![]() Retrospective (1967) [ larger cover art ] |
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 trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a 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
| bachbeet | Posted: Apr 30, 2013 - 20:44 Terrific song. They put their own take on this blues song and it was an instant classic. Eric had a great blues voice. |
| Huey (Netherlands) | Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 23:17 You mean "Frijid Pink", I checked all three covers, I liked them all !! Still Tracy wins by a nose. 25demayo wrote: And I'll put up Frigid Pink http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t40INnb6DnY andreicio wrote: I'll see your Sivert cover and raise you Tracy Chapman. One of the most interesting covers I've heard of this song. 2cats wrote: Hey girlfriends, listen to this: Sivert Høyem - The House Of The Rising Sun: http://youtu.be/q8kzUwg00Ug Link provided by Calypsus |
| amyjpr (kansas city) | Posted: Feb 27, 2013 - 06:41 Oh my god I hate this song. I have no idea what anyone enjoys in it. Repeated listenings just reinforce it. Hate. The worst. |
| 25demayo (dreaming of an asado) | Posted: Feb 27, 2013 - 06:40 And I'll put up Frigid Pink http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t40INnb6DnY andreicio wrote: I'll see your Sivert cover and raise you Tracy Chapman. One of the most interesting covers I've heard of this song. 2cats wrote: Hey girlfriends, listen to this: Sivert Høyem - The House Of The Rising Sun: http://youtu.be/q8kzUwg00Ug Link provided by Calypsus |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Nov 25, 2012 - 06:22 Hasan wrote: I Pick most any song from '64. It's a bunch'o folks singing a song. Not this! This guy sang a whole new universe! How can I not give it a 10? "This guy sang a whole new universe".... |
| andreicio (Bucharest, RO) | Posted: Jul 22, 2012 - 12:06 I'll see your Sivert cover and raise you Tracy Chapman. One of the most interesting covers I've heard of this song. 2cats wrote: Hey girlfriends, listen to this: Sivert Høyem - The House Of The Rising Sun: http://youtu.be/q8kzUwg00Ug Link provided by Calypsus |
| Hasan | Posted: Jul 22, 2012 - 11:45 I was 11 in 1964. Roy Rogers and Father Knows best on the TV. Square dances in the school gymnasium. The Ed Sullivan show had all kinds of silliness, but then one Friday evening, this ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDcpxUWZf5Y ... washed over me like a hot shower after a lifetime in the wilderness. They look as mundane as did everything else in 1964 suburbia. The setting is simple. It's black'n white. The song is simple yet it bursts with passion and majesty. Pick most any song from '64. It's a bunch'o folks singing a song. Not this! This guy sang a whole new universe! How can I not give it a 10? |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 11:17 The song is kind of a 7 or an 8, but its classic stature, and the chills I still get from hearing this timeless tune, makes it a 12. The keyboards player, Alan Price, you may know, mastered one of moviedom's great soundtracks, O Lucky Man. Play some of that one, Bill, it would follow on quite nicely with this or another Animal track. |
| burinka | Posted: Mar 19, 2012 - 11:47 classic :> |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 06:16 ozzie1313 wrote: More scintillating,spinal shrills. Every high school and college and clubs with bands I ever went to played this song. All garage bands on the planet included this song in their repetoire. It's probably one of the first songs most guitar players ever learn. |
| drivingunit103 (around the 4 western provinces) | Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 06:05 ozzie1313 wrote: More scintillating,spinal shrills. Every high school and college and clubs with bands I ever went to played this song. All garage bands on the planet included this song in their repetoire. ...Heard this a gazillion times driving the truck - every station in North America has overplayed it - but - it still holds at an 8 for me! |
| 2cats (Oklahoma) | Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 11:47 Hey girlfriends, listen to this: Sivert Høyem - The House Of The Rising Sun: http://youtu.be/q8kzUwg00Ug Link provided by Calypsus |
| terryp17 (Whitegate, UK) | Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 11:46 First heard this song on 'Ready Steady Go' way back when...didn't understand it, and neither did my mum when I asked her...hmm. |
| ozzie1313 | Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 11:45 More scintillating,spinal shrills. Every high school and college and clubs with bands I ever went to played this song. All garage bands on the planet included this song in their repetoire. |
| nalle (Malmo, Sweden) | Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 11:44 B3, love it. |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Oct 11, 2011 - 05:23 billbangert wrote: I think we've all heard this song enough. Stop playing it. Prolly so, that tempers my rating to only a 7. |
| allabout (Perth Western Australia) | Posted: Oct 11, 2011 - 05:21 Behave yourself, its ERIC billbangert wrote: I think we've all heard this song enough. Stop playing it. |
| billbangert (Cincinnati) | Posted: Sep 09, 2011 - 18:30 I think we've all heard this song enough. Stop playing it. |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Aug 09, 2011 - 10:11 calypsus_1 wrote:
http://youtu.be/q8kzUwg00Ug Artist: Sivert Høyem Album: Moon Landing (Bonus CD)* Year: 2009 Release date: 28th September 2009 * This song included in Bonus CD Line up: Sivert Høyem: Sings/Plays/Composes Cato Salsa: Strings/Keys Børge Fjordheim: Drums/Shaker/Tambourine Rudi Nikolaisen: Bass(Live) Kalle Gustafson Jerneholm: Bass (On Record) "Knallversjon som føyer seg inn i en hel rekke av knallåter fra Høyem, personlig har jeg vært fryktelig lei av denne låta, men jaggu ga denne versjonen låta en vitaminpille!!" rellllings |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Aug 09, 2011 - 10:05 rez wrote: Except it's not a B3. I think it's actually a Vox Continental which has quite a different sound (if you know your organs!) I stand corrected. Here's an atypical web exerpt: "Price's organ playing did as much for the Vox Continental Organ as it did for Price. The "Connie" was introduced in 1962 and rapidly became a favorite among touring musicians. It approached the sound of a superior Hammond or Wurlitzer, but it was half the size. The 1960s musicians dedicated to their Vox Continental included Ray Manzarek of The Doors, Mike Smith of The Dave Clark Five, Paul Revere of Paul Revere and the Raiders, and Doug Ingle of Iron Butterfly. This is a formidable pedigree, but it was Price's organ work in "House of the Rising Sun" that sent every would-be keyboard player to the Vox showroom." The link is: http://www.shmoop.com/animals-house-rising-sun/music.html And I'll let the "know your organs" go unmolested... ![]() |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Aug 09, 2011 - 09:53 calypsus_1 wrote: Sivert Høyem - The House Of The Rising Sun: |
| RedGuitar (Iowa, USA) | Posted: Jun 07, 2011 - 09:44 suebee3 wrote: If I had to name only one song that I hate, this would be it. Come on, there's so many more that are much easier to hate. |
| RedGuitar (Iowa, USA) | Posted: Jun 07, 2011 - 09:42 This is one of those songs that just does it for me. Don't know why some do and some don't, just sayin'! |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 21:49 Sivert Høyem - The House Of The Rising Sun "Knallversjon som føyer seg inn i en hel rekke av knallåter fra Høyem, personlig har jeg vært fryktelig lei av denne låta, men jaggu ga denne versjonen låta en vitaminpille!!" rellllings |
| drews (London, Blighty) | Posted: Apr 05, 2011 - 04:10 Right now, there's a big political fight going on in the UK, where the coalition government (ConDems) are trying to force through a big shakeup of our national health service, and a UK rapper called MC NxtGen has recorded a really good rap based around a loop of 'house of rising sun' that criticizes these proposals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl1jPqqTdNo&feature=player_embedded He's done his research too. Basically, the outcome would be getting in big US healthcare companies to run doctors surgeries. Most of us in UK regard this as bad news, because it would take out 80 billion pounds of our taxpayer money into the private hands of healthcare companies that will deliver minimum service at maximum cost Politics aside, this is a great rap, and might even score well on RP Interested? Then read more here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/mar/25/andrew-lansley-rap-mc-nxtgen |
| bjrubble | Posted: Mar 04, 2011 - 16:57 FrankMc wrote: I can't imagine "Saving Grace" sung to the melody, however. 4 words: Blind Boys of Alabama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR1tOVd4PCk Also on RP: http://www.radioparadise.com/rp2-content.php?name=songinfo&song_id=36653 |
| jagdriver (Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise) | Posted: Mar 04, 2011 - 16:38 I love seeing these guys (and many others) on the Ed Sullivan DVD set I own. |
| Tamster (31) | Posted: Mar 04, 2011 - 16:36 calypsus_1 wrote: ![]() Eric Burdon at the Daffodil festival by Pilgrim on this road - Bill Revill Bill Revill http://www.flickr.com/photos/billrevill/ At 66, he remains a powerful singer. So what if he showed up two hours late? . |
| k_trout (Dream State) | Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 08:49 This po' boy, for one, had never heard anything remotely like this before - and I really really liked it |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Jan 03, 2011 - 17:41 ![]() Eric Burdon at the Daffodil festival by Pilgrim on this road - Bill Revill Bill Revill http://www.flickr.com/photos/billrevill/ At 66, he remains a powerful singer. So what if he showed up two hours late? . |
| On_The_Beach (Vancouver BC, Bud) | Posted: Nov 30, 2010 - 10:19 HazzeSwede wrote: More Burdon ! What HazzeSwede said. |
| JennieBreeden (Atlanta Ga.) | Posted: Nov 30, 2010 - 10:19 My big brother would sing this song in his low gravely voice. He changed "new blue jeans" to "old black jeans". |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 02:29 More Burdon ! |
| Saliby_Br (Outer space) | Posted: Jun 24, 2010 - 05:12 ginniet wrote: This brings back fond memories of hot slow dances in high school! ![]() For me, it brings back my father memories. He had a compact with this song. Always love it. Still do —> 10!!!! |
| k_trout (Dream State) | Posted: May 23, 2010 - 09:21 alan price - unlike anything this young lad had heard up to that point |
| westslope (BC coast) | Posted: Apr 21, 2010 - 15:53 I recall listening to this song on CFRA AM radio in Ottawa in 1967-68. I was 11/12 at the time. |
| ginniet (Spokane, WA) | Posted: Apr 21, 2010 - 15:52 This brings back fond memories of hot slow dances in high school! ![]() |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Apr 21, 2010 - 15:51 And the only time he's satisfied Is when he's on a drunk |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Apr 09, 2010 - 19:25 The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun" Live (1964) |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Mar 21, 2010 - 01:43 Very nice song from Burdon, one of his favorites. 9-10 |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Mar 14, 2010 - 01:12 Sinead O'Connor - "The House of the Rising Sun" "The House of the Rising Sun" is a folk song from the United States. Also called "House of the Rising Sun" or occasionally "Rising Sun Blues", it tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans. Two of the best-known renditions of the song are by the English rock group The Animals in 1964, which was a number one hit in the United Kingdom, United States, Sweden and Canada, and by Joan Baez in 1959-60. Alan Price of the Animals has claimed that the song was originally a sixteenth-century English folk song about a Soho brothel, and that English emigrants took the song to America where it was adapted to its later New Orleans setting." (Wikipedia)
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| h8rhater | Posted: Feb 17, 2010 - 11:27 HarrO wrote: First tune I ever learned on the guitar all those years ago. Damn (sniff) the old days.!!!! Are you married to Tagish_girl?!?? ![]() |
| suebee3 | Posted: Feb 17, 2010 - 11:24 If I had to name only one song that I hate, this would be it. |
| willmcnaught (Eugene Oregon) | Posted: Dec 16, 2009 - 15:51 jagdriver wrote: "THIS is Byron McGregor...CKLW...20-20 news!" CKLW was THE station in the Detroit Metro area, and it carried a long way. Nice to hear those call letters again! |
| willmcnaught (Eugene Oregon) | Posted: Dec 16, 2009 - 15:49 Almost 43 years later it still "has it" |
| jagdriver (Just a tad south of Paradise) | Posted: Dec 16, 2009 - 15:49 onerb wrote: First heard this on a Canadian station - CKLW - just before it was released in the States. Couldn't get enough of it. Still sounds great on RP. "THIS is Byron McGregor...CKLW...20-20 news!" CK would often pick up "what was happnin'" from WKNR in Dearborn, the latter breaking many a nationwide hit. WKNR-FM was, of course, home of the "Paul Is Dead" story, as perpetuated (but not originated) by "Uncle" Russ Gibb. |
| jagdriver (Just a tad south of Paradise) | Posted: Dec 16, 2009 - 15:47 The eggman himself! |
| rez | Posted: Oct 14, 2009 - 19:10 WonderLizard wrote: An epiphany—especially when you learned that this very British invasion song's roots were in the brothels of New Orleans. Also evidence, as if anyone needed any, that Burdon may have been the vocalist/frontman, but the Animals were Alan Price's band. A B3 tour de force—even with the Picardy third ending. Except it's not a B3. I think it's actually a Vox Continental which has quite a different sound (if you know your organs!) |
| kurtster (Area code 216) | Posted: Sep 13, 2009 - 05:46 westslope wrote: Love this; love Sky Pilot even more. |
| Sloggydog (UK) | Posted: Jul 12, 2009 - 02:19 I WAS on my way out the door when this came on...now i'm howling my throat raw! |





Almost 43 years later it still "has it"