ok a question....who was the original artist who sang the house of the rising sun???

[isabeau]

i thought it was The Animals...but some people are saying it was Bob Dylan..who sang it originally????

 

[tickledgirl]

Both Dylan and the Animals both sang it, not sure who was first. I seem to remember hearing the Animals got it from Nina Simone?

In any case, it's an old folk song. So you could probably figure out who recorded it first, but it's been sung for a long time.

 

[Bugman]

i thought it was The Animals...but some people are saying it was Bob Dylan..who sang it originally????

You are right Melanie,it was The Animals and the great Eric Burden.Dylan's version came out several years after that.

 

[isabeau]

You are right Melanie,it was The Animals and the great Eric Burden.Dylan's version came out several years after that.

hmm i think it was bob dylan first...i'm watching a documentary on bob dylan now on pbs....but i loved eric burden..and would like to think he did it first..

 

[Bugman]

Both Dylan and the Animals both sang it, not sure who was first. I seem to remember hearing the Animals got it from Nina Simone?

In any case, it's an old folk song. So you could probably figure out who recorded it first, but it's been sung for a long time.

That's true also tickledgirl,but The Animals are the group who had the first big hit with it.

 

[unclebill]

The Animals made the most famous version of the song. But it was also sung by Bob Dylan, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Dolly Parton. (yes, I said Dolly Parton).

 

[isabeau]

The Animals made the most famous version of the song. But it was also sung by Bob Dylan, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Dolly Parton. (yes, I said Dolly Parton).

ack not dolly big boobs parton heheheehehe...

 

[Bugman]

hmm i think it was bob dylan first...i'm watching a documentary on bob dylan now on pbs....but i loved eric burden..and would like to think he did it first..

The Animals released their version in 1964,before Dylan was well known.

 

[isabeau]

The Animals released their version in 1964,before Dylan was well known.

are you sure?? i sure hope you are.....

 

[unclebill]

ack not dolly big boobs parton heheheehehe...

That reminds me, I need to put cantalopes on my grocery list.

 

[NYvice]

i thought it was The Animals...but some people are saying it was Bob Dylan..who sang it originally????

I had the very same question a while back and this is what I have stuck with since researching it:

Back in the early 1920s, the name "Rising Sun" was attributed to brothels. The traditional version of "The House of the Rising Sun" speaks, not of a boy's experience, but of a girl's. Fact was, the Animals did not write "The House of the Rising Sun" If you look at the really small print on their 1966 album, The Best of the Animals, you'll find it was only arranged by Burdon / Chandler / Price / Steele / Valentine. According to folklorist Alan Lomax in his book Our Singing Country (1941), the melody of "The House of the Rising Run" is a traditional English tune and the lyrics were written by Georgia Turner and Bert Martin (both from Kentucky). The real House of the Rising Sun was at 826-830 St. Louis Street, between 1862 and 1874 and was named for its madam, Marianne LeSoleil Levant, whose surname translates to The Rising Sun".

The original lyrics are as follows:

There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun.
It's been the ruin of many a poor girl, and me, O God, for one.

If I had listened what Mamma said, I'd 'a' been at home today.
Being so young and foolish, poor boy, let a rambler lead me astray.

Go tell my baby sister never do like I have done.
To shun that house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun.

My mother she's a tailor; she sold those new blue jeans.
My sweetheart, he's a drunkard, Lord, Lord, drinks down in New Orleans.

The only thing a drunkard needs is a suitcase and a trunk.
The only time he's satisfied is when he's on a drunk.

Fills his glasses to the brim, passes them around.
Only pleasure he gets out of life is hoboin' from town to town.

One foot is on the platform and the other one on the train.
I'm going back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain.

Going back to New Orleans, my race is almost run.
Going back to spend the rest of my days beneath that Rising Sun.



Isabeau--Hope it helps. 😉

 

[isabeau]

I had the very same question a while back and this is what I have stuck with since researching it:

Back in the early 1920s, the name "Rising Sun" was attributed to brothels. The traditional version of "The House of the Rising Sun" speaks, not of a boy's experience, but of a girl's. Fact was, the Animals did not write "The House of the Rising Sun" If you look at the really small print on their 1966 album, The Best of the Animals, you'll find it was only arranged by Burdon / Chandler / Price / Steele / Valentine. According to folklorist Alan Lomax in his book Our Singing Country (1941), the melody of "The House of the Rising Run" is a traditional English tune and the lyrics were written by Georgia Turner and Bert Martin (both from Kentucky). The real House of the Rising Sun was at 826-830 St. Louis Street, between 1862 and 1874 and was named for its madam, Marianne LeSoleil Levant, whose surname translates to The Rising Sun".

The original lyrics are as follows:

There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun.
It's been the ruin of many a poor girl, and me, O God, for one.

If I had listened what Mamma said, I'd 'a' been at home today.
Being so young and foolish, poor boy, let a rambler lead me astray.

Go tell my baby sister never do like I have done.
To shun that house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun.

My mother she's a tailor; she sold those new blue jeans.
My sweetheart, he's a drunkard, Lord, Lord, drinks down in New Orleans.

The only thing a drunkard needs is a suitcase and a trunk.
The only time he's satisfied is when he's on a drunk.

Fills his glasses to the brim, passes them around.
Only pleasure he gets out of life is hoboin' from town to town.

One foot is on the platform and the other one on the train.
I'm going back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain.

Going back to New Orleans, my race is almost run.
Going back to spend the rest of my days beneath that Rising Sun.



Isabeau--Hope it helps. 😉

thank you for that answer hon.it helps much...

 

[NYvice]

thank you for that answer hon.it helps much...

Welcome 😉

 

[NYvice]

Wow... thanks for the history lesson behind that song. That's awesome! I never knew that there was more to it than it just being an Animals song.

Ya learn somethin' new everyday! 😀

Haha I try to be thorough when I give input lol. 🙄 Glad you found it interesting--I certainly did when looking into the matter!

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

Actually if you go back, say mid-40s, you'll find that folk/blues singer Huddie Leadbetter or "Leadbelly" has a version of "House of the Rising Sun" that pre-dates Bob Dylan's version.



Drew

 

[Mastertank1]

I believe

That before the Animals did it as a riock song, it was recorded as folk blues by all of the following, and I have no idea in what order;

John Hammond
Bobby "Blue" Bland
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
John Hartford
Tom Rush
Phil Ochs
Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly)
Allan Block
Rory Block (using the original words, in which the 'speaker' of the lyrics is female).

 

[isabeau]

Actually if you go back, say mid-40s, you'll find that folk/blues singer Huddie Leadbetter or "Leadbelly" has a version of "House of the Rising Sun" that pre-dates Bob Dylan's version.



Drew

ahh right..i would have known that last night if i hadn't been so tired..thanks.