The lead singer, Eric Burdon is still alive and kicking and turns 83 this Saturday. A real cool dude.

This song is a cautionary tale. "Mother's tell your children not to do what I have done."

@SedriqMiers

27 күн бұрын

Dont forget the following line, "i've dreamed and schemed and now i'm on the run"

@weldonbailey1005

23 күн бұрын

​@@SedriqMiersthe line you quoted is not part of the lyrics to house of the rising sun. 😂 slow down on the weed

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".

@scottromer8584

29 күн бұрын

All really good songs but I also loved Eric Burdon & the Animals cover of the Bee Gees song "To Love Somebody".

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.

@jtoddjb

Ай бұрын

Good. Thanks

@jerryhinkle3786

Ай бұрын

best version of this song is by Frijid pink most popular version is by the Animals

@doreybain

Ай бұрын

@@jerryhinkle3786 Everyone has their own opinion.

@markdecker6190

Ай бұрын

LOL, I love backstory things like that!

@pdd27

25 күн бұрын

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

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

@PML78

28 күн бұрын

I swear... every time I see the video... his voice does NOT match the singer 😁

It's played in a 6/8 time signature, which gives it an unusual feel.

the bass player for the Animals would "discover" and become Jimi Hendrix's manager a couple years later.

@terrybnad2959

18 күн бұрын

He also managed Slade who were huge in the UK in the 1970s

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.

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

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.

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.

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!!

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!

@nigeldepledge3790

23 күн бұрын

If it came from England originally, the references to New Orleans must have been a later addition.

@George-kv6gm

23 күн бұрын

@@nigeldepledge3790 Good point. Maybe by the miners. Or the Animals themselves, to appeal to Americans! Be interesting to find out! Thanks!

No autotune, just talent and done in one take

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.

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.

@gawkthimm6030

Ай бұрын

there are also different version with different melodies recorded before the 1930's and some of those have the lyrics as male

@edferd100

Ай бұрын

😂👌

@craigplatel813

Ай бұрын

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.

@LewdDewd-xw8gv

Ай бұрын

I think she was referring to the captions not lining up with the song.

@damienjoseph7540

Ай бұрын

It's been the ruin of many a poor boy and gad, I know I'm one " Doesn't sound like a girls perspective

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.

@gerardbyrnes5780

Ай бұрын

The Mighty Hammond B3! Yes, indeed.

@caphowdy666

Ай бұрын

@@gerardbyrnes5780 Deep Purple were never the same after they stopped using one

@gerardbyrnes5780

Ай бұрын

@@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.

@LiamE69

29 күн бұрын

Its a VOX organ, not a Hammond.

@gerardbyrnes5780

29 күн бұрын

@@LiamE69 You're right! Good call. I always thought it was a B3 Thanks!

As an American, I am proud of this song. But the Animals are British. They owned this song. And have done us all proud.

@LLOYD___GARMADON

2 күн бұрын

Ukramerican ?

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

@Jeff_Lichtman

25 күн бұрын

Yes, and the song was originally from the point of view of a girl whose life was ruined by working there.

There is that moment, close to the end, where it feels as he's talking direct to your soul. Wirhout words, can't describe.

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.

@ptournas

24 күн бұрын

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.

@dedcowbowee

24 күн бұрын

@@ptournas OK, thanks. I appreciate the clarification.👍

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.

@edwardlongshanks827

Ай бұрын

They also change the lyrics to be from a male perspective rather than the original's female protagonist.

@columlennon

Ай бұрын

And everyone thought Dylan had copied them not the other way around lol

@1dkappe

29 күн бұрын

Leadbelly covered it way back when, but it was old back then.

This song is 60 years old. Insane.

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.

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).❤️

If anyone was born with an 'old soul' it was Eric Burdon...

@MuratAtici.RocknRoll

19 күн бұрын

Me

Thanks Bisscute 😊

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.

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.

Great and honest reaction Biss!!! ❤️❤️❤️ I love this song!!! ⭐⭐⭐

my mother was at school with the keyboard player, Alan Price! it's a small world :D big love to all people :)

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.

Great song. Great band. Biss also check out Eric Burdon with the band War, singing Spill the Wine and Low Rider.

@ShaunHensley

29 күн бұрын

I never made the connection that he sang for War

Beautiful song

Loved it when you revealed your poker face! :)

The "house" was a brothel, aka a whorehouse. Eric Burden was a beast of a singer!

@sheldondyck8631

Ай бұрын

Not saying you’re wrong but I’ve always thought the house was a drug den. Opium specifically. The line “going back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain” makes me think he’s talking about a drug addiction.

@RobertWrightOneManCovers

29 күн бұрын

@@sheldondyck8631 “Ball and chain” has traditionally referred to a woman that a man can’t get rid of easily, i.e., a wife. I’ve never heard it used as a drug reference. “Monkey on your back” is the phrase I’ve known to refer to addiction.

@PML78

28 күн бұрын

Still to this day... my brain can't put his voice to his appearance 😆

No, you don't hear music like this anymore. Thank god someone recorded and saved it.

This was from the 1960s the band is from my home city of Newcastle upon tyne in the UK

Pretty good quality and production for a song released in 1964! 🎉 14 years before I was born

Hi 👋😊 Miss Bisscute ( Madalina ) 🤗 You are in for A Great song Today with this Animals Song !!! Yet you might Enjoy The Zombies ( Time of the season ) as well !!! As always I have Illuminated the Like Button ✅🌎🇺🇲🎙️🎧

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 is the music that was popular when my grandparents were my age

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. 😊😊❤❤

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 came out in 1964. I was 13 years old then and fell in love with it immediately.

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.

Hi from South Africa. Im litterally "binge watching" all your music reactions today. Love it!!!

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.

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.

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 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 😎

This was one of my mother's favorite songs. R.I.P.

Well, considering it's a literally a song about a house of ill repute, sin, misery, and how addiction ruins many a life - including the person singing the song, I'd have to say it's a sad song. The organ was a bit overpowering so it's tough to catch all the lyrics the first go-round in this version.

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.

I listened to this song on my phone a lots of times and it’s really good one 😎❤️

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.

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.

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.

One of the best rock band🤘

This song was written in 1925 by Robert Winslow Gordon and may have original roots from France.

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. ⚘️🌹💐

Love the instrumentals in this song! Nice reaction Biss!

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.

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.

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.

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 ❤💛

First released in 1964.

Back in 1979 night I left UK too go to Australia played this song on the jukebox.

You should react to the Beach boys so many great songs personal favorites Catch a wave, warmth of the sun, I get around, Wouldn't be nice , be true to your school, god only knows, sloop john b,

Let's remember that the vocalist didn't have the magic of autotune, melodyne, and other plugins to fake up a 'perfect' voice. Just pure talent.

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.

Bonjour. Thank you for putting this up. Favourite song ever. I've no doubt someone has explained this lyrics for you.

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

This version is a classic. Eric Burdon is one of the greatest voices in rock

Great song! 60 years old! Remember it as a kid, very interesting and also a bit eerie.

Hi Bisscute

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.

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.

@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 .

Молодцы, ребята! Всё хорошо! Спасибо ведущей за красивый образ и комментарий!❤

Keep rolling with the oldies, go back to the 50's where rock and roll began!!1

This is a Classic from the Animals 1964 a Huge Hit.

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.

Awesome!

They were from the north east UK and the bassist discovered Jimi Hendrix

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.

anyone think its crazy how the screen is perfectly reflecting off her KZread plaque on the wall?

GUITARIST WAS LAUGHING BECAUSE HE COULD SEE THE ORGANIST ALAN PRICE WAS MOVING HIS KEYBOARD TO THE FRONT 😊

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.

@rcrawford42

Ай бұрын

The alternate version is the "House of the Rising Sun" is a brothel, and the ball and chain may be a little more literal.

the song is about 100 years old. Or more. This was the first rock cover. It is from the mid 60's

Great reaction, Bisscute!

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.

He is not always mentioned, but Eric Burdon is one of the top vocalists in rock history.

The animals A very Interesting band some great hits. a very subdued style.

The bass player put Hendrix on the map, and the lead singer, took the drugs from Jimi's room, before the police and ambulance arrived, the day that Jimi died.

Great song and thank you for the reaction!

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.

I'mma leave this here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Rising_Sun

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.