true HD Haley Reinhart "The House of the Rising Sun" Top 5 American Idol 2011 (May 4)

Haley Reinhart performance "The House of the Rising Sun" (The Animals). Current + 60s songs week (2 songs each contestant). All the judges gave a standing ovation, and called the performance "the best of the night". http://www.americanidol.com/

"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. The most successful commercial version was recorded by the English rock group The Animals in 1964, which was a number one hit in the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland and Canada.

Like many classic folk ballads, the authorship of "The House of the Rising Sun" is unknown. Some musicologists believe 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".

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 Appalachian artists Clarence Ashley and Gwen Foster and was made in 1933. Ashley said he had learned it from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley. Alger "Texas" Alexander's "The Risin' Sun," recorded in 1928, is sometimes mentioned as the first recording, but is a completely different song.

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[Jsadella]

this is pretty much the best idol performance ever.

[LookingAtYouFool]

@SeetherRocks100

Don't sell yourself short. You like James Durbin. You can take anything.

[pennygroethemusic]

I hope to meet her one day and sing for her. She has the most amazing voice and performer!

[Texas48481234]

Not only is she STUNNINGLY beautiful, but she has the most amazing voice I have ever heard. How she didn't win I will never understand. Haley's voice cuts straight to your soul and its amazing!!!!!

[lilWassa]

SHE SHOULD'VE WON! NOT SCOTTY!

[hgrebnesor]

@megbarnes44 Really? Doubt it he will be around all that long to prove your factoid!

[genej313]

No one else ever interpreted this song this way and I didn't like the original version, but this was pure magic, best performance of 2011. Sheryl was right, Steven was right, J-Lo was right and Randy was right. Amazingly done, couldn't have been better.

[bluewhale18]

It's driving me mad that people are coming here saying this pip guy is better

This is Haley's very unique arrangement

It's so very different than it had ever been done before then

It was her idea to start slow and build up the song, put a bluesy feel to it and so on...

Then this pip guy comes along and sings it EXACTLY the same way

So how can he be better??

Like seriously WTF

[megbarnes44]

Pip is better

[skywize]

This is one of the few Idol performances I've ever heard that actually left me speechless. All I could come up with is 'holy shit!'. Her rendition of Benny and the Jets was fantastic, and (I feel) much better than Sir Elton's, but this song blew me away.

[Kjini]

@enterthekraken I've never heard a version like hers before. And it's irrelevant if someone has done it before, Haley did an excellent job.

[hgrebnesor]

@enterthekraken I guess after you listen to the muppets there ain't anything that could sound good.