This is a great version

Great reaction too.

Ever!

@@mikes4248 They did this old folk song justice.

That's great info, I've never heard of that being done 😮

i am born 1972 and i grew up with this music.... ever a great journey back to the good old times... ^^

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For our younger, umm, gentlemen . . . Chas Chandler married a Playboy Centerfold. Unfortunately, the high life caught up to him - he died of a heart attack. So, if you marry a Playboy Centerfold make sure to eat your Wheaties.

​​​@@slypperyfoxThanks for interesting info.

PRobably up to 50 or 60 times listening to it - it never gets old. Absolutely strong and beautiful.

The song was written 150 years ago, originally a poem, a warning to the young to avoid sinning. ''The House of the Rising Sun'' was a Brothel. the warning was to a young Girl.

I was born in the 70s and I asked myself a while ago how I might have perceived the artists of the 1960s if I'd been a teenager then. I think I would have enjoyed the music of both the Beatles and the Stones...but I suspect I would have wanted to go to bed with Eric. :)

Hilton Valentine on guitar was 21 when this was recorded. Bryan "Chas" Chandler on Bass, who later managed Jimi Hendrix, was 26.

Чес Чендлер ? Он еще был менеджером SLADE , по -моему ? Рано умер . А недавно и Хилтон Валентайн (R.I.P.)

@@user-kh9hl7oz5k Yes after he left Jimi Hendrix during the recording of Electric Ladyland, Chas Chandler managed SLADE.

Alan had a big hit in 1978 with Jarrow Song.

Sky Pilot is my favorite of theirs. And then Monterey with War.

" Not the synthetic stuff they put out now." That's the same crap the old farts said about the music of us kids in the 1980s. They were misguided and so are the eople who say the same about the youngers of today. Don't be that guy. Don't blame others for being out of the loop. Help break the chain.

@@carlossaraiva8213 If you have to use autotune to cut a track then the music is not authentic, so it is synthetic. There really is no other definition. Raw talent -vs- augmented talent.

@@polywog9591 Ya? And is using an electric guitar "synthetic?" Whats the difference between using autotune on your voice and a pedal on your guitar? Where do you draw the line?

@@nathanpapp432 Easy. I can't play an electric guitar with or without a pedal, to save my life if I had to. What would happen? Someone would unplug the amplifier to make that Gawd awful noise go away. To make music with an electic guitar with or without a pedal takes TALENT. Now if I could pick up that same guitar with zero talent and pipe it into some computer device to transform my crap playing skills into something Jimi Hendrix might have played, would you say that I have any talent at all? No. You would say I was cheating.

@@polywog9591 What if using autotune is a deliberate, stylistic choice? And there is no computer device that can turn bad guitar playing into Jimi Hendrix. And if you made some really good, interesting music, i honestly wouldnt care how you made it.

I was also very pleased with their reaction, her feelings were like ours back then....

I believe the true origin of the song is unknown but bits and pieces have been passed down over the years. It’s believed the lyrics were found on the walls inside a prison cell of a man about to be put to death for murdering a women. Lead belly is the first musician I know of performing it but I’m sure it goes beyond that. It’s THE tale of old blues musicians and have been done by many. But The Animals has always been my favorite rendition. That band did not get the credit they so greatly deserved. To this day, I listen to them all the time and they were way before my generation. They are timeless.

@@imogen31499 Indeed, as with many of the old blues & folk melodies, the origins of this song are uncertain. There were SO many amazing bands that arose in the UK during the British Invasion, that a lot of them got "lost in the shuffle". I agree, though - the Animals were a stand-out. Thanks for your reply.

Nope. The Animals' first U.S. tour, starting in York, Penn., in September 1964. The Beatles kicked down the door for everyone else in February 1964 with a #1 record, and appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show, the only variety show that really counted back then on TV. The first group to follow the Beatles was in March 1964...the Dave Clark Five....USA record companies were NOT interested in British musicians, singer or groups, assuming they would not sell [dumb adult record executives]. I Want to Hold Your Hand changed their mind when Capital records, owned by the British EMI company, finally relented and released that single in December 1963. Whether people like the Beatles or not is immaterial to history. EVERYTHING changed because of the Beatles back then, long hair, guitar group music, self expression....no Beatles, probably no Animals....that's just the way it came down.

If you haven't heard it try "The Black Plague" one of his songs not often heard.

Another fave of mine is "When I was Young,"...

I used to go to Friday night teen dance at a local swim club when this song came out They banned this song. Can you imagine They must Be rolling in their graves listening to Todays lyrics

Thats pretty much how 99.99% of music videos are made. Its almost never a live performance or live singing in an official music video.

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.

@@johnd8892 Very comprehensive comment. Appreciated. Greetings from western US

Ug. Sky pilot is a bit of a Hippy dirge and not at all the original Animals but a whole new group.

Probably older: "Like many folk songs, "The House of the Rising Sun" is of uncertain authorship. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads, and thematically it has some resemblance to the 16th-century ballad "The Unfortunate Rake",