So I begged and begged for a guitar, and Christmas 1965 I was 15 and there it was under the tree. By the end of the day I had mastered "House of the Rising Sun", my first song, my fingers were bleeding, and my parents were threatening to throw me out in the snow if I played it one more frackin' time. I do believe they thought I wanted to sing "If Had A Hammer." How I loved Burdon, that little short stick of dynamite. He can still do it for me today.
We all like to to take a swing at Americans on youtube message boards. But I think in this instance we should quietly thank them because this song came from US along with most of the other music which inspired the British Blues/Rock legends.
@rxmcgree to be honest blues itself came from the african slaves during the slave trade, they wrote songs in a sad way because they're lives where sad and yes many of these songs have come from american but blues itself is something we have africa to thank for.
@lawrence096 jesus dude learn your music...Blues and jazz are 100 percent American. They were spawned by the African American culture, not the African culture.
@Cimiar you fool you take credit for enslaving black people and when they create good music saying your country invented that too? they where only called african american because they where african slaves born in america... i can guarantee that you are an american.
@lawrence096 LOL dude, So name calling is your style. I am blacker then your heart and trace my ancestors back to the McGowan plantation in Northern Alabama. Sorry son, I also majored in Music at ole Miss and now Instruction Music History at UT. Blues and jazz are unique to America. Please instead of ranting, go take a Music history class class. However, if you really want History The original song that HORS is based on was an Irish/English pub song from the 1600s
@Cimiar omg you just don't get it do you? blacks invented blues, jazz and most other genres, just because they where in america whilst they where doing it doesn't make the music american, and for all you know i could be living in Africa right now with only african ancestory, but thats besides the point.
The electric guitar is European the guitar is European and so on most of the instruments if not all. The music is just a form of folk music there is a house 1 2 3 in New Orleans 1 2 3 in the house of the rising Sun 1 2 3. It's just all the same.
@lawrence096 Ok before the screaming starts--The connection to Africa is the "Akonting" an instrument that developed into the banjo. This is the concrete link between African music and the African American blues. However the style of jola and kora are distinct from the blue. Blues as it came to be know is usually dated to have begun between 1870 and 1900. Conversely spiritual music is considered to have roots in Africa and is a distinct music from blues, albeit it influenced Blues.
Oh but it was the great British musicians who gave us back our own music. I grew up in the segregated USA where the great blues was something we didn't learn about until the Invasion. God Bless and keep the Stones, Animals, Yardbirds,Graham Bond, John Mayall et. al for crediting their sources so generously...And the arrangement of Rising Sun, ,though a Leadbelly attribute, has the fingerprints of Alan Price all over it...It is now THE Version of the tune.
@rxmcgree Actually the song started in Irish pubs in the 1600's . It change over the centuries with the same basic format a young man or woman who winds up a gambler/or no gooder or a prostitute. The new Orleans version was post civil war , raising Sun was a french prostitute's name translated to English. The song is about a prostitute, Early 60s censor would not let the Animal sing it they way they did in the pubs and changed it a male.
Major crush on young Eric Burdon. I would do bad things. way before my time, could I just get a time machine...
MMRhoads42 3 months ago
This is the song that convinced Dylan that he could go electric.
rumblefishbone66 6 months ago 2
So I begged and begged for a guitar, and Christmas 1965 I was 15 and there it was under the tree. By the end of the day I had mastered "House of the Rising Sun", my first song, my fingers were bleeding, and my parents were threatening to throw me out in the snow if I played it one more frackin' time. I do believe they thought I wanted to sing "If Had A Hammer." How I loved Burdon, that little short stick of dynamite. He can still do it for me today.
manthasagittarius 7 months ago 3
Esta es la rola del Sergio de los Juaritos 45
AngelSaVa1 9 months ago
Dancei muito...
ostrilho11 1 year ago
Eric is one hard mother fucker !
WildmanBorneo 1 year ago 15
una de las mejores canciones rock que se han escrito nunca.Saludos The animals Forever
regomellosa 1 year ago 6
@regomellosa alguna gente no lo reconoce....que buena voz..
juan13579run 1 year ago
now hes even more sexy here;;;;; too bad i was only 2 then;;;hummm purrr
purselady2 1 year ago 2
like it, but unfourtenatly on this version you cant hear the keyboard solo very well:(
lawrence096 1 year ago
What a great song..:-)
Dannydudelido 1 year ago
1964... grade 4... thats like 10 years old...and I am SOOO into Eric!
Beatles were ok...Dave Clark 5 were hotter... but Eric was BEST!!! Still is.
Big Thanks for posting.
Hello from Canada!
AlyTennyson 2 years ago
Very nice abridged version, for short American attention spans.
dsmalls9 2 years ago
We all like to to take a swing at Americans on youtube message boards. But I think in this instance we should quietly thank them because this song came from US along with most of the other music which inspired the British Blues/Rock legends.
rxmcgree 1 year ago
@rxmcgree to be honest blues itself came from the african slaves during the slave trade, they wrote songs in a sad way because they're lives where sad and yes many of these songs have come from american but blues itself is something we have africa to thank for.
lawrence096 1 year ago
@lawrence096 jesus dude learn your music...Blues and jazz are 100 percent American. They were spawned by the African American culture, not the African culture.
Cimiar 1 year ago
@Cimiar you fool you take credit for enslaving black people and when they create good music saying your country invented that too? they where only called african american because they where african slaves born in america... i can guarantee that you are an american.
lawrence096 1 year ago
@lawrence096 LOL dude, So name calling is your style. I am blacker then your heart and trace my ancestors back to the McGowan plantation in Northern Alabama. Sorry son, I also majored in Music at ole Miss and now Instruction Music History at UT. Blues and jazz are unique to America. Please instead of ranting, go take a Music history class class. However, if you really want History The original song that HORS is based on was an Irish/English pub song from the 1600s
Cimiar 1 year ago 3
@Cimiar omg you just don't get it do you? blacks invented blues, jazz and most other genres, just because they where in america whilst they where doing it doesn't make the music american, and for all you know i could be living in Africa right now with only african ancestory, but thats besides the point.
lawrence096 1 year ago
@lawrence096 The music is american because of the experiences that the blacks went through that made them produce such good music.
deathdealer60546 1 year ago
@deathdealer60546
The electric guitar is European the guitar is European and so on most of the instruments if not all. The music is just a form of folk music there is a house 1 2 3 in New Orleans 1 2 3 in the house of the rising Sun 1 2 3. It's just all the same.
Crime1234management 11 months ago
@lawrence096 Ok before the screaming starts--The connection to Africa is the "Akonting" an instrument that developed into the banjo. This is the concrete link between African music and the African American blues. However the style of jola and kora are distinct from the blue. Blues as it came to be know is usually dated to have begun between 1870 and 1900. Conversely spiritual music is considered to have roots in Africa and is a distinct music from blues, albeit it influenced Blues.
Cimiar 1 year ago
@rxmcgree
Oh but it was the great British musicians who gave us back our own music. I grew up in the segregated USA where the great blues was something we didn't learn about until the Invasion. God Bless and keep the Stones, Animals, Yardbirds,Graham Bond, John Mayall et. al for crediting their sources so generously...And the arrangement of Rising Sun, ,though a Leadbelly attribute, has the fingerprints of Alan Price all over it...It is now THE Version of the tune.
12347771 1 year ago
@12347771 i agree with you
SuperLadypamela 1 year ago
@rxmcgree Actually the song started in Irish pubs in the 1600's . It change over the centuries with the same basic format a young man or woman who winds up a gambler/or no gooder or a prostitute. The new Orleans version was post civil war , raising Sun was a french prostitute's name translated to English. The song is about a prostitute, Early 60s censor would not let the Animal sing it they way they did in the pubs and changed it a male.
Cimiar 1 year ago
un "escudero del rock"
Rockerto 4 years ago