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213. House of the Rising Sun (Traditional American)

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A well-known ballad about a girl who ends up in a New Orleans brothel. The oldest known recording was by Clarence Ashley (1934), who learnt it from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley. It was recorded by Woody Guthrie in 1941, by Leadbelly in 1948 and Glenn Yarbrough in 1957. Other recordings were made by Josh White, Dave van Ronk, Nina Simone, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan (1962), Charlie Byrd, Roy Acuff, The Almanac Singers (1941), The Weavers, Peter, Paul & Mary, Henry Mancini, Dolly Parton, David Allan Coe, John Fahey, Waylon Jennings, Tim Hardin, Buster Poindexter, Marianne Faithful and Tracy Chapman.
And I haven't even mentioned The Animals yet! Theirs is the best known version of the song, which Eric Burdon first heard sung by Josh White. In their version the narrator is a boy, which rather obscures the fact that it is a song about prostitution. It was a huge hit for them. Now, of course, eve
rybody expects people singing this song to cover the Animal version. Another group to have a hit with the song was Frijid Pink, though it was basically a cover of The Animals' version. This song was requested by Kabish.

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