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Like many folk songs, "The House of the Rising Sun" is of uncertain authorship. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads, and thematically it has some resemblance to the 16th-century ballad "The Unfortunate Rake" (also cited as source material for "St. James Infirmary Blues"), yet there is no evidence suggesting that there is any direct relation. [4]
Frijid Pink is an American rock band, formed in Detroit in 1967, best known for their 1969 rendition of "House of the Rising Sun". [3]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.
Idris Muhammad - drums; Will Lee, Wilbur Bascomb - bass; Eric Gale - guitar, bass; Joe Beck - guitar; Fred Wesley - trombone; Leon Pendarvis, Don Grolnick, Roland Hanna - piano; David Sanborn - alto saxophone
The House of the Rising Sun" is an American folk song. House of the Rising Sun may also refer to: House of the Rising Sun (Jody Miller album), a 1974 album by American singer Jody Miller; House of the Rising Sun (Idris Muhammad album), a 1976 album by American jazz drummer Idris Muhammad
The album includes several R&B standards, written by the likes of Chuck Berry and John Lee Hooker, as well as the number one single "House of the Rising Sun", here presented in its truncated-for-radio form (it would be restored to full length on the February 1966 compilation The Best of the Animals, and later CD and digital reissues of The ...
Piano Lessons is a 2009 award-winning non-fiction book by Australian classical pianist Anna Goldsworthy. In Piano Lessons , Goldsworthy documents her piano study from a young age under the Russian emigre Eleonora Sivan .
The Piano Lesson is a 1987 play by American playwright August Wilson. It is the fourth play in Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle . Wilson began writing this play by playing with the various answers regarding the possibility of "acquir[ing] a sense of self-worth by denying one's past". [ 1 ]
She is credited with an early recording of "Rising Sun Blues", produced by Alan Lomax in 1937, in Middlesboro, Kentucky. [2] Her adaptation of this American folk classic, better known as " House Of The Rising Sun ," has become the standard, the ancestor of covers by hundreds of later performers, including Dave Van Ronk , Bob Dylan , The Animals ...