Duran Duran - House of the Rising Sun

House of the Rising Sun, as performed by Duran Duran at VooDoo Fest 2006 in New Orleans, LA (full song).

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[shockinyou2]

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.

[qbaby70]

There is no 'original' ... it's a folk song ... versions vary ... words vary ... but it was actualy recorded for the first time, back in the 30s ...

[HarmonicalBluebeard]

There's an 1834 written version of this song from Nottingham in England. Notated pretty much as you hear it here.

[grumblebunz]

@greatestxgift The guitar riff was created by Hilton Valentine of the Animals which makes their version unique from the original folk background of the song. Hilton Valentine is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame because of it. Most of the covers of the song copy the Animals/Hilton Valentine version. Sadly, he makes no royalties from it because of how record companies and Alan Price screwed over the rest of the band members by getting the rights to their songs behind the rest of the band's backs.

[TheAnonymousSeeker]

@greatestxgift

Can you be illegally deaf?

[greatestxgift]

@chimpbottle The Animals made the tune more famous than anyone else but they had nothing to do with writing the chords, the lyrics, or the tune itself. You ignorantly stated that most of the tune was written by them when in fact, you're completely wrong. If you have no idea what you're talking about then try to refrain from perpetuating misinformation on public forums as it makes you look like a fool.

[chimpbottle]

@greatestxgift

Deep breath, big guy. We'll get through this. Together.

I still think The Animals shaped the song to the familiar tune we know today more than any other musician/group lol.

[greatestxgift]

@chimpbottle You have to be legally deaf or have complete shit for brains if you can't see how both are musically structured the same.

[chimpbottle]

@greatestxgift

Nah, I've listened to Bob Dylan's version. Didn't sound very much like what The Animals did at all.

[greatestxgift]

@chimpbottle You're not seriously this dense, are you? I'm talking about the song "House of The Rising Sun". One more time, read slowly and carefully, The Animals modeled their version off of Bob Dylan's version of this song (who copied Dave Van Rook's version) so The Animals had nothing to do with writing the chords or tune of their version. Do you think you can understand that?

[chimpbottle]

@greatestxgift

Talking about the song "House of the Rising Sun" lol

[greatestxgift]

@chimpbottle You have no idea what you're talking about so please stop perpetuating misinformation on here. The Animals modeled their version off of Bob Dylan's version of the song so no, The Animals had nothing to do with making the tune or chords.