DID NOT EXPECT THIS!! | House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals (Reaction)

[@TheCornishCockney]

Bob Dylan heard this for the first time on the radio while driving on a coast road,pulled over and listened to it. He said it was one of the greatest things he’d heard at the time.

[@marcoestiercol6112]

That's music right there.

[@dustinboucher8102]

Quite simply one of the greatest songs of all time. And one that defined a decade.

[@jeannejorgensen1230]

One of the best songs ever!

[@finallythere100]

Good song choice!

[@danipoon6777]

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[@danipoon6777]

@@jeannejorgensen1230😅😮！但＇

[@lmr1300]

I was going to say the same. One of the most famous!

[@jadoremakeup1422]

Thank you for not pausing every 5 seconds to talk and make comments, and allowing yourself to just enjoy the music.

[@lynnhafferkamp6054]

This ^

[@paddlingpuppies]

EXACTLY what I was going to say!!

[@mcmogg_incmogg2080]

You complaining about a reaction channel pausing? Just watch the reg song then.that’s f ing stupid

[@jadoremakeup1422]

@@mcmogg_incmogg2080 What is stupid is someone who comments on a comment, and doesn't understand the original post. You're such a half-wit, so I'll explain it to you. How is HE supposed to enjoy the nuance of a song if HE keeps stopping the video. HE would miss those things, NOT ME. God, I Hate stupid people.

[@lynnhafferkamp6054]

@@mcmogg_incmogg2080 no it’s not fucking stupid and there’s nothing wrong with pausing, but there are some of these guys who just pause every other second and make a stupid comment because they have no clue what they’re listening to. If they stopped to listen they might learn something.

[@pickle581]

59 years ago!!!! No auto-tune! Just talent.

[@stephanieo2509]

Very deservedly in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They didn't sound like anyone else and Eric Burdon's voice is gold.

[@alabhaois]

And Alan Price’s keyboard playing is fantastic!!! This group has many songs worth reacting to. 👍👍

[@gracegarza3299]

I love to watch young people hear this song for the first time🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@herrzimm]

Countless artists have done this song, but The Animals version is the "gold standard" that they ALL get measured by.

[@outalive55]

I respect that you didn't interrupt the song. thank you sir. I'm 70 and it's one of my favorites

[@AliasMark69]

WHAOOOO..... Eric Burdon and The Animals. This song is so classic. LEGENDARY. Every garage band in the sixties had to learn this song. So many great tunes from this band..... "Gotta Get Out Of This Place", "It's My Life", "Don't Bring Me Down", "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." .... just for starters.

[@danielwalker1538]

A girl named Sandoz. Sandoz being the pharmaceutical company that made LSD

[@MsAppassionata]

@@danielwalker1538 Huh?

[@danielwalker1538]

@@MsAppassionata A girl named Sandoz by the Animals. 1968

[@MsAppassionata]

@@danielwalker1538 Oh ok. Never heard that one. Thanks.

[@coinneachmaclellan3121]

Not only every band but every guy on the beach with a guitar!

[@nostoneunturned7641]

The vocals, while iconic, are not what sets this version apart..... it's that damn organ. Young man was taking us to CHURCH!

[@karenramstedt4614]

Organs music was big in the 60s and most of the 70s. Now people don't want them and it's easy to get one for free.

[@Widkey]

The guy on the keyboard is a magician.

[@cindyrussell2028]

I LOVE Eric Burdon!

[@lorilxn1597]

Surprisingly strong voice, it always amazed me because you just don't expect it

[@rondpert5167]

The tall guy on bass guitar is Chas Chandler who went on to be the manger for Jimi Hendrix.

[@Optimus-Prime-Rib]

Far Out!

[@cheeseypeas]

Eric Burden was only a kid in this video. He's a beautiful old soul

[@sharonfrancis6716]

In the 60s, 70's and 80's. No auto tune..no fake instruments..people had talent freedom and great fun times..

[@36karpatoruski]

The #1 song in the US and UK simultaneously in 1964. Haunting, subtly creepy and sinister. A blues/folk/rock immortal classic. The House draws one into a self destructive life that is at the same time irresistible, to voluntarily “wear that ball and chain”.

[@AliasMark69]

The Animals were one of the few bands that could even try to compete with The Beatles back then for radio play time..

[@swfcocs1]

The lyrics are fantastically open to interpretation, as a former heroin addict I know junkies always see the lyrics as about heroin but obviously it can be about any vice or even mental illnesses

[@36karpatoruski]

@@swfcocs1 Indeed. The House is a metaphor, and beckons everyone. Deceptively and powerfully seductive. We all have our own unique accesses to it. Very glad you have kicked the habit.

[@MsAppassionata]

@@swfcocs1 The “House” in question was originally supposed to be a whorehouse and the song was usually sung by a woman.

[@swfcocs1]

@@MsAppassionata junkies focus on the ball and chain lyric, it's such a junkie term , it's always ball and chain or the monkey on your back

[@36karpatoruski]

Keyboard is a Vox Continental organ. The classic first portable solid state organ, and the unmistakable sound of the 60’s. Famously used by the Animals, Doors, Iron Butterfly, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Dave Clark 5, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Beach Boys, early Beatles and Rolling Stones, Question Mark snd the Mysterians, and others. Later adopted in the 70’s by Elvis Costello. Reverse colors on the black and white keys, very cool. It looks and sounds like no other. After being discontinued in the 70’s, it has been re-introduced by Vox with lots of new features in addition to the classic sound, but does not look the same as it has the standard colors on the keys.

[@owlman621]

I had one. I wish I still had it.

[@karenrogers7494]

That's cool to know. Thanks!

[@knope2023]

Yesssssss

[@SamSteinig]

I have 3 of 'em :)

[@marybill1429]

I grew up in the rock and roll era there is so much good music for you to listen to

[@rrtodd95]

Eric a burden has one of the three best voices in rock history.

[@SomewhereInDhamma]

The bass player retired then saw a young Jimi Hendrix at a club in NYC. Convinced him to come to England on a promise that he'd meet Eric Clapton and formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

[@Isleofskye]

A "normal" Group played at The London Marquee Club back then and could not understand why Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton and other stars were in the crowd and then Jimi turned up to jam:)

[@kathyrizzi8754]

Love The Animals! This was 1964-65 👍👏👏👏🥰

[@sharontalley2155]

Great song...Eric Burdon sings with passion and power.

[@FUBAR_87]

They're from Newcastle UK near me. The bassist Chas Chandler discovered Jimi Hendrix

[@janicelucas8561]

Grew up listening to Eric Burdon & The Animals, believe this was from 1964!! GREAT music.

[@danielolson5378]

This is funny an old American folk song becomes famous due to a band from north west England!! Don't think many saw that one coming!

[@user-DrJoe-Future]

This song is a Legend. The song tells of hard times for a family in New Orleans. The best version ever recorded is by the British Rock Band "The Animals" in 1964. I was 14 years old in the U.S. and will never forget this song. Their recording reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart and in the United States and Canada for a number of weeks. It is still a great song today and won a Grammy. Most assume "The House of the Rising Sun" was a brothel, drug, and gambling house in New Orleans that has ruined many and sent some to prison "to wear that ball and chain." No definitive evidence has been found to support any theory on the detailed meaning of the folk song because it has both British and U.S. folk origins. However, reading the lyrics can lead you to believe that he was following in his gambling father's footsteps through the House of the Rising Sun, and his son is warning others not to visit there or go down that path to ruin. By the way, he often toured with Chuck Berry.

[@sheilalayton7162]

He sounds as good today as he did then

[@2Cambourne]

I consider the music of the 60's as the greatest decade in Rock & Roll history. "House of the Rising Sun" by Eric Burdon and the Animals (1964). Great response to one of the great songs of the 1960's.

[@owlcu]

Watch him sing with the band War, doing "Spill the Wine" - it's magnificent and totally original.

[@shadowplay-y5g]

boomer here first show i ever saw paramount theater NYC 1964. they blew it up!!!!!!

[@cameronstestingart794]

The 60s started the British Invasion. React to We gotta get out of this place So many talented artists and musicians! The Hollies, Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, Eric Clapton

[@josephmanno4514]

The quintessential blue-eyed soul song. My single favorite of all time. Eric Burdon's power is effortless.

[@bloodmoon1956]

Eric Burden was so badass,actually,still is. Absolutely amazing voice. Loved your reaction to this.👍🇬🇧

[@johnflynn5044]

The tall chap is credited with discovering Hendrix.. Class act this lot.. Working mans Beatles !

[@sarablack2547]

the animals are from newcastle upon tyne north england.tyne is the river that runs through newcastle. they moved to london in 64 after becoming famous. the lead singer eric burdon was 23 in 64 when this came out.he's 81 now. i love watching peoples reactions to his voice.no one expects that voice to come out of a young guy.it's fun to see. i love how well dressed and respectful they were then.wearing suits and bowing at the end.doing the music they loved and grateful for the fans to give them success.not expecting it like they felt entitled just for turning up. i love how you watch the videos all the way through.your actually paying attention and getting the full experiance rather than not really listening cause your thinking what to say and stoping 2,3 times.

[@stevenpryce7808]

From a long line of fantastic Geordies 👍

[@sarablack2547]

@@stevenpryce7808 do you mean ant and Dec or Cheryl 😄

[@kemitamenophis3221]

I was a kid when this came out. didn't fully understand the words until I was adult. Eric Burden sounded like a man over 50 who been through some things.

[@norahdenovan8658]

Eric Burdon is now in his 80’s, great band ❤️🙏

[@bradleyflinn3421]

So this song came out like 20 years before I was born and it's still dope as fuck.

[@waynereeves3829]

Amazing voice.. Eric Burdon was 17 when he did this. Damn... I sounded like Kermit the Frog at that age

[@ajruther67]

Dig deep into the 60's. Amazing music back then.

[@marycrupi6202]

ERIC BURDON!! One of our best. Welcome to 60's rock!!

[@skwervin1]

That organ is a come to church moment and his voice.... oh man he wails and touches your soul...

[@Animal_Liberation_V]

My uncle n his platoon listened to this in vietnam. This is a huge song. And the singer is full of soul! That voice!

[@danielevers250]

Short and simply, thanks for not pausing ! ❤😊

[@leeb.7188]

Eric Burdon’s voice and Alan Price on keyboards totally made that song. The British were the dominant rock ‘n roll talent of the 60s. Don’t know why, but the Brits produced the greatest bands and hits.

[@mso4433]

The House Of The Rising Sun was a house of ill repute in New Orleans in the 1800's. Originally this song was written about a girl who went to work there and regretted it the rest of her days. Great stuff from The Animals.

[@jonathanmurphy3141]

The Animals were from Newcastle, England, a shipbuilding, seaport, NE coast up by Scotland. They got into American Blues through import records. This tune was recorded by Leadbelly. Bob Dylan covered it. The Animals took up the challenge to make it more “epic”.

[@peacepupppy]

I agree he looks like a shy young man and then he opens his mouth and.......WOW! I grew up listening to this. When I was a little girl my big sister would play it on the organ alot. ❤

[@christineputman4850]

It is so cool to watch people listen for the first time to music I grew up with

[@sueprator9314]

You may know by now these guys are Brits, part of the British Invasion of music in the early to mid 60s. Eric Burdon, the lead singer later went on his own. THIS SONG IS ICONIC.

[@GrtSatan]

He looked like a toddler but sounded like a prison inmate with a life sentence.

[@Chainlink12666]

Lmao

[@slimpickins9124]

Eric Burden (lead singer) went on to be a super star in rock.

[@papercup2517]

That 'piano' is a very natty looking Vox Continental portable organ. These instruments were produced in the 60s and were taken up by many bands because of their lightness and portability compared to the previously popular Hammond organs which were bulky and weighed a ton. This was a huge advantage, especially since many of these groups were still travelling to gigs around the country (in the UK) in small beat-up Transit vans, before the days of high-flying rock bands having vast luxury recreational vehicles and teams of roadies to do the heavy lifting for them. You can hear that distinctive sound of the Vox Continental on many popular songs from the era; a characteristic part of the 60s and 70s soundscape. Adding to their desirability, they came in a choice of fashionable colours and with the option of that cool black and white keys reversal. Of course, these days they're collectors' items. :-)

[@musicaficionado2974]

Dear JMBOY! Got to tell you that I love your reactions the most. You not only appreciate great music but also treat it with respect without interrupting it every other minute to provide "opinions". You listen to the end and then comment and analyze the song. You also concentrate on the melody, singing, and musicianship. Please keep great music alive. Thanks and God Bless!

[@Me-myself-b3g]

Eric Burdon`s vocals are Legendary! The Tall Red head playing Bass was the man who discovered Jimi Hendrix playing in a Bar in England and He paid for Jimi to come back to the States and get busy in the Recording Studio, He then became Jimi`s manager and Jimi....well He went to the Stars!

[@kevinpaulhiggs4972]

That organist is brilliant

[@Isleofskye]

Good Reaction and Eric is still singing @ 80 years of age:)

[@joeelias8388]

From Eric’s vocals to the lyrics and incredible instrumentals you’ve reached up to the top shelf for reactions the gold standard performance by which other bands had to live up to

[@ptrlxc]

One of the first songs I learned to play on guitar. Everybody I knew had this song as their first learnt song on guitar.

[@sherylhenley1931]

Loved your reaction! Eric Burden-the lead singer was 23 when he did this. He sounds like a man of 60 with all the experience in life. The bass player later became Jimi Hendrix's manager. Love this song. First one I learned to play on the guitar..

[@johnd8892]

A classic record. This was made as part of a UK colour film from 1964 for paying theatre release. That explains the high quality color images we luckily have for this performance and also for a few other top UK only music artists where the film was made. KZbin has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear, with the US contribution being to retitle it Go Go Mania and add a few intro segments to satisfy the US audience. A KZbin search for Pop Gear Go Go Mania shows lots of the segments. The intro by TCM explains the background of the film. While some of these segments were likely to be shown on US Colour TV much later , the source would originally be high quality film. In 1964 images not recorded on film would be much lower quality videotape, not the notable quality images used here. Especially with the inferior US NTSC standards often called Never The Same Colour. So lucky the film was made instead of relying on low standard video tape recordings that were usually taped over anyway to save tape cost money. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. Sound quality irrelevant as a better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source. These films mainly used mimed performances as the vast majority of theatre audiences wanted to hear the music performance as they knew it from the records. Hope this helps people who have the colorized and vidoetape theories.

[@AliasMark69]

Santana - "Soul Sacrifice" live at Woodstock. Find the full length 9 min + version.. PLEASE. You already know what to expect.

[@trudywolfe2795]

First song I learned to play on my guitar. GREAT SONG

[@AliasMark69]

That's funny. I made a comment about every garage band had to learn this song back then.

[@trudywolfe2795]

@@AliasMark69 well, I'm 23 and learned the guitar about 5 years ago so I guess it is definitely THE song to learn on the guitar. Thanks for telling me that, I had to laugh. 😁😁

[@AliasMark69]

@@trudywolfe2795 I own 36 electric guitars 5 acoustics, 168 piece drum kit. Come on over for a Jam session.

[@trudywolfe2795]

@@AliasMark69 I'm in...

[@JohnHazelwood58]

Second song i learned to play on my guitar ... I started with "Smoke On The Water" by DP ... :)

[@elsievickie]

1964, unbelievable. This song is always on top 10 music lists of all time. Song has been covered, many many times... And in SO MANY MOVIES.... CLASSIC

[@AliasMark69]

Jethro Tull ~ My God.....( Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 )

[@elisabethaxelsson4736]

I still gets goespumps when I hear this song, I was eight years old ( turnd nine that summer 1964 ), I love this song so much Animals original line up is my favorit group of the 60,s .

[@maidaursuladawn44glasgow3]

Such a handsome young man then with a wonderful voice❤️

[@marilynbrockington8213]

I've been playing this since the 60's I'm 71 and I still love it. Check out other songs of theirs.

[@sandyca1106]

he was playing an organ, that's why it sounded different. Great song, thanks!

[@wetdog1606]

Thank you for actually watching the video and letting us watch your reaction. It's so much better than interrupting all the time. Top work - good job.

[@suecook1326]

A few other songs by The Animals... "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", " Sky Pilot", "We Gotta Get Outta This Place" Plus "Spill The Wine" by Eric Burdon and War are all excellent.

[@nanook8721]

I agree with all of your suggestions, and also would include San Francisco Nights

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

excellent song with an excellent video. NOT LIVE you'll notice. but a lipsynched, studio, video production. but my favorite animals song is "i'm in love." they were a british blues band before they started recording more commercial stuff. another great song with a very similar video is the nashville teens "tobacco road." you should combine the original version of "tobacco road" by john louderrmilk with the nashville teens' version into ONE VIDEO. both are wonderful renditions and you can compare the two versions. i keep making EXCELLENT suggestions to YT reactors and they keep ignoring me. go figure.

[@lynnieiapichino1121]

☮️💙💙💙🔥🔥😎love Eric!!

[@arnoldcox9128]

One of the best rock songs from the 60's

[@nancywest1926]

As someone said, "I didn't expect that voice from that little face." Videos were lip synch decades ago, but to their actual recording. Eric Burdon and the key oard player were epic!

[@davidbrewer9030]

The song goes back to the 19th Century. It was originally sung from a woman's point of view warning of a life in a bordello/gambling house. Burdon said in an interview that he changed it to a man since he was singing it.

[@julieb.5860]

eric's voice always shocks the you know what out of first-timers. he's still alive, i am happy to say. I love your reactions, thank you!!!

[@ljwilson55]

This recording was finished in one take. That is probably why the guitarist was smiling so broadly.

[@1955greenboy]

Nah, they were lip-synching to the studio recording. I think he was smiling because during the last bit of the song, off-camera the organ player moved from the back of the set, next to the drummer, to the front for the closing shot.

[@pegasus5287]

From the opening riff, it takes me to a specific time and place. And when was the last time you could say, wow, that guy really rocked that organ?

[@PriestessOfNothing]

Isn't it crazy? I grew up listening to this song, MTV wasn't really a thing back then 😳 outside of this song, I never really got into them. I never saw this until like 20 years ago LOL but I wasnt expecting it either, I guess I didn't expect that they'd be looking like the Beatles. But damn, what a voice.

[@coinneachmaclellan3121]

A band that was just as powerful and incisive as the Animals around the same period was THEM featuring Van Morrison doing songs such as "Gloria", "Baby Please Don't Go", "Here Comes the Night", and "Mystic Eyes".

[@michaeldonaghey]

Them's Baby Please Don't Go is untouchable for the time.

[@garyneilson3075]

Oh yeah!

[@garyneilson3075]

Van Morrison... Just some of the best there is!

[@johnniekight1879]

He also had a huge hit with War. "Spill The Wine"

[@bartstarr100]

That was Eric Burden and War.

[@alexanderduncan3347]

Hey, JM. Eric Burdon also worked with a band called War. There is a you tube vid called - Eric Burdon and War 'Tobacco Road'. It is an amazing live performance. I recommend it to you just to listen to for your own enjoyment - of course you can do a reaction if it takes your fancy. Enjoy.

[@LouisLarsen-vp8oc]

Best electric keyboard solo in early rock 😅

[@nonenone7250]

This was a cover song ... The oldest published version of the lyrics is that printed by Robert Winslow Gordon in 1925,....

[@jamescarlson3151]

I think the guy smiling at the end (Hilton Valentine RIP) is reacting to the keyboardist rushing down to the front for the final bow. Anyway, Eric Burdon's growly vocals and the synthesizer were the drivers in this song, one of my favorites of all time.

[@larsholzke8475]

This Song Made History. The greatest sucsess for the animals and they became famous all over the world.

[@mariaclark7358]

Love the 60-70 I grew up in the best times for great British music Eric Burton came from my home town of Newcastle in the north of England another great bad who I think never got the recognition that they should of got was Steve Marriott of the small Faces now that’s a voice wow RIP Steve

[@loisjohnson7272]

And actually no one knows who wrote this particular song, its first remembrance was by Ledbetter, LedBelly, nickname,,who made his own version of it in the 1800s after he heard it in a whorehouse, , he asked about and no,one knew where the song came from,

[@Code9]

Fun fact: Nobody knows who wrote "House of the Rising Sun". Over the years, musicologists have tried to trace the song's origins but it's so old that it's origins have been lost in the mists of time. It could possibly have been an English "broadside" ballad as far back as the 16th century. If that's the case, then at some time some traveler brought it to America and someone changed the lyrics and made New Orleans the location of the brothel that the song is talking about.I first heard the song performed by folk singer, Joan Baez, a year or two before The Animals came out with their version in which they changed the gender of the narrator from a female to a male. Most likely the song was from the point of view from a woman, a prostitute in the brothel. The Animals version changes the point of view to that of a man which doesn't really make as much sense but it kind of works. It certainly worked for the Animals as it became so popular most people assume they wrote it and their recording of it sold like crazy back in the day. The first known recording of the song on vinyl was by a woman named Georgia Turner in 1937.

[@Emma-og2jt]

He is still singing today at 82. Still has a great voice.

[@dianefiske-foy4717]

My mom had one of those piano/organ type things. She called it an Electric Piano. Hers was the same size as that one, only hers had a wooden casing.

[@laughingachilles]

I remember coming back from a days fishing with my dad when I was a kid and he put this on. It's a song which moves your soul and instantly became one of my favourites. RIP Old man.

[@RichardMickle-n6i]

This is always jarring to me every time love this peace

[@jgkgreek2187]

I was 14 yr. In 1964..His voice is old soul....

[@vincentvancraig]

Its in the movie casino by martin scorsese.....when this song kicks in, its so insane

[@DannyWilliams-ce9wl]

He was playing the electric organ. One of my all-time favorite songs. Had the album when I was young. Many decades ago. Lol

[@daren7889]

Baby Boomer here! Thanks you for not interrupting the song!Like so many other people do! Ad you enjoyed the music of the 1960's! 1960-1970's had so many great songs! 🤗🤗🤗🇩🇪🇨🇭🇺🇲💙🌊

[@HBLADY]

I was an 11 year old girl when this came out and I loved it. An bonefide classic.

[@chrisoultram9458]

I was young girl loved them saw them play a shy group still.touches me at 70xXxX

[@dougj7295]

Hey JMBOY - new to your channel - love your content and your a cool guy. I knew that would be your reaction to the singer, so much power out of that little guy. This song, and the soul and drive of the singer makes me think of Jim Morrison and The Doors who I dont think I see in your catalogue yet - and I would recommend the song LA Woman as the comparison to this song - same era. I am here for the ride.