Eric Burdon at 23, looking 17, sounding 55.

@TheCrayonMaster

5 жыл бұрын

It's so true! haha

@belajadevotchka2

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@jacob2790

5 жыл бұрын

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

@j7fk13

5 жыл бұрын

One of the most underrated voices

@paulcallahan3676

5 жыл бұрын

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.)

Animals might be the most underrated English band ever.

@jotacalvo

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@a7xchick256

5 жыл бұрын

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

@ohioagainsttheworld676

5 жыл бұрын

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

@frankiemoore9127

5 жыл бұрын

Ohio Against The World What’s your point lol

@ohioagainsttheworld676

5 жыл бұрын

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

His voice will never be duplicated . He just had natural ability for this song .

@innosanto

3 жыл бұрын

For all rock n roll and bluesy songs

@mariposacacahuate5221

3 жыл бұрын

Eric has a brutal voice.

@GUAMANIANable

Жыл бұрын

He looks 17 and sounds 45.

@hiding5

8 ай бұрын

He wasn't even 18....

That line: "Oh mother, tell your children, not to do what i have done" gives me goosebumps

@Jakcosn

4 жыл бұрын

Same here

@careym3901

4 жыл бұрын

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 !

@rastra1321

4 жыл бұрын

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

@soullimbo

2 жыл бұрын

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

@artbagley1406

Жыл бұрын

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

Everyone loves the guitar riff but it’s the organ that made this a classic.

@christoph404

5 жыл бұрын

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

@jeremylevie2263

5 жыл бұрын

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

@robertjohnston8690

5 жыл бұрын

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

@goondocksaints9597

5 жыл бұрын

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

@papertigerworkshop1174

5 жыл бұрын

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.

I’m loving your appreciation of the music of my generation. I’m a 70 years old Grandmother and just discovered your channel.

@jeanettesmith765

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Sandra-yx6yp

4 жыл бұрын

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

@darktruth2358

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome

@delilahduckett7448

3 жыл бұрын

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

@jackarcher7495

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. I'm 71.

Eric Burdon had one of rock's greatest voices. Unfortunately he never did get the full recognition he really deserved. This song is a rock anthem!

I love Eric Burdon !!! The vocals, and he knew how to use it! He had TALENT! NO ONE COULD SING IT AS GOOD.

@donnaregister6141

4 жыл бұрын

I always wanted to know the name of the singer.

@Apethgrader

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he does it better than Frijid Pink.

@astridgalactic9336

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@astridgalactic9336

4 жыл бұрын

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

I'm 71 and this was one of my favorites, loved it.....

@donburgio936

5 жыл бұрын

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

@MikeDesertHunterHale

5 жыл бұрын

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

@franciscaduarte9076

5 жыл бұрын

So cute

@ddarkshark

4 жыл бұрын

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

@ashtonmorris-payne5572

4 жыл бұрын

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

One of those voices that seems impossible to have come out of that face.

@estuder32anthonywayne98

5 жыл бұрын

I think that about Jim Morrison

@bubhub64

5 жыл бұрын

....and Phil Collins!

@sarahkinsey5434

5 жыл бұрын

And Roy Orbison!

@sheri0082

5 жыл бұрын

Yup

@Veggamattic

5 жыл бұрын

It cuts.

I personally think that Eric Burdon has one of the greatest voices in the music history. It's so emotional and strong and I'm always feel hypnotized by his voice

This is one of those great songs that tells a story just as much as sings a song, and the music enhances it so well! The thing that actually amazes me the most is you have a guy (the singer Eric Burdon) that was from the U.K. but somehow he absolutely nailed the deep south U.S. sound. I mean listen to how he says New Orleans. It is so cool.

@runningfromabear8354

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@jean-paulmorin913

2 жыл бұрын

Aballad?

@happyolddude

Жыл бұрын

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

Bob Dylan was stopped dead in his tracks when he heard this song on the road for the first time.

I wish I could hear this song for the first time again

@averagestudent1837

5 жыл бұрын

Shlomo Shekelberg same

@jungboomer_5362

5 жыл бұрын

Oy vey

@nikoskabbadias

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@BIGSIXESFAN

5 жыл бұрын

One day, with Alzheimer's, you will!

@bbednorz319

5 жыл бұрын

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.

One of the best songs ever done by a voice perfect for it.

@armadillotoe

2 жыл бұрын

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

And no autotune. Pure talent.

Eric Burdon was 23 when he sang this. The dude had a helluva voice. That's no better exemplified than it is on this masterpiece!

@JulioLeonFandinho

5 жыл бұрын

I think he was even younger, what a voice!

@greatestmusiclive6175

5 жыл бұрын

@@JulioLeonFandinho No he was 23 in 1964.

@KaraMiss1974

5 жыл бұрын

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

@BlueRidgeMtns100

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@hughcorston9645

5 жыл бұрын

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

You're right! Eric was ahead of his time... That voice!

@evesapple

4 жыл бұрын

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

@justinobrien2825

3 жыл бұрын

evesapple couldn’t have said it better

That song was a #1 hit on the charts all over the world, and was done in 1 take in the studio in 1964. Great musicians. The Singer is Eric Burdon, and he just turned 80 on May 11, 2021. He’s made a lot of great music over the years. You should check our Eric Burdon & War singing the song “Spill the Wine” live version. Also their song “Tobacco Road” live.

@ednaward74

Жыл бұрын

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

I am 60 and this songs always envokes so much emotions out of me. I am child of the 60s I grew up listening to ALL types of much because my parents were church musicians so all genres of music flowed through the house. The Animals as well as the Beetles and the Rolling Stones were my favorites. I love when the younger generations are introduced to different types of sounds.

Eric Burdon was drastically under-rated.

@randypam69

5 жыл бұрын

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

@cherylcampbell9369

5 жыл бұрын

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

@steveperry1344

5 жыл бұрын

always top rate to me.

@umyes4944

5 жыл бұрын

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

@NealeBaxter

5 жыл бұрын

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

The first time I ever heard this song I was riding in my future brother in law's car (in N.O.) and it came on the radio. The DJ said that it was the best song he ever heard. He played it four times in a row and my Bro and law and I sat in the driveway and listened to all four times. I was 9 years old at the time but I'll never forget that.

@herewegokids7

4 жыл бұрын

That's amazing

@Mardyfella

4 жыл бұрын

Wow

@theeggtimertictic1136

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@rubypickles1836

4 жыл бұрын

Great story

I was born in '54 so I grew up on this music and some of the most memorable soul, protest and hippie music of all time; you got a lotta of catchin' up to do hon ;)

@sallyjopatriot

4 жыл бұрын

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

@barbaraoliver2005

3 жыл бұрын

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!!

As I understand it, this was recorded in one take as they only had a short amount of studio time. Amazing! The organ solo for me is just epic!

The Animals were the worlds first true grunge band, 40 years ahead of their time

@garylindsey5174

5 жыл бұрын

Minus the flannel shirts lol

That song will be around when the earth goes up in flames

@dingfeldersmurfalot4560

5 жыл бұрын

It might even be the cause of it.

@caleblarue9199

5 жыл бұрын

Well the earth is flat, soooo

@orion351us

5 жыл бұрын

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

@prestonthomas9406

5 жыл бұрын

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

@caleblarue9199

5 жыл бұрын

@@prestonthomas9406 you round earthers will just never get it

This song will always remind me of my dad. I miss him so much. He was in the army during Vietnam and these old songs remind me of that time period and him when he met my mom. Love this.

@inlonging

4 жыл бұрын

SurferGirl same! Mines the one who taught me this

This song came out in 1964 and I was 12 years old and I still remember where I was the first time I heard it. The Animals have always ben one of my favorite groups.

This was the #1 song in the nation on the day I was born (Sept 1964). Still a great song after almost 55 years, eh?

@acepainter263

5 жыл бұрын

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

@emmahorn3469

5 жыл бұрын

Canadian eh?

@centuryrox

5 жыл бұрын

@@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

@acepainter263

5 жыл бұрын

Emma Horn....No

@assurhex1449

5 жыл бұрын

It's because we still have shit dads.

The bass player (Chas Chandler) was the guy who discovered, managed and produced Jimi Hendrix!

@George50809

5 жыл бұрын

Really? You are knowledgeable.

@georgeharrisonlover4300

5 жыл бұрын

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

@Wiley_Coyote

5 жыл бұрын

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

@stuffnuns

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@elizabethrose3667

5 жыл бұрын

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

One of my favorite songs. The hook his voice and that organ is awesome half a century later. That's staying power.

This is a huuuuge classic. I was 4 when this came out and already immensely impressed. Saw him perform this live in 2003 at 5 m from the stage, even filmed it and it was even morevimpressive……this song is a GIGANTIC classic

Thank you for not interrupting every 30 sec to comment, and just really listened! Also love your rewind, so funny!

@rickpedia6724

5 жыл бұрын

Drives me crazy when the reactors do that.

@anthonypetercoleman3575

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, you mean black people

@blackmore4

5 жыл бұрын

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

@elicanter1952

5 жыл бұрын

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

@maosama3695

5 жыл бұрын

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

To me, no one can sing House of the Rising Sun like Eric Burton! I loved the Animals!

@TheCrayonMaster

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@billbaxter5561

5 жыл бұрын

Johnny hallyday could!

@abdullahhisham9294

5 жыл бұрын

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

@heliotropezzz333

5 жыл бұрын

*Burdon

@brindle2009

5 жыл бұрын

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

I feel like the 60s & 70s bands used more of a variety of instruments in their songs. Like the organ. Lots of different sounds. I heard this song was made in 1 take because they couldn't afford to pay more. The age when either you knew how to sing or you didn't. Real voices with real music. Passion too. They sang song of stories, life events, etc. Nowadays there's no passion and their certainly isn't any stories. I love this song and Eric Burden.

Just a note: The words to "Amazing Grace" fit this music perfectly.

@margaretwomacque1247

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's awesome too !

@juliecrane9647

3 жыл бұрын

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

@LeslieMcHugh

3 жыл бұрын

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

Eric Burdon - vocals Hilton Valentine - guitar Alan Price - keyboards Chas Chandler - bass John Steel - drums

@donnaregister6141

4 жыл бұрын

Thsnk you so much

@44B4CUC

4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic...

@iangoldstraw6002

4 жыл бұрын

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

@simple.stuffs

3 жыл бұрын

I'm the videographer

@florencepierce1864

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Eric Burdon WAS "ahead of his time." Try "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"

@kathylecluyse7820

5 жыл бұрын

So true.

@paulcallahan3676

5 жыл бұрын

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

@aprilmay1061

5 жыл бұрын

1 Hitter. All of them are good classics.

@DanaMeise

5 жыл бұрын

Jeff Stewart oh yeah just incredible wow

@jimmiekendall5529

4 жыл бұрын

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

I was listening to this song as a little girl in Manchester UK. Often be on the box that's what we'd call the TV. Often people would say I'm watching the box tonight as bla bla is on . What a powerful voice that kid had.

In my late fifties here and I didn't get to see them live until about ten years after their Peak popularity but I got to see them in a very small Club in Wichita Kansas and Eric Burdon is a short man he's the lead singer, and he still totally had it because by then he was probably only in his what maybe is 40s or something but he really brought the presence of it he really did and that guy had a voice on him for sure. The animals had some other great songs as well from back in the day

I’d rather listen to this then today’s music

@hilaryjones3227

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@unclemayhem6696

5 жыл бұрын

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

@Augerz

5 жыл бұрын

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

@brad5983

5 жыл бұрын

But this bad influences bands today

@stevecampbell9670

5 жыл бұрын

Word.

From Songfacts: The song is about a brothel in New Orleans. "The House Of The Rising Sun" was named after its occupant Madame Marianne LeSoleil Levant (which means "Rising Sun" in French) and was open for business from 1862 (occupation by Union troops) until 1874, when it was closed due to complaints by neighbors.

@BelindaTN

5 жыл бұрын

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

@mfree80286

5 жыл бұрын

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

@tantraman10

5 жыл бұрын

@@mfree80286 LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!

@madmann5373

5 жыл бұрын

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

@gloriagaddy

5 жыл бұрын

@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.

That voice is like no other takes my breath away -more on the British Invasion Please !!!

When I was a kid & I heard this on the radio, it gave me shivers, chills & goosebumps! Also, the vocals (especially "Oh mother, tell your children ..." & the "One foot on the platform ..." bit) always left me breathless & literally gasping for air! Such powerful stuff from such young (& baby-faced) guys! Thrilling stuff ... & still powerful so many years later!

"he's taking you to church on that organ" - awesome response.

@theHAL9000

5 жыл бұрын

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

@RASmith-gt9mm

5 жыл бұрын

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

Eric Burdon was an AMAZING blues shouter.

@MaroonCorey

5 жыл бұрын

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

@dreamingawake8428

5 жыл бұрын

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

@jeffhubbard100

5 жыл бұрын

@Todd Foret and it was brilliant too! :)

Great performance when he does it live. He was also a founding member of WAR. Great performer. Very passionate.

This song came out of nowhere and blew us away. The animals were my band as a young teen, starting high school. Eric Burden can put on a good show.

Your comments are spot on, Eric Burton’s voice was way ahead of its time. For me, I was around in the Sixties and I still get goosebumps, when he sings this song... it should be the anthem for New Orleans!

@keirasings1

5 жыл бұрын

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

@kosys5338

5 жыл бұрын

@@keirasings1 LOL, I was going to say.

@mddc.

5 жыл бұрын

@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?

@mddc.

5 жыл бұрын

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

@rafrodr

5 жыл бұрын

md dc It’s “Burdon” ... jus’ sayin’.

it's over 1/2 a century old & it's still fantastic

@millwaterpublishing1387

5 жыл бұрын

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

@potdog1000

5 жыл бұрын

@@millwaterpublishing1387 true

I played this song during guitar lesson in 1978 as a child, not having heard this version from the 60s. I moved 12 years ago to Newcastle (UK), and found out today that the lead singer with the 'attitude' and the amazing voice and soul actually grew up a few miles from where I live now...what are the odds for that ?

Dude! I'm 53 and like you, I've heard it somewhere, but I finally watched it. I agree with everything you said about it! I'll subscribe!

Ironically this song is from 1905 and is a blues/folk classic. And nobody did it better than Eric Burdon.

@lukeswain1752

5 жыл бұрын

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!

@H0n3yMonstah

5 жыл бұрын

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

@mangstadt1

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@danl.4743

5 жыл бұрын

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

@EdvardRickard

5 жыл бұрын

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

Love the organ solo by Alan Price. Genius!

@robert-ef8qv

5 жыл бұрын

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

@elainepavek3156

4 жыл бұрын

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

@robert-ef8qv

4 жыл бұрын

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

@nufc2smb

4 жыл бұрын

Price screwed the band by taking the royalties for this song

@donnaregister6141

4 жыл бұрын

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

A teen in the 80's, I was obsessed with song and played it on my guitar heaps. Cool to see your reaction.

It’s one of the most haunting songs ever. I’ve loved it since the 60’s. Can never get enough no matter who’s singing!!

Chas Chandler (the bassist) "discovered" Jimi Hendrix and made him a star in England so that Hendrix could return to the USA as a star and not just a sideman.

@socalxplorer

5 жыл бұрын

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

@walterthomas4556

4 жыл бұрын

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

@kenharness

4 жыл бұрын

And Eric Burden discovered War.

@LlyleHunter

4 жыл бұрын

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

The original was done in one take with 15 minutes of studio time and recorded in mono. I remember seeing this as my first song video lead before an afternoon movie in a small theater in the sixties. We sat stunned for half of the movie. The organ was a marvel of its time and the vocal was hauntingly savage. It stole all the oxygen out of the theater.

@connieward2042

5 жыл бұрын

Bentriverrusher now that was a description! Well said

@fanorydberg2424

4 жыл бұрын

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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/opeJl8aQdarUZtY.html Here's what they were like in live performance in early 1964 -- wild! kzread.info/dash/bejne/pIGTtc2Pk5SYfsY.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! kzread.info/dash/bejne/rKGHmpaQpKycpps.html

I love your honestness. I was probably 14 and heard it on the radio in Omaha, Nebraska. My brothers and I have played this song since. It was our grandmother's favorite song. We love the blues and this is probably one of the best examples of 60s blues there is. Thank you for your review. Bless you too, my friend.

@Modern-Renaissance-Man

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment.

This song reminds me of the young men in Vietnam in the early 70's. I feel sadness and gloom hoping the older boys from my block would come home safe and mentally sound. But they came home with many mental scares. Brings a tear to my eyes. Very emotional.

This is an epic song. I remember when it came out. I was in grade 10 and it was the time of the British Invasion around 1964. It was a time when your song didn't get played if it was over a couple of minutes long. This song broke the mould. It was so good radio stations played it all the way through. Actually there were a few stations that cut out the instrumental break in the middle to shorten it up but most didn't and from then on records became longer. The Animals were from Newcastle.

@Mach1Greeble

5 жыл бұрын

The Louisiana of England.

@anonimuso

4 жыл бұрын

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).

@SurferGirlAllAroundTheWorld

4 жыл бұрын

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

@NOTADFIVE

4 жыл бұрын

My dad was 4 years old

@ichmeiner4531

4 жыл бұрын

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 ... 😁

Alan Price just wrung every last drop from that Hammond organ....classic.

@NLB90805

5 жыл бұрын

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...

@davidstevens2385

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@youresoakinginit2113

5 жыл бұрын

David Stevens .

@bobglaid3737

5 жыл бұрын

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

@nadiaddis1145

5 жыл бұрын

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

The first time I heard this song, in the movie "CASINO" It blew me completely away, been amazed ever since this is a timeless masterpiece. 💖

The World owes the English a great debt for all the amazing music...

@vintagebrew1057

4 жыл бұрын

The Brits were diggin' The Blues before it became cool. Ask the Blues musicians who came over in the early 60's. They were revered by the Brits and they in turn influenced many musicians like the Animals and Rolling Stones.

@ricsithompson6671

4 жыл бұрын

Love that

I love how the animals are so calm when playing but have so much heart and energy behind their music.

@JennifulCreations

4 жыл бұрын

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

@elainepavek3156

4 жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree!!!

@freedapeeple4049

4 жыл бұрын

You realize this is not a live performance, right?

@elainepavek3156

4 жыл бұрын

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

On of my fave songs by The Animals, although my very fave song by them is “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”. I was all of 11yrs old in 1964, when “House of The Rising Sun” came out. I was already a Beatles fan and loved The British music invasion that was beginning to happen. With few exceptions, the best music came from England back then.

@BelindaTN

5 жыл бұрын

Kim Huckaby So House of the Rising Sun came out in 1964? Well. Depending on which month, I would have been 3 or 4. Lol

@jeannejorgensen1230

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I was 14 when this song came out and I was transfixed. British rock was the best!!

@lorddaver5729

5 жыл бұрын

"the best music came from England back then." Britain, if you please, not only "England". You are forgetting that there is more to Britain than only England. Great Britain comprises Scotland, England and Wales. Not all British bands or singers were from England. Some were Scottish (The Average White Band, Lulu, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Marmalade, Gerry Rafferty, Gallagher and Lyle, etc.). Some were from Wales, such as Dave Edmunds, Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey...So please, Britain, not simply "England"....

@tantraman10

5 жыл бұрын

Second the Animals "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." And, for a real treat, listen to the Nina Simone's version....bluesy and passionate.....

@sandrasanders706

5 жыл бұрын

I love the songs of the animals and Eric Burdon

This song is timeless. I grew up listening to it with my dad and now my 6 year old listens to it. She especially likes to listen to it before going to bed.

I wasn’t alive when this song came out. I came along about 5 years later. But I remember, as a child, listening to it on my dad’s turntable. Even at a very young age, I thought it was amazing. So much so that I begged my dad to teach me to play guitar in '75 (age 6) and this was the song I wanted to learn. It’s very odd to me the way it spoke to me, being so young. But to this day, I actually get chills listening to it. 2 songs affected me this way back then: this one, and Since I’ve Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin. And even now, nearly 50 years later, both songs affect me the same each time I hear them. It’s like being right back in that living room in that little podunk town in SW Pennsylvania.

I love seeing people experience great music for the first time... thanks for sharing!

@benpriest1556

5 жыл бұрын

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

the tall ungainly bass player went on to become jimi Hendrix's manager and was instrumental in bringing him to the attention of the wider world... he was called chas chandler. : )

@jeffdelaney8934

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@colinwilkes8957

5 жыл бұрын

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

@winterlandboy

5 жыл бұрын

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 “!!

@jeffdelaney8934

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@Stu-SB

5 жыл бұрын

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

Check Eric Burdon out with War, Spill The Wine

My father bless him he drove these tunes into me as a kid and this tune it just cuts right through me and gets right to my core absolutely brilliant and love your reaction :D

Love your reaction, the fact that you didn’t interrupt during the video says you enjoyed this tune as much as I did 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

The animals come from my home town, they rock I was 4 years old when this cane out.. More than 50 years later the lead singer Eric Burden is still giving his all

@Blaydoner

4 жыл бұрын

You a geordie?

@stephencressey1

4 жыл бұрын

Mac Not ALL are Geordies. One was a mackem.

These songs are mothers milk to me as a child of the 60’s. You are such a sweetheart. Please keep up your standard of excellence with no cursing and such. Greetings from California.

DEFINITELY ahead of his time!! Lyrics, AMAZING voice, these guys looked so conservative in the era of hippies & free love! So damn cool 😎

@lindachrisman915

Жыл бұрын

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

The original "House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals was one of the greatest pop songs ever performed. People hear that song and everything stops. It has soul, it has pain, it has life. In 1964 it was a smash hit rocketing up the Charts to #1 ranking for 3 weeks and remaining on the charts for nearly 3 months. As far as music is concerned, it's a song in it's own class.

@danjames5552

3 ай бұрын

It's a cover , not a original.

@user-DrJoe-Future

3 ай бұрын

@@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.

@danjames5552

3 ай бұрын

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

Ty you said you want to know where we were when we first heard this song. Well, you asked for it. I was in the back seat with my boyfriend. He's now my husband. We've been married for 45 years this year. ✌

@Modern-Renaissance-Man

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome!!

@Gutslinger

5 жыл бұрын

😕

I like ur energy and positive vibes while you make these video, thank you for sharing your time with us.

The sixes and early seventies was the best music. I am so happy I was able to grow with this music. Dylan. Hendrix. Pearls before swiine. Donavan. And I could go on and on. I'm 72 and when this record came out everyone w?ho was young intermingled and just dug good music and the best pot we could get . Really fun times that I will always remember.

The organ player is Alan Price. Also, the bass player, Chaz Chandler was responsible for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and the lead singer, Eric Burdon, was a very close friend of Jimi Hendrix and was with him the night he died in London. One of the truly greatest songs in pop history. Thank you, my brother.

Wow your really pulling out the best tonight.Great song

Boy love this bring back some fun memories

I followed you intructions and checked out some of your other videos and enjoyed them so I subscribed. You do good work, good sir.

That song is 100% BLUES! Yes, Rhythm and Blues and done right! new born baby!

You have no idea how strange it is to watch you listen to songs you have never heard but that I grew up with...also very interesting.

@tihomirrasperic

5 жыл бұрын

He can easy say he never heard US national anthem... I don't buy that "I never hear before" All that song in reactions are iconic hits

@wetdewlap8741

5 жыл бұрын

I sorta agree, you may have not known the band but you would literally have to be living under the rock to have never heard that song.. no matter how much your musical tastes were.

@mercianmerauder9689

5 жыл бұрын

@@wetdewlap8741- You'd be surprised as to how sheltered some Black people are when it comes to music. I worked with a dude who grew up in the projects in Yonkers and he knew nothing outside of Rap/Hip Hop, etc. When we would be driving around in the work truck and I'd have the classic rock station playing, noticing his reactions to certain songs was like watching this video every time. I used to think to myself, "Where the fuck did you come from bro, the land without television or something?"

@ritarevell7195

5 жыл бұрын

It's fun to watch him! I get a kick out of this channel.

@ritarevell7195

5 жыл бұрын

@@mercianmerauder9689 I agree with you, to a degree. Lots of folks don't listen to music outside of the genre that was popular in their family or neighborhood. Lots of white folks flipped when they found out Charlie Pride, a black man, was singing their favorite country songs.

I love these reaction videos. Dude you are too funny keep em a coming.

The most underrated band ever

The Animals came out with this song in 1964 (I was 3 years old). I grew up listening to them and Eric Burden's deep, rich voice. However I never actually saw them perform until KZread came out and their videos performances were uploaded. By then I was old and beaten down by life (haha not really). I was shocked by how young he looked. "What?!? This is the guy who sang Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood and We Gotta Get Out of This Place??? (and House of the Rising Sun). They look like they're dressed up for the eighth grade dance! That said, I DID see them perform during pledge week on our local PBS station and he no longer looks like he's in the eighth grade...but neither do I. :)

@wearinganapron

5 жыл бұрын

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

@beverly5886

5 жыл бұрын

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

@troyadamson8618

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@brianjones8751

5 жыл бұрын

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

@LeannWebb61

5 жыл бұрын

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

I absolutely love the organ part. Gives me the chills every time I hear it. 💜💜💜💜💜

@sallyreno6296

5 жыл бұрын

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

Ty!! Thank you for getting this! Eric Burton and the Animals were soulful and amazing. I was 7 years old when I started listening to them. My dad was a DJ and we got albums of mixed songs cause that’s how they played music back then, early 60s!! So cool. Thank again. Peace✌🏻

Many bands have covered this song over the years. My two favorites are this one (The Animals) and Frijid Pink (from Detroit) released in 1970.

Eric Burdon, the lead singer of The Animals, talks in an interview about how influential Sister Rosetta Tharpe (who you listened to earlier) was to bands like his back then (The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, etc). She toured England at the beginning of The Beatles' popularity and her guitar playing and crunchy tone helped shape the development of Rock & Roll. She was huge; about the most popular gospel recording artist of the 30s & 40s, she got a lot of flack when she did secular R&B type stuff - one of the pillars of what would become Rock & Roll.

@chrisknight7921

5 жыл бұрын

don't take this wrong but that would be Burdon not Burton

@MickeyHaistSr

5 жыл бұрын

You’re right chris - I don’t know if my finger slipped or I wasn’t thinking, but I do know that (he’s a favorite).

@shimxxl

5 жыл бұрын

Eric Burdon was/is five foot nothing and weighed a hundred pounds soaking wet but he always reminded me of the old saying it's not the size of the dog in the fight it's the size of the fight in the dog.

@MickeyHaistSr

5 жыл бұрын

James ~ personally, I never understood the interest in Mick Jagger when we had Eric Burdon . . . Burdon was far more the ‘Mick Jagger’ of the British Blues scene than Jagger was.

@melissahogan868

5 жыл бұрын

@@MickeyHaistSr Probably because Mick Jagger is eccentric as Eric Burdon is laid back and didn't play for the spotlight. Maybe?

Released in late 1964, "The House Of The Rising Sun" reached #1 in the UK and the USA by January 1965.

@bernicemoore5182

4 жыл бұрын

Stayed at #1 in the US for 3wks.

The song is about a brothel in New Orleans The House Of The Rising Sun" was named after its occupant Madame Marianne LeSoleil Levant (which means "Rising Sun" in French) and was open for business from 1862 (occupation by Union troops) until 1874, when it was closed due to complaints by neighbors.

The last sound heard when this world comes to an end will be this song, Eric Burdens voice is just haunting.😎

"we (British Rockers) reached into America's rubbish pail and pulled out culture." Eric Burdon talking about where British Rock found its soul.

@bruzote

5 жыл бұрын

Britain had the advantage of distance from the (US) racism affecting music respect and what was acceptable. I have actually carried some cultural shame and anger that our country had to have some little island across the Atlantic show us and evolve for us the music that was the US heritage. Well, at least someone did it. We ended up with amazing music.

@lichotropical3350

5 жыл бұрын

@CplHicksjr = That is culture. No matter where it came from.

@edwardcourtright9271

5 жыл бұрын

@CplHicksjr, It's only slave song if you're referring to underpaid miners and the poor underclass of Europe. Research a little before you comment would be helpful.

@edwardcourtright9271

5 жыл бұрын

@CplHicksjrMy response to you was that the song had nothing to do with slaves or slavery. So I'm not sure why your now referring to the original post regarding rubbish music? Eric's opinion of Amercan music is his own. Without talking directly to the man, I can only assume which genre(s) of music he was referring to. My assumption is he's talking about the teeny pop music that was currently on the charts at the time.

@thisolddog2259

5 жыл бұрын

Licho Tropical really you refer to Anything american rubbish?! you weren't saying that back when we were kicking the shit out of you and forging a free country from your tyranny! i never meant to be insultive when i started my day but you insulted my country first! so go drink your tea and sit in the corner!

The Animals were "on fire" at "The House of The Rising Son" recording session especially Eric Burdon doing the vocal and Alan Price playing that bluesy organ so magnificently. Great work by the whole band including Chas Chandler on bass, John Steel on drums and Hilton Valentine on guitar , with his extremely memorable guitar intro.

@jerryconnors1703

4 жыл бұрын

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.

Back in the mid70s, some friends and I would go to the lake for an off season party. Usually 6 of us. One fellow would bring his sax . The party often ended with him playing “House of the Rising Sun” across the water. Haunting.

A timeless masterpiece, simple but so astatically pleasing, I never tire of hearing it.