, merged and intermarried with the Britains and the British for two thousand years. Eric Burdon was born in 1941 in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. His father, Matt, was originally from Tyneside. His mother, Rene, was originally from Ireland and moved to Scotland before settling in Newcastle in the 1930s. He also had a younger sister, Irene. Burdon later recalled that his middle name "Victor" had been chosen after encouragement from the Lord Mayor, who offered new mothers £25 if their new-borns were given a patriotic "war name." His later rock/ soul group was called, “War”. There is too much too write here but I was about 14 when this was played repeatedly on the radio and it had a huge impact on the course of my life for the next six decades. Burdon states he often had a divided loyalty in his sense of place and identity. He was born to a working class family; his father did electrical work in some of the clubs Burdon would later play. Because of his father's line of work in electrical repair, the Burdon family had a TV by the time Eric was 10. In his autobiography, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, he recalls the electrifying moment of first seeing Louis Armstrong on TV which began his love for blues music.
What a great classic song from the 60s. It may be a cover, but this is the iconic version known to generations of Rock and pop audiences. Never gets old.
Nice job. Eric Burdon (like Burden) does have a tremendous stage presence to go along with that amazing voice. There are five or six unbelievably good songs/performances by the Animals. Then there’s always his song with War, “Spill the Wine”.
Besides Eric's Soulful 50 year old voice (even in his early 20s) That classic 60's sound is from one of the first and iconic portable organs .. The Vox Continental .... Easily recognized by the classic orange cover and reversed black and white keys !!!!! PS they did this song on there club tour and had it so down they stopped in a small studio and recoded it in one take
FUN FACT about this song: No one knows who wrote it. Musicologists have tried to track down its origins but it's so old that its origins are lost in the murky mists of time. It may even go back all the way to 17th century England as one of what became known as "Broadside Ballads." If it did originate in England then it probably came to America via some ocean-going traveler who may have sung it here in the U.S. and then others picked it up and it slowly got passed around. Also, if it did originate in England, then someone had to have changed the location of the brothel from its location in England to New Orleans, probably to make the song more relevant to American audiences. That is all speculation, obviously, since no one knows for sure what the original lyrics were in that particular verse. Another interesting thing about the song is that in some versions it's about a man lamenting his experience in this house of ill repute while in other versions it's a woman telling of her trials and tribulations at the brothel. I first heard it by folk singer, Joan Baez, a year or two before the Animals' released their version. In the Animals version the narrator is a man. In the Baez version the narrator is a woman. There is also a version by folk singer Huddie (Leadbelly) Leadbetter that is so different both melodically and lyrically that it's barely recognizable as the same song. Another early rendition of the song was by Bob Dylan about 3 years before the Animals. We will likely never know the full history behind this mysterious and captivating song.
Yea man, this one was such a huge hit! It was great growing up in that era. Such a great booming voice. Chas, the bass player talked Jimi into going to England and just blew up from there. Really digging the background checks dude. Also, Eric joined up with the band War and had a big hit called Spill the Wine. The Animals had other hits, one was We Gotta Get Out of This Place and others as Eric Burdon and The Animals, cheers.
I always find it funny that in these early music videos, electric guitars and keyboards rarely have a cord connecting them to the amp. Makes it real clear that you're hearing the record.
There’s two rock stars I’ve always wanted to be. When I was very young it was Eric. He is just a badass. Second was when I was an older teen, Michael Stipe of REM, for different reasons.
Eric Burdon the singer was 23 when they did this but sounded much older. The 2nd guitarist became the manager of Jimmi Hendrix and the guy on the organ/piano was Alan Price who later had his own band.
Another great cover of this was released a couple of years later by an underappreciated band...FRIJID PINK. A lot 'heavier" in some ways but no question a standout on its own.
Gritty. As. Hell. Gives me chills. Putting it on my funeral playlist, cause I don’t even care. What a great effin song. Thank you for your enjoyable reactions, bud.❤️🎶✨
Eric based his version on the 50s Woody Guthrie folk recording. Who knows where Woody got it from. AND PS Before Blackmore and DP gave us the Smoke On The Water riff, this is the one every aspiring guitar player tried to learn. (I even learned my 1st keyboard riff from this.)
Such a classic! Sung at every karaoke session 😂. Eric Burdon had such a mature voice at such a young age. The organ sounds incredible! Eric Burdon and his group War, had a great song called, Spill the Wine. There's a video for it, so good. Thx
The amazing organist is Alan Price who had a fairly successful career (in the UK and many other countries but never really broke in America) as a solo artist and with others. Nobody seems to have picked him up to react to but maybe you could be the first? Try 'I Put A Spell On You', 'Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo' or 'Rosetta' with Georgie Fame - another artist you should put on you reaction list.
Other songs you might enjoy next (variations of Eric Burdon and the Animals or Burdon with other artists): 1. Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 2. Sky Pilot 3. Monterey ( my favorite!) 4. Spill the Wine (Eric Burdon with the band War) 5. San Francisco Nights ✨ Thanks so much!
My first band in Florida covered this song and "Misunderstood" by the Animals as well. These were iconic songs. Allan Price was a great keyboard player and the idol of our keyboard player in my band. The Vox organ had such a cool and distinctive sound that was very popular then and many local bands used them, including mine.
They did a great cover of this song for sure. Many earlier versions, including Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. First recorded by Texas Alexander in the 1920s. Dylan recorded it two years before The Animals.
I just started following you. Thank you for not being an obnoxious know it all. I appreciate you letting the songs speak to you before you go deep. Kudos 🎉Carry on! 💯
My all time favourite song! saw Eric Burdon in a pub in Melbourne back in the early 1980s. He blew the roof off! I was in heaven... what an amazing voice.
Great song and really interesting reaction. Two different branches to this fork in the road that I will suggest. 1. The Animals: Sky Pilot, a song about a preacher in war time (sky pilot is what American soldiers in Viet Nam called the company chaplains.) This one has a bit of a bitter edge, and there's a long version that's worth listening to, but if you choose the long version video you can pretty much ignore the video, as it doesn't really illustrate the song at all. 2. A band called Frijid Pink covered The House of the Rising Sun in a 1969 recording, that I think you'd find worth hearing once, even if not for the channel. It's a little bit more electric and eclectic and jangly...think of the Animals playing in your garage, but they're all just a little too stoned to play it straight, so they have some fun with it 😇
The Beatles came over the pond in February 1964. By June, the management of the Animals, gave them Beatle haircuts, Beatle suits and sent them over next. (The band had hated dressing up). This was a major hit, interrupting the Beatles domination that year. A few months later, The Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, and the Kinks followed.
The outstanding Latin lyric poet, Horace, once counseled that a good poet should "delight and instruct", which can be less didactically rendered as "delight and inform"...which is exactly what your great show here does, time and again. Your show is poetry, and you are a poet. I've heard this song a zillion times, and play it on guitar...but never knew the history until just a few minutes ago. Your commenters are also a treasure trove.
That's something I hadn't ever expected when creating this channel, but it really is a joy when those who watch let me know they learned something new here with me. Doesn't get better than that, thank you for always tuning in and showing support! Means a lot 😁
A cautionary tale, warning of a life of sin, personal degradation, and a feeling of helplessness. To me, the most revealing line in the song comes about three-quarters of the way through: "Well, I've 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." Resignation to a life of struggle and emptiness. I believe the song is in a minor key, which adds to a hollow feeling, it's spooky.
I believe the house referred to was a bordello/ + gambling den, which had a sun painted on the sign outside. It was definitely of ill repute. A rock band called Frigid Pink covered it in 1970, with a nuggety guitar sound. It was pretty good, but this is the classic. Alan Price, the keyboard player, did the arrangements and collected the royalties, Eric belted it out in the club's every night but didn't make much from it. Alan Price left the group and formed a solo career with the Alan Price Set. He had hits. Other Animal hits include.... We've got to get out of this place. and Don't let me be misunderstood. If you like the sound of keyboards, there is This Wheels on Fire by Julie Driscoll, Whiter shade of pale by Procal Harum. Hold your head up, by Argent.
As you've discovered, there are many songs in the folk tradition so old no one knows the original composer. The New Christy Minstrels had a hit with "Barbara Ellen", and in the album liner notes it said the song was "traditional, arranged by Randy Sparks" because its original composer's name was lost and it was sometimes called "Barbara Allen". The Animals probably made a lot more money than a cover of a newer song because it's not under copyright and royalty-free just like if the band had composed it themselves. Most rock bands learn to write their own tunes so they don't have to share their royalties with third party songwriters. So how about reacting to Frijid Pink's version? It came out around 1970 and it's basically a harder version of the same tune, almost like early Van Halen. I think you'd like it!
The story is he was driving when he first heard the Animals version come on the radio, pulled off the road, banged his fist on the car and decided to go from acoustic to electric right there.
They came to America with this song and the British invasion. They were one of the first bands after the Beatles. What is not to like about this production? It’s just fantastic!
Great Song!!!! Yes Rick Wakeman was the keyboard player and nw can you see or hear that Wakemen style in "Close To The Edge" or "Roundabout?" Have you heard song music that makes you cry?
The Appalations were colonised by the English.The country music is mostly based on old English folk songs.Dolly has talked a lot about Her English roots and the folk music that inspired Her.
Questa canzone è del 1964 e all'epoca non era usuale creare video musicali ed erano pochi quelli che li realizzavano perché non c'era una cultura dei video musicali che hanno cominciato a diffondersi dagli anni '80 con la creazione di canali appositi come MTV .
Wow Thomas, thank you! Many days I doubt myself, but there's a lot of appreciation and happiness I get from knowing others are having a good time tuning in. Thanks again 🙏
This video is from a 1965 movie called "Pop Gear". They are lip-synching to the 1964 single that hit #1 on the UK and US charts. The Animals rewrote the lyrics so it was from a man's, not a woman's point of view, and the arpeggio guitar opening was unique. It was usually strummed. Eric Burdon was 24 in this video, 23 years when they recorded this. You should check out the live version on The Ed Sullivan Show. Fab live performance. Cut down for time because at clocking in at 4+ minutes, it was one of the longest songs evere recorded at the time.
The Animals version was 10 times better than the original or any other versions. I've heard the others and the vocals guitar and keyboard sound completely different. It's much better.
Back in the day ALL beginning guitar players desperately tried to learn this song...a good thing for them to learn changing chords fast and right hand flat picking. And this went on long after the song was lost to 1960's classic rock. I always thought the Animals were better than the Rolling Stones, a tighter band and a bad ass organ player. and Eric Burdon was a better singer than Jagger. Note: Too often today's listeners confuse something like this as a "Video" needed to sell the song. Bullshit. The song sold itself on the radio only, the "video" was an afterthought, on film, not tape, and they would slap them together as a performance, often for a TV variety show ot ween show., not a story telling gimmick to sell the record. This was 1964 for crying out loud, MTV didn't happen until 1982.
Almost every reactor chooses this version of House of the Rising Sun. It’s good, but it is entirely lip synced. Try listening to it live. You see and hear Eric Burdon actually perform one if the greatest songs on the 60s. Here’s the link. Watch it and you’ll agree, it’s much better than the lip sync version. Here’s the link: czcams.com/video/yxrz00XSOAo/video.html
Alan Price deserves credit for his organ playing.
Why?
The Animals with Eric Burdon released this song about 60 years ago and recorded it in one take. A different world of music and
recording back in the day.
In 1964/65, when I was 15 years old, I auditioned as a singer for a local garage band. The first song that they requested that I sing was "House of the Rising Sun." I couldn't even come close to matching Eric Burdon's power or sensitivity. I didn't get into the band.
NO fucking autotune!!!! pure talent!
I was always under the impression that the house of the rising sun referred to a brothel in New Orleans.
That was always my understanding
Many versions of this old blues/folk song since it was first recorded in the 1930s, but none I think better than the Animals. Damn! Eric Burden could sing!
It was interesting to me that you remarked about Eric Burdon’s stature and strength. I’ve been studying (for fun) the History of Britain from the Fifth Century onward and the many cultures (countries and races) who invaded, enslaved, raped, conquered, merged and intermarried with the Britains and the British for two thousand years.
Eric Burdon was born in 1941 in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. His father, Matt, was originally from Tyneside. His mother, Rene, was originally from Ireland and moved to Scotland before settling in Newcastle in the 1930s. He also had a younger sister, Irene. Burdon later recalled that his middle name "Victor" had been chosen after encouragement from the Lord Mayor, who offered new mothers £25 if their new-borns were given a patriotic "war name." His later rock/ soul group was called, “War”.
There is too much too write here but I was about 14 when this was played repeatedly on the radio and it had a huge impact on the course of my life for the next six decades.
Burdon states he often had a divided loyalty in his sense of place and identity. He was born to a working class family; his father did electrical work in some of the clubs Burdon would later play. Because of his father's line of work in electrical repair, the Burdon family had a TV by the time Eric was 10. In his autobiography, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, he recalls the electrifying moment of first seeing Louis Armstrong on TV which began his love for blues music.
What a great classic song from the 60s. It may be a cover, but this is the iconic version known to generations of Rock and pop audiences. Never gets old.
Never forget the first time I heard this. I was barely 9 years old and it went straight to my soul ❤
Nice job. Eric Burdon (like Burden) does have a tremendous stage presence to go along with that amazing voice. There are five or six unbelievably good songs/performances by the Animals.
Then there’s always his song with War, “Spill the Wine”.
Oh wow Eric Burdon has such a sexy voice.. great song too Love the reaction, as always 🤎
Besides Eric's Soulful 50 year old voice (even in his early 20s) That classic 60's sound is from one of the first and iconic portable organs .. The Vox Continental .... Easily recognized by the classic orange cover and reversed black and white keys !!!!! PS they did this song on there club tour and had it so down they stopped in a small studio and recoded it in one take
I saw the Animals live way back when they recorded this song! They were with Herman’s Hermits! Great concert! Thanks for this reaction! 😊
Get outta town. That’s awesome, bud! ✌️😃🎶👌🎶🎶🎶
FUN FACT about this song: No one knows who wrote it. Musicologists have tried to track down its origins but it's so old that its origins are lost in the murky mists of time. It may even go back all the way to 17th century England as one of what became known as "Broadside Ballads." If it did originate in England then it probably came to America via some ocean-going traveler who may have sung it here in the U.S. and then others picked it up and it slowly got passed around. Also, if it did originate in England, then someone had to have changed the location of the brothel from its location in England to New Orleans, probably to make the song more relevant to American audiences. That is all speculation, obviously, since no one knows for sure what the original lyrics were in that particular verse. Another interesting thing about the song is that in some versions it's about a man lamenting his experience in this house of ill repute while in other versions it's a woman telling of her trials and tribulations at the brothel. I first heard it by folk singer, Joan Baez, a year or two before the Animals' released their version. In the Animals version the narrator is a man. In the Baez version the narrator is a woman. There is also a version by folk singer Huddie (Leadbelly) Leadbetter that is so different both melodically and lyrically that it's barely recognizable as the same song. Another early rendition of the song was by Bob Dylan about 3 years before the Animals. We will likely never know the full history behind this mysterious and captivating song.
Definitely a classic and always will be played for generations, check out the suit and ties, you wouldn’t see that in todays music
Yea man, this one was such a huge hit! It was great growing up in that era. Such a great booming voice. Chas, the bass player talked Jimi into going to England and just blew up from there. Really digging the background checks dude. Also, Eric joined up with the band War and had a big hit called Spill the Wine. The Animals had other hits, one was We Gotta Get Out of This Place and others as Eric Burdon and The Animals, cheers.
When I was in HS this song took the place of Louie, Louie as the most played song by every band in town.
I always find it funny that in these early music videos, electric guitars and keyboards rarely have a cord connecting them to the amp. Makes it real clear that you're hearing the record.
Haha, didn't think about that before
Sinead O’Connor does a hauntingly beautiful version of this song too. :)
A masterpiece. The video is great and filmed with great choreography.
Yes! 💯
Frijid Pink beefed it up, ala hard rock, in 1970, and had a Top 10 hit with their version. Worth a comparison perhaps?
Definitely, my fav! Love the guitar
There’s two rock stars I’ve always wanted to be. When I was very young it was Eric. He is just a badass. Second was when I was an older teen, Michael Stipe of REM, for different reasons.
The Anmals lead the beginning into a new musical era. They had many good hits.
Eric Burdon the singer was 23 when they did this but sounded much older. The 2nd guitarist became the manager of Jimmi Hendrix and the guy on the organ/piano was Alan Price who later had his own band.
Another great cover of this was released a couple of years later by an underappreciated band...FRIJID PINK. A lot 'heavier" in some ways but no question a standout on its own.
Gritty. As. Hell. Gives me chills. Putting it on my funeral playlist, cause I don’t even care. What a great effin song. Thank you for your enjoyable reactions, bud.❤️🎶✨
Thank you for hanging out 😁
Eric based his version on the 50s Woody Guthrie folk recording. Who knows where Woody got it from. AND PS Before Blackmore and DP gave us the Smoke On The Water riff, this is the one every aspiring guitar player tried to learn. (I even learned my 1st keyboard riff from this.)
Such a classic! Sung at every karaoke session 😂.
Eric Burdon had such a mature voice at such a young age. The organ sounds incredible!
Eric Burdon and his group War, had a great song called, Spill the Wine. There's a video for it, so good. Thx
The amazing organist is Alan Price who had a fairly successful career (in the UK and many other countries but never really broke in America) as a solo artist and with others. Nobody seems to have picked him up to react to but maybe you could be the first? Try 'I Put A Spell On You', 'Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo' or 'Rosetta' with Georgie Fame - another artist you should put on you reaction list.
Other songs you might enjoy next (variations of Eric Burdon and the Animals or Burdon with other artists):
1. Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
2. Sky Pilot
3. Monterey ( my favorite!)
4. Spill the Wine (Eric Burdon with the band War)
5. San Francisco Nights ✨
Thanks so much!
Yes Monterey! Love it!...down in Monterey doom doom
One of the Giants of the Great British Invasion! 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This song plays at the end of the movie Casino with DeNiro. Great reaction 😊
My first band in Florida covered this song and "Misunderstood" by the Animals as well. These were iconic songs. Allan Price was a great keyboard player and the idol of our keyboard player in my band. The Vox organ had such a cool and distinctive sound that was very popular then and many local bands used them, including mine.
I wish so many of these instruments were still being used today
From 1667, San Franciscan Nights · Eric Burdon & The Animals
They did a great cover of this song for sure. Many earlier versions, including Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. First recorded by Texas Alexander in the 1920s. Dylan recorded it two years before The Animals.
I just started following you. Thank you for not being an obnoxious know it all. I appreciate you letting the songs speak to you before you go deep. Kudos 🎉Carry on! 💯
My all time favourite song! saw Eric Burdon in a pub in Melbourne back in the early 1980s. He blew the roof off! I was in heaven... what an amazing voice.
Great song and really interesting reaction. Two different branches to this fork in the road that I will suggest. 1. The Animals: Sky Pilot, a song about a preacher in war time (sky pilot is what American soldiers in Viet Nam called the company chaplains.) This one has a bit of a bitter edge, and there's a long version that's worth listening to, but if you choose the long version video you can pretty much ignore the video, as it doesn't really illustrate the song at all. 2. A band called Frijid Pink covered The House of the Rising Sun in a 1969 recording, that I think you'd find worth hearing once, even if not for the channel. It's a little bit more electric and eclectic and jangly...think of the Animals playing in your garage, but they're all just a little too stoned to play it straight, so they have some fun with it 😇
The Beatles came over the pond in February 1964. By June, the management of the Animals, gave them Beatle haircuts, Beatle suits and sent them over next. (The band had hated dressing up). This was a major hit, interrupting the Beatles domination that year. A few months later, The Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, and the Kinks followed.
The outstanding Latin lyric poet, Horace, once counseled that a good poet should "delight and instruct", which can be less didactically rendered as "delight and inform"...which is exactly what your great show here does, time and again. Your show is poetry, and you are a poet.
I've heard this song a zillion times, and play it on guitar...but never knew the history until just a few minutes ago. Your commenters are also a treasure trove.
That's something I hadn't ever expected when creating this channel, but it really is a joy when those who watch let me know they learned something new here with me. Doesn't get better than that, thank you for always tuning in and showing support! Means a lot 😁
A cautionary tale, warning of a life of sin, personal degradation, and a feeling of helplessness. To me, the most revealing line in the song comes about three-quarters of the way through: "Well, I've 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." Resignation to a life of struggle and emptiness. I believe the song is in a minor key, which adds to a hollow feeling, it's spooky.
I believe the house referred to was a bordello/ + gambling den, which had a sun painted on the sign outside. It was definitely of ill repute. A rock band called Frigid Pink covered it in 1970, with a nuggety guitar sound. It was pretty good, but this is the classic.
Alan Price, the keyboard player, did the arrangements and collected the royalties, Eric belted it out in the club's every night but didn't make much from it. Alan Price left the group and formed a solo career with the Alan Price Set. He had hits.
Other Animal hits include.... We've got to get out of this place. and Don't let me be misunderstood.
If you like the sound of keyboards, there is This Wheels on Fire by Julie Driscoll, Whiter shade of pale by Procal Harum. Hold your head up, by Argent.
As you've discovered, there are many songs in the folk tradition so old no one knows the original composer. The New Christy Minstrels had a hit with "Barbara Ellen", and in the album liner notes it said the song was "traditional, arranged by Randy Sparks" because its original composer's name was lost and it was sometimes called "Barbara Allen". The Animals probably made a lot more money than a cover of a newer song because it's not under copyright and royalty-free just like if the band had composed it themselves. Most rock bands learn to write their own tunes so they don't have to share their royalties with third party songwriters.
So how about reacting to Frijid Pink's version? It came out around 1970 and it's basically a harder version of the same tune, almost like early Van Halen. I think you'd like it!
My favorite song from the 60's
Bob Dylan did his version a couple of years before The Animals on his first album
The story is he was driving when he first heard the Animals version come on the radio, pulled off the road, banged his fist on the car and decided to go from acoustic to electric right there.
This is a really great song and everybody reacts to it. Try Frijid Pink’s version sometime. It’s a little harder tune.
They came to America with this song and the British invasion. They were one of the first bands after the Beatles. What is not to like about this production? It’s just fantastic!
The Animals bass player, Chas Chandler, became the manager for Jimi Hendrix.
This is what talent without wizardry looks like
Great Song!!!! Yes Rick Wakeman was the keyboard player and nw can you see or hear that Wakemen style in "Close To The Edge" or "Roundabout?" Have you heard song music that makes you cry?
The Appalations were colonised by the English.The country music is mostly based on old English folk songs.Dolly has talked a lot about Her English roots and the folk music that inspired Her.
Eric Burdon was only 23 when this was recorded.
Eric's voice is music perfection
Questa canzone è del 1964 e all'epoca non era usuale creare video musicali ed erano pochi quelli che li realizzavano perché non c'era una cultura dei video musicali che hanno cominciato a diffondersi dagli anni '80 con la creazione di canali appositi come MTV .
YOU DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS THE ANIMALS YOU ANIMAL??? 😊I LUVVVVV THAT, RIGHT ON GIB 👍😊 HERE WAS ANOTHER BIG ONE : DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD
A classic for a reason!
You’re going to love a deep dive into Simon and Garfunkel! I promise! Best reaction channel I’ve come across by the way ❤
Wow Thomas, thank you! Many days I doubt myself, but there's a lot of appreciation and happiness I get from knowing others are having a good time tuning in. Thanks again 🙏
@@ShawnSalvadori just saw I commented after video was over and into the next. You figured it out though!😂
YEAH MAN, BANGGGGERRRRR! 😊
You should listen to Bob Dylan's version of this. The version that The Animals got their version from. It's a very old song.
That organ, tho.🔥
This video is from a 1965 movie called "Pop Gear". They are lip-synching to the 1964 single that hit #1 on the UK and US charts. The Animals rewrote the lyrics so it was from a man's, not a woman's point of view, and the arpeggio guitar opening was unique. It was usually strummed. Eric Burdon was 24 in this video, 23 years when they recorded this. You should check out the live version on The Ed Sullivan Show. Fab live performance. Cut down for time because at clocking in at 4+ minutes, it was one of the longest songs evere recorded at the time.
Just remember, they recorded this in one take
My main question about this video is how did they move the keyboard so stealthily?
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The Animals version was 10 times better than the original or any other versions. I've heard the others and the vocals guitar and keyboard sound completely different. It's much better.
Back in the day ALL beginning guitar players desperately tried to learn this song...a good thing for them to learn changing chords fast and right hand flat picking. And this went on long after the song was lost to 1960's classic rock. I always thought the Animals were better than the Rolling Stones, a tighter band and a bad ass organ player. and Eric Burdon was a better singer than Jagger. Note: Too often today's listeners confuse something like this as a "Video" needed to sell the song. Bullshit. The song sold itself on the radio only, the "video" was an afterthought, on film, not tape, and they would slap them together as a performance, often for a TV variety show ot ween show., not a story telling gimmick to sell the record. This was 1964 for crying out loud, MTV didn't happen until 1982.
Written by Bob Dylan
The writer is unknown but, if you hear a woman sing it, it is clear that it was written by a woman. 👍👍👍May i suggest Odetta?
Almost every reactor chooses this version of House of the Rising Sun. It’s good, but it is entirely lip synced.
Try listening to it live. You see and hear Eric Burdon actually perform one if the greatest songs on the 60s. Here’s the link. Watch it and you’ll agree, it’s much better than the lip sync version. Here’s the link: czcams.com/video/yxrz00XSOAo/video.html