Frijid Pink - The House of the Rising Sun (1971)

Frijid Pink - The House of the Rising Sun, The Lively Spot Show, 1971.

Frijid Pink was formed in 1967 in Detroit. The initial line-up of the band included drummer Richard Stevers, guitarist Gary Ray Thompson, bassist Tom Harris, lead singer Tom Beaudry (aka Kelly Green), and later added Larry Zelanka as off-staff keyboardist.

"Frijid Pink, so casually renamed from Frosted Pink by Richard's mother (Rick painted her room in pink, and one day she was in kitchen, stared at their Frigidare refrigerator and blurted out "Frigid Pink!", also then she suggested charging the "g" for a "j"), was formed from members of the Detroit Vibrations, Stevers and Harris were joined by Thompson, who convinced Vibrations' manager Clyde Stevers (Richard's father) he was a better candidate for a guitarist, and Beaudry (later took a stage name "Kelly Green")."

-The House of the Rising Sun lyrics:

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

My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new bluejeans
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

------ organ solo ------

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

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From Wikipedia: "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. Depending on the version, the song may be sung from the perspective of a woman or a man. The most successful version was recorded by the English rock group The Animals in 1964, which was a number one hit in the United Kingdom, United States, Sweden and Canada.
Like many classic folk ballads, the authorship of "The House of the Rising Sun" is uncertain. Some musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads such as the Unfortunate Rake of the 18th century which were taken to America by early settlers. Many of these had the theme of "if only" and after a period of evolution, they emerge as American songs like "Streets of Laredo". The tradition of the blues combined with these in which the telling of a sad story has a therapeutic effect.
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.
The oldest known existing recording is by versatile Appalachian artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster and was made in 1933.[citation needed] Ashley said he had learned it from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley. Alger "Texas" Alexander's The Risin' Sun, which was recorded in 1928, is sometimes mentioned as the first recording, but this is a completely different song.
The song might have been lost to obscurity had it not been collected by folklorist Alan Lomax. Lomax and his father were curators of the Archive of American Folk Song for the Library of Congress from 1932. They searched the country for songs. On an expedition with his wife to eastern Kentucky Lomax set up his recording equipment in Middlesborough, Kentucky in the house of a singer and activist called Tilman Cadle. On 15 Sept 1937 he recorded a performance by Georgia Turner, the 16 year-old daughter of a local miner. He called it The Risin' Sun Blues. Lomax later recorded a different version sung by Bert Martin and a third sung by Daw Henson, both eastern Kentucky singers. Lomax, in his seminal 1941 songbook Our Singing Country, credited the lyrics to Turner, with reference to Martin's version. According to his later writing, the melody bears similarities to a traditional English ballad, Matty Groves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Rising_Sun

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[billhumphries]

les paul and a big muff great sound

[monikknows]

This is one of the best covers so far.

[LastTree]

Wow the way Rock and Roll should be....super vocals and guitars and percussion!

[KafkaUniverse]

Yeah they're from Michigan. I played in a bar band with Tom, aka Satch, years later. Nicest guy you'd ever meet.

[6828Lu]

I have this 45 ... !

[americandiscocrash]

@john111257 my mistake. i think they were an icelandic band. note the spelling of frijid. regardless, this clip cuts out the stranger part of the video, where the president of the record company presents a gold album to this fine icelandic band playing on a local detroit tv show. this is off a bootleg tape that has been floating around the great lakes for years. what really blows me away is how good their english is.

[john111257]

@americandiscocrash no its a u.s band...good cover..big hit in uk

[john111257]

damn good

[americandiscocrash]

is this pink floyd????

[TheYoniVoy]

this is  the buena rolota

[soldier1980able]

@Numba1FanOfMusic15 Yes it is true.You can find on youtube the song is done by Texas Alexander 1928