It's so true! haha

I think he's some sort of ageless primordial shapeshifting physical embodiment of every soul that would ever be in existence, ever. He has existed since before any other physical life form, yet he is so young, he hasn't even thought about being born tomorrow. He predates good and evil.

He looked like a weathered 17 lol. Maybe it's his presentation ;o Amazing though

One of the most underrated voices

I met him a couple of times in the late 90s, early 2000s. Still rocking at 60, not sure about now. Also a very modest, funny guy. (Not name dropping; he's the only rock star I ever met.)

For all rock n roll and bluesy songs

Eric has a brutal voice.

He looks 17 and sounds 45.

He wasn't even 18....

Same here

Best concert I've ever seen was Eric Burdon & the Animals in the 80's after they reunited. They played the University gymnasium to about 2500 and kept blowing the power out. 5 times the power went out mid song. Loudest "Fuck" in the place was from Eric when it went out again. They started at 8:00pm and played until 3:30am as they were all fired up about the power outages. I thought they'd play 'till dawn and they nearly did. Not a soul left the show as it was a magical performance to a crowd that was appreciative !

AFC Cam meee toooo...🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️

I actually prefer the line that comes soon after - "Well I got one foot on the platform, the other foot on the train. I'm going back to New Orleans, to wear that ball and chain." It's that moment when he knows it's wrong, he can still change his mind, but cannot do it. Just like his father was a gambler and couldnt stop, he's a chip off the old block and addicted to the brothel (The song is about a brothel in New Orleans owned by a French woman in the 19th Century, called Madame Lesoleil Levant, which translates as Mrs rising sun. IMO

@@soullimbo Exactly my thoughts, SoulLimbo! A single line in the song filled with so much foreboding and self-destruction.

When this came out, The Beatles were still doing "She Loves You, yeah yeah yeah" and other cheesy school girl pop. It took drugs for them to catch up with The Animals.

Do you ever just sit and gawk at the voice that came out of that dude?

they're English? English dudes who sing about "going home to New Orleans?"

Ohio Against The World What’s your point lol

@@frankiemoore9127 you really don't find it odd they'd put that in a song, being from the UK?

yep, Alan Price on the keyboards there nails it, possibly the best keyboard artist ever!!

You got that right! That organ gives the song its soul...

The Voice, the organ, and the Soul; they loved blues from USA

The same can be said for The Doors, Ray Manzarek was a virtuoso on the keys but Jimi got all the spotlight.

The organ is, I believe, a Hammond B3, which uses a tube amp to get that amazing reverberating sound. I don't believe they're in production anymore, but they're absolutely amazing to hear when a professional plays one.

WW2 black soldiers showed up in England. There was already some blues reaching clubs in London but they brought it wholesale to a hungry audience. Not sure why it hadn't taken off in white America already but it did REALLY well over here. My grandmother was born in 1939, lived in London, evacuated to a relative for a few months and then sent back to London. She lived east London slums by the jazz clubs but also had older brothers who loved jazz and blues. She remembers black soldiers playing music in the bomb shelters as a small child. Much better than listening to bombs dropping. In Nan's teens, she loved going out to dance halls where they played to R&B and later Motown and local rock bands that would be bands like the Animals before they made it big. A lot of the artists from the "British Invasion" would have been exposed to jazz and R&B from when they were little more than babies.

Aballad?

He is from the north of England and that is how they speak.

I'm 66 and loving these reactions to our music.

check out Jamel_AKA_Jamal, he's 100 times better. A far greater appreciation of these awesome classic songs

Welcome

He is the first i went on, he has been great There are a lot of young men and women that do this thay all like the old stuff. I'm just turned 72 and think there all great

Same here. I'm 71.

I always wanted to know the name of the singer.

Yeah, he does it better than Frijid Pink.

@@Apethgrader Definitely but Frijid Pink weren't too bad either. Boy, did we have so much good music to choose from back then. So glad it's all been recorded and readily available today.

For some reason, Eric Burden always reminded me of Holden Caulfield from "Cather in the Rye."

He was a young man with an old soul and a voice that sounds like he had 60 years of hard living.

73 yo here and, man, did we have the greatest music ever!!!

The late '50s, the '60s, '70s, through the mid-'80s were the golden age of music! The lyrics, the orchestration, the groups, and singles shaped the world as we know it

So cute

I'm 72, and I can remember what it was like to be your age.

I’m 15 and this is my favourite type of music!

I think that about Jim Morrison

....and Phil Collins!

And Roy Orbison!

Yup

It cuts.

Yes that one was awesome!! I love that one as well!!!❤❤

Shlomo Shekelberg same

Oy vey

I feel it deeper every single time I hear it, as I get older. Now I understand the pain behind it. Fuck I need a drink now.

One day, with Alzheimer's, you will!

Shlomo Shekelberg It sure does take me back! It’s funny how young people know these old songs from today’s movies. We lived it. Good times.

That's amazing

Wow

Great story ... I'm sure it was amazing and then you couldn't just play it on You Tube ... you had to hunt it down or wait till it was on the radio again.

Great story

I think he was perfect for his time- his voice, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker.. The 60s were the best for music and musicians. He was right where he belonged

evesapple couldn’t have said it better

I think he was even younger, what a voice!

@@JulioLeonFandinho No he was 23 in 1964.

I saw Eric Burdon 5 years ago and he still sounds the same. I was blown away.

I'm 72. I've been listening to this song since I was a kid. I've never heard a bad version and I've never heard a version that could stand in the shade of Eric Burden and the Animal's cover. Simply the best.

Yeah, he was still belting them out when I saw him in a club back in the late 80s. Good show.

yep... darned if I know how in the heck you can listen to the stuff they have now, after hearing 'our folks' music...

Donna, I have ten years on you - I was born in ‘44 and from early teens on listened to the great music we had back then. Don’t know what has happened to groups today - not impressed by too many of them. My daughters are both in their forties now and they agree with me. I obviously raised them right!!

Minus the flannel shirts lol

centuryrox ..Greatest song ever written...Hands down puts chills in your spine.

Canadian eh?

@@emmahorn3469 Not at all. I was born and raised in Maryland. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_number-one_singles_of_1964

Emma Horn....No

It's because we still have shit dads.

SurferGirl same! Mines the one who taught me this

Really? You are knowledgeable.

sean reid I learned that last semester in my American Popular Music class. I find it cool too!

Indeed he was. You can hear some common threads between the sounds.

It seems bassists were the talent scouts for the next wave of artists. The Yardbirds original bassist, Paul Samwell-Smith, produced Cat Stevens 1st album.

Ripped jimi’s family out of royalties. Jimi played guitar for little Richard . Just FYI.

It might even be the cause of it.

Well the earth is flat, soooo

I agree. It hits you in your core, and always will.

@@caleblarue9199 What's the earth being flat got to do with my comment?

@@prestonthomas9406 you round earthers will just never get it

I caught that as well and thought what a great and right- on-the-money expression and compliment.

Alan Price is the son of a church organist, IIRC.

Agreed!

Johnny hallyday could!

Agree.. But the white buffalo do an amazing cover in sons of anarchy series

*Burdon

Got say last year at the Edinburgh festival there was a young street busker of about 16 and man when you closed your eyes you would have sworn it was Eric himself singing hope that kid gets a break

Um Yes That’s for sure on that! That was 🔥👍🏻✌🏻

Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood.

always top rate to me.

I meant to suggest he's highly rated but even better than that. Oh lord, have I been misunderstood?

Um Yes, don't forget Alan Price too. Check out the soundtrack he did for a film called: _"O Lucky Man"._

Drives me crazy when the reactors do that.

Oh, you mean black people

@@anthonypetercoleman3575 Eh? Black people... what?

If you don’t want him to interrupt just watch the original video

@@rickpedia6724 you really can't blame them, they do that so KZfaq won't copystrike them

He's actually still doing his thing! He put out a pretty cool record with The Greenhornes a few years back.

IS an amazing blues shouter. Our man is still with us.

@Todd Foret and it was brilliant too! :)

Bentriverrusher now that was a description! Well said

Yes, that's right, and as I said above, I saw them perform it later the same day! They recorded their first album in two hours! Basically, they just turned up, played their stage set, and left. I expect you know it, but for those who don't, there are some classics on there. Doing this one in one take is remarkable: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/psmFaMeIqq3SZqc.html Here's what they were like in live performance in early 1964 -- wild! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qLOPhs6HyJeWfpc.html Note Alan Price looking worried the scaffolding is going to collapse on his head. This comes from a once-in-a-lifetime TV show featuring Jerry Lee, Little Richard, Gene Vincent and several others. Jerry Lee in particular is fantastic -- the authority in his voice! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNODa5eI2a-apmw.html

Yes, it's awesome too !

Awesome as a canticle with 2 singers...each singing lyrics of both songs together . Our youth group did at church camp early 70s

So does “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem”. I almost can’t hear it any other way lol

Thsnk you so much

Fantastic...

Chas Chandler went on to manage other musicians.. including a certain Jimi Hendrix !!

I'm the videographer

Thank you!

So true.

Written by Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, who worked in the Brill Building. It was not originally intended for The Animals, though I forget who was supposed to record it. There was an interview with them on NPR and they were sort of pissed that The Animals got it first. Great song anyway, and perfect for Burdon's voice: In this dirty old part of the city Where the sun refuse to shine People tell me there ain't no use in trying Now my girl you're so young and pretty And one thing I know is true You'll be dead before your time is due

1 Hitter. All of them are good classics.

Jeff Stewart oh yeah just incredible wow

we gotta get out of this place, that was our song in 1968 in nam.

The song was already old when the Animals were born! It holds up.

@@millwaterpublishing1387 true

md dc I don't think the chamber of commerce or the city want an anthem about a brothel.

@@keirasings1 LOL, I was going to say.

@keirasings: I stand by my previous comment, however, I should have said it could be the New Orleans Anthem. New Orleans, is certainly nothing like the rest of Louisiana. It has its own rich traditions, unique cultures and identity. It could never be accused as being puritanical, with its history as a wild, fun, crazy party city. As for your comments... it’s kind of ironic, that the Chamber of Commerce and the City, has likely made untold billions profiting from the (at times, sleaze) of the Mardi Gras for over a 150 years... kind of like having your cake and eating it, isn’t it?

Just noticed that I repeated that it could be the anthem of New Orleans - to quote @Kosys... “LOL”

md dc It’s “Burdon” ... jus’ sayin’.

The Louisiana of England.

This is why I watch reaction videos because people always give great information snippets like this. I'd never know that since I was not around during those times (still decades from my celebrated arrival).

Gareth Goodchild I agree. The same thing happened with Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. They both were very unique in their own right.

My dad was 4 years old

I'm so fucking blessed with a rock radio station that not only plays every song full without cutting, they often play the live version. I once got in my car after work, they played Deep Purple, Child in time. I tuned in right when it started as I pulled out of the parking lot and waited 5 minutes in front of my house, because the song wasn't over. It's a 30min drive ... 😁

Thank you for the comment.

Thank you for this info. I have always wondered about the story of this song.

" until 1874, when it was closed due to complaints by neighbors." Damned HOAs....

@@mfree80286 LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!

Also,this was orginaly recored by a man named lead belly

@Nancy Godsey Like many songs, I'm sure this one is about more than one subject and given its origins, may have tried to include many facets of what was going on at the time.

Yes!!! They rocked hard, but made it look easy. 😍

I absolutely agree!!!

You realize this is not a live performance, right?

@@freedapeeple4049 That's beside the point, they still rock the song🤗

The closing deal? Hendrix wanted to meet Clapton. Chandler told him he could arrange for him to play with Clapton. Sealed the deal and he made it happen.

Also don’t forget he steered Slade to success ,thanks chas two of my favourites!

colin glen You stole my thunder Never mind.Yeah Chas gave jimi his big break in the uk and then the world.As Michael Caine once said in a film “Not a lot of people know that “!!

October 1, 1966, Jimi Hendrix jams with Cream at Regent Street Polytechnic in London. Just a week after Chas Chandler brought Hendrix to the U.K. They played Howlin Wolf's Killing Floor - not alot of people know that.

@@winterlandboy yea and Jimi came over here and "Blew The Bloody Doors Off"

It's a cover , not a original.

@@danjames5552 It's a cover of what? This song goes back possibly before the 20th Century with an extremely complex and convoluted history. I heard it researched a number of times, and they never found a definitive origin. It is possible its origins may have also come from Britain. More recently the 1964 Animals took the guitar part largely from Bob Dylan who recorded it in 1961 who got it from Dave Van Ronk, who probably got it from Woody Guthrie who recorded it in 1941, who probably got it from a recorded version by Roy Acuff who recorded it as "Rising Sun" in 1938 who learned it from Clarence Ashley who recorded it in 1933 (called the Rising Sun Blues), who probably got it from someone else. The list is long and kind of hazy regarding who was "First" definitive singer of the title song "The House of the Rising Sun" with the Animal title, their lyrics, and their arrangements of the 1964 version. The history of the song in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1950s had differed song titles, lyrics and musical arrangements. I believe the Animals were the first to record the song with updated title, lyrics and musical arrangements using electric musical instruments, and it became the definitive version of the song in both the United States and Britain.

@@user-DrJoe-Future read your opening line of your first comment.

Alan price one of the greatest ever .👍👍👍👍

Oh my god YES!!! I play but I can't even TOUCH Alan Price!!!

Alan price was beyond great ( fkn amazing)Eric burdon enough said .👍👍👍👍👍👍

Price screwed the band by taking the royalties for this song

Ken Machek.... reminds me of the doors the organ.

You a geordie?

Mac Not ALL are Geordies. One was a mackem.

I was going to point out that this tune would not be what it is/became without Eric Burdon's Voice and the sound of that Hammond (it's not an Organ) for that Era. Very Transformative...

@@NLB90805 looked it up , he was playing a vox continental organ....don't understand your Hammond not an organ comment....Hammond organ made by hammond organ company tells me its an organ.

David Stevens .

The cone spinning in the Leslie amplifier just makes the organ shine.

He played like he had a Black Grandmama who was a church organist!!

Good info, thanks, last rock concert I saw was Jimi @ the swing. After that experience, I knew it couldn't be beat.

By the time he was discovered he was already a very establish Studio player. Had played with the Isley Brothers and was the guitarist for the Little Richard band. Had a blues band with a sixteen-year-old kid whom he gave the name Randy California. Yes the lead guitarist from Spirit. I think he had already been discovered. The world just didn't know about him yet

And Eric Burden discovered War.

Eric Burden was the lead singer for War. Spill the Wine.

Really you believe hes not heard most of these songs before some people are so gullible smh

1964 was before peace and love. I know - a junior in high school then (and loved this song when it came out). Animals and Kinks were 2 of amazing British Invasion bands

One of the best singers ever. Listen to the hits album. Powerful voice. He is very under rated. Everyone should know his name today. Also sang for the band "War". But he shined with The Animals.

Allan Price. Genius. See the film O Lucky Man.

Robert Broatch the Animals were my non-Beatles favorite band.

I was 10 years old in 1964. That song was played constantly. The stations played the short version back then.

Me too, I agree. But then I am 65. However I think the 60's produced some really good music, that has rarely been matched since then.

@derek Maud THEN: after that; next; afterward. THAN: introducing the second element in a comparison

Then just do it. Dont listen to todays music, listen to the old songs and dont cry everywhere about it. It's fucking easy.

But this bad influences bands today

Word.

Any song Eric Burdon did was impossible to top. Thinking of Inside Looking Out (although not a cover). Maybe his best? That's just my opinion though!

I like the vibe of the Leadbelly version. But this rendition always blows me away.

The song probably goes back way further, into the 19th or even the 18th century. It used to have 'girl' lyrics. Eric Burdon and the Animals changed the words to suit a boy singing, and today even girls sing it with boy lyrics.

@@mangstadt1 True. It goes way back. And I heard its roots are in Europe. England, Scotland, somewhere in that area.

its supposed to be a Welsh work song that came over in the late 1800s

The recording session for their album? Their manager didn't want it on the album, so when he went to the bathroom, they performed it -- in one take! The manager reconsidered, and here we are 56 years later admiring its brilliance.

They did, didn't they? All looked SO young!

I was 13! What a great time to be a teenager!

Me and you are the same age then. My older brothers were rarely home so I didn't get to listen to this stuff much. My brothers at the time did have every Beatles 45 they ever produced. Wish we still had them.

He's still around, well he was a few years ago, caught his show along with Rare Earth. The voice hasn't lost much

He’s currently 77 and was touring as recently as last May according to his website.