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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]
The Animals sang "I'm Crying" and "The House of the Rising Sun". In December, the MGM film Get Yourself a College Girl was released, featuring the Animals and the Dave Clark Five . The Animals sang the Chuck Berry song " Around and Around " in the film.
The discography of the Animals, an English music group of the 1960s formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, contains 20 studio albums, six compilation albums, five EPs and 25 singles. Featuring a gritty, bluesy sound and a deep-voiced frontman in Eric Burdon , they are best known for their rendition of an American folk song " The House of the Rising Sun ...
Burdon has often attributed the disintegration of the band to conflict with Price, specifically that Price had claimed sole rights and ownership to "House of the Rising Sun". [20] Burdon and drummer Barry Jenkins reformed the group as Eric Burdon and the Animals.
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 ...
It featured one of singer Eric Burdon's typically raw, fierce vocals. [11] [12] Rolling Stone described the overall effect as a "harsh white-blues treatment from The Animals. As [Burdon] put it, 'Whatever suited our attitude, we just bent to our own shape. ' " [13]
Bob Stone: Eric Burdon chronology; Eric Burdon Live (1996) Live at the Roxy (1998) ... "House of the Rising Sun" (9:45)
1969 The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and The Animals, No. 153 in US; 1971 The Most of Animals, No. 18 in UK; 1973 The Best of The Animals (double album), No. 188 in US; 1973 Starportrait, No. 36 in GER; 1976 Mad Man; 1980 Eric Burdon and the Animals; 1982 Eric Burdon's Greatest Animal Hits; 1984 The Road; 1987 Star portrait; 1988 Wicked Man