FIRST TIME listening to THE ANIMALS - House Of The Rising Sun REACTION

[@joancurrie6748]

It was 1964, no autotune, no touchups, just pure talent.

[@Jasoncremeans73]

You should write and record some music, being grom the era.

[@dariowiter3078]

Exactly. 👍🙂

[@laupstad]

It was all "one take" back then. Perhaps not the first take, but the best of 4-5 takes with the whole band playing at once. No edits, cuts or layering. This is the whole band in one studio playing and recording the whole song in one take. Back when musicians needed to have skill and the ability to jam. Not just a producer that could cut and layer recordings to make it sound good!

[@bwilson5401]

Exactamondo.Why do kids now, assume that great voices from the past are tinkered with.

[@waynebryant1857]

Here come all the seventy year olds talking about auto tune.

[@cattewest]

60 years of listening to this, still gives me chills.

[@Cranky_old_white_guy]

House of the rising sun was a high end brothel. Welcome back. God bless you and yours.

[@mrrajsingh]

it still is

[@tonybennett4159]

I think that in houses like that gambling was another lucrative source of income, so a two edged sword that can ruin lives.

[@005uz345]

It has been portrayed as both, but also as an opium den. No one is sure exactly when the first version of this song was written, but it dates back to the mid to late 1800's.

[@phillipfitton8364]

I agree, it was some brothel in New Orleans.. great song, the first song I ever learned on the guitar when I was 13 years..

[@kitharley6159]

Eric Burdon was 23 when he laid down that vocal track, and he did it in one take!

[@calvinvruwink3593]

White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane is a must from 1967!! Awesome song with some of the most unique lyrics!!

[@3rdOption-l9t]

Unique. Heh heh. 💊😵‍💫🌌

[@hannejeppesen1809]

The version from Woodstock it was early in the morning and Grace Slick was stoned, yet she killed it.

[@andersonrichie]

Thanks god, Lilly is back... We miss you girl... Congratulations for your channel and salutes from Brazil...

[@tarlane]

As others noted the house of the rising sun was a well known brothel in New Orleans. This is actually a cover, the original had a female singer and it really causes a different perspective on her regret.

[@DannyLeeOGT]

Actually, the original origins of this song is not known. It's the only song like that that's popular. I went down. a deep rabbit hole to figure this out. It can be traced in Appalachia. back a long time, but no one knows who wrote it. So essentially everyone that's ever seen this is singing a cover. It's fun to fact check.

[@rosssmith4748]

Was the female singer perhaps Georgia Turner, or maybe Jean Ritchie, or are you refering to someone else?

[@VinE83656]

House of the Rising Sun by the Animals but there are many of great versions.

[@Amen.22]

@@DannyLeeOGTIt’s like Black Betty. That song goes way back and there’s different stories about who or what Black Betty is.

[@DannyLeeOGT]

@@Amen.22 WOW cool ty, I have a music/reaction channel too!!! That gives me something to deep dive into!!! TY

[@donrichards271]

Eric Burdon's catalog is well worth exploring. Phenomenal singer.

[@roydownes2458]

i have listened to this for decades, and the organ still gives me chills.

[@jamesatkinson7691]

Alan Price, the keyboard player, is peerless.

[@dabreal82]

One of the greatest songs ever!

[@anitawright7169]

This is pure raw talent at its best! The Animals are icons! Love this song so much! Love your reaction!

[@jeremymerrifield7244]

Alan Price on Keyboards...star in his own right in a solo career

[@jamesbrink7161]

The keyboards are one of the things i miss most about the 60's music.

[@donolinger6904]

Hammond organs made rock back then, in my opinion. It wouldn't be the same without guitars though would it? ​@@jamesbrink7161

[@jeremymerrifield7244]

@@jamesbrink7161 so few use them these days. Shame

[@richardward4243]

My parents told me when I was a teen in eighties that "House Of Rising Sun" is name of a house of ill repute in New Orleans. A doubke entendre rich name for such a place.

[@mwflanagan1]

Glad to see you’re back, and a year older. Thanks for this one, Lilly Jane. I learned this song on the guitar in 1968 at the age of 10. My poor mother had to listen to me play this song and Love Is Blue over and over and over and over and over . . . . . . . . .

[@bluetopguitar1104]

Me too, house of the rising sun was the first real song I learned on guitar.

[@allanboyer2769]

A timeless classic right out of the golden age of rock music. This song was amazingly recorded in one take as the band only had enough funds for one session. It instantly became a multinational hit, going to number one in England, Canada, and the United States. The Animals went on to become one of the British Invasions most popular bands, along with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. I encourage you to investigate the era of rock music from the mid to late 1950's and Bill Haley and the Comets and Buddy Holly and the Crickets, through the 1970's and bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and Heart. There is a world of outstanding artists and music to explore.

[@cocaine9357]

Yay Lily is back

[@lillyjanereacts]

Trying to be more consistent, I promise.

[@IAMisLove]

Double that: Yay, Yay!! 🖖❤

[@gkindustrialmachine1]

The honeymoon is over ................... LOL JUst giving you a hard time

[@dariowiter3078]

One of the most iconic songs of the '60s and certainly an iconic tune from 1964, the year that The Beatles came to the States and changed everything. This was The Animals debut single in the States and their biggest hit of their career and their only No. 1 in America. 😁😁😁😁😁

[@Royal_BLT]

🇨🇦 Not forgetting that the Animals were a British Band ! 🇨🇦

[@dariowiter3078]

@@Royal_BLT My whole statement already implied that, dummy! What part of "the year that The Beatles came to the States and changed everything" did you NOT understand, you fool? 😡😡😡😡😡

[@dariowiter3078]

@@Royal_BLT My whole statement already implied that, dummy! What part of "the year that The Beatles came to the States and changed everything" did you NOT understand, you fool? 😡😡😡😡😡

[@wolvesdengaming5132]

60s with a story... riders on the storm by the doors

[@Howie-du7ov]

Anything from the Soft Parade album!

[@MrTech226]

Lilly Singer, Eric Burdon was either 23 or 24 when this clip was recorded in 1964. For a young man, Eric had and still has deep baritone vocals. Now, at the age of 83, Eric still tours today.

[@duanelavely5481]

New Orleans (founded in 1718) was "Sin City" way before Las Vegas was even thought off. Brothels like "The House of the Rising Sun" had music (piano/singer), bar, & gambling along with the ladies.

[@g54b95]

Lilly Jane! Good to see you back. I love this song.

[@jandenhartog4303]

I had tears in my eyes , Just to know that i was alive at that time in the sixties as a boy from 10 years old how could i expect this would be possible at this time now that i am 70 years old !!! I still love this great song !!

[@rplpalacio1920]

A brothel with poker tables is what was the house of the rising sun

[@captainsatellite2112]

Saw Eric Burdon and his Flying Eye Band about 20 years ago at the Mushroom Mardi Gras in Morgan Hill, CA. Since it was a small gig, he came out an hour early for sound check and just hearing him warm up his voice 15/20 ft away gave me goose bumps. Played this song, Sky Pilot, Monterey, Spill the Wine and many other Animals hits. Pals and I were tripping. Awesome singer and funny too. He was well known for his use of psychedelics so, since it was the Mush festival, he would stop after every four or five songs and ask, "So, where are the mushrooms?" He hung out and signed my CD after and talked to those of us who stuck around for a little while. Great time.

[@LibrarianMichael]

60's, 70's, and 80's were the best decades for music.

[@Royal_BLT]

🇨🇦 Agreed ! 🇨🇦

[@Switzdiggity]

90s weren't bad either... Be real.

[@DougBrock-t1l]

i want to compliment you for your obvious love of music

[@CharlesHoward-ud6qv]

I was 13 and this was one of the first songs I learned on guitar. The third chord is F and requires playing two notes on the E and B strings with your first finger. I was so proud lol. I started playing lead guitar later, played in bands my whole life and still playing today. The British Invasion had a huge influence on me.

[@donaldredolfi7357]

Welcome back!!

[@rogerdodger6025]

I've heard this song hundreds of times, but you provided a perspective I never thought about before.

[@AnthonyBusted]

Patsy Cline - Crazy (1961), Bobby Vinton - Mr. Lonely (1965)

[@stevepas1]

One of the greatest voices❤

[@MM-pl5ed]

Amazing Song! The energy is huge is this one.

[@happymethehappyone8300]

A MUST HEAR Classic,, Billy Thorpe "Children Of The Sun" 🔥 🌞 🔥...TRUST ME on this one my music lovin' sister.

[@vicprovost2561]

Eric Burdon is an utter legend on lead vocals, this is in 1964 so right at the beginning of music beginning to really matter for me. They have some great tunes, try We Gotta Get Out of This Place, when you can. Bass player Chas Chandler discovered Jimi Hendrix in the NY music scene in 1966 and brought him back to London to form the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the rest is music history. Enjoy! 🔥🎵🎤🎹🎸🎶🔥

[@chocolate-teapot]

A phat spliff and the Animals is a good evening

[@markdermody9698]

How about the Ode To Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry as it is such a beautifully sad song and the lyrics tell you the whole story. One of the best story driven songs of its time yet it still stands up today! I love it!

[@JaredJenkins24601]

Classic. Great song!

[@richlafo]

Welcome back. Great song.

[@AcesDwn1]

Absolutely LOVE you checked this out.. This has been a song my father introduced me to around a campfire. We do it on acoustic guitars, so no keyboards or drums etc... That was when I was starting to play guitar at about age 13.. I'm 52 now, but my dad still does his best every year, I play, and my son plays. 3 Generations playing guitar together is just amazing! As for the title, I can't say. I always thought of it as the house called the rising sun, that could lift you up, but never does... Like an addiction. Great Video! 😎

[@robinsonnoble3267]

This song was put to music by Dave Van Ronk, an iconic folk singer from Greenwich Village. The lyrics are a hundred years old now

[@meyerhave]

"Oh mother, tell YOUR CHILDREN, not to do what I have done..." applies to both girls and boys with regard to their, in the future, not choosing - taking the wrong path in life, "one of sin and misery".

[@Scott-mw7xq]

Glad to see you back.😮😊

[@samdoorley6101]

Best story telling from the 1960's? Man that's a tough one, but you might dig: Matty Groves by Fairport Convention (1969). A grim fable.

[@RayEvans-j1q]

During the sixties, my older teenage sister through some parties at our house! I was about 8 years old and I sat an watched my sister and her friends slow dance to this!

[@crazypainter56]

flip side was "I'm crying" a rocker by the Animals-I'm 68 and Eric's voice still gives me chills-Rising sun was a brothel-song was written for a womans point of view and changed to a gamblin house for air play

[@mikeconway9849]

Great reaction, Lilly Jane! Eric had one of the best voices in early blues rock . Glad to hear you reacting again!

[@H46_2]

Growing up in the 60s was magic musically. Eric Burdon ruled back then. Girls screamed for him like they did for the Beatles.

[@BarryLevy-h6s]

Here is some good story telling tunes. Jim Croce- Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Harry Capin- Taxi, Lynyrd Skynyrd-The Ballad Of Curtis Loew, Jeannie C Riley- Harper Valley PTA. I can give you plenty more, Keep up the good work. Your Awesome!

[@mjh6165]

"For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield is a song you should check out. It really captures the turbulence that existed in America in the late 1960's.

[@jamesdupuis8066]

Outstanding video 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@johnfellows2867]

I was a mechanic at a garage years ago, when one day a Porsche 911 was towed in with a blown clutch. The owner was Georgie Fame, the keyboard player !

[@DaveKing-f2r]

So many amazing songs by this band!!!! Especially the song about Bo Diddley

[@christophermollan1684]

Welcome back and Happy Birthday!!!! The Animals have so many great songs....I recommend "I Got to Get Out of This Place " and It's My Life"!!!!!!!!!!!

[@EatinPaste]

Happy birthday! 🎉🎉🎉

[@phillipfitton8364]

It was a brothel.. this is the first song I ever learned on guitar I was 14 years old..😎 Charlotte North Carolina

[@markknebel8923]

I glad to see you and that you liked this song. I don't think that you would remember me.

[@JamesLachowsky]

Everybody on the folk circuit did this song. A very young Bob Dylan did it on his first album, singing from the girl's perspective. The Animals were the first to electrify the song, supposedly an influence on Dylan's decision to go electric.

[@mjh6165]

It may interest you to know that the bass player for The Animals, Chas Chandler, was the one who discovered Jimi Hendrix in New York, brought him over to England, became Jimi's manager, and launched him into superstardom.

[@martinbynion1589]

Eric Burdon (vocals) and Alan Price (organ) were bona fide superstars in the UK when Beatlemania was at its peek. And the Bassist, Chas Chandler, virtually "discovered" Jimi Hendrix and brought him over to the UK and sponsored him. The rest, as they say, is....... 🙂

[@vern74]

At the time radio stations across the country refused to play this song b/c of it's reference to sinful ways i.e.: drinking and gambling. The opening guitar intro is one of the most played intros by new guitar players. Oh how times have changed..!

[@richardgreen6317]

Just subscribed and I love your reaction and I was about to suggest this and there it is!

[@sportbikeguy00]

Good to have you back.

[@LordMekanicus]

I just turned 41, I'll bet I have a lot in my oddball collection of 33's, 45's, 78's, 8-tracks, casset tapes, and cd's you have never even imagined.

[@cmanayf4354]

Cool Lily Jane! Classic song from that era. The keyboard in here is quite amazing. Nice to see a reaction again from you again! Story song from the 60's? Hmmm. Any interest in Bob Dylan?

[@RobertPotts-y4f]

Glad to have you back

[@StevieJ-IRLzzz]

OMG...I love This song and music video. ❤❤❤

[@Aotearoawoodturner]

Tom Jones "Delilah" on The Ed Sullivan Show

[@josephhyland8904]

If you're looking for some more classics, check out The Doors and The Moody Blues. Unless you already have.

[@emilyalice1]

This version of the traditional song reshaped rock music. It confirmed to Bob Dylan that his version was , 'ho-hum.' Six months later, Dylan was going electric and folk was eating dust.

[@pebblehilllane]

"Spill the Wine" -- Eric Burdon and War -- American funk-rock band from Long Beach, California.

[@williamwhalen746]

Weecome back. In the 30's Alan Lomax traveled across Eastern Kentucky recording the local folk songs. He recorded "The House of the Rising Sun" by 16-year-old Georgia Turner. One of Lomax's biggest claims to fame was discovering blues legend Lead Belly in the Angola Penitentiary. Lead Belly would record two versions of "The House of the Rising Sun."

[@kalebcastillo1867]

Hey Jude by The Beatles

[@markpinkstaff2287]

My favorite song of all time since about 1971

[@sacpen30]

I think you would like Blinded By Rainbows - Roling Stones Paint It Black - Rolling Stones Blackbird - The Beatles Something - The Beatles

[@Amen.22]

There was a female teen singer in the UK. She was so popular that the Beatles were her opening act. Check out Helen Shapiro, You don’t know is one of my favorites. You can see her with 3 of the Beatles in the song, Look who it is.

[@stephenpresley5772]

Great song and reaction

[@blastingweevil2968]

you are right there is soo much real and great music out there not like the trash that we have had since 2000.... i feel bad for Millennials they will never get to experience True talent when it comes to music EVERYTHING today is all computer enhanced and manufactured.

[@dedcowbowee]

the bass player became Jimi hendrix's manager, "Leadbelly" (Huddie Ledbeter) was well known for singing a version of this. I don't think he wrote it, but he claimed he had i heard,lol.

[@stevecrisell108]

Quality Tune. Quality Reaction. Thank F*** You're Back.

[@OneArmedRetroGamer]

Let it be - the Beatles

[@DeeDeex2]

I wore out my 45. LOVE this song!

[@johnpegues5701]

Ah...memories of my youth!

[@sethwetzel974]

This is a cover song Lilly. Now since you heard this you gotta look up the original version. Nice to see you again sweetie. Hope you have the best day!!!

[@gphx]

Analysis on point.

[@randy7831]

Welcome back, you were missed!

[@johnniekight1879]

They had many hits and were a big part of the British Invasion.

[@VIRGODRAGON2009]

🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸THE MOST FAMOUS SONG EVER WRITTEN WHOSE AUTHORSHIP IS UNKNOWN🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@markdermody9698]

As for House of the Rising Sun, the Rising Sun was a High Class Brothel and gambling establishment in New Orleans in the song and Eric Burden from Newcastle Upon Tyne is a complete standout whe he sings this wonderful song! A top notch song sung by a top notch singer and group from the UK!

[@pemirkovich9]

They had no money. They had a short recording session and they had to move the instruments to the studio in a hand cart all the way across town.

[@twoheart7813]

A lil later, both came out in 71 but good stories. Witch Queen of New Orleans by Redbone & Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody

[@alexcamacho4880]

Eric Burdon’s voice is haunting 😮.

[@r.g.1409]

Absolutely brilliant of the times back then and it still survives decades later as a classic. Eric Burdon and the Animals were fabulous. Please check out their song Sky Pilot. One of the very first anti-war songs long befor anyone eles. The Animals were years ahead of the rest that followed.

[@bobbyz8891]

The Big Easy. I had to drive there twice in the past three weeks and the feelings never change, it's not my cup of tea,

[@RoGueNavy]

Eric Burdon's vocals are amazing.

[@oopsdidItypethatoutloud]

Return of Lily the lifeform 😊 ❤ from Northeast England ❤️

[@richtensail]

another 60s classic.

[@gkindustrialmachine1]

Certainly music I grew up hearing.... I was 10 yrs old when it came out, have heard this song many, many times in my teens. It's old.

[@johnprice6066]

Fun fact: Chas Chandler, bassist for The Animals, managed The Jimi Hendrix Experience and was responsible for bringing Jimi to the UK.

[@geoffprice5357]

This song is part of American History, goes back to the days before Leadbelly!!

[@Pomdownuder]

Keyboard player Allan price, had a great solo career too. When musicians could play & singers could sing you had to have talent to make it "back in the day"