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House of the rising sun
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House of the rising sun
is a US folk song. I tells about a failed life at New Orleans.
The most famous version arised from The Animals and achieved
number 1 in the US and UK.
The song's origin is not absolutely sure. Alan Lomax, the author of the 1941 published book "Our Singing Country" wrote that the melody came from a traditional british ballad. The Lyrics arose from Georgia Turner and Bert Martin from Kentucky which is generally the most consistent data.
The oldest known recording is the one of Clarence Ashley and Gwen Foster which got published in 1934. And Ashley seemed to recall that he had learned the song from his grandfather yet.
However: "House of the Rising Sun" is an American euphemism for a house of pleasure. But nobody knows exactly if this is the correct meaning in the song. There are various houses in New Orleans that were brought up as the "House of the Rising Sun" and of which not a single one does exist anymore. But it also sometimes is understood as a metaphor for slavery.
The old New Orleans women's prison was said to have an ornament in form of a rising sun. That's why there are speculations if this would be the "House of the Rising Sun". But it could also be some other or even a fictious place.
The narrator's gender is not defined. While the song earlier was interpreted from a women's viewpoint (following a drunk or gambler to New Orleans and becoming a prostitute or prisoner in the "House of the Rising Sun"), the Animals interprete it from a man's viewpoint warning against alcoholic and gambling addiction.
The Animals made their arrangement of House of the rising sun known on a joint concert tour with Chuck Berry, as they used the song as ending title in order to distance themselves from other bands who used to end with hard Rock. The audience's reaction was that overwhelming that they realized the hit potential and therefore recorded the song on a tour pause in a small London studio.
The Animals wanted to have a song that attracted the audience's attention and they perfectly succeeded. House of the rising sun was an easy trans-atlantic hit bouncing the charts both in the UK and US (where it became the first British non-Beatles song in 1964). The song was the band's breakthrough in both countries and became their song.
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