LYRICS There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy And God, I know I'm one My mother was a tailor She sewed my new blue jeans My father was a gamblin' man Down in New Orleans Now the only thing a gambler needs Is a suitcase and a trunk And the only time he's satisfied Is when he's all drunk Oh mother, tell your children Not to do what I have done Spend your lives in sin and misery In the House of the Rising Sun Well, I got one foot on the platform The other foot on the train I'm goin' back to New Orleans To wear that ball and chain Well, there is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy And God, I know I'm one

it's a story of a man who took the wrong path in life in a sin city in new orleans. the place was called house of the rising sun where there was gambling, brothels, etc. if you noticed in the last verse he was "going back to new orleans on a train...to wear the ball and chain" - meaning he was being sent to jail for a crime.

That's a really old song. Doc Watson did it. Ralph Stanley did it. Beautiful. Just beautiful..

They are super talented for being so young

Lead singer was 23.

@@dubzer0649 The singer Eric Burdon at the time was 23. This was also done in one take. The Animals were very, VERY heavily influenced by Black Rock & Roll, early R&B and Chicago Blues. Sam Cooke, John Lee Hooker and Fats Domino were just a few of the many, many influences. In fact, they once described themselves as "Five white boys from Newcastle trying to sound Black". Try "Boom Boom" and "I'm Mad Again" by these guys. You'll definitely hear the R&B influence.

@@josephcox178 by black rock and roll????? 🤨🤨🤨🤨 More like the blues sound of black artists.

​@josephcox178 Eric was also in the band WAR for a short time. If you didn't know.

great comment

Hey Phil, thanks for the information on this song They are such a cool group and I was surprised at how young they were

Oh ok they are awesome and so young but so talented at the same time

Ahh ok now it makes sense Thanks for the history on this I knew I could count on you to know my friend. Really helps me get to know these bands so keep the detailed comments coming Enjoy the rest of your night

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Thanks for that information it’s appreciated

Not deadpan lol 😂😂😂 He's deadpan in this video too lol 😂

They were so young but so much talent

@@dubzer0649 My Husband was a professional musician at the age of 10, his family had a Sunday Morning Gospel show on WSUN radio in Tampa, Fl, in the 60's. He started out on an upright bass! Music doesn't know age. You're born with it!

Oh ok thanks for the information

And Nina Simone

Yep, movie film quality. Was expensive to do.

So young but so much talent

I like bands who play their own instruments. There's more depth to it.

Man they were so young here wow

@@dubzer0649 Yeah they were. He is 80 now and still sings. He sounds like Chris Cornell now.

Poor port town? The steel capital of Europe wasn’t that poor

@@alisonpickard7274 I'm going by what he said.

Wow didn’t know it was that deep thanks for the info

Thank you for the information I appreciate you

Thanks for the info love learning about these bands

Thanks for watching

Thanks for the information, these guys are awesome

Thanks for information I was surely wondering like these boys young but man they got talent

Newcastle Upon Tyne which is close to the border with Scotland is where he grew up. A gritty, urban, port city working class area with factories, longshoremen from the docks, railway working and lorry driving. He said he learned his love of music from the delivery of records and material from the United States. "All black delivery of soul, jazz and blues artists I loved and tried to incorporate into my song repertoire." He named a *lot* of older black blues/soul artists even Lead Belly. He referred to it as a "white" ghetto with the poor housing and slums and low opportunities for jobs. Referring to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones he remarked that England isn't *that* big and the only main city was London. They'd go into a club and they would be in one corner and the Beatles and Stones the other two corners.

The song is about a brothel in New Orleans,

It's about a brothel in New Orleans where he spent his time and it ruined his life.

Oh ok man that’s young but look at the talent mad respect for them

It's not a piano. It's a VOX electric organ

@@Gort-Marvin0Martian A Vox Continental, to be precise... very 60s, a lot of bands got them because they were so portable, great for lugging around to gigs/on tour, unlike the massive old Hammond organs. No vast teams of roadies back then!

@@papercup2517 A roadie. Ah yes I did that one summer in my junior year of high school. I specialized in setting up the drum kit. Then they discovered that I could sing "The Letter" by the Box Tops and they would invite me to sing that at their various gigs. Very cool and a lot of fun.

@@Gort-Marvin0Martian That was certainly a popular song in its time; I imagine it went down well with audiences. Was that the ONLY song you could sing?! No-one let you try anything else? :-/ Sounds like a great summer, anyway. Happy memories!

@@papercup2517 When I was very young I sung in my church choir. The director tried to explain tremolo to a 8yo ! LOL I just couldn't figure out how to do it. But no, I think the band just had me do that single tune because it played to the audience having a roadie come up and sing. Since I'm not shy it wasn't that difficult. LOL

Oh ok now that makes sense

Thanks for the information

And the video was uploaded in 480p. Imagine it in 4K.

Ok I’ll be doing that Forsure

I like that jam too. "Don't let Me be misunderstood"🎶🎶🎶

It is on the same film

Yer he managed him.

That is awesome

Wow so young and so much talent

Thank you so much for the background and information. I love reading this mess detailed responses. These boys were so young

And Hilton Valentine just died this year.

Check out the live version of please don't let me be misunderstood from the ed Sullivan show. No lip singing.

Ok I’ll def do the live version

Thanks for watching my friend

@@dubzer0649 I misspelled his last name - it’s Eric Burdon 🙃 Here’s the link for you. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ac9gd7CTqLHScZs.html

It's good to be in the same boat with you!!

Chaz is on bass, not Hilton.

Wow so young. Thanks for the comment I appreciate it

Hey thank for watching and for the background information on this song. I really enjoyed it

Ah ok makes sense Thanks for answering my question

Thanks for the information

The particular show has nothing to do with it. The medium it was recorded on does. This is most likely 35mm film as opposed to tape.

Hey thanks for watching and commenting. I really like this Band so far so thanks for the information more of them to come

Crazy how they were so talented and young Def enjoyed this one Thanks for watching

Oh ok got ya, I’m like why is it so clear lol

@@dubzer0649 clear because it was filmed and not videotape. Mimed from their one take recording.This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made. KZfaq has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title it Go Go Mania and add a few intro segments to satisfy the US audience. A KZfaq search for Pop Gear Go Go Mania shows the segments : kzfaq.info?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania The intro by TCM explains the background of the film. While some of these segments were likely to be shown on US Colour TV much later , the source would originally be this high quality film. Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too, In 1964 images not recorded on film would be much lower quality videotape, not the notable quality images used here. Especially with the inferior US NTSC standards often called Never The Same Colour. So lucky the film was made instead of relying on low standard video tape recordings that were usually taped over anyway to save tape cost money or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in KZfaq postings these days. These films mainly used mimed performances as the vast majority of theatre audiences wanted to hear the music performance as they knew it from the records. Hope this helps people who have the colorized and vidoetape theories that usually pop up.

Oh ok didn’t know that information thanks for letting me know. I really enjoyed this song and these boys were super young

the lyrics were changed to get radio air play -you could not sing about a whore house in 1964

These guys are a vibe

Check out the live ed Sullivan performance of its my life. You'll like it.

Ok I’ll def check it out Thanks for watching

These boys are so young but so talented

Greetings thanks for being here I appreciate you

Black white green blue . Music is music loved by the world

Thanks for watching this one I really enjoyed

I still have 60's vintage (tube designed) Amateur Radio transcievers (transmitter/receiver) in my garage. The audio quality of tube designed equipment is superior to solid state design. Tube designed equipment is much easier to understand than solid state/logic design, at least for me.

Yea I hear you on that Music was just different back then no lie

Ah ok 👍

Yes this song is good

Yea surprising that it was so clear

Clear because of film for theatre release not the junk videotape of 1964. Mimed from their one take recording.This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made. KZfaq has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title it Go Go Mania and add a few intro segments to satisfy the US audience. A KZfaq search for Pop Gear Go Go Mania shows the segments : kzfaq.info?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania The intro by TCM explains the background of the film. While some of these segments were likely to be shown on US Colour TV much later , the source would originally be this high quality film. Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too, In 1964 images not recorded on film would be much lower quality videotape, not the notable quality images used here. Especially with the inferior US NTSC standards often called Never The Same Colour. So lucky the film was made instead of relying on low standard video tape recordings that were usually taped over anyway to save tape cost money or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in KZfaq postings these days. These films mainly used mimed performances as the vast majority of theatre audiences wanted to hear the music performance as they knew it from the records. Hope this helps people who have the colorized and vidoetape theories that usually pop up.

Oh ok that makes sense

Wow they were so young

@@dubzer0649 oh absolutely brother my dad was born in 57 my mom in 60 me in 84 I grew up listening to what they did they had 8-track tapes and records. Groups like that there voices was so natural in the 60's 70's and 80's was unreal. That song beat the beatles and became number one. The Gentry's has a song called keep on dancing in 1965 that became number one. There is a guy in that band his name is Jimmy heart guess what he became a manager of the heart foundation The honky tonk Man Greg the hammer Valentine The nasty boys in wwf/ wwe. Also had the righteous Brothers and the birds and other bands that had natural voices back then that could really sing one person that can come close in singing like that would be kid rock. Because he started in early 90's again it was amazing back then.

That’s awesome I would of love to hear you play

Thanks for watching and thanks for the info and background on song. So cool that you got to expect this as a young kid

Clear because this was filmed for theatre release.