The True Story behind The House of the Rising Sun

🎵The True Story behind The House of the Rising Sun🎵

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[deannag]

The Animals were the most phenomenal, haunting & intriguing group to record this incredible 🎵 song!! Thank you for the history lesson it makes the song even more phenomenal!!🎵✨️

[deanm]

At 72 years old I was fully immersed in the garage band craze of the 60s. One of the first if not the first songs we played was House of the Rising Sun. Being just a kid, like most others I thought it was from some group across the pond. As a drummer I have aged out but in my own music room I still play the song every once in a while. Closing my eyes, opening my memories. But now through your amazing investigative work I have a whole new appreciation for an American rock and roll classic. Thank you for your time and efforts.

[philipcaplan]

When I was 16 years old (c1963) I edited and wrote the magazine of my youth club in London, England, and would get interviews with famous pop stars (Manfred Mann, Cliff Richard, the Walker Brothers, etc). I contacted the Don Arden organisation, and got an interview with Chuck Berry, who was touring the UK. The support acts of the show, after which I would meet and interview Chuck Berry, included The Animals, and I still remember the effect on me of standing at the back of the Fairfield Hall Croydon (I didn't have a ticket, but they allowed me to stand at the back of the auditorium) hearing them perform it live, Wow! Some months later, I also got an interview with The Animals.

[stewartwhitehead]

I was at school in New Zealand 1969 and we had a music teacher who hated all modern music and banned it from the classroom. One day one of my classmates brought in the Animals’ version of ’House of the Rising Sun’, saying quite rightly that it wasn’t a modern song (even if it was a modern interpretation), but rather a traditional folk song that was possibly centuries old. The music teacher wasn’t buying any of it and refused to have it played. Listening to your brilliant description of the song’s history, I can’t help thinking that that teacher’s prejudice led to a missed opportunity to learn so much about one of our greatest songs and what carried it forward through so many musical genres and traditions.

[FredrickRogers-hy]

Always loved the song. I've heard many renditions but The Animals version is the all-time best.

[evelynrayejohnson]

No one ever did The House of the rising Sun better than the animals!! They made that song what it was❤❤❤❤

[dennisowens]

I was a senior in high school when "The house of the Rising Sun" (preformed by the Animals) screamed from the single speaker of my G.E. 7 transistor portable battery radio. Even now, whenever I hear this great song, I turn up the volume. Thank you for presenting your research with proper diction, and clear enunciation.

[boosuedon]

I'm 75 years old. When this song was released it was widely thought to be about a County Jail in New Orleans with a rising sun on the facade over the entrance. "House of the Rising Sun". 3rd verse talks of a convict telling all mothers, tell your children not to do what I have done (crime) spend your life in sincere misery, in the house of the rising sun.(back breaking work on the chain gang!) 4th verse talks of the recaptured prisoner that had escaped a from a chain gang, : I got one foot on the platform, (train station) the other foot on the train, I'm going back to New Orleans, to wear that ball and chain.
I don't see any reference to a brothel or activities as such. BUT, "author unknown" so it can be about whatever you want it to be about! Ambiguity can make a song eternally famous because it draws the listener into the story and gives them permission to crate a story line.

[relearn]

Love Dolly but Animals "House of the Rising Sun, " for me first hearing in the 60's is number 1.

[AmiePhillips-dt]

I am a music worshipper well over a 1/2 century now and family goes back 2 centuries into Louisiana.
I have not watched this video yet but am excited to now.
Before I do allow me to state that as a young child the haunting quality of this song made it a favorite. I often feel the atmosphere of Louisiana upon hearing it
I was told that it was about a brothel quite early. New Orleans was known for some very "unusual" offerings (etc...) & carried a witchy type vibe and reputation related to the trade. One wherein a patron could become a soul doomed to the addiction of special proclivities.
It was a song that warned against being snared into addiction to sin while also lulling one into that feeling to be avoided.
Beautiful, haunting, regretful, dangerous...

[theblackprince]

Loved your history of this song. The Animals OWN this song. period.

[willhansen]

I grew up in the 50s & 60s & became interested in folk music & Allen Lomax, Pete Seeger & Ed Mccurdy were names of importance. I collected these small songbooks & had many LPs that ended up in yard sales. Your presentation of the Lomax music history is a great tribute.

[jackreisewitz]

I sit back, close my eyes, and I can hear every single note, every word, of the Animals performing "The House of The Rising Sun". Timeless.

[CynthiaMcG]

I was blessed enough to have seen Odetta perform "House of the Rising Sun" during one of her last performances. I cried so much...she was that powerful.

[jamesgrosrenaudjr]

When traveling through Indiana with my dad . I had seen a building called the rising sun and could hear this song play in my head

[skyshark]

hi. im georgia turners grand nephew. there is a book chasing the rising sun. this is all amazing.

[JaguarKwikE]

My grandfather Charles CHARLIE Albert Whitt was born 1874 in Kentucky to a Taswell, VA family that came to Round Rock, TX 1878. He played Bluegrass and Country guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin and stood on his head to play his harmonica. Moved to Cherokee, Texas 1888. He was decades before Bill Monroe. He died Cherokee 1950 age 75. He was gifted.

[CarlosHerrera-zkgo]

The best version of House of the rising sun I have ever heard, was by a street performers at a pedestrian bridge over the strip, in front of the Caesar's Palace hotel in Las Vegas. I gave the man 50 bucks. Well deserved!

[soularddave]

I like every version of the song. Creativity counts! I even have it on a piano roll.

[Ebobster]

Fascinating historical run down. Never heard of the Lomax family’s contribution to preserving American songs.. be they folk songs, El Paso border songs, or western or mid-west ballads, or African American songs. So glad this family preserved so much and varied content! Thank yo for posting this video.