First Time Reaction The Animals House of The Rising Sun (SHOOK!) | Dereck Reacts

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Hi all welcome back to another video Dereck Reacts back at it again! This time around we take a look at another first time reaction with The Animals "House of The Rising Sun." Lead singer Eric Burdon almost effortlessly sings this with so much power. The organ is a highlight in the song, but it's very odd to digest at first glance. See our full react now!
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[@jimreilly917]

No vocal manipulation. No mixing. Nothing but this man’s VOICE.

[@nyifnbr18]

It's lip synched.

[@coachtomas]

They recorded this in one take ! one take ! They could not afford more. How is this even possible ! I challenge any artist today to do this !

[@sarita423]

20 minutes too.

[@drigerdranzer7514]

The reason I heard why they did it in one take. They did it when their manager were on a bathroom break because he didn't like the song.

[@chrisross1703]

But Alan Price is in a different place for that final shot

[@sarita423]

@@chrisross1703 the original single was revorded in one take. This video is froma film made the next year. What they are lipsynching to is what was recorded in one take.

[@ptournas]

You would probably be surprised at how many one take songs have become hits over the years. Elvis very first commercial recording, That's All Right Mama was done in one take. Other one take songs include Marty Robbins "El Paso", The Beatles "Twist and Shout", James Brown "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", Kim Carnes "Bettie Davis Eyes", Bruce Springsteen "Born in the U.S.A.", Bonnie Raitt "I Can't Make You Love Me", The Kingsman "Louie Louie", Michael Jackson "Billie Jean", even Frank Sinatra "My Way" to name a few. So it's not exactly unheard of.

[@Teresa7087]

This was an English band. This was a monster hit for them. This was recorded in 1 take. Singer was 23 yrs old. He's singing about a brothel in New Orleans where a guy wasted his life with gambling and prostitutes.

[@fireflower7666]

This song was a whole generations anthem. When my mother died 5 yrs ago, this song was played at her funeral.

[@deborahharper3126]

That is soooo touching ❤

[@Astons_Martin]

A small face generating such a glorious voice!🤩 Eric Burdon is still a living legend, this song a timeless masterpiece !!

[@rosedavis8267]

I grew up listening to this song. He was not lip singing. He was not smiling like he was singing romantic. He was singing telling the story of his families life of misery. When you listen to him, and see his face, it tells you that he is sharing this song to anyone who has lived in misery.

[@ozmaile7938]

Yea it does. He can sing with very little stress in his face: HIS VOICE is that powerful

[@nemesis822]

The organist was Alan Price who later went on to form his own group, The Alan Price Set. Glad you appreciated his playing. Eric Burden was 23 when he sang this.

[@terben7339]

Alan Price formed The Animals. That's why this song has an organ solo.

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@terben7339 He also shat on the other's by insisting that only he, could benefit with ALL the profits made by sales of their worldwide smash hit. When the groups fame created much business abroad, Price refused to co-operate, because he was fearful of flying. So he left.

[@joelilley6603]

The guitarist was laughing because they moved the organist from the back of the room to the front on that last verse, and he kept playing without missing a beat while being moved. Everyone misses the fact that at the end the organist is in a different position. 😉😉🤣

[@raechelweir8861]

Thanks for that.. I have wondered why he was smiling. I am not really a musical person but just love Eric Burdons voice in this song. I often look at these clips of people's reactions to his voice when he starts to sing....priceless....timeless.

[@animalian01]

The organist is the great Alan Price

[@jacquelinejob2766]

The singer is Eric Burdon and he is from Newcastle the north of England. He is still singing and hes 81. He was a hard man in his time you would want him on your side in a fight for sure.

[@auldfouter8661]

Yeah they said a " southern " accent - well he grew up at 55 deg North !

[@LordJuzzie]

@@auldfouter8661 In fairness he is not singing it in a Geordie accent, it does sound very southern USA. Its quite common for people to put on a US accent when they sing as they tend to do better in the US market.

[@marcovtjev]

@@LordJuzzie And Blues and New Orleans are Southern of course.

[@anglosaxon5874]

@@LordJuzzie One doesn't sing in a Geordie accent. When you listen to American/British singers, they are very similar and can be hard to tell which side of the "pond" they come from.

[@LordJuzzie]

@@anglosaxon5874 No some English singers sound very English. The members of pink Floyd for example sang in a very distinctly English way

[@spacefanatic]

Eric Burdon was 23 when this song came out, looked 18 and sounded 40. The second guitarist managed Jimmi Hendrix and the guy on the organ was Alan Price who later went onto have his own group.

[@ericburdonfan5998]

no a 40 year old would have a much rougher voice than eric and you can already hear that he is 23

[@sammim7657]

The Animals were a huge British band throughout the sixties and part of the British invasion along with The Beatles, Stones etc. This was rereleased again in the 1980's and went back into the charts.

[@howardcraven3664]

The great Eric Burdon !

[@leannmiller7153]

The bass player, Chas Chandler, discovered Jimi Hendrix in London and managed him.

[@wnsafford1854]

Just a little thing, but Chas & Jimi met in New York City, when Jimi was playing at the Cafe Wha? The Animal's tour was ending in a couple of months & they were breaking up. When that happened, Chas returned to NY, picked up Jimi & took him to London.

[@leannmiller7153]

@@wnsafford1854 thank you! You’re right, I forgot about New York😎

[@sandybruce9092]

I did not know that! Thanks!!!

[@Ophelia_1668]

This is Eric showing off in one take, his voice is that powerful he doesn't have to strain at all to project it because he can actually sing!

[@UliFandoms]

Such a classic! Never gets old. One of my all time fave 🙌

[@carlh429]

The Animals were one of the standout groups of the British Invasion.

[@quirkymoletarot7613]

The accent you picked up is a northern English one. The animals came from Newcastle.

[@jwb52z9]

It's not surprising that they thought it was an American southern accent since northern English people were the ones who immigrated to what became the American south and their grandchildren were a lot of the people who owned the big plantations. They are a major part of why modern American southerners sound like we do now.

[@ohfour-seven6228]

This was a HUGE hit on top 40 radio when it was released. A true classic. Great reaction Dereck!

[@dawndriscoll3344]

This is the early 60s guys, people were not used to being in front of a camera, unlike now. They probably had to record this for a tv show.

[@johnd8892]

This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made. So all the movement requested by the film director to generate interest. KZbin has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title 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 the segments : kzbin.info?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania 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 this high quality film. Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too, 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 or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in KZbin postings these days. 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 that usually pop up.

[@teresavizenor6634]

It is my favorite from the 1960's. I was blown away by the lead singer. I just recently saw the video and couldn't believe how young the vocalist is in this video. I heard it at a dance in 1964. It was #1 in the US, Canada and England where this band originated.

[@robbpowell194]

I grew up listening to this song. It was part of the soundtrack of my life. When I first saw how young Eric Burden looked, it was mind bending

[@jayrob280]

The song is about a brothel in New Orleans. "The House Of The Rising Sun" was named after its occupant Madame Marianne LeSoleil Levant (which means "Rising Sun" in French) and was open for business from 1862 (occupation by Union troops) until 1874, when it was closed due to complaints by neighbors.

[@tlucas9798]

Alan Price (keyboards) does an amazing cover of “I put a spell on you”. I think this early realization of use of video to create an effect is amazing. I think the whole “vibe” was purposeful.

[@christophersmith2793]

Vocalist Eric Burden aged 22 years old with this rendition, the organists is Alan Price who went on to form his own band , the Animals a British rythm and blues band, a amazing band, the story involved a Brothel in New Orleans ! They apparently did this in one take that was the norm in the 60s !

[@annettemoore7264]

Nope, that's just Eric 🤣 he had the face of a 12 year old and the voice of Tom Jones 🤣🤣🤣

[@adrianross8383]

Their bass player, Chas Chandler, became Jimi Hendrix's manager, and brought him back to London where he first became huge. This is an example of British bands of the time being heavily influenced by African American blues music- something many white kids in the USA hadn't even heard- it took the British to introduce them to their own countries music.

[@vinnywarren2144]

Organist was Alan price.And Eric Burton's voice is a good old English northern accent from Newcastle!

[@annesmith2259]

Singer is from my neck of the woods, north east England… fantastic

[@elsievickie]

This song has played in many many movies. Probably one of the best rock songs ever. Eric Burdon went on to solo artist... Eric Burdon and War Song ...Spill the Wine 1970

[@eddiehansen6865]

I love Spill the Wine, it brings back so many memories from that time period as well of all songs with Burdon. A very recognizable voice.

[@adrianross8383]

And their version of the Stone's "Paint it Black." Sublime.

[@ntracefan]

Eric Burden is in his 80’s now and still singing

[@ericburdonfan5998]

you can always sing no matter how old you have always a voice

[@heidipaulus3701]

I grew up with 4 brothers and when this song came out on 45's record that is all I heard for at least a month. These guys were great.

[@buchholtzmathieu1810]

Thanx Dereck! Love this rendition since its release in 1964 . Awesome cover of a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". Due to the Animals, the song became worldwide famous.The oldest known recording of the song, under the title "Rising Sun Blues", is by Appalachian artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded it in 1933. Woody Guthrie recorded it in 19, Pete Seeger in 1958, Joan Baez and Dolly Parton in 1960, Bob Dylan in 1961, Marie Laforêt in 1963, ... The craziest cover is by The Frijid Pink in 1969.

[@naturesounds-ib5dh]

The craziest is my fav!!

[@SGABlencathra]

A cover I like is the angry version by Muse kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpSrmnl4lMZ5o5o

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

The organist is Alan Price, who had a successful solo career later on and with the Alan Price Set his band, most of the band come from the North-East of England, Eric Burdon is from Newcastle Upon Tyne in the North-East of England, UK.

[@galandirofrivendell4740]

Lip-syncing was a common practice in the 1960s and 1970s when music groups performed on television, often with mixed results. But the important thing is the music, and House of the Rising Sun is rightfully considered a genuine classic.

[@jimwilcox2964]

Someone said the guitar player broke there at the end watching the set crew shift the organ player over into position for that final shot.

[@anthonyrodriguez6324]

Not creepy at all!! The whole group is very talented, now that's music back in 1964, I loved every bit of it..

[@ChrisBright-qj6yx]

NO! 1 take, no manipulation.just talent.

[@sarita423]

This was done for a movie in 1965, but they are li-synching to the recording that was released June 19, 1964. As Stephen Thomas noted below, they recorded this in one take. It was their second single and it immediately went to #1 on the US and UK charts, knocking The Beatles out of the spot. At over 4 minutes long, it was one of the longest, if not the longest single recorded up until then and it was frequently cut to about 3 minutes for radio air play. The song is hundreds of years old and was sung, my women and men, from the woman's point of view. Eric rewrote the song from the male point of view, the group rearranged it and the rest is history. If you want to see them sing it live in the cut version, they sang it for their first Ed Sullivan Show appearance in 1964. You have to realize that Ed Sullivan forbade a lot of what he thought were vulgar movements so they are basically stuck standing there, but they are singing live into living rooms across America. Not pre-recorded live, but live, live. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6nVq2NmjbiCd9E

[@MrDaiseymay]

And a very good job they did of it. EXCEPT_-it was bloody stupid of Guitarist Hilton Valentine, to show such a out--of--place, grin, like an oaf, for such a emotional performance. Someone was acting the goat behind the camera. Valentine should have coped with it more professionally

[@jennifersmith6597]

This is a classic! I can't believe these guys have never heard of it.

[@davidspicer4330]

Eric burdon vocal. Chas Chandler bass.john steel drums .Alan price keyboard. Hilton valentine guitar.chas and Hilton are gone .Alan left the group in 1966. Eric still performs .my favorite band from the British invasion of 1964.check out winds of change album from 1968.

[@evelynne2846]

Always loved this song. Eric was maybe your age or close when he sung this..... 23. Eric is still performing.

[@RMForbes505]

This was an early made for TV video, the audio is from the studio version of the song. They didn't have cordless mics back in the mid 60's and none of the guitars are not plugged into anything.

[@johnd8892]

No TV. No videotape. This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made. KZbin has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title 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 the segments : kzbin.info?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania 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 this high quality film. Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too, 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 or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in KZbin postings these days. 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 that usually pop up.

[@thereunionparty]

Alan Price is the organist. Although it's a traditional folk song only Price received royalties for the song, which caused a fall out with the other band members. He features in the 1967 Bob Dylan film "Don't Look Back". The larger guy playing the bass guitar was Chas Chandler, who went on to manage the Jimi Hendrix Experience and 70s chart toppers (In Britain anyway) Slade.

[@skwervin1]

Eric Burdon wails this song and the organ solo is a real come to church moment. This song come out the year I was born and I have loved it all my life. I always thought of it as an old made telling his story to a younger guy over a half glass of Whiskey and smoking a cigarette....

[@MrFishermanbob]

A gigantic hit in the 1960's. I was six years old when the song first came on the radio. Brings back memories whenever I hear it.

[@oliverdecker249]

many years ago i saw eric burdon live and he was even more anihilated than the audience,he almost fell off the stage during the first song-but it was a great concert including a 15 minute version of this song. i will never forget this day ending up on the toilet floor-we were young

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

They did "We Gotta Get out of This Place."

[@debbers]

I think he was smiling because they got it in one take! Great reaction fellas!

[@debbiethomasson2709]

Eric Burdon (from England)...23, looking 15 and sounding 50. The smiling guy at the end was reacting to the crew scrambling to move the organist and drummer for the final shot, to show the entire band. Go look at Eric Burdon and War..."Spill the Wine".

[@clayclifton3895]

What people see this for the 1st time is priceless ... Love ❤ CLAY

[@mradriankool]

See the videos of them live on the Ed Sullivan show. That’s his voice & style. All power with minimum effort, or so it appears. Eric burden is legendary

[@paulascott5701]

True, you sing from your stomach and keep your face muscles relaxed. All the face pulling and bending over is put on for show. Eric wouldn't play that game.

[@elizabethstone435]

I'm old enough to remember this on tv. Can you imagine the total mind blast on a 14 yr old girl. Look at small faces itchycoo park, and anything from the original yardbirds. Love you for taking me back

[@Firespawnable]

If I was 14 watching this on TV I would have got a childhood crush on the singer lol 😂

[@RobertRoth-oj6zz]

This was a shocker for 1964, one of a kind. Bob Dylan first heard this on his car radio and pulled over to listen to it. He couldn't believe his ears.

[@RedArrowA]

This is raw talent. In the 64 there was no auto tune or electronics for their instruments.

[@carolinethompson376]

One of my all time favourites. A great 60s band from Tyneside, UK. Eric Burdon lead vocals, Alan Price on keys. Can't be beat. Check out their song 'We gotta get outta this place'

[@vinnyk35]

The reason they are walking, is the funeral procession, like the old ones in New Orleans. The FUNERAL IS HIS, he is going back to the brothels, and alcohol addiction (ball and chain) like his father did. His somber look through the video is because he is dead inside, he has 1 foot on the platform and the other on the train. He isn't coming back.

[@marie-dominiqueauge-courto3283]

Un monument repris par Johnny Hallyday, le pénitencier, ❤❤❤❤

[@lisal6121]

Yeah, this was way back then, when music was made by musicians, singers and actual song writers. Not beats , not bars, actual talent. No over production, no computers, no auto tune, no dancers, no costume distractions. No twerking. Just TALENT.

[@oscarrubilar8892]

Lisalo 121, excelente comentario, la "música" actual no le llega ni a los talones a los himnos de los 60` 70 80 y 90

[@jonathanmurphy3141]

The Animals were from Newcastle, seaport on the British northeast coast. Years, later Sting, Dire Straits, and second singer for AC-DC, and others would emerge from that city of shipbuilding, fishing and cargo-ships. A number of British musicians took to The Blues, records from America as they indentified with message of a hard life. Why Heavy Metal (Judas Priest, Black Sabbeth, Def Leppard -even two members of Led Zeppelin, from the north who worked in industry where coal mining and steel factories were) - The Blues & British Rock. “House of the Rising Son” was an old Blues, which Leadbelly recorded in the 1930’s. Bob Dylan did an accoustic version on his first album in 1960. The Animals, who had not been to America, yet - electricfied the song, groovy Organ, in 1964. Newcastle is north, like Liverpool, where The Beatles came from. “The British Invasion” of music in 1964,…and, many of the British Rockers were surprised that American Youth didn’t know more Blues (Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton) as American had the quality music of Motown, Ray Charles…yet BB King, Howling Wolf, admired by the Brits’ were not on popular American Radio. Even the one known album of Blues by Robert Johnson, was not easy to find -the music of RJ was traded between British musicians to learn.

[@eddunn4121]

The big, kinda goofy lookin, bass player is Chas Chandler-he was the guy that saw an unknown Jimi Hendrix (then playing under the stage name Jimmy James) play in NY, brought him to London, helped put together his band and got him a record deal…

[@derektaylor6389]

the keyboard player is alan price the bass guitarist is chas chandler he discovered jimmy hendrix and became his manager

[@Davey_bfg71]

As far as I know this is simply a cautionary tale told by a boy who has followed in his father’s footsteps living in misery gambling, drunkenness and frequenting a brothel (The Rising Sun)! Incredible to think also that despite the vocal sounding so much more mature, the lead vocalist was just 23 at the time!

[@michaelphipps8647]

Eric has such a great voice ❤❤❤

[@ponohawelu4608]

When the census was conducted in various cities back in the 1850's (or so) prostitutes would list their occupation as "seamstress" (tailors). So, his mother "sewed his new blue jeans", his father was a gambling man. Eric Burton said this song was originally written for a female singer. He had to adjust the words to fit himself. The singer tries to get away from the life that she was raised in, but can't make it. She has "one foot on the platform" the other "on the train", returning to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain. Everyone comments on how young Eric is with such an "old" voice. He lived a very difficult childhood somewhere in England (sorry, don't know where).This was done all in one take - no "dubbing" or voice overs. This song was such a huge hit, through the decades, you'll hear pieces of it played in various movies. Happens to be my personal favorite from all the incredible music of the '60's.

[@sebper4912]

There is a french version by johnny halliday called "les portes du pénitencier"

[@mehdi_fr711]

Je préfère largement l'originale des Animals

[@buchholtzmathieu1810]

@@mehdi_fr711 No, not l'originale! Because long before The Animals a bunch of others artists recorded it; The oldest known recording of the song, under the title "Rising Sun Blues", is by Appalachian artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded it in 1933. Woody Guthrie recorded it in 19, Pete Seeger in 1958, Joan Baez and Dolly Parton in 1960, Bob Dylan in 1961, Marie Laforêt in 1963, ... The craziest cover is by The Frijid Pink in 1969.

[@williamjordan5554]

Thus began 10 years of the organ being common in rock bands.

[@johnd8892]

This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made. KZbin has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title 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 the segments : kzbin.info?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania 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 this high quality film. Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too, 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 or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in KZbin postings these days. 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 that usually pop up.

[@melodiesofmylife5805]

There is also a Brazilian version for this song called "A casa do sol nascente" sung by Agnaldo Timóteo.

[@taniaPBear]

It's about a place of drinking and gambling, maybe there were prostitutes but I can't hear any actual reference to that anywhere. As far as a prison, I can't for the life of me figure out where that ever came from, as the 'ball and chain' reference is clearly about the addiction he can't seem to fight. Anyway, great reaction.

[@crowfoot1199]

The lyric might mean that they're going back to New Orleans to go to jail for their life of "sin and misery." Back in the day prisoners literally had iron balls chained to their feet to keep them from easily running away when being forced to work (probably hence the phrase "chain gang"). But it can also be interpreted to refer to addiction, yes.

[@artbagley1406]

One of the heaviest, foreboding lyrics in a song: "Well, I got one foot on the platform, the other foot on the train. I'm goin' back to New Awlee-ins to wear that ball and chain." Quite a gloomy future in store for whoever resides in The House of the Rising Sun. I still haven't heard one reactor wonder how the filming crew moved the Vox (organ) up to the foreground (from way in the back of the set) for the final shot without interrupting the music. So many other reactors marvel that this video was completed in ONE TAKE, but no indication they're aware of the cinematography's "logistics."

[@filmsensei]

I just happened to stumble across your channel tonight. Totally subscribing based on your efforts to understand this so much. I was shocked a few years back to hear that these guys are British! My 2 cents on the way they are lip synching to the video and why it looks like they don't project is simply that these guys didn't really make videos too much back then and it was such a new thing. I think they just didn't know how to act very well at the time. Except Eric Burdon's intensity is unmistakable here, I love his attitude. Don't get the smiley guy either. It's always off putting to me, LOL.

[@sarablack2547]

I believe because the subject of the song in that it's a dark cautionary tale not a happy one someone decided they should keep straight faces but the guitarist behind Eric burden couldn't hide his excitement at being on the show and it showed on his face.he may have caught himself on the monitor.artists are used to TV shows appearing on them now.you have to remember they were young and TV was relatively new in 64.

[@johnd8892]

This is not from TV though. This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made. KZbin has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title 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 the segments : kzbin.info?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania 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 this high quality film. Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too, 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 or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in KZbin postings these days. 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 that usually pop up.

[@Bill_Jones.]

I can just hear the choreographer on this video…”Okay, you guys just wander around the room lip-synching the song and stand behind the organist for a few bars. Just be chill, okay ?”

[@DaiBei]

Bob Dylan recorded this song (a cover) and then he was the guy for this song. Later the animals recorded this song and it was no more Dylan's but the Animals song.

[@janetmueller9195]

There may be other renditions of this song by other artists, but this is the only one we knew back in the 60's. I still remember watching this on TV in 1964. I was 11 years old. The Animals were part of the "English Invasion" , whose music, styles, and influence was led by the Beatles. It's one of the best and most remembered songs of that era. According to their rendition of the song, The House of the Rising Sun was a gambling house.

[@Broomrider1492]

I saw them live on the Ed Sullivan Show way back in 1964. Geoff Castellucci did a great Low Bass cover of this song.

[@ChrisBright-qj6yx]

Don't forget the brilliant staging, everyone has their moment.

[@LoveAntifa]

Song is amazing, been listening to it all night. Remember my mom used to play it years ago, it's a song that leaves you speechless imho. The guy smiling apparently was because the organ guy was being moved around at the end of the video and he thought it was amusing that the organ player just kept on playing whilst he was being moved

[@johnforet216]

Ball and chain refers to prison and chain gangs. Prisoners were chained to a heavily weighted iron ball. Which they would carry when they walked. The weight would be on the ground when they were working. It was a means to prevent or slow down escape attempts. This group is in the R&R Hall of Fame. They were part of the English Invasion of the early 1960's. The thing that made the Animals unique was their distinctive Blues sound.

[@goranforsberg639]

It is awlways wonderful to see young people being taken aback from songs long before they were born. "The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans. Many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the British rock band The Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and in the US and Canada.[ As a traditional folk song recorded by an electric rock band, it has been described as the "first folk rock hit" The song was first collected in Appalachia in the 1930s, but probably has its roots in traditional English folk song. It is listed as number 6393 in the Roud Folk Song Index.

[@IGetWetInHD]

like many others have said, it was recorded in one take but it obviously isnt live here. Although, he did have a very similar nonchalant demeanour when he sang live

[@cathym6270]

From my generation a very haunting song.

[@flippinpages6550]

He looks like a chior boy. Belting out a gritty gutsy song. Wonderful.

[@mehdi_fr711]

Come on Derek! Don't tell me you've never heard this classic rock before! How comes?? I love this song

[@DereckReacts]

Never!!!😩

[@knoxbam]

I can't believe it's your first time listening this song. But so perfect it's one of the rare immortal song. For the french version it's johnny Hallyday - les portes du pénitencier. (I like it but the animal's version is the best)

[@baudricourtphilippe1310]

Un classique !

[@carolinethompson3305]

This is one of my all-time favourite songs. They came from Tyneside, UK (where I'm from). Eric Burdon lead vocals, Alan Price on the organ. Check out their song 'We gotta get outta this place'.

[@ritathomson9764]

This was done. LiVE. and in ONE TAKE!

[@usermo]

Alan Price played keyboards for the animals

[@chrismalcomson7640]

If I'm not mistaken this song took off while the band was touring, so their manager rushed them down to the recording studio in between gigs and they recorded it in about 15 minutes. It does look like the voice was dubbed later but I don't think it was..

[@annarayner9795]

So amazing 👏

[@colombe245]

Love this one 🎉🎉 a backflip in the past ...goody 😁

[@Warped9]

When music SO MUCH COOLER than it is today, by far.

[@ronparkinson513]

Yep there go the goose bumps ...

[@WickedYogaDoll]

OMG I can't believe you've never heard this! I grew up in New Orleans so this is practically a soundtrack... Although I've never seen the video before and I was just as surprised as you by their appearance! On another note, Tori Amos just did a cover of this!!!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/in_Xkn-Eab2ki7c

[@wooogly6287]

Eric Burden was the first person called from Jimi Hendrix girlfriend when she found Hendrix dead

[@elizabethcochrane9015]

This is the only group that sang this they are the originals to me. Excellent.

[@LetsChillPage]

Hello *Dereck* & Friend of yours, A new classic to add to your reaction chart (even if you had already reacted to the French adaptation of this mythical title by Johnny Hallyday). Indeed, it could be the prison located at the time in Chinatown of New Orleans (hence the title "The House of the Rising Sun") which had a nasty reputation regarding detention conditions. No one knows for sure. An excellent title engraved in the marble of the history of popular music. Thanks to you two. Peace, folks. 🤗❤

[@rebapuck5061]

Valentine is probably laughing at stagehands pushing Price and organ to stage front.