This song is a traditional folk song with many variations. This modern version was first done by Clarence Ashley in the mid 1930s. The Animals' version is the song is it's finest rendition by far. The superior vocals, the organ fills and rhythm mess perfectly. This came out in 1964 and I was eight years old. I had just started listening to pop music that year and this song blew me away. I heard it at least 200 times in my life and it still moves me. Every time. BTW, at 5:48 in your video, the guitar player starts to smile and it expands into a big sheepish grin. He had bumped his guitar neck on one of the prop pillars as he passed through and they had to go back and do another take. You can see him lift his guitar extra high when he passes through the opening on the second take.
Hi, can you imagine hearing this for the first time around 1964, it absolutely blew my mind at the time and must have listened to it a hundred times back then. Alan Price on the keyboard was phenomenal. It’s great to see you youngsters appreciating the music from this era.
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". Eric later joined the funk rock band "War" & they had a few hits "Spill the Wine" & "Tobacco Road".
This version is from 1964, but its originally a traditional folk song written more than 100 years ago. It's written from the perspective of a girl, maybe that's why the lyrics are a bit confusing.
Just like all old folks songs from the 17-1800's with so many different interpretations etc... its almost impossible to determine the true origins and versions.
From what I remember, the house of the rising sun is the name of a brothel, one of my favorite versions is that of walls of jericho, candance's voice is her splendor
The Animals were one of those British Invasion groups that really started bending the envelope and doing new things. This band was one of the ones who started going into a darker, heavier direction, influencing what was to become punk, hard rock and even metal... It was an incredible time for musical evolution!!
BTW, the lead singer in this video is Eric Burden, and, he was in a few different groups. His voice is unique and iconic. Every song he did was fantastic.
Like others have said this was recorded in 1964, when the other hit song on the radio was "I want to hold your hand" "Oh pretty woman" and "I get around". The radio was mostly pop and surfer music when it was released. Many rock bands and metal bands trace their roots back to this one song. Without this one song at this right point in time music history would be totally different today. It is a sad song about a place that has all kind of bad vises going on and how his dad and the singer both got trapped in the joy of "sin" going on in the house of the rising sun.
I was around 10 years old and my father was from Louisiana, so I’m more biased towards this and The Animals were and still are one of my favorite groups.
This song gave birth to the blues/rock genre from what I can tell. All the huge bands from Zeppelin to Floyd and on and on all took parts from this style of music. It's an incredible moment in history in actuality that happened just by chance.
It's a sad song, to me. Heard it when it came out in 1964. Liked it immediately. I didn't know at the time that it was an Appalachian miners' song that had been around for a long, long time. I read that it actually probably came from England before that. So the Animals' version is a cover. But a great one. I would guess their version is, by far, the best known. It's sad because, as the song says, the House of the Rising Sun was the "ruin" of many a poor boy. The lyrics also speak of going back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain. To me, that means prison. When I was a kid you'd sometimes see "chain gangs" on the side of the road cutting weeds and gathering trash. They were prisoners, usually in striped uniforms (back then) and watched over by a guard with a shotgun on horseback. Sometimes they were all chained together, but sometimes they wore a heavy steel ball attached to the ankle by a chain, individually. Interestingly, in a way, is the fact that when I was young you'd hear (not often) a husband refer to his wife as "the old ball and chain". Not flattering at all. It was meant to symbolize him being tied down to her. Thanks for letting us watch and listen with you! God bless you!
Recorded in one Live take on18 May 1964 and released 19 June 1964, House of the Rising Sun Hit #1 in Great Britain in July. 1964. Two months later it hit #1 in the United States. Staying there for 3 weeks. It has the distinction of being the first non-Lennon/McCartney song to reach #1 in the States during the first wave of the British Invasion sweeping America that Autumn of 1964. RNB
When I was young I used to "borrow" my dads album "The Most Collection" which had all the classic hits on it from The Animals, Yardbirds, Rod Stewart, CCS etc.. I still have the album. It's the same age as me, 52 😁
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Just for the record, the instrument played on the song is not a piano, it is a Hammond organ (although in the video it is a vox organ). These were quite common instruments in songs in the 60s when this came out.
@@caphowdy666 True! The B3 was primary to their early sound. So much good music was made with that thing! Some still is being made 40 years-ish after they stopped production. People will pay $20,000+ for one in prime condition today.
That was an organ not a piano. Great song. Mid 60's british rock, they were part of the ''British Invasion'' so called because of the many bands coming to the US from England starting with the Beatles.
This is the best known version of this traditional folk song (it was a massive worldwide hit in 1964). However, The Animals heard the song from Bob Dylan's debut album, and Dylan in turn heard it from Dave Van Ronk who heard it from .... you get the picture. But The Animals brought the song to a mass audience. Loved your reaction 😎
For me it's this profound hitting of message and messenger. Of sound and lyrics and delivery. Of being in this moment with this person (played by Eric Burdon) and them relating this epic hard lesson tale of pain and living and trap. And their hyper awareness of being in that mess and of knowing what their world before was, and reaching out as they drown to call out warning. And all that also being within this madhouse mix of instruments and melody as they race madly to portray the manic madness that lies behind the words and their emotion. And that manic madness itself being its own established institution. This House Of The Rising. Totally stable, in the uniform and calmness of the performers and this looming and consuming predatory place of the lyrics.
Leadbelly first recorded it in 1944. You might be mixing it up with the first recorded version, released in 1932 by Clarence “Tom” Ashley and Gwen Foster. There was a different song with the House of the Rising Sun name released in 1928, but this House if the Rising Sun by the Animals was originally called Risin' Sun Blues on early recodings.
Thanks for listening to this classic, Biss; it is a 60s banger! I think the keyboard is more of an electric organ than a piano, btw. Makes the song👍🏻 I heard it in 60s on Ed Sullivan show.
All bands during that period 1964-65 wore suits...it was a "thing." The Beatles and other British Bands started all that suit wearing thing and the Beatles particularly started the long hair.
Bis. I watch you from time to time, and I love how you are willing to explore older music (don't do the game streams). Keep looking, and exploring with an open mind. Beyond culture and time, THAT's the hope of us all.
It never gets old to see someone discover a classic like this song for the first time. I wish I had a count of how many times I've heard it and where I was the first time. Thank you and rock on.
oh, nice. Normally I watch Bis react to songs that came out when I was a teenager. Now it's a song that was released before I was born. Finally a song that came out before I was born. I love this song, and was actually queueing it up to listen to it, when I came across the reaction video.
Cool, brings back memories. This was the very first song I learned to play on guitar! Way back in the 60’s. I love your reaction and your vibes, when it comes to music of the 60’s.
Hi Miss Bisscute thanks for this one, Love your reaction ❤❤❤❤ this version song Is a Classic, Eric Burdon The vocalist had a magnificent and powerful voice. You should react to him singing with other band called War with The song: Spill The wine.
Watch it again. They go around in a circle and the camera follows them and then they end behind the keyboard player. This song is always feature in movies about gangs or mafia.
Thank you Biss... Love this song & your reaction. Anna Christine (10-yrs old) played piano and sang this song on America's Got Talent (8). Amazing vocals & composure from a 10-year-old.
This is from 1964 - the year of the "British Invasion" in America as the Beatles and English bands hit. It is an Iconic '60's song but is much, much older in folk music. My father's choir used to sing it until I told them it was about a brothel
I liked this sing the first time I heard it. My parents would listen to an Oldies radio station whenever we were in the car driving somewhere. The organ always sounded kind of eerie to me, in a good way. I still like to listen to songs from the late 50's and early 60's bc of my parents.
One of those great songs! If you play guitar, you probably had played this at some point. Thank you for reacting to this most well known version of an old folk song. 😊😊❤❤
1978, I'd just started playing electric guitar. A guy comes over and plays this, never saw him again. I learned how to play it on a 1972 50W Marshall with an 8x10 speaker cabinet and would practice in our nowhere near sound proofed garage for the whole neighborhood to enjoy. Great song for arpeggio picking and a good combination of almost all the basic chords (Am C D E F). Rock was still young and strong back then. Another fine example of the British youth back then picking up on some obscure bit of American culture and giving it back to us with a little sauce on it.
The animals covert it 1964 from Bob Dylan. But he covert it to. The oldest Version you can hear is from 1933. The Melodie could be from the early 1700 and is documented in an English theatre.
Not the original, but the best version. The song is more than a hundred years old, nobody knows who wrote it. Dylan covered it on his debut album, and the Animals heard that version and changed it into an electric, more rock version.
Awsome reaction to a great song and band. My mom was born in England and has seen them live in the clubs in England when she was younger and met Eric Burdon the lead singer. Also several years ago Me my mom and Aunt saw Eric Burdon and the Animals live. My mom and Aunt got up and started dancing. They were Awsome in concert. Have a great day. ⚘️🌹💐
Мадалина, эта песня 1964 года, но данное видео было снято в 1965-ом для цветного фильма-подборки видеороликов середины 60-ых. Из данного цикла могу порекомендовать две песни группы The Four Pennies ("Juliet" & "Black Girl"). Эти группа и песни тоже из 1965 года. / Madalina, this song is from 1964, but this video was shot in 1965 for a color film compilation of videos from the mid-60s. From this series I can recommend two songs by The Four Pennies (“Juliet” & “Black Girl”). This group and songs are also from 1965.
The House of the Rising Sun is based on an American folk song, sometimes known as Rising Sun Blues. There have been many theories proposed about its origins in English folk tradition with some noting its similarities to the 16th century ballad The Unfortunate Rake but this is, at best, a tenuous connection.
The legendary "The House of the Rising Sun" was included by Rolling Stone magazine among the greatest songs of all time. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced that this 1964 hit by the British group The Animals is one of several pieces of music that shaped rock and roll as a style. Good wine does not age over the years: already in 1999, which is close to us, the song was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame award.
On a slight amount of research on this song...this version is a 1960's song, but it's actually a retelling of a song dating back to the 16th century. I'm pretty sure the song's "house of the rising sun" is about a gambling den and how there's a father/son cycle that draws them to that place. The addiction is the "ball and chain" but I could be completely wrong, just seems to be that.
This song was first performed officially around1927, no-one knows who wrote it. It was recorded at least three times before The Animals. I first heard it in 1972, I was born in 1960. First song I performed with a band. Try the Animals "Please don't let me be misunderstood". I know English is not your usual language but the instrument is an Organ, not piano.
Great song by the Animals! This song takes me back to the simlper times when it was about the music! The British invasion was a great time giving us some great bands I wish you would listen to the music of the band Cream or Derrick and the Dominos! Thanks Bisscute ❤💛
On the subject of covers there is an absolutely incredible and timeless song that is almost depressing because it's still so relevant today. It's a poem, it's a statement. "Trouble Every Day" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. There is a modernised version by a Liverpool band called "She Drew the Gun". Half the length and a little more uptempo but it's an incredible song.
It's a song with soul, of course the organ is fantastic, so is the guitar, the bass and the drums. What many people don't understand is how difficult it is to play so tight and in sync. It is absolutely world class. But what is completely unique is still his voice, some singers can't sing at all but get away with autotune today, but some can sing and are brilliant purely singing technically, others have the ability to convey very strong emotions with their voice, very few have the ability to both have a brilliant technical singing ability, at the same time they can convey such strong feelings. When it comes to the video, I also think it's brilliant. Might just be the best looking video from that era. It really wasn't easy to make videos back then, it was extremely expensive as well, so it's likely that this had to be done in one go.
@Bisscute , like yourself i've heard lots of covers of this song however a friend of mine her names Debbie she is the lead singer of the band The Ronains . Debbie sings a cover of this song that makes my arms go all goosepimply everytime i hear her sing it . By far the best version i've ever heard and it is available on youtube . The Ronains - House of the rising sun .
Every garage band in the world has covered this song, (I've done it many times myself,) but many people underestimate just how good Eric Burden's voice was.
The Animals are from my neck of the woods, and my father in law was a good mate of Chas Chandler the bass player.He met Jimi Hendrix in the late 60s too lol
This song is described as American Traditinal. It has it's roots in the Antebellum South of the late 1880's. In particular it has it's origin in what we now call "human trafficking." In the original version the singer is a woman. Nina Simone recorded this in the early 60's and once complained to Eric Burdon that he never credited her. He retorted that he had made it a hit and the pop crowd had only discovered her in retrospective.
I was still a little fellow when this came out, and it got a lot of air time on the radio when I was growing up. For some reason, I always associated it with haunted houses and spooky stuff. It was fairly popular, but was never one of my favorites. The old electronic organs/keyboards back then grated on my nerves, like fingernails scraping down a blackboard. Of the numerous songs (like this one) from the '60s and '70s that made heavy use of these keyboards, there are only a handful that I truly liked. I think that a lot of great songs were ruined by this annoying instrument. Deep Purple's "HUSH" ua-cam.com/video/u1kZ9zYr7kk/v-deo.html is one of those. Check it out sometime, it's a vibe.
Like someone else already said, no one really knows who wrote the song, its old, this is definitely the most popular version. There's a couple of great American rock songs that no one knows who wrote the original song/lyrics.
You have to love the production values on those early TV shows. They had a budget of like $1.50, so they were like, hey, could you could just walk around a little bit? We spent our $1.50 on some sticky tape to put on the floor so you won't slip. Not that I'm arguing for modern slickness or anything. It's just kind of funny, and I've seen it done on multiple shows. They beat out some other bands to go on a tour with Chuck Berry and didn't to try to out-rock him, so they chose to go the other way and do something moody and atmospheric. AFAIK, it's a traditional blues song that they adapted. The Doors drew a good bit of inspiration from this song and of course had a similar instrumental combination heavily organ driven.
Hi dear! Eric Burdon is a great singer. Love his work alone, with Tha Animald and with War. There 2 songs that are very popular and nobody knows its Eric singing. The bassist of The Animals is the guy who push and support Hendrix to went to UK. It awas a key in rock music. After that, he didnt was so kind with Jimmy. But thats another story.
It goes back to 1890s and was a blues tune it's originally about a young woman caught up in prostitution and drugs in a brothel called The House Of The Rising Sun. It's been performed over the years this was a rock version that made it famous world wide in 1964 I heard it when it was released yess I'm old.
The Animals ( House oF The Rising Sun) released 1964, it was a No1 hit in Britain 🇬🇧, America 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦, the song was completed in one take around 15 minutes, the lead singer Eric Burdon was still performing at the age of 80 years old, there was no auto tune in them times, auto tune came in around 1997, check out the Animals rendition of the song ( It’s All Over Now Baby Blue) , great reaction thanks 🙏
The lead singer, Eric Burdon is still alive and kicking and turns 83 this Saturday. A real cool dude.
This song is a traditional folk song with many variations. This modern version was first done by Clarence Ashley in the mid 1930s. The Animals' version is the song is it's finest rendition by far. The superior vocals, the organ fills and rhythm mess perfectly. This came out in 1964 and I was eight years old. I had just started listening to pop music that year and this song blew me away. I heard it at least 200 times in my life and it still moves me. Every time. BTW, at 5:48 in your video, the guitar player starts to smile and it expands into a big sheepish grin. He had bumped his guitar neck on one of the prop pillars as he passed through and they had to go back and do another take. You can see him lift his guitar extra high when he passes through the opening on the second take.
Good. Thanks
best version of this song is by Frijid pink most popular version is by the Animals
@@jerryhinkle3786 Everyone has their own opinion.
LOL, I love backstory things like that!
actually the original version is by a old blues singer named leadbelly and it's about the child of a gambler who gets over his head and goes to jail
This song is a cautionary tale. "Mother's tell your children not to do what I have done."
Dont forget the following line, "i've dreamed and schemed and now i'm on the run"
@@SedriqMiersthe line you quoted is not part of the lyrics to house of the rising sun. 😂 slow down on the weed
Hi, can you imagine hearing this for the first time around 1964, it absolutely blew my mind at the time and must have listened to it a hundred times back then. Alan Price on the keyboard was phenomenal. It’s great to see you youngsters appreciating the music from this era.
One of my favourite songs of all time. The lead vocalist of this band has one of the most amazing voices. It fits this song perfectly
I swear... every time I see the video... his voice does NOT match the singer 😁
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". Eric later joined the funk rock band "War" & they had a few hits "Spill the Wine" & "Tobacco Road".
All really good songs but I also loved Eric Burdon & the Animals cover of the Bee Gees song "To Love Somebody".
the bass player for the Animals would "discover" and become Jimi Hendrix's manager a couple years later.
He also managed Slade who were huge in the UK in the 1970s
It's played in a 6/8 time signature, which gives it an unusual feel.
There is that moment, close to the end, where it feels as he's talking direct to your soul. Wirhout words, can't describe.
This version is from 1964, but its originally a traditional folk song written more than 100 years ago. It's written from the perspective of a girl, maybe that's why the lyrics are a bit confusing.
there are also different version with different melodies recorded before the 1930's and some of those have the lyrics as male
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Just like all old folks songs from the 17-1800's with so many different interpretations etc... its almost impossible to determine the true origins and versions.
It's been the ruin of many a poor boy and gad, I know I'm one " Doesn't sound like a girls perspective
@@damienjoseph7540 I'm talking about the original lyrics which was about a girl. The "House" is believed to be a brothel.
From what I remember, the house of the rising sun is the name of a brothel, one of my favorite versions is that of walls of jericho, candance's voice is her splendor
Yes, and the song was originally from the point of view of a girl whose life was ruined by working there.
you were not even thought of when thi song was made. Bisscute you are Beautiful.
The Animals were one of those British Invasion groups that really started bending the envelope and doing new things. This band was one of the ones who started going into a darker, heavier direction, influencing what was to become punk, hard rock and even metal... It was an incredible time for musical evolution!!
BTW, the lead singer in this video is Eric Burden, and, he was in a few different groups. His voice is unique and iconic. Every song he did was fantastic.
Bonjour. Thank you for putting this up. Favourite song ever. I've no doubt someone has explained this lyrics for you.
Like others have said this was recorded in 1964, when the other hit song on the radio was "I want to hold your hand" "Oh pretty woman" and "I get around". The radio was mostly pop and surfer music when it was released. Many rock bands and metal bands trace their roots back to this one song. Without this one song at this right point in time music history would be totally different today. It is a sad song about a place that has all kind of bad vises going on and how his dad and the singer both got trapped in the joy of "sin" going on in the house of the rising sun.
I was around 10 years old and my father was from Louisiana, so I’m more biased towards this and The Animals were and still are one of my favorite groups.
Great and honest reaction Biss!!! ❤️❤️❤️ I love this song!!! ⭐⭐⭐
This song gave birth to the blues/rock genre from what I can tell. All the huge bands from Zeppelin to Floyd and on and on all took parts from this style of music. It's an incredible moment in history in actuality that happened just by chance.
It's a sad song, to me. Heard it when it came out in 1964. Liked it immediately. I didn't know at the time that it was an Appalachian miners' song that had been around for a long, long time. I read that it actually probably came from England before that. So the Animals' version is a cover. But a great one. I would guess their version is, by far, the best known. It's sad because, as the song says, the House of the Rising Sun was the "ruin" of many a poor boy. The lyrics also speak of going back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain. To me, that means prison. When I was a kid you'd sometimes see "chain gangs" on the side of the road cutting weeds and gathering trash. They were prisoners, usually in striped uniforms (back then) and watched over by a guard with a shotgun on horseback. Sometimes they were all chained together, but sometimes they wore a heavy steel ball attached to the ankle by a chain, individually. Interestingly, in a way, is the fact that when I was young you'd hear (not often) a husband refer to his wife as "the old ball and chain". Not flattering at all. It was meant to symbolize him being tied down to her. Thanks for letting us watch and listen with you! God bless you!
If it came from England originally, the references to New Orleans must have been a later addition.
@@nigeldepledge3790 Good point. Maybe by the miners. Or the Animals themselves, to appeal to Americans! Be interesting to find out! Thanks!
Recorded in one Live take on18 May 1964 and released 19 June 1964, House of the Rising Sun Hit #1 in Great Britain in July. 1964. Two months later it hit #1 in the United States. Staying there for 3 weeks. It has the distinction of being the first non-Lennon/McCartney song to reach #1 in the States during the first wave of the British Invasion sweeping America that Autumn of 1964. RNB
When I was young I used to "borrow" my dads album "The Most Collection" which had all the classic hits on it from The Animals, Yardbirds, Rod Stewart, CCS etc.. I still have the album. It's the same age as me, 52 😁
This song is 60 years old. Insane.
Hi from South Africa. Im litterally "binge watching" all your music reactions today. Love it!!!
Hi 👋😊 Miss Bisscute ( Madalina ) 🤗
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Just for the record, the instrument played on the song is not a piano, it is a Hammond organ (although in the video it is a vox organ). These were quite common instruments in songs in the 60s when this came out.
The Mighty Hammond B3! Yes, indeed.
@@gerardbyrnes5780 Deep Purple were never the same after they stopped using one
@@caphowdy666 True!
The B3 was primary to their early sound. So much good music was made with that thing! Some still is being made 40 years-ish after they stopped production. People will pay $20,000+ for one in prime condition today.
Its a VOX organ, not a Hammond.
@@LiamE69 You're right! Good call. I always thought it was a B3
Thanks!
60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s was a very special time for music. I would be sweating so much in the suits.
That was an organ not a piano. Great song. Mid 60's british rock, they were part of the ''British Invasion'' so called because of the many bands coming to the US from England starting with the Beatles.
A 1960’s Vox Continental Organ
Beautiful song
This is the best known version of this traditional folk song (it was a massive worldwide hit in 1964). However, The Animals heard the song from Bob Dylan's debut album, and Dylan in turn heard it from Dave Van Ronk who heard it from .... you get the picture. But The Animals brought the song to a mass audience. Loved your reaction 😎
For me it's this profound hitting of message and messenger. Of sound and lyrics and delivery. Of being in this moment with this person (played by Eric Burdon) and them relating this epic hard lesson tale of pain and living and trap. And their hyper awareness of being in that mess and of knowing what their world before was, and reaching out as they drown to call out warning. And all that also being within this madhouse mix of instruments and melody as they race madly to portray the manic madness that lies behind the words and their emotion. And that manic madness itself being its own established institution. This House Of The Rising. Totally stable, in the uniform and calmness of the performers and this looming and consuming predatory place of the lyrics.
Hello Bisscute, it's fun to from time to time hear that singer is walking around and being seen in clubs in the united States. He is older than I am.
The blues singer "Leadbelly" sang a version of this way back in the 1920's I think. I had it on vinyl in the 1980's, it's a pretty sad song.
Leadbelly first recorded it in 1944. You might be mixing it up with the first recorded version, released in 1932 by Clarence “Tom” Ashley and Gwen Foster. There was a different song with the House of the Rising Sun name released in 1928, but this House if the Rising Sun by the Animals was originally called Risin' Sun Blues on early recodings.
@@ptournas OK, thanks. I appreciate the clarification.👍
Thanks for listening to this classic, Biss; it is a 60s banger! I think the keyboard is more of an electric organ than a piano, btw. Makes the song👍🏻 I heard it in 60s on Ed Sullivan show.
My favorite song of all time so glad to see you react to it and hope everyone enjoys this classic just as much as I do
Thanks Bisscute 😊
Loved it when you revealed your poker face! :)
All bands during that period 1964-65 wore suits...it was a "thing." The Beatles and other British Bands started all that suit wearing thing and the Beatles particularly started the long hair.
Bis. I watch you from time to time, and I love how you are willing to explore older music (don't do the game streams). Keep looking, and exploring with an open mind. Beyond culture and time, THAT's the hope of us all.
my mother was at school with the keyboard player, Alan Price! it's a small world :D big love to all people :)
Keep rolling with the oldies, go back to the 50's where rock and roll began!!1
No autotune, just talent and done in one take
As an American, I am proud of this song. But the Animals are British. They owned this song. And have done us all proud.
Ukramerican ?
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@@room2180 morever, Trump is american too...
If you liked the 1960s organ sound you might like "Hush" by Deep Purple from 1968. Or "Fire" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (also 1968).❤️
Great song and thank you for the reaction!
It never gets old to see someone discover a classic like this song for the first time. I wish I had a count of how many times I've heard it and where I was the first time. Thank you and rock on.
Love the instrumentals in this song! Nice reaction Biss!
I am writing this to help out bisscute and this video and this channel with the algorithm 🥰
anyone think its crazy how the screen is perfectly reflecting off her UA-cam plaque on the wall?
oh, nice.
Normally I watch Bis react to songs that came out when I was a teenager.
Now it's a song that was released before I was born.
Finally a song that came out before I was born.
I love this song, and was actually queueing it up to listen to it, when I came across the reaction video.
One take in the studio & no auto tune
This came out in 1964. I was 13 years old then and fell in love with it immediately.
This is a Classic from the Animals 1964 a Huge Hit.
This was one of my mother's favorite songs. R.I.P.
Great reaction, Bisscute!
No, you don't hear music like this anymore. Thank god someone recorded and saved it.
Cool, brings back memories. This was the very first song I learned to play on guitar! Way back in the 60’s. I love your reaction and your vibes, when it comes to music of the 60’s.
Hi Miss Bisscute thanks for this one, Love your reaction ❤❤❤❤ this version song Is a Classic, Eric Burdon The vocalist had a magnificent and powerful voice. You should react to him singing with other band called War with The song: Spill The wine.
Watch it again. They go around in a circle and the camera follows them and then they end behind the keyboard player. This song is always feature in movies about gangs or mafia.
This is the music that was popular when my grandparents were my age
Thank you Biss... Love this song & your reaction. Anna Christine (10-yrs old) played piano and sang this song on America's Got Talent (8). Amazing vocals & composure from a 10-year-old.
Pretty good quality and production for a song released in 1964! 🎉 14 years before I was born
This song was written in 1925 by Robert Winslow Gordon and may have original roots from France.
This is from 1964 - the year of the "British Invasion" in America as the Beatles and English bands hit. It is an Iconic '60's song but is much, much older in folk music. My father's choir used to sing it until I told them it was about a brothel
This was from the 1960s the band is from my home city of Newcastle upon tyne in the UK
Great song. Great band. Biss also check out Eric Burdon with the band War, singing Spill the Wine and Low Rider.
I never made the connection that he sang for War
I liked this sing the first time I heard it. My parents would listen to an Oldies radio station whenever we were in the car driving somewhere. The organ always sounded kind of eerie to me, in a good way. I still like to listen to songs from the late 50's and early 60's bc of my parents.
One of those great songs! If you play guitar, you probably had played this at some point. Thank you for reacting to this most well known version of an old folk song. 😊😊❤❤
1978, I'd just started playing electric guitar. A guy comes over and plays this, never saw him again. I learned how to play it on a 1972 50W Marshall with an 8x10 speaker cabinet and would practice in our nowhere near sound proofed garage for the whole neighborhood to enjoy. Great song for arpeggio picking and a good combination of almost all the basic chords (Am C D E F). Rock was still young and strong back then. Another fine example of the British youth back then picking up on some obscure bit of American culture and giving it back to us with a little sauce on it.
The animals covert it 1964 from Bob Dylan. But he covert it to. The oldest Version you can hear is from 1933. The Melodie could be from the early 1700 and is documented in an English theatre.
Not the original, but the best version. The song is more than a hundred years old, nobody knows who wrote it. Dylan covered it on his debut album, and the Animals heard that version and changed it into an electric, more rock version.
They also change the lyrics to be from a male perspective rather than the original's female protagonist.
And everyone thought Dylan had copied them not the other way around lol
Leadbelly covered it way back when, but it was old back then.
Awsome reaction to a great song and band. My mom was born in England and has seen them live in the clubs in England when she was younger and met Eric Burdon the lead singer. Also several years ago Me my mom and Aunt saw Eric Burdon and the Animals live. My mom and Aunt got up and started dancing. They were Awsome in concert. Have a great day. ⚘️🌹💐
Мадалина, эта песня 1964 года, но данное видео было снято в 1965-ом для цветного фильма-подборки видеороликов середины 60-ых. Из данного цикла могу порекомендовать две песни группы The Four Pennies ("Juliet" & "Black Girl"). Эти группа и песни тоже из 1965 года. / Madalina, this song is from 1964, but this video was shot in 1965 for a color film compilation of videos from the mid-60s. From this series I can recommend two songs by The Four Pennies (“Juliet” & “Black Girl”). This group and songs are also from 1965.
Eric Burden has had a monumental career in music. He has a lot of songs he has written and performed in several groups.
GUITARIST WAS LAUGHING BECAUSE HE COULD SEE THE ORGANIST ALAN PRICE WAS MOVING HIS KEYBOARD TO THE FRONT 😊
The House of the Rising Sun is based on an American folk song, sometimes known as Rising Sun Blues. There have been many theories proposed about its origins in English folk tradition with some noting its similarities to the 16th century ballad The Unfortunate Rake but this is, at best, a tenuous connection.
Back in 1979 night I left UK too go to Australia played this song on the jukebox.
The legendary "The House of the Rising Sun" was included by Rolling Stone magazine among the greatest songs of all time. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced that this 1964 hit by the British group The Animals is one of several pieces of music that shaped rock and roll as a style. Good wine does not age over the years: already in 1999, which is close to us, the song was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame award.
Great song! 60 years old! Remember it as a kid, very interesting and also a bit eerie.
On a slight amount of research on this song...this version is a 1960's song, but it's actually a retelling of a song dating back to the 16th century. I'm pretty sure the song's "house of the rising sun" is about a gambling den and how there's a father/son cycle that draws them to that place. The addiction is the "ball and chain" but I could be completely wrong, just seems to be that.
The alternate version is the "House of the Rising Sun" is a brothel, and the ball and chain may be a little more literal.
This song was first performed officially around1927, no-one knows who wrote it. It was recorded at least three times before The Animals. I first heard it in 1972, I was born in 1960. First song I performed with a band. Try the Animals "Please don't let me be misunderstood". I know English is not your usual language but the instrument is an Organ, not piano.
I listened to this song on my phone a lots of times and it’s really good one 😎❤️
Great song by the Animals! This song takes me back to the simlper times when it was about the music! The British invasion was a great time giving us some great bands I wish you would listen to the music of the band Cream or Derrick and the Dominos! Thanks Bisscute ❤💛
On the subject of covers there is an absolutely incredible and timeless song that is almost depressing because it's still so relevant today. It's a poem, it's a statement.
"Trouble Every Day" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
There is a modernised version by a Liverpool band called "She Drew the Gun". Half the length and a little more uptempo but it's an incredible song.
It's a song with soul, of course the organ is fantastic, so is the guitar, the bass and the drums. What many people don't understand is how difficult it is to play so tight and in sync. It is absolutely world class. But what is completely unique is still his voice, some singers can't sing at all but get away with autotune today, but some can sing and are brilliant purely singing technically, others have the ability to convey very strong emotions with their voice, very few have the ability to both have a brilliant technical singing ability, at the same time they can convey such strong feelings.
When it comes to the video, I also think it's brilliant. Might just be the best looking video from that era. It really wasn't easy to make videos back then, it was extremely expensive as well, so it's likely that this had to be done in one go.
Bisscute is speechless. LOL!
@Bisscute , like yourself i've heard lots of covers of this song however a friend of mine her names Debbie she is the lead singer of the band The Ronains . Debbie sings a cover of this song that makes my arms go all goosepimply everytime i hear her sing it . By far the best version i've ever heard and it is available on youtube . The Ronains - House of the rising sun .
Every garage band in the world has covered this song, (I've done it many times myself,) but many people underestimate just how good Eric Burden's voice was.
The Animals are from my neck of the woods, and my father in law was a good mate of Chas Chandler the bass player.He met Jimi Hendrix in the late 60s too lol
This song is described as American Traditinal. It has it's roots in the Antebellum South of the late 1880's. In particular it has it's origin in what we now call "human trafficking." In the original version the singer is a woman. Nina Simone recorded this in the early 60's and once complained to Eric Burdon that he never credited her. He retorted that he had made it a hit and the pop crowd had only discovered her in retrospective.
I was still a little fellow when this came out, and it got a lot of air time on the radio when I was growing up. For some reason, I always associated it with haunted houses and spooky stuff. It was fairly popular, but was never one of my favorites. The old electronic organs/keyboards back then grated on my nerves, like fingernails scraping down a blackboard. Of the numerous songs (like this one) from the '60s and '70s that made heavy use of these keyboards, there are only a handful that I truly liked. I think that a lot of great songs were ruined by this annoying instrument. Deep Purple's "HUSH" ua-cam.com/video/u1kZ9zYr7kk/v-deo.html is one of those. Check it out sometime, it's a vibe.
It is a perfect music video by the best band of the 60s.
Like someone else already said, no one really knows who wrote the song, its old, this is definitely the most popular version. There's a couple of great American rock songs that no one knows who wrote the original song/lyrics.
You have to love the production values on those early TV shows. They had a budget of like $1.50, so they were like, hey, could you could just walk around a little bit? We spent our $1.50 on some sticky tape to put on the floor so you won't slip.
Not that I'm arguing for modern slickness or anything. It's just kind of funny, and I've seen it done on multiple shows.
They beat out some other bands to go on a tour with Chuck Berry and didn't to try to out-rock him, so they chose to go the other way and do something moody and atmospheric. AFAIK, it's a traditional blues song that they adapted.
The Doors drew a good bit of inspiration from this song and of course had a similar instrumental combination heavily organ driven.
Hi dear! Eric Burdon is a great singer. Love his work alone, with Tha Animald and with War. There 2 songs that are very popular and nobody knows its Eric singing. The bassist of The Animals is the guy who push and support Hendrix to went to UK. It awas a key in rock music. After that, he didnt was so kind with Jimmy. But thats another story.
He is not always mentioned, but Eric Burdon is one of the top vocalists in rock history.
It goes back to 1890s and was a blues tune it's originally about a young woman caught up in prostitution and drugs in a brothel called The House Of The Rising Sun. It's been performed over the years this was a rock version that made it famous world wide in 1964 I heard it when it was released yess I'm old.
The Animals ( House oF The Rising Sun) released 1964, it was a No1 hit in Britain 🇬🇧, America 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦, the song was completed in one take around 15 minutes, the lead singer Eric Burdon was still performing at the age of 80 years old, there was no auto tune in them times, auto tune came in around 1997, check out the Animals rendition of the song ( It’s All Over Now Baby Blue) , great reaction thanks 🙏
Many believe that The House of the Rising Sun refers to a casino but if the information I heard is that it refers to a prison.
I'mma leave this here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Rising_Sun